by Sean Reilly | Feb 22, 2008
Church leaders and journalists often have little idea of the pressures that each other face, according to German Lutheran Bishop Margot Kässmann, who has pleaded with the media and the Church to show mutual respect. “The fact that a newspaper needs a short...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 21, 2008
One morning, a couple of days after arriving as part of a recent Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to Colombia, we gathered in the park opposite our hotel for our morning reflection in which we touched upon a number of themes including poverty. The expression...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 21, 2008
What must [hu]mankind be, before such a thing as war could ever be known or thought of upon earth? How shocking, how inconceivable a want must there have been of common understanding, as well as common humanity, before any two Governors, or any two nations in the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 21, 2008
Home Office plans to introduce an “earned citizenship” system for immigrants from outside the European Union who want to become British have been attacked as potentially descriminatory and degrading by campaigners. Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave strong...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 21, 2008
In the latest twist to the long-running Pine Gap protest drama, a Christian anti-war activist is calling on the Australian Federal government to review the implementation of laws used to prosecute her. In 2007, reports Australia’s ABC, Donna Mulhearn and Adele...