by Sean Reilly | Sep 11, 2008
British human rights activist and journalist Lauren Booth has been trapped illegally in the Gaza strip as a result of a legal campaign calling for an end to the Israeli government blockade there, say Palestinian activists. The international Free Gaza Movement...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 10, 2008
Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet of Vietnam has been accused by the government there of breaking the law and causing disorder by supporting prayer vigils against the authorities’ confiscation of Catholic Church property. The archbishop has bee accused of...
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 5, 2008
A pastoral delegation sent by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to Georgia and Russia has not been able to visit South Ossetia from the Georgian side of the ceasefire line. Unable to make the half-hour drive to Tskhinvali from within Georgia, they are now traveling...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 4, 2008
In developments which have been largely ignored in the US media, police have staged preemptive armed raids targeting protesters and alternative media around the Republican National Convention – including thousands of people demonstrating about war world poverty...