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  • 11 Sep 2011
    Changing perspectives from 9/11, ten years after

    Over the past ten years we have witnessed the birth of the neologism '9/11' and the horrid and inaccurate phrase 'global war on terror'. Some of what happened in those ten intervening years is now history, says Harry Hagopian. But much of it continues to resonate across the globe, calling us to a change of outlook and action. Revolutions and popular revolts across the Middle East and North Africa region vindicate the standpoint that real changes should come from within and do not necessarily get imposed militarily upon a whole people anymore.

  • 11 Sep 2011
    Ten years after 9/11

    The head of the the World Council of Churches, which brings together over 340 major Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, Peace Church and indigenous Christian communions in conversation with the Roman Catholic Church worldwide, is from Norway - a country which has been exposed to the horror of terrorism recently.

  • 1 Aug 2011
    Ten days on, the pastoral response continues in Norway

    In the ten days since the terror attacks in Norway, pastors and church workers have played a major role in caring for survivors and the victims' families.

  • 31 Jul 2011
    Norway's churches seek love and solidarity in response to killings

    A Norwegian bishop addressing the recent bombing and shooting attacks in Norway says love and solidarity is the best response to the killing frenzy.

  • 30 Jul 2011
    WCC encourages Norwegian churches to "overcome terror"

    In a letter to the Christian Council of Norway, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has expressed support over the terrible killings last week.

  • 24 Jul 2011
    Anders Brehing Breivik and Dr Ali

    On the day that Anders Brehing Breivik, driven by hatred of Islam and of his country's political establishment, unleashed death and terror on an unimaginable scale in Oslo and Utoya, I lay on a treatment table in the Accident and Emergency department of my local hospital. The doctor attending to my pain and shock was a gentle young Muslim called Ali.

  • 23 Jul 2011
    Behind the Norway terror attacks

    At least 92 people were reported dead in Norway, after a bomb blast and shooting spree on 22 July. There has been an outpouring of sympathy across the world for the victims, many of them young, and their families, and horror at this atrocity.

  • 23 Jul 2011
    Christianity, extremism and Anders Behring Breivik

    Last week few people had heard the name of Anders Behring Breivik. Today he is trending on twitter for all the wrong reasons, along with 'Freemasonry' and 'Christianity'.

  • 23 Jul 2011
    Right-wing Christian extremist is Norway terror killings suspect

    A right-wing Christian extremist, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, has been charged with bomb and gun terror attacks in Norway yesterday.

  • 23 Jul 2011
    Norwegian world churches' chief horrified by terror attacks

    Norway has experienced “an unprecedented, horrible level of violence against innocent people,” says the Norwegian head of a world churches' body.