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  • 21 Apr 2008
    Churches urge a vote against extremism and racism on 1st May

    Three Free Church Christian denominations in the UK are urging voters to take a clear stand against racist and extreme political parties as election day for local councils in England and Wales draws nearer.

  • 15 Jan 2008
    Obama's church congregation furious at 'racism' accusations

    The head of the United Church of Christ denomination in the USA has reacted with anger and frustration to accusations of racism circulating about it largest congregation, which is also Senator Barack Obama's home church.

  • 16 Nov 2007
    United Methodists get tough on racism in church and society

    The bishops of The United Methodist Church have declared that tackling racism and eliminating it from the church, society and even their own Council of Bishops is a major priority. The denomination is the one President Bush was raised in.

  • 15 Nov 2007
    Violence, the media and redemption

    If children are traumatised by media images of violence, the answer is not censorship says Colin Morris, but deeper questions about the networks of wrong doing we are part of and the question of whether and how redemption is possible.

  • 30 Oct 2007
    Dutch Reformed Church should repent of apartheid, says world body

    The World Alliance of Reformed Churches has said that a South African church, suspended from the grouping in 1982, cannot be readmitted because it has not renounced the support for the apartheid ideology that led to its exclusion.

  • 30 Oct 2007
    Migration is about people, before statistics
  • 21 Oct 2007
    Soundbites, religion and identity

    The latest controversy over Martin Amis's comments about Islam illustrates how ignorant our debate on identity has become, writes Sunny Hundal.

  • 9 Oct 2007
    Protests greet American university ban on Desmond Tutu

    Students, academics, human rights campaigners and a Jewish peace group have protested loudly at the decision of the Catholic University of St Thomas, Minnesota, to cancel a campus visit by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, because he has criticized Israeli government policy.

  • 27 Apr 2007
    Racial but not religious hatred becomes a crime in EU

    Inciting racial and xenophobic hatred is now a crime across the European Union. But Britain's law is tougher and includes religion, Holocaust denial was not specified, though it is illegal in some countries.

  • 27 Apr 2007
    Is 'Christian nation' rhetoric aiding the far right?

    The uncomfortable fact is that the church's Christendom ('Christian country') assumptions put it into the position of arguing the same political point about national identity as the BNP. A different way forward is needed.