World churches’ bodies call for urgent action on Zimbabwe

Two international ecumenical Christian bodies have called on the UN, the South African Development Community and the African Union “to increase [their] efforts to address the rapidly deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe”. Emergency aid, postponement of the...

Student Christian leader calls for peace monitors in Zimbabwe

A leader of the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe has urged the international community to intervene in the southern African nation, following the decision of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the presidential runoff, citing escalating violence...

Small-scale diplomacy brings peace in Papua New Guinea

Not all wars and conflicts make the pages of newspapers, nor are all peace agreements the result of the high diplomacy of the United Nations, and that certainly includes those now being reconciled in the jungles of Papua New Guinea – writes Pat Cain. After...