For the first time in history, more people in Northern Ireland identify as Catholic than Protestant. Data from the 2021 census information released last week indicated 45.7% of those surveyed said ...

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LONDON -- Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament -- and ...

LONDON (Reuters) -The biggest Protestant church in Northern Ireland is under criminal investigation over safeguarding concerns, police said on Monday, after the Presbyterian Church admitted failures ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland leaders appealed for calm Thursday after Protestant militants attacked offices and a home connected to the most compromise-minded political party over its support for ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Northern Ireland's largest Protestant party resigned from the province's unity government Thursday, leaving Britain to decide whether to suspend the troubled experiment in ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) – Thousands of Protestants marched peacefully through the heart of Northern Ireland’s capital Saturday amid a heavy security presence. It was one of Belfast’s biggest ...

Petrol bombs on the streets of Belfast this month reveal anger and frustration among pro-British Protestants at a loss of dominance in Northern Ireland but do not – yet – pose a serious threat to a 15 ...

BELFAST (Reuters) - The proportion of Protestants in Northern Ireland has fallen below 50 percent for the first time, census figures showed on Tuesday, raising the prospect that the growing numbers of ...

LURGAN, Northern Ireland (AP) _ Northern Ireland's security chiefs debated Saturday how to defeat Protestant extremists behind a wave of attacks on Catholics, particularly the slaying of a Catholic ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Voters in Northern Ireland handed power to hard-line Protestants in a stunning setback for hopes of reviving a Catholic-Protestant government, the central objective of the ...

Northern Ireland hopes to tear down the so-called "peace lines" of Belfast - dozens of walls of brick, steel and barbed wire that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods - within a ...