by Sean Reilly | Apr 21, 2008
United Methodists from Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States will gather this week in Ft. Worth Texas at the denomination’s quadrennial conference, where they will consider corporate divestment from companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 21, 2008
A former Catholic bishop who has campaigned vigorously for the poor has won Paraguay’s presidential election to end more than 60 years of monopoly rule by the party that once backed vicious dictator General Alfredo Stroessner. Fernando Lugo Mendez won nearly 41...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 21, 2008
In New York at 9.30 am local time on Sunday 20 April 2008, the Pope visited Ground Zero, the name now used to refer to the site once occupied by the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. He prayed for peace and an end to hatred. On 11 September 2001 two aircraft...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 20, 2008
While worldwide attention is focused on discord and divisions within the Anglican Communion, Anglican women and girls are uniting “to make their voices heard on issues of poverty and women’s empowerment, express the power and depth of their faith, and to...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 19, 2008
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, has said religions should be prepared to ask difficult questions and he asserts it is unrealistic to live as if there was only one global faith –...
