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  • 29 Oct 2013
    Understanding Christianity in Kurdistan today

    Gulan are organising an event at the Royal Geographical Society (Thursday 31 October) that sheds light on the culture, history and day-to-day life of an overlooked minority, Christians in Kurdistan.

  • 23 Oct 2013
    Pope Francis criticises 'ideological Christianity'

    Pope Francis has warned Christians against turning their faith into a rigid ideology that betrays the gospel's transformative love.

  • 26 Aug 2013
    The challenge of inter-faith engagement

    Just Festival and its predecessor, the Festival of Spirituality and Peace, has been concerned over the years to strike up a genuine personal, artistic, spiritual and cultural conversation among the different religions and beliefs that make up our country.

  • 15 Jan 2013
    Evangelical leader sets out biblical stall to support gay relationships

    Baptist evangelical leader the Rev Steve Chalke has set out his theological and pastoral argument for supporting same-sex relationships in a new article.

  • 15 Jan 2013
    Steve Chalke urges evangelical rethink on same-sex relations

    Prominent British evangelical leader Steve Chalke has urged the Christian Churches to rethink inherited attitudes to same-sex relationships.

  • 13 Jan 2013
    Fear and hope for indigenous Christians in the Middle East and North Africa

    Christians and other small communities in the Middle East and North Africa face an uncertain and sometimes dangerous situation in which fear is understandable, acknowledges Dr Harry Hagopian. But there is still good reason to resist being overly gripped by insularity and despair, to question the agenda of hierarchs, and to try to respond positively to the grassroots change that will continue to sweep the region over the coming year and beyond.

  • 5 Sep 2012
    WCC concerned over forced conversions and marriages in Pakistan

    The World Council of Churches has made a statement on abductions, forced marriages and forced conversions of young women in Pakistan.

  • 13 May 2012
    Theologian sees links between Christianity and African traditional religion

    A leading African theologian has written a new book tracing the links and conversations between Christianity and African traditional religions.

  • 8 May 2012
    Christian-Muslim relations: all in this together?

    A recent London discussion of Christian-Muslim relations illustrated in an enlivening way the need for developing conversation and exchange to take place at a number of levels, says Dr Harry Hagopian. Intellectuals and theologians can set the tone on key issues, but Christians and Muslims alike have a responsibility in communal, political and inter-prersonal engagements to deal truthfully, to confront prejudices, to speak out against faith-based discrimination and to tackle the roots of extremism wherever they are found.

  • 14 Apr 2012
    Discussing morality fruitfully

    This morning (14 April 2012) I will be appearing on BBC Radio Scotland's Saturday AM news programme at around 8.50am to discuss the origins and shape of morality with secular humanist scientist Profes