Torture’s painful past and scandalous present

Torture, including torture by Americans: Who could have predicted that this would be a live topic here in the twenty-first century? We know how to associate torture with the accused and accusing other, with Inquisitors and witch hunters five centuries ago, or with...

Williams delivers strong World AIDS Day video message

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that churches need to be brave, imaginative and honest in the fight against the spread of HIV and Aids. In a message for World Aids Day (Saturday December 2007), issued for the first time as a video available on the internet,...

Religion in Leeds is put in its place by new study

A small Leeds church designed in 1932 and described as a “gem” when it was built has been “rediscovered” and given a Grade II listing on the advice of English Heritage – which has also produced a new publication reflecting on the way...