by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
One of the BBC chief reporters has defied a government ban on the Corporation’s personnel operating in Zimbabwe, and has reported that opposition to President Robert Mugabe is growing within his own Zanu-PF party. John Simpson, who came to the attention of a...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
The Church of the Province of Central Africa has revoked the priest’s licence of Zimbabwean Bishop Nolbert Kunonga, following his decision to pull the Anglican diocese of Harare out of the regional division of the denomination. The refusal by Kunonga and his...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
With kind acknowledgements to J. Bennett Guess The head of the United Church of Christ denomination in the USA has reacted with anger and frustration to accusations of racism circulating about it largest congregation, which is also Senator Barack Obama’s home...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
The Society of Jesus, whose members are called Jesuits, one of the largest and most powerful Catholic orders, is holding a meeting in Rome at which it is to elect a new superior general to head its 19,000 members – writes Luigi Sandri from Rome. The current...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
Well, am I a political junkie? Certainly, I used to be one. That became apparent to me back during the closing phase of the 1992 US presidential campaign, when I was doing a lot of travel for Friends World Committee for Consultation. One of those trips, just before...
