Bethany
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Hundreds of babies from church-run homes in NI were moved across Border
- Social Affairs
- January 26, 2021, 23:30
Hundreds of babies from Northern Ireland were moved from four homes, including two run by the Catholic Church in Belfast and Newry, to the Republic be(...)

Church of Ireland to seek correction of ‘factually inaccurate’ commission report
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 18, 2021, 20:19
The Irish Church Missions (ICM) has said it “did not found, manage or finance any mother and baby homes”, after the Commission of Investigation into M(...)

Women and children in mother and baby homes ‘abandoned by church’
- Social Affairs
- January 17, 2021, 22:01
The women and children who suffered in mother and baby homes were “abandoned by their church”, a Cork priest has said during Sunday Mass. Fr Colin D(...)

Church of Ireland archbishops issue apology over mother and baby homes
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 15, 2021, 15:07
The two Church of Ireland archbishops have acknowledged “with shame” that the church was “complicit, as with the rest of society at that time, in a cu(...)

Bethany Home: ‘No exception’ to high rates of infant mortality in Protestant-run institution
- Irish News
- January 12, 2021, 16:05
Across 49 years, the Protestant-run Bethany Home admitted 1,584 women and 1,376 children. The deaths of five women and 262 children are associated w(...)

Mother and Baby Homes report: 9,000 children died amid high infant mortality rate
- Social Affairs
- January 12, 2021
Nine thousand children died in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes between 1922 and 1998, including three-quarters of all the children born, or admitted t(...)

Girl (5) making ‘small steps’ to recovery after crash claims lives of mother and sister
- Irish News
- May 14, 2020, 14:02
The young victim of a tragic crash which claimed the lives of her mother and sister is making “small but significant steps” to recovery, a local churc(...)

Inquiry report into mother and baby homes may be delayed
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 7, 2020, 02:10
Publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation’s final report could be delayed due to its exceptional length The document is on(...)

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is to seek an extension of one year before publishing its final report, which was due next mont(...)

Names of 240 children inscribed on Bethany memorial stone
- Social Affairs
- June 29, 2018, 19:31
The names of 240 children from the Bethany Mother and Child Home and other institutions were inscribed on a memorial stone at Mount Jerome Cemetery in(...)