by Sean Reilly | Jun 17, 2008
The Zimbabwean woman who sat next to the general secretary of the World Council of Churches telling her story was quite blunt. “Please don’t write my name – if it is known I will be killed,” she said at the meeting moderated by the WCC general...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 17, 2008
An Indian Christian university, the first in the Union of India, says it is pursuing a unique agenda in its goal to provide quality job-oriented education that will also meet the needs of the healthcare and social service work of the churches in the world’s...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 16, 2008
Debt campaigners have welcomed the decision of the Paris Club of creditors to cancel US$347 million of Togo’s debt and impose a moratorium on remaining debt payments to these creditors until 2011. Creditors cited the food crisis as the main reason why had been...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 15, 2008
The military strategy of trying to win ‘hearts and minds’ in Afghanistan by building schools and health clinics is failing to address the root causes of violence in the country, a new report launched earlier this week by a group of European and Canadian aid agencies...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 14, 2008
Church leaders in Canada hope action will follow a public apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to victims of a situation whereby aboriginal children were placed in residential schools run by churches under a government policy of enforced assimilation –...
