by Sean Reilly | Mar 19, 2008
Zelda Jeffers and Fr Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker community were sentenced to days in prison yesterday, at Stratford Magistrates Court, after pouring fake blood onto the gangway entrance to the DSEi (Defence System Equipment International) Arms Fair at...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 18, 2008
An inquiry has been ordered following claims that faith schools have been breaking laws aimed at making admissions fairer. Schools Adjudicator Philip Hunter has been given until July to probe the way all schools and academies decide which pupils to take. He has been...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 17, 2008
A set of ten action points has been issued by a Christian agency suggesting ways that refused (so-called ‘failed’) asylum seekers and refugees can be helped. Churches and others in the UK are being urged by the UK Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS-UK) to,...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 17, 2008
New research from Christian international relief and development agency, World Vision, has suggested that 52 per cent of the UK population – 25 million people – believe that buying Easter eggs is a waste of money. People in the UK will spend a £431 million...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 17, 2008
The Iraqi dead, as well as those who have died from Britain, will be remembered in a ‘public lament’ later this week, marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Students from Queen’s Theological College, Edgbaston will stage the lamentation for...
