by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has told a gathering of academics that science should serve rather than enslave humanity, warning that the reduction of human beings and nature to mere ‘objects’ is not good for the spirit of reasoned enquiry. The comments came on Monday...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
News that Dr Atiq Rahman, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), will receive the United Nations Environment Programme’s Champions of the Earth Award 2008 for the Asia Pacific region has been welcomed by Christian Aid, which works...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 29, 2008
The Nairobi-based All Africa Conference of Churches is pleading with Kenyans to see their current political crisis as not only a national one, but as one in which the whole African continent is looking on in sorrow at the formerly peaceful country – writes...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 28, 2008
Folllowing commemorations yesterday, a special commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is being held today in the presence of the President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering and a range of guests, including around 150 members of the...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 27, 2008
Christian Aid and other church groups say that the breach of the border between Gaza and Egypt demonstrates the desperation of a people held hostage to both a policy of collective punishment and an inadequate peace process. Christian Aid, the UK-based international...
