by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has told a gathering of academics that science should serve rather than enslave humanity, warning that the reduction of human beings and nature to mere ‘objects’ is not good for the spirit of reasoned enquiry. The comments came on Monday...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
News that Dr Atiq Rahman, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), will receive the United Nations Environment Programme’s Champions of the Earth Award 2008 for the Asia Pacific region has been welcomed by Christian Aid, which works...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
Some Christian groups in Scotland are anxious about druids, wiccans and other traditional religionists from across the UK gathering in a small north-east community this summer, reports the Scotsman newspaper. The Pagan Federation is intending to hold its first summer...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 29, 2008
The Nairobi-based All Africa Conference of Churches is pleading with Kenyans to see their current political crisis as not only a national one, but as one in which the whole African continent is looking on in sorrow at the formerly peaceful country – writes...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 29, 2008
Roman Catholic leaders in Britain and in Poland have publicly disagreed over how best to provide pastoral care for large numbers of Polish migrants currently living and working in the United Kingdom – writes Jonathan Luxmoore. “It remains our position that...
