by Sean Reilly | Jan 17, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, has said that Christians should give priority to unity in the global Week of Prayer that runs from 18-25 January. He also commended a peace message going back to philosopher and theologian St...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has been forced to cancel a visit to the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome after lecturers and students expressed outrage at his past defence of the Catholic church’s actions against Galileo. The Pope had been due to make a speech at...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
The second meeting of an Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue took place in Tripoli last week, and was heralded by participants as an important step forward in understanding between two faith traditions that have often been at loggerheads. The aim of the gathering in...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
The recent freeing of Clara Rojas and Consuelo González in Colombia has been welcomed by a World Council of Churches’ spokesperson as a sign of hope that non-violence and justice is still possible in the troubled country. The release of the two guerilla...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has said multi-racial harmony in his country is under threat by State-sponsored Islamic puritanism that has damaged the constitutional rights of other faiths in the Muslim-majority southeast Asian nation – writes Michele...
