by Sean Reilly | Jun 5, 2008
This article further develops some themes hinted at in Hearing hope through the babble. ‘Who sinned, this man or his father, that he has this sickness?’ The religious argument prompted by this misplaced question to Jesus at the beginning of St John chapter nine [1],...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 5, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, will be speaking at a peace service at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Trafalgar Square, London, on Monday 9 June 2008. The service in the newly refurbished Church, well known for its work with...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 5, 2008
Church-backed Philippine human rights activists have reiterated their call on the UN Human Rights Council to “keep pursuing our government to stop the extra-judicial killings and other human rights violations”. The UN body is meeting in Geneva until 18...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 4, 2008
Some 130 supporters of the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAF)D)took to the saddle last weekend for a sponsored bike ride to raise money to support the aid agency’s vital poverty-fighting work around the world. CAFOD is an official agency of the...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 4, 2008
An Australian church leader has said his country should spend as much on reconstructing war-torn Iraq as its did on its military operations there – writes Kim Cain. The Rev Gregor Henderson, president of the Uniting Church in Australia, made his comments...
