by Sean Reilly | Jun 17, 2008
The Zimbabwean woman who sat next to the general secretary of the World Council of Churches telling her story was quite blunt. “Please don’t write my name – if it is known I will be killed,” she said at the meeting moderated by the WCC general...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 23, 2008
An arms embargo on Zimbabwe is being urged as church leaders in the country say that without international intervention Zimbabweans face genocide. In a joint statement, signed by the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 2, 2008
As Kenyan churches are struggling to help prevent the country from descending into genocide, they envision a long term healing effort that will require the sustained engagement of international ecumenical partners. With a death toll increasing by the day and a growing...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Leaders of Britain’s 250,000 strong Jewish community have welcomed a decision by the Muslim Council of Britain, the country’s largest Islamic organization, to end its boycott of Holocaust Day held on 27 January every year – writes Trevor Grundy. The...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 11, 2007
A joint campaign to eliminate genocide around the world has been initiated by leading civic, academic and religious figures in a conference room at the Interchurch Center near the campus of Columbia University in New York, USA. Representatives of churches, the United...