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  • 14 Apr 2009
    Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew meets President Obama

    Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew had a private meeting with US President Barack Obama in the run up to Easter, touching on environmental concerns and issues about the future of Turkey.

  • 7 Apr 2009
    Obama says USA is not and will never be 'at war with Islam'

    US President Barack Obama has used his visit to Turkey to emphasise that the US is not and will never be involved in a 'war on Islam', and that he wants cooperation not conflict between civilisations.

  • 30 Mar 2009
    Notre Dame refusing to be bullied by anti-Obama campaigners

    Catholic university president Fr John Jenkins and officials at Notre Dame are standing firmly behind their decision to invite President Obama to deliver their commencement address in May.

  • 26 Mar 2009
    US Catholic university under attack over Obama invitation

    Hardline lobbyists in the USA have launched a campaign to try to stop one of the country's leading Catholic universities from having President Barack Obama as a campus speaker.

  • 23 Feb 2009
    Tutu urges Obama to apologise over Iraq invasion

    Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has urged new US President Barack Obama to signal a real change of heart on Middle East policy by apologizing for the Iraq war.

  • 13 Feb 2009
    Middle East envoy must talk to everyone

    Talking with some and not to others while sealing off Gaza has been tried for a number of years, says Cecilie Surasky. This has brought immeasurable suffering to the besieged Palestinians in Gaza and great trauma to the citizens of Sderot in Israel. We need change.

  • 6 Feb 2009
    Faith should be about hope not hate

    In his speech to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, President Barack Obama sets out a vision for religion and belief in modern America, arising from his own commitments.

  • 2 Feb 2009
    Black church leaders want to build on the 'Obama effect'

    Black church leaders in the United Kingdom believe that the ethos of hope and positivity generated by the 'Obama generation' in the USA, with the advent of the new president, can benefit people here.

  • 29 Jan 2009
    On the wrong side of history?

    Barack Obama spoke in his inauguration of "being on the wrong side of history", says Uri Avnery. For the USA and Israel the Gaza tragedy shows what this means. But there is 'another Israel'.

  • 26 Jan 2009
    Obama and the challenge of hope

    If the Obama presidency is going to make good on its promise of hope, says Giles Fraser, it will have to do so in places like the unloved west side of Baltimore.