by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
A number of key African civil society organisations have come together with church development campaigners, to demand billions in compensation from rich countries for the impacts of global warming. The demand comes at the close of the United Nations climate change...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
People in Britain rate committed campaigners such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King far more highly than celebrities such as Sir Bob Geldof and Angelina Jolie, a recent YouGov poll commissioned by the international development agency Christian Aid shows. More...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
The future of the World Council of Churches lies in playing to its strength of giving those less fortunate in the world a voice, a former Dutch church leader has told a gathering in Amsterdam to commemorate the WCC’s 60th anniversary – writes Andreas...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
Celebrations marking Britain’s best Olympic success in 100 years, with the country’s athletes winning 19 gold medals, were marred by the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old Londoner, adding to a knife-wielding trend that is worrying both church and government...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
Christian and other peacemakers staged a 10-hour vigil outside Canada House in London’s Trafalgar Square yesterday, to call on on the Canadian government to halt the deportation of US soldiers who have fled the war in Iraq. Giant placards bearing pictures of the...
