Dialogue Ireland is an independent trust, established in 1992, which works to promote awareness and understanding of religious issues and cultism in Ireland. It is an

ecumenical Ecumenism (), also spelled oecumenism, is the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity. The adjec ...

body which counters the rise in a number of

new religions A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. NRMs can be novel in origin or th ...

and cults in Ireland. It grew out of the

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

-run Cult Awareness Centre becoming an ecumenical body of the mainline Christian churches. Among those who worked in the field in its early years were, Fr. Martin Tierney, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin, who served as Chairperson of the group;

Mike Garde Mike Garde is a South African born theologian and an expert on cults. He is the director of Dialogue Ireland. Garde is a Mennonite and is a member of Grosvenor Baptist Church in Rathmines. In 1978, he was supported by the London Mennonist Miss ...

Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radic ...

, who is now Director of Dialogue Ireland); and Dominican priest Fr. Louis Hughes OP (who served as Chairperson of Dialogue Ireland). Dialogue Ireland has published articles covering groups such as the

Educo Seminar Tony Quinn (born 7 February 1946) is an Irish businessman, yoga entrepreneur, mind coach and Cult-leader who founded the Educo Cult. Background Quinn was born in Arbour Hill in inner-city Dublin. Quinn left school early and was a salesman for H ...

and

House of Prayer, Achill The House of Prayer is a limited company trading as Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer (Achill) Ltd, created by an Irish woman, Christina Gallagher, in 1993. The business is based on Achill Island, County Mayo in Ireland, with other centres ...

, and

Scientology Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement. It has been variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement. The most recent published census data indi ...

References

External links

* https://dialogueireland.wordpress.com * https://dialogueireland.ie (old website) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dialogue Ireland Anti-cult organizations Anti-cult movement Sectarianism