by Sean Reilly | Jun 25, 2008
Backed by Catholic aid agency CAFOD, two indigenous indians from Brazil have arrived in London this week to make an urgent plea to members of parliament for help to save their Amazon forest home. Jacir José de Souza and Pierlângela Nascimento da Cunha, who are from...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 8, 2008
The Japanese government and Christians should support the rights of the Ainu indigenous people in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, the Rev Tadao Miura, the director of the Ainu People Information Centre of the United Church of Christ in Japan, has said...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 14, 2008
A festival atmosphere was evident on the lawns outside Parliament House in Canberra yesterday. Thousands of people celebrated outside in the wake of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations. That much was evident from the television broadcast and the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 12, 2008
The first opening of the Australian Parliament after the election of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labour Government has proved a historic moment in the history of Australia – with an apology finally being made to indigenous people – write Doug Hynd and Simon...
