Yesterday I did a 12-minute discussion pre-record for BBC Radio Scotland on the issue of church investments: should Christian churches not be putting their money where their mouth is in terms of ethics? That was the way the question was posed.
The Church of England has come out in opposition to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.’s £7.8 billion ($12.4 billion) bid for the rest of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc.
A landmark vote by the Church of England to ditch investments in companies fuelling the occupation of Palestine increases commercial risks for companies supplying military equipment to repressive regimes elsewhere, say UK arms trade campaigners.