by Sean Reilly | Aug 30, 2008
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has announced that investigative journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, a daily TV/radio news show airing on more than 700 stations worldwide, is to receive its Communication for Peace Award. The...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
At the end of July 2008 I went to Prague this for the Tenth International (Dietrich) Bonhoeffer Congress, to present a synoptic view of fundamentalism(s). The conferees were probing ways in which the life and record of the theologian put to death by the Nazis in the...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
Mao Zedong died in 1976, and since then, two big things have happened to China. The first is the explosion of the Chinese economy. Everybody has been talking about that. The other is the explosion of religion. The distinguished sinologist Professor David Ownby went...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
People in Britain, whether religious or not, have been used to negotiating their directions by first locating churches, pubs and other notable landmarks. But in the age of web maps that will have to change, because traditional sites are disappearing. That is the view...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
Churches in India are today closing about 30,000 of their educational institutions across the country to protest against continuing attacks by mobs of Hindu militants in the country’s eastern state of Orissa and which Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has...