by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, has made another appeal for peace and dialogue in Kenya following recent violence and disturbances in the wake of the country’s presidential elections. In a Letter, signed by Cardinal...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Churches in Pakistan, condemning the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, have appealing for international help in eradicating terrorism in their country – writes Anto Akkara. “We earnestly appeal to the national and global communities...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 6, 2008
A convoy of trucks carrying 666 tonnes of food and vegetable oil has left the Kenyan port of Mombasa, in a new effort to tackle a humanitarian crisis triggered by disputed elections and the welter of violence following in its wake. The trucks are bound for Nairobi and...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 5, 2008
As violence continues amid attempts at a settlement following the bitterly disputed elections in Kenya, the number of people displaced has increased to some half million people, according to agencies and NGOs working in the country. The Christian relief organisation...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 5, 2008
Representatives of the world’s Historic Peace Churches gathered in Solo, Indonesia in December 2007, to ask what “Peace in Our Land” means practically – through the interrelated topics of injustice, religious pluralism, and poverty. These churches – which...
