by Sean Reilly | Aug 21, 2008
The campaign for a Welsh team at future Olympic Games has been stepped up with the launch of a national petition on the Welsh Assembly’s website. The petition by Dr Geraint Tudur, general secretary of the Union of Welsh Independent Chapels, says: “We call...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 14, 2008
Leaders of the Anglican Communion left for home from the Lambeth Conference earlier this month having heard Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams say there is “wide support” for measures to resolve a dispute over homosexuality that had threatened to tear...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 30, 2008
Addressing more than 600 of the world’s Anglican bishops, Britain’s chief rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks has appealed to Jews and Christians to forge common cause and reach out to other people in a world dominated by politics and economics. “Though we do...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 29, 2008
Davis MacIyalla, director of the lesbian and gay rights group Changing Attitude Nigeria, has been granted asylum in the United Kingdom. Mr Davis has been subject to a range of attacks and death threats for his Christian work. MacIyalla fled Nigeria in 2006 following a...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 27, 2008
The 68 million strong Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has welcomed the recent decision by the Church of England General Synod to consecrate women as bishops, for its potential to enrich the life of the Church and in particular “for its immediate consequences in...
