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  • 18 Sep 2011
    Book examines post-9/11 spiritual transformations

    Among the most profound effects of the 11 September terror attacks in the US were the spiritual changes undergone by some people affected.

  • 12 Sep 2011
    9/11 and the use of memory

    The memory of 9/11 can be used to liberate ourselves for the creation of a better future, says Jill Segger

  • 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
    A prayer for the people - 11 September 2001/11

    The World Council of Churches has produced the following prayer to mark the tenth anniversary of the '9/1' attacks in the USA, on 11 September 2001, and the conflict and war that has continued since then.

  • 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.

  • 11 Sep 2011
    9/11 and the lost decade

    What are the principal lessons of the ten years of war since the 11 September 2001 attacks? Paul Rogers, professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, gives some crisp answers. He has played a prominent role in the Oxford Research Group, has written extensively on related global and regional issues, and his first openDemocracy column was published a few days after 9/11.

  • 9 Sep 2011
    World churches' leader remembers 9/11 and its military aftermath

    The World Council of Churches' General Secretary has sent out a message honouring the victims of 9/11 and its massive military aftermath.

  • 9 Sep 2011
    British church leaders criticise use of military force in response to 9/11

    A decade on from the 9/11 attacks, senior British Free Church leaders are calling on the Government to re-examine its use of responsive military force.

  • 8 Sep 2011
    10-year strategy after 9/11 'counter-productive', says new report

    The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks presents an opportunity to reflect on the catastrophic mistakes of the ‘war on terror' says a new report

  • 25 Aug 2011
    ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ leader gives 9/11 talks in Britain

    The US Muslim leader at the centre of the recent storm over plans to build an Islamic community centre near Ground Zero in New York is arriving in Britain tomorrow and giving a series of talks and interviews in Scotland.