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  • December 1, 2019
    Court delays verdict on Bahrain death row torture victims to Christmas Day

    Without offering any justification, Bahrain’s High Criminal Appeals Court has delayed a judgement in the case of Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa who had previously been sentenced to death on the basis of torture-tainted confessions. Lawyers have been notified that the verdict will now be issued on Christmas Day.

  • January 11, 2019
    Lone mothers win High Court universal credit case

    The way the Department for Work and Pensions has been assessing income from employment through its  Universal Credit work assessment periods has been found unlawful.

  • March 7, 2011
    Hell's Bell author fires up evangelicals

    A Michigan based pastor-author is stirring up a heated debate about hell among his fellow American evangelicals, says Martin Marty. In a curious way it shows that evangelicalism's theology as well as its politics can still attract a response from wider, often baffled, publics.

  • November 17, 2008
    Coming under liberating judgement

    The biblical theme of judgement confronts us with some tough issues, says Simon Barrow. But rightly understood it is about liberation not vindictiveness, and a reorientation which is economic as much as spiritual, political as much as religious.