by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
The government is preparing to scrap Britain’s entire arsenal of cluster bombs that have killed and maimed hundreds of innocent civilians, reports the Guardian newspaper. Officials are paving the way for the radical step at talks in Dublin on an international...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
After police invoked security laws to ban open-air prayer meetings in some parts of the country, a Zimbabwean church group has said that freedom to worship in the southern African country is being infringed in the weeks before a presidential election run-off in June....
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
The outgoing leader of the Evangelical Alliance has urged programme makers not to focus on the ‘eccentric fringe’ of Evangelicalism, who he said was the focus of a recent Channel 4 documentary examining the rise of fundamentalism in the UK. His comments...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
Ten years on from a terrible act of violence in conflict-torn Colombia, the UK-based international development agency Christian Aid is supporting the victims’ families in their quest for justice. The paramilitaries had been following the man involved for a few...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
Only a fortnight after releasing their debut album of plainchant, the Cistercian monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria have reached number one on the UK Classics charts and number nine in the pop, rock and dance charts. The surprise hit band was discovered after...
