by Sean Reilly | Apr 18, 2008
Migration “is a fact of life. It is as much an instinct to survive as it is an inevitable consequence of globalization. We can neither turn our backs on it, nor control it,” declared a statement of participants at a 15-16 April Public Hearing on Migration...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 17, 2008
A number of Danish churches have praised an open letter published by 138 prominent Muslim scholars and have pledged to meet with leaders of Islam in Denmark to continue this exchange. The dean of Copenhagen cathedral, the Rev Anders Gadegaard, told Ecumenical News...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 17, 2008
Migration “is a human concern, not a Muslim or a Christian one, and therefore Christians and Muslims must act on it together”, declared representatives of Lebanon’s six most numerous faith communities at a Public Hearing on Migration and the Changing...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 15, 2008
Twenty-eight arms control advocacy and religious organizations called today for a key committee of the US Congress to stop the administration from building a new nuclear weapon. In a letter to the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee organized by the...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 15, 2008
A Catholic aid agency has warned that the spiralling cost of food will exacerbate global malnutrition already affecting over 820 million people in developing countries. “Currently we have over 40 times the population of Australia who are malnourished”, said Caritas...
