by Sean Reilly | Jul 17, 2008
The scale of the challenge and the glimmer of new possibilities in interreligious understnading is on display at the 16-18 July international interfaith conference convened in Madrid by the Muslim World League. The meeting follows an initiative by Saudi Arabia’s...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 17, 2008
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe has admitted that a Red Cross symbol was worn by a member of the military rescue mission that freed 15 hostages including Ingrid Betancourt from Farc rebels recently. Mr Uribe expressed ‘regret’ over the incident, which...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 17, 2008
A Polish priest has defended his decision to allow his parish to be used to advertise and recruit staff for a new Tesco hypermarket, despite previous church criticisms of the British retail giant – writes Jonathan Luxmoore. “I could have dropped the...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 16, 2008
A Catholic advocacy and development agency has called on the British government to fulfil its responsibilities to the people of East Timor, following a quarter-century of violence during which the UK supplied arms to Indonesian forces that illegally occupied East...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 16, 2008
Churches working for peace in Indonesia – a country which over the last decades had to cope with repeated outbreaks of ethnic and religious conflicts, the integration of internally displaced people as well as refugees from outside its borders – will...
