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  • 6 Aug 2011
    British Library working to save the St Cuthbert Gospel

    The British Library has raised more than half of the £9 million needed to buy the C7th St Cuthbert Gospel before the purchase deadline expires in eight months.

  • 26 Jun 2008
    Zimbabwe crisis echoes down the years

    The tragic situation in Zimbabwe was being foretold as long as fifty years ago by the writer Frantz Fanon, whose theories about the end of colonialism have proved remarkably prophetic.

  • 17 Mar 2008
    Church agency launches resource to help refused asylum seekers

    A set of ten action points has been issued by a Christian agency suggesting ways that refused asylum seekers and refugees can be helped. Churches and others in the UK are being urged to visit detainees in removal centres.

  • 15 Jan 2008
    Jesuits meeting in Rome to choose new head

    The Jesuits, one of the largest and most powerful Catholic orders, is holding a meeting in Rome this month, at which it is to elect a new superior general to head its 19,000 members - whose influence is well beyond its numbers.

  • 19 Nov 2007
    Get the Pope on your Pod for Christmas

    Commuters amongst others will have the opportunity to reflect on Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est this Advent, courtesy of the British Jesuits.

  • 16 Mar 2007
    Rome accused of bullying Latin American liberation theologian

    The Vatican has issued a censure against Jon Sobrino, a founding figure of liberation theology – the movement which argues that the church should be on the side of the poor and downtrodden