by Sean Reilly | Feb 16, 2008
Harnessing the power of the market to help solve the problems of global poverty, hunger and inequality is both possible and necessary, a Nobel Peace Prize winner told an invited audience of specialists in London on Thursday night. Professor Muhammad Yunus is doing...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 15, 2008
The Geneva-based global network the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance has released a new guide entitled: “Exploring Solutions: How to talk about HIV Prevention in the Church”, recognising the need to challenge silence and prejudice. ENI reports: It is aimed at...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 15, 2008
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, has spoken up for employment and workers’ rights at a gathering on social and economic development from 6-15 February 2008. In his English-language talk, the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 15, 2008
Documents released in the High Court yesterday show that Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE Systems, wrote to the Attorney General on a “strictly private and confidential” basis urging him to halt the Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 15, 2008
New expressions of Christianity, the growing prominence of the global South, the impact of globalization and increasing religious diversity are radically changing the shape of the church says the head of the world’s largest church body. These factors and others...