by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
Bartholomeos I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, has joined the Dalai Lama as one of two international religious figures named in the “Time 100” list, the people deemed by Time magazine to be the world’s most influential persons –...
by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
Join Amnesty International’s campaign against torture. Click here for more details An installation of sculptures responding to the horrors of war, particularly the ongoing war in Iraq, is on display at Union Theological Seminary in New York City until 16 May...
by Sean Reilly | May 7, 2008
The president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, says that in parts of Europe, such as the western Balkans, where internecine “wounds still require healing”, spiritual leaders need to be involved in the process. Pöttering, from Germany, made...
by Sean Reilly | May 7, 2008
A Catholic priest who supported freed Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui is one of three people who have been charged with inflicting an embarrassing blow against a top-secret military spy base in New Zealand. Dominican friar Peter Murnane joined organic gardener...
by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
Development agencies say that the final outcome of the Burmese cyclone disaster, which latest reports suggest has claimed over 23,000 lives, may be on the scale of the Asian tsunami a few years ago. They are urging a global response. Some 41,000 people are also...
