by Sean Reilly | Jul 7, 2008
Spiralling food and oil prices dominated the first day of the G8 summit in Japan. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, arrived at the summit calling for the launch of a ‘global action plan’ to tackle rising food prices. On the eve of the summit, George Bush and the...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 7, 2008
On a visit to the German Federal Defence Ministry in Berlin, members of a delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) have posed tough questions about German arms sales and about whether wars, such as the Iraq war, can ever really solve problems. The WCC...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 7, 2008
Bishop Munib Younan has said that Christians need to have a stronger voice in Jerusalem in order to prevent tensions spreading there, and that Muslims and Christians should work together on ecology issues – writes Peter Kenny. Younan, the bishop of the...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 5, 2008
German churches’ prcatical experience with confronting the issue of domestic violence will play an important role in a Peace Declaration of the World Council of Churches planned for 2011. “The churches have denied the existence of this issue for a long...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 4, 2008
After “what can be described as a façade election”, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has called for the protection of the Zimbabwe population “against increased and continued violence”, an “intensified international monitoring of the...
