by Sean Reilly | Jul 14, 2008
Women of faith have a special calling to restore religion’s principles of nonviolence in a conflicted world, Sister Joan Chittister has told more than 2,000 women at a gathering in the USA. The remarks came in a keynote address to the seventh triennial Gathering of...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 14, 2008
A Hindu woman living in India has produced a 900-page poetic epic on the life and message of Jesus following the style of Hindu classics such as Mahabharat and Ramayan – writes Anto Akkara. “This is the fruit of my great devotion to Jesus Christ,”...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 14, 2008
In an era of fierce debate about world food shortages, escalating prices, and food trade polices in an era of climate change, the origins of food and how people use it to prepare their daily fare has a particular relevance. A cookbook published by the Lutheran World...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 11, 2008
Campaigners say that the US Senate has administered the ‘last rites’ to the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). The Senate Appropriations Committee passed an annual spending bill yesterday that rejected all funding for the new weapon. The Senate’s...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 10, 2008
A United Nations committee meeting here has determined that two Baha’i shrines in Israel possess “outstanding universal value” and should be considered as part of the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole. The decision today by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee...
