by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
Extreme rainfall in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe has caused severe flooding with devastating consequences – including food shortages to come as farmers’ crops are washed away, warn international church and development bodies. UK-based agency Christian Aid...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 13, 2008
Christians across the United States have been marking National Migration Week, 6-12 January 2008, sponsored by Migration and Refugee Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), based around the theme ‘From Many, One Family of...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 12, 2008
Pastor Sidheswar Digal was making Christmas preparations on 24 December when he heard a mob howling anti-Christian slogans outside his house. “When I came out, I saw our people running away into the jungle. They urged me, ‘run’, and I joined...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
One of the few of its kind in the world, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame has announced a Ph.D. program in peace studies. The program welcomes applications from scholars of all religious and secular traditions for its...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
A major international conference on Catholic peacemaking is to take place later this year, bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and peacebuilding practitioners from countries around the world that have been torn by conflict, it was announced...
