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  • 4 Sep 2008
    Protesters face police raids at the Republican Convention

    US police have staged preemptive armed raids targeting protesters and alternative media around the Republican National Convention - including thousands of people demonstrating about war world poverty throughout the week.

  • 4 Sep 2008
    Indian government pressed for action on horrific Orissa violence

    Following a series of horrific attacks in Orissa, Indian church and human rights organisations have been keeping up pressure on the government for decisive action against militants, and are asking for world attention to the crisis.

  • 2 Sep 2008
    Civil rights activists criticise UN religious defamation resolution

    Civil rights organisations and national leaders are expressing alarm at a United Nations General Assembly resolution that demands respect for religion but which critics say has been used to justify suppression of religious minorities.

  • 29 Aug 2008
    Keeping an eye on China

    Mao Zedong died in 1976, and since then, two big things have hap­pened to China, says Giles Fraser. The first is the explosion of the economy. The other is the explosion of religion - and, sometimes, its suppression.

  • 25 Jul 2008
    Lambeth attendees invited to discover Christ in human rights

    One of its centres of attraction in the Lambeth Conference marketplace has been the stall "Seeing Christ in Human Rights", which shows gay Christians and the Gospel in a different light.

  • 22 Jul 2008
    Karadzic's capture highlights the shame of the Serbian church

    Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, who has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade on the run, will finally face justice after years of support from a network of allies - including many in the Serbian Orthodox Church.

  • 19 Jul 2008
    German Olympic bracelets highlight human rights issues

    A German church has far exceeded its initial expectations in so far distributing more than 200,000 black bracelets intended as a symbolic protest against human rights abuses in China during the Olympic Games in Beijing.

  • 17 Jul 2008
    African churches call for tough action on Mugabe abuses

    Delegates from churches in Zimbabwe, South Africa and other countries in the Southern Africa Development Community have expressed clear support for targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe.

  • 17 Jul 2008
    Madrid inter-faith summit highlights global problems and possibilities

    The scale of the challenge and the glimmer of new possibilities in interreligious understnading is on display at the 16-18 July international interfaith conference convened in Madrid by the Muslim World League.

  • 16 Jul 2008
    Kazakh churches say draft law harks back to Soviet era

    Christian churches in Kazakhstan have condemned a new draft law on religions, which they say will re-impose Soviet-style restrictions in a country where Islam has the largest number of followers.