Category - atrocities

London inter-faith meeting will examine ethics and atrocities in Iraq

staff writers — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:03:39 +0000

Members of different faiths will gather in Friends House in central London on Saturday to discuss The Iraq War and Occupation: Ethics and Values with a leading lawyer who has horrifying uncovered evidence of British involvement in atrocities.

WCC chief calls for a negotiated settlement in Kenya

staff writers — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:06:35 +0000

The head of the World Council of Churches has called on Kenya's two main political parties to "turn urgently from partisan postures and negotiate in good faith to reach a non-violent, political solution" to their electoral dispute.

Stalin's victims remembered at site of church used for killing field

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:40:42 +0000

President Putin has attended a memorial service conducted by Patriarch Aleksei II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, at a church built near a Soviet police secret killing field, to commemorate the victims of Josef Stalin.

Gaza has become a prison, say church and human rights groups

staff writers — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Renewed violence in the Gaza Strip has exacerbated the humanitarian situation in a territory Palestinians call the "world's largest prison", say church and human rights organizations - writes Chris Herlinger for Ecumenical News International from Gaza City.