by Sean Reilly | Jan 23, 2008
The BBC are to broadcast a new prime time series about the days before Jesus’ crucifixion which it is suggested will attract audiences of ten million. The series, which follows several other major programmes exploring the Christian faith, as well as regular...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 23, 2008
The world is losing the war against AIDS, says Sister Sheila Flynn, an English-born Irish nun who works with HIV-affected women in South Africa, as she urged churches to mobilise a collective effort to tackle the pandemic. “We must not only think differently...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 22, 2008
The UK wing of the global social investment initiative Oikocredit has teamed up with the Livesimply campaign to promote a shared vision for social justice. Oikocredit provides vital loans to creative but impoverished communities. Launched in November 2006, Livesimply...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 22, 2008
The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) has compiled a dossier highlighting and criticising the record of one of the UK’s newly appointed equality commissioners, Evangelical Alliance director Joel Edwards. LGCM says that Dr Edwards has a history of...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 21, 2008
Senior Baptist theologians have joined other church figures and civil rights groups in calling for an end to the blasphemy laws in Britain, which are now seen by a wide cross-section of the public as an unjust anachronism. The former Archbishop of canterbury, Lord...
