by Sean Reilly | Jun 21, 2008
As the flooding in the Midwest of the US continues to spread, Christian relief agency World Vision is dispatching truckloads of emergency supplies to Iowa and sending a staff team to assess the needs of affected families. “World Vision will be providing basic...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 20, 2008
Zambian and Zimbabwean Roman Catholic bishops have exhorted the government of Southern African to take much stronger action in pressuring the government in Harare to ensure a credible presidential election in Zimbabwe – write Peter Kenny and Moses Chitendwe. The...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 20, 2008
Swiss soccer player Johan Vonlanthen says he has undergone phenomenal changes since he made his debut as an international soccer player – he has discovered that much of his success on the field is attributed to his Christian faith – writes Anna Blachut....
by Sean Reilly | Jun 19, 2008
In the run up to the G8 summit in Japan, presidents of nine Catholic Bishops’ Conferences have called on G8 nations to honour their commitments to reduce global poverty and tackle climate change. In a letter to the G8 leaders, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 19, 2008
A Christian peace activist who spent 188 days as a hostage in Iraq has been jailed, assaulted and forcibly deported from Israel. Harmeet Sooden, a peace activist from New Zealand, was deported yesterday after four days imprisonment, having been told he was a...