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 parades in years, and police ...

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, Oct. 18 -- Protestant politicians in Northern Ireland announced today they were pulling out of a power-sharing arrangement with Roman Catholics to protest the failure of the Irish ...

"It's a big statement about building unity in Ireland, especially Northern Ireland with the Catholics and the Protestants," said Mickey Dunn, who attended the increasingly popular service with his ...

`BELGRADE - Rioting and shootings broke out this month in Northern Ireland's Belfast, but here in Montana 24 young Irish men, Protestant and Catholic, have been working side-by-side to help ...

In the late 1900s, Protestants and Catholics were in conflict over who should rule Northern Ireland, the British or the Irish. The time was dubbed "The Troubles." Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe's ...

Massive Orange parades across Northern Ireland each July 12 — an official holiday that commemorates the Protestant side's victory in 17th-century religious warfare — often stoke conflict with ...

It was, however, a measure of lingering division that makes governing its 1.8 million people a complex affair as Northern Ireland, severed from the rest of the island 90 years ago as a Protestant ...

BELFAST, July 12 -- Drenching rain and a flood of partisan politics combined to put a damper on Northern Ireland's big day of parading today, but tens of thousands of Protestants still turned out ...