by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
An international team of church representatives will pay a solidarity visit to churches and ecumenical organizations in Sudan from 26 March to 2 April 2008, it has been announced. The team led by the WCC general secretary Rev Samuel Kobia will split in four groups to...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
President George Bush and his wife Laura Bush will greet Pope Benedict XVI, April 15, when he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base for a six-day visit to the United States that will take him to Washington and New York City. The pope is expected to arrive at four in the...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 19, 2008
The Tufts Institute for Global Leadership has awarded a coffee company in California a prestigious award for supporting a co-op of Muslim, Christian and Jewish farmers in Africa. The Dr John Mayer Global Citizenship award has been given to the Thanksgiving Coffee Co....
by Sean Reilly | Mar 18, 2008
Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the March 19 invasion of Iraq, the general secretary of the National Council of Churches (NCC) has reiterated the conviction held by many US churches that the war has been a ‘disastrous mistake’ and should be brought to an end....
by Sean Reilly | Mar 18, 2008
A deep-rooted caste divide among Christians in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state has come to the fore after two Roman Catholics were killed at Eraiyur in the Pondicherry archdiocese due to police firing during a clash between upper-caste and Dalit church members...
