by Sean Reilly | Jan 29, 2008
The Nairobi-based All Africa Conference of Churches is pleading with Kenyans to see their current political crisis as not only a national one, but as one in which the whole African continent is looking on in sorrow at the formerly peaceful country – writes...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 18, 2008
Leading UK-based international development agency Christian Aid is hosting a series of public events in several major English cities addressing the issue of unfair trade, African poverty and how they can be addressed by public and politicians. The series, entitled...
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 | Dec 13, 2007
An ecumenical Christian commemoration of the millions of Africans who died in the barbaric cruelty of the transatlantic slave trade is also highlighting the continuing oppression of their descendants around the world. Sixty theologians, church leaders, social...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 30, 2007
A civic organisation in Mali has won the International Service Human Rights Award for the Defence of Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS. The Association pour le Developpement et l’Appui Communautaire (ADAC) – the Association for Community Development and...