Queen Elizabeth once described Northern Ireland’s Orange marches as ‘silly business’, newly unsealed government papers have ...

The Orange Order said it was a peaceful Christian organisation Glasgow council has banned the Orange Order from walking past the church where a Catholic priest is alleged to have been attacked.

A spokeswoman for the group said: "They (Orange Order) shouldn't be walking past Catholic churches." Archdiocese of Glasgow Canon Tom White claims he was subjected to "vile abuse" as he spoke to ...

The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is a Protestant fraternal ... had defeated the Roman Catholic king James II, it was founded in Co Armagh in 1795.

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From its beginnings in Ireland in 1795, the Orange Order centred its beliefs on the ... a distinctly Canadian agenda in their opposition to Catholic education rights and French language ...

The annual Orange marches of Protestants in Northern Ireland are highly contentious – mainly with their Catholic counterparts ... of members of the Orange Order take to the streets of Northern ...