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  • 19 Apr 2011
    Deir Zor: Remembering the lost million

    Deir Zor, the felicitous little village in Syria which bore witness, a century ago, to the death march of hundreds and thousands of helpless victims of an organised genocide against Armenians, is in the news again. Arthur Hagopian reports from Jerusalem.

  • 10 Sep 2010
    The Pope, the Holocaust and human rights

    By all means let Catholics welcome the Pope to Britain and fund his visit, says Peter Tatchell. But whether he should be honoured with a State Visit at taxpayer's expense is another matter and raises a wider range of concerns.

  • 29 Mar 2010
    Clerical abuse in the news - a US view

    In the matter of clerical abuse, justice must be done, says Martin Marty. But how and by whom the story gets told also matters. So why have Protestants and other Christians been so relatively quiet on the Catholic crisis?

  • 13 Feb 2009
    India, Valentine's Day and gender violence

    For most of Indian history, those Hindus who have perpetrated violence against women have got away with it, says Wendy Doniger. It's time for this to stop.

  • 11 Feb 2009
    Christianity and the practice of justice

    Christian thought has contributed a great deal to ancient and modern conceptions of justice, says Puck de Raadt, reviewing a recent book by Nicholas Sagovsky. But justice is at heart a matter of community and action.

  • 10 Feb 2008
    What lies beyond Lambeth's Sharia humiliation?

    Asking where the Church of England can go from here, Simon Barrow looks at why and how Rowan Williams got hold of the wrong end of the stick over religious communal practice and the civil legal system, why a larger 'multi-faith settlement' is unhelpful, and how post-Christendom beckons.

  • 24 Aug 2007
    An unsettling Gospel – Rowan Williams on Jesus' trial

    Alison Goodlad revisits a book which is fast becoming a Christian classic and discovers that the most famous trial in history is as much about the incapacity of a world like the one we have constructed to comprehend the love of God, as it is about why Jesus stands before Pilate.

  • 2 Nov 2006
    Assessing Mel Gibson's Passion

    Is Mel Gibson's film portrayal of Jesus' death helpful or hamful to life-giving religion and healthy politics?