At its most recent meeting, the Bishops' Appeal - the Church of Ireland's principal vehicle for supporting the developing world - made eight grants.
Five were awarded to projects in the Indian sub-continent. The work of Christian Aid in Bangladesh in funding development programmes for displaced people and in developing income-generating schemes was supported, as was its work in developing community organisation, sustainable agriculture and credit programmes in southern India.
Also in India, funds have been made available to buy motor cycles to assist with transport in the vast rural area of the diocese of north-east India, and additional support has been provided for an AIDS awareness programme managed by Tearfund.
In Africa, the work of CMSI in developing vocational skills among young people in Uganda and promoting AIDS awareness in southern Sudan has been grant aided, as has the work of the Namirembe Resource Centre in Uganda, which provides hostel accommodation and educational facilities for girls.
Today, the Third Order of St Francis will meet in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. In the University of Ulster at Coleraine the diocese of Connor will have a Diocesan Generation Day which will include a video about the diocese and the launch of a new strategy for ministry.
Tomorrow RTE will broadcast a parish eucharist from St Mark's Church, Ballymacash, Co Antrim, where the rector is the Rev George Irwin. In St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, the Bishop of Portsmouth, the Rt Rev Kenneth Stevenson, will preach at the patronal festival, while the visiting preacher in Howth, Co Dublin, will be the Bishop of Cork.
The Chansons Choir from Perth in Scotland will sing matins in St Fachtna's Cathedral, Ross, and later in the day, at Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, there will be the Annual Commemoration of those who lost their lives on Irish ships, 1939-45.
On Monday, daily services resume in Trinity College Chapel where the chaplain, Dr Alan McCormack, will be delighted to welcome visitors.
The first in a new series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, begins on Tuesday at 1.25 p.m. The series entitled "Episcopal Episodes, Some Archbishops of Dublin and Glendalough" begins with a lecture by Niav Gallagher on Archbishop Alexander Bicknor. In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, at 5.35 p.m. there will be a memorial service for the artist Dr Derek Hill, at which the address will be given by Dr Bruce Arnold.
An exhibition of paintings inspired by the artistic challenge of St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, on the eye of the worshipper will be opened in the cathedral on Tuesday evening. Entitled "The Divine Image and the Human Likeness", it will show the work of Bill Griffin and will run throughout October and into November.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Synod will be held in Taney Parish Centre, Dundrum. The Cashel, Ossory, Waterford, Leighlin and Lismore Synod will take place in Kilkenny Castle on Wednesday, and on Thursday the Ferns Diocesan Synod will be held.
The speaker at the Thursday lunchtime series, "I Believe", in St Thomas' Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin will be Senator Mary Henry. In St Patrick's Cathedral the Archbishop of Dublin will be the celebrant at a Sung Eucharist which will use a new setting by Colin Mawby.
The St Patrick's Setting has been commissioned as part of the Cathedral's millennium programme.
On Friday in St James's Church, Mallow, the annual Thomas Davis Commemoration will be held.