by Sean Reilly | Nov 29, 2007
Journalists writing stories on different religions that are then put into other languages face constant pitfalls of being ‘lost in translation’, says the editor working for a global wire service who won the John Templeton Award for the European Religion...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 28, 2007
Church leaders in the Middle East region and across the world are giving a cautious but hopeful initial response to the proposals coming out of the Annapolis summit in Maryland, USA, concerning sustainable peace in Israel and Palestine. “So far is just a...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 28, 2007
As the humanitarian and military crisis continues in Iraq, European Catholic bishops have issued an appeal to governments to permit more refugees from the country to live in the region – against the backdrop of growing refusals. “We ask the EU to increase...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 27, 2007
Good faith, multilateral participation and adherence to the rule of law are essential if the Annapolis Middle East Conference starting today (Tuesday 27 November 2007), is to be a success, World Council of Churches’ general secretary Dr Samuel Kobia has written...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 27, 2007
A delegation of religious leaders mainly from the Horn of Africa, who have just visited strife-torn Somalia, have stressed that a solution to the crisis there lies within the country and not outside, while Pope Benedict XVI has called for peace in Somalia –...
