by Sean Reilly | Jul 6, 2008
Campaigners have said they are confident that an appeal by a Government agency concerning corruption in the arms trade will fail. The House of Lords will this week hear the Serious Fraud Office’s appeal against the High Court’s recent decision on a BAE...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 5, 2008
German churches’ prcatical experience with confronting the issue of domestic violence will play an important role in a Peace Declaration of the World Council of Churches planned for 2011. “The churches have denied the existence of this issue for a long...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 5, 2008
The Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, a leading Evangelical Anglican bishop in the Church of England has said that the tactics of a new factional network within Anglicanism amount to “bullying”. Speaking on the BBC’s World at One news programme, the Bishop of...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 4, 2008
Echoing remarks made early this year by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers has said that there is no conflict between Sharia principles for conflict resolution and common law in England and Wales. In a...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 4, 2008
After “what can be described as a façade election”, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has called for the protection of the Zimbabwe population “against increased and continued violence”, an “intensified international monitoring of the...
