by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
A Baghdad-based Anglican priest, in an interview with a US news network, has declared that Christians are considerably worse off now than they were during the regime of the late Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s former dictator, whose deposition he nevertheless welcomed...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
Workers are still paid only 5p an hour for 80-hour weeks producing clothes for leading UK retailers Primark, Tesco and Asda in Bangladesh, says a charity. This is despite the publication a year ago of a report which exposed their ‘sweatshops’. The news...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
The decision by the High Court not to allow a prosecution against BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, for blasphemy to go ahead has been welcomed by Christians and Humanists. Stephen Green of the group Christian Voice, had attempted to use the blasphemy law to...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
A new Government scheme which is being supported by Church Action on Poverty is to allow communities a direct say in how council money is spent. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears announced yesterday that local communities will get the chance to access their own...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, evangelical leaders Rick and Kay Warren and the Rev Gideon Byamugisha, the first African Anglican priest to openly say he is HIV-positive, are contributors to a new Advent Calendar focussing on the HIV-AIDS struggle. The daily devotional...
