by Sean Reilly | Dec 7, 2007
Concern about undue pressure exerted by the European Union on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to sign interim Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) by the end of the year has been expressed by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Dr Samuel...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
New research from international relief and development agency, World Vision, has revealed that half of men in the UK (51%) can’t remember what gifts their partners got them last Christmas. Women weren’t far behind with 43% forgetting what their loved ones bought them....
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
Israel is jeopardising chances of peace in the Middle East by announcing plans to build more than 300 new houses in east Jerusalem, Christian Aid has said. The Israeli government announced on Tuesday it had invited bids to build the homes in Har Homa, south of...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
A Catholic university in the US will honour the Buddhist monks of Burma (Myanmar) for their courage and nonviolent demonstrations against the tyrannical Burmese military earlier this year, by awarding them with an honorary doctorate. A representative of the monks,...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
A Baghdad-based Anglican priest, in an interview with a US news network, has declared that Christians are considerably worse off now than they were during the regime of the late Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s former dictator, whose deposition he nevertheless welcomed...
