by Sean Reilly | Apr 24, 2008
A delegation led by the Rev Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has travelled to Syria wishing to learn from the country’s long experience of Christians and Muslims living peacefully together. “Islam cannot be studied...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 24, 2008
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev Thabo Makgoba, has joined others in calling for an arms embargo against Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe, amid growing evidence that his government is planning a campaign of intimidation against opponents....
by Sean Reilly | Apr 24, 2008
The Rev Philip Potter, a former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has been honoured by the South African government for his determined commitment to combatting racism and apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s. On 22 April 2008, President Thabo Mbeki...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 23, 2008
Agricultural export subsidies in developed countries which destroy local food production as well as the income of farmers in the global South and therefore contribute to the world food crisis need to be withdrawn, says Swiss ethicist the Rev Christoph Stückelberger...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 23, 2008
Rich nations are the real beneficiaries of the “boom industry” of global corruption that is making the world’s poor even poorer – writes Kim Cain from Melbourne, Australia. That is the central finding of a new report, “From Corruption to...
