by Sean Reilly | Mar 7, 2008
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev Samuel Kobia, has told his UN counterpart, Ban Ki-moon, that the ecumenical body and its member churches in Africa are planning for the monitoring of elections scheduled in Zimbabwe on 29 March 2008...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 6, 2008
Officials from the Vatican and senior Muslims are holding a two-day meeting in Rome this week, with the intention of laying the foundations for a major global Catholic-Islamic exchange later in 2008. Five senior figures from each faith are defining the terms of a...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 5, 2008
Forty pastors from five different tribes and denominations met for a peace-building seminar at the Eastleigh Fellowship Centre, located in a semi-slum area of Nairobi, recently. The centre facilitates church and community programmes. Jewel Showalter writes: Pastor...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 4, 2008
Jordanian Prince El Hassan bin Talal, who chairs the board of trustees of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, has condemned strongly the kidnapping of the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Paulus Faraj Rahho, and the killing of...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 3, 2008
As US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice travels to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the wake of the chaos occasioned by Israel’s intervention in Gaza, senior US church figures have written calling for urgent action. The letter from the the leaders of US...
