by Sean Reilly | Jan 26, 2008
United Sikhs, a UN affiliated international advocacy NGO, joined other civil rights organizations over the weekend in asking Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to discuss the Sikh turban issue in France with President Sarkozy. Mr Sarkozy’s high profile...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 24, 2008
In a statement issued yesterday, the heads of churches in Jerusalem and the Holy Land called on the international community and the state of Israel to end the current siege on the Gaza Strip which has caused most recently cuts in electricity and limited the shipments...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 24, 2008
The United Methodist General Board of Church and Society in the US will unveil proposals to divest holdings in Caterpillar Inc tomorrow (Friday). The 7.9 million member United Methodist Church’s pension agency reportedly has $5 million in Caterpillar shares out...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 24, 2008
Outdated language used to justify corporal punishment of children is set to be removed from new translations of the Bible in Norway. Church leaders have given the green light to the proposal, put forward by the Norwegian Ombudsman for Children, to replace the word...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 23, 2008
Caritas Jerusalem, part of the international Catholic aid network, is one of a range of church and faith bodies joining the call of UN agencies and NGOs for practical measures to end the escalating crisis in Gaza. Last week, Caritas points out, 35 people in Gaza were...
