HAITIAN officials said last night they are thinking of sending a group of US Baptists home for prosecution after they were arrested trying to take 33 children out of the country without government permission.

THE Baptist community has expressed its shock at a decision from An Bord Pleanála to refuse plans for a €9 million residential, religious and training centre in Co Cork.

IN September 2001, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, caused dismay in ecclesiastical circles when he said Christianity in Britain had been all but vanquished.

I WAS one of those in the Informal prayer group outside Jesus Christ Superstar whom Katie Holly (The Irish Examiner letters, April 4) found so baffling. Unlike some other members of the public, however, she apparently did not ask us a few simple questions. (We did not have a statue of Our Lady — the one in the red cloak and the beard is Jesus, not Mary).