by Sean Reilly | Feb 20, 2008
The Rev Kjell Magne Bondevik knows all about making public statements. As former prime minister of Norway and a national legislator for more than 30 years, he often spoke on behalf of his government. Now moderator of the World Council of Churches’ Commission of...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 20, 2008
With conflict rife and peace in peril, the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has called on member states of the European Union, especially France, to look re-examine their role in troubled Chad. The move comes as China is put under more pressure to use...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 20, 2008
Churches should be prepared to confront their differences honestly and to examine them in the light of the scriptures, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I has said at a service to celebrate 60 years since the World Council of Churches was founded with its goal of...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 19, 2008
As Cubans inside and outside the country absorbed the news that communist leader Fidel Castro had stepped down, Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque prepared to welcome Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state, who visits the country from 20 to 26...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 19, 2008
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev Samuel Kobia, a Methodist from Kenya, has announced that he will not seek a second term at the head of the world’s biggest Christian grouping. “Kobia made his intentions known today stating...
