by Sean Reilly | Dec 3, 2007
Teacher Gillian Gibbons is to be released from prison in Sudan after she was jailed for allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Mrs Gibbons was jailed for 15 days by a court in Sudan. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir pardoned her after a...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 3, 2007
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has joined members of the Working Group on Orphans and Vulnerable Children calling on the UK government to put the rights of children at the heart of its new strategy for tackling HIV/AIDS throughout the world. They have a particular...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 3, 2007
The Church of England and the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England have issued a guarded memorandum of response to the committee commenting on a proposed government amendment to the Public Order Act 1986 regarding a new offence of incitement to hatred...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 2, 2007
You can buy Christian Aid gifts and support present aid online by clicking here UK-based international development agency Christian Aid will push for a follow-on agreement to the Kyoto Protocol to include large-scale financial support for developing nations from the...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 1, 2007
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance in Geneva, a partnership involving major Christian development and church agencies, including several in the UK, is encouraging people of faith to take individual and collective responsibility for combatting HIV/AIDS. Among the ideas...
