by Sean Reilly | Sep 8, 2008
Speaking at a pastoral congress in Germany last week, Cardinal Martino deplored the prejudice and hatred being meted out to Romany and travelling people (often called “Gypsies”) in many parts of Europe, and called on the churches to support them. In an...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 8, 2008
GMTV presenter Lorraine Kelly has said she believes that education for all, rather than schools divided on religious lines, in what Scotland needs to overcome sectarianism and to build lasting community. Her comments come at the end of a week of debate following the...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 4, 2008
Quite a lively debate has opened up on faith schools policy reform following the launch of Accord. What is clear from this is that those who justify discrimination in admissions and employment in state-funded religious schools are losing the argument from principle....
by Sean Reilly | Sep 1, 2008
One of the significant features of the new coalition Accord, which Ekklesia has helped to establish, is that it is bringing together people from different religious backgrounds who have concerns about current policies on admissions and employment in relation to faith...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 1, 2008
You might not imagine that calling for non-discrimination in admissions and employment, a balanced curriculum, a common inspection regime, and assemblies that reflect the whole community in our schools would be regarded as particularly controversial in twenty-first...
