by Sean Reilly | Jul 22, 2008
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, who has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade on the run, will finally face justice after years of support from a network of allies – including many in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The new government...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 22, 2008
Dialogue is “the best way for mutual understanding and cooperation in human relations as well as in peaceful coexistence among nations,” said the final communiqué issued by the conveners of the World Conference on Dialogue and broadly affirmed by the conference which...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 22, 2008
A Christian father in Pakistan is trying without success to gain custody through the courts of his two pre-teen daughters who were kidnapped and made to convert to Islam – writes Anto Akkara. On 12 July 2008, a judge in Pakistan’s Punjab province ignored...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 19, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, has told Australians he is deeply sorry for the sexual abuse of children by some Catholic priests and has said that those responsible must be brought to justice. He was speaking at a gathering of...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 19, 2008
A German church has far exceeded its initial expectations in so far distributing more than 200,000 black bracelets intended as a symbolic protest against human rights abuses in China during the Olympic Games in Beijing. “It shows that people want to stand up for...
