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
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...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, will jump out of an aeroplane today to raise money for the families of soldiers killed or injured in Afghanistan. The Archbishop was one of the most prominent opponents of the war in Iraq, but the Archbishop believes that more...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
A British charity has said that children in post-conflict areas are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers. The abuse involves children as young as six. After research in Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, Save the Children said an international...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
The Dalai Lama has had a series of meetings in the UK, with figures including Gordon Brown, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Prince Charles. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor also met with the Dalai Lama at an inter-religious meeting hosted by the Archbishop of...
