The work of the Church of Ireland Marriage Council was presented at General Synod this afternoon by its chairperson the Revd Jonathan Campbell–Smyth.
He said the work of the council was becoming ever more important. He noted that recent statistics from the EU showed that in the period from 1965 to 2015 (a period of half a century) the rate of people getting married in the UK has reduced by 41%, and thankfully only reduced by 12% in Ireland. The rate of divorce in the same 50 year period within the UK has increased by 70%, but Ireland has…
