by Sean Reilly | Jun 14, 2008
UK-based International development agency Christian Aid has accused the government of ‘eviscerating’ the Climate Change Bill by failing to include within it a number of measures crucial to the fight against global warming. The NGO said it was deeply disappointed at...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 14, 2008
Church leaders in Canada hope action will follow a public apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to victims of a situation whereby aboriginal children were placed in residential schools run by churches under a government policy of enforced assimilation –...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 13, 2008
Zimbabwe police and security forces have raided the Harare offices of several Christian groups, arresting the general secretary of the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe and other officers and staff. The student Christian group accused the government of President...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 13, 2008
Two senior Anglican archbishops are to be present at the funeral service at Llandaff Cathedral in Wales for the UK religious affairs writer and broadcaster Christopher Morgan – writes Trevor Grundy. The celebrant at Morgan’s funeral on June is to be...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 13, 2008
Church and development organisations are demanding that countries with close bilateral ties to Angola – including the UK – take a more robust position on the continuing human rights violations in the country. The government in Luanda ordered the closure of the UN...