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  • 4 Sep 2007
    We need a more intelligent religion debate

    Current media debates about religion are often ill-informed as well as partisan, says Theo Hobson. Atheists as well as believers need challenging on their outlook.

  • 24 Aug 2007
    International meeting urges religious groups to back HIV/AIDs struggle

    An international interfaith conference on HIV/AIDS held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has called on religious leaders throughout the world to use their places of worship, and educational and health facilities to help in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

  • 16 Aug 2007
    Iraq sectarian bombing deaths may be as high as 400

    The devastating multiple bomb attacks against the minority Yazidi community in northern Iraq on 14 August 2007 may have claimed up to 400 lives, the Iraqi interior ministry claimed today - as the grim task of digging out bodies continues. Once again the Kurds and a religious minority are the victims.

  • 15 Aug 2007
    Celebrating Indian independence without romance

    India gained independence through nonviolence, but partition involved much brutality, says Savi Hensman. Independence means embracing peace and justice in spite of intolerant ideologies, both religious and secular.

  • 12 Aug 2007
    Korean churches seek peace and reunification for divided nation

    In recent years South Korean churches have come to be known for their spectacular growth rate, the fastest of any Asian nation. Less known is the role Korea's churches have played in working for peace and reunification of their divided country.

  • 9 Aug 2007
    Kenyan church leaders tell government not to muzzle media

    Church leaders in Kenya have urged President Mwai Kibaki to reject proposed legislation regarding the media, which the country's Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai, has said would curtail press freedom.

  • 3 Aug 2007
    Seeking a better future for Iraq

    In an interview with Juan Michel of the WCC, a prominent Iraqi Christian shares his views on the situation in the violence-plagued country. He assesses the situation with realism, but also with hope for peace with justice.

  • 3 Aug 2007
    Religious leaders urged to combat gender-based violence in Africa

    African religious leaders have heard that gender-based violence is increasingly becoming a weapon of war in the continent's trouble spots, with some saying sacred scriptures are being used to justify violence in general.

  • 1 Aug 2007
    How will Gordon Brown keep the faith?

    Gordon Brown will be less overt in his faith agenda and less establishment in his church instincts, suggests Simon Barrow. But religion and public life will remain hot political issues.

  • 27 Jul 2007
    Religion in the blogosphere

    Religion remains a hot topic in the blogopshere, with new contributors stepping into the arena all the time.