by Sean Reilly | Sep 7, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Willams has expressed great distress at the extreme violence being used between Hindus and Christians in Orissa, India, following the murder of Hindu leader, Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati, recently. In a letter sent at the end of last...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 7, 2008
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will not be bullied into power sharing at any cost and has challenged President Robert Mugabe to hold new elections if he is not prepared to reach a genuine agreement. Mr Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 6, 2008
The United Nations is warning that more than half a million people are in need of emergency assistance after storms Fay, Gustav and Hanna battered the island of Haiti. Over 500 people are now known to have been killed in floods and landslides in Haiti caused by...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 6, 2008
As holidays for many people end and the northern hemisphere winter approaches after a wet summer, Monday mornings can be difficult. To boost morale and ease the Monday blues, the Church of England offered early morning commuters on 1 September a prayer published in...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 5, 2008
Leading evangelical Christian celebrity Sir Cliff Richard, who is now aged 67, thinks the church should be supportive of committed gay relationships and says he is sick of intrusive speculation about his own sexuality. In his new autobiography, titled My Life, My Way,...
