Protesters face police raids at the Republican Convention

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...

Tony Blair accepts Yale position on faith and globalisation

Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has accepted a one-year position at Yale University in which he will participate in a course examining issues related to religious faith and globalisation – writes Chris Herlinger from New York. Blair will serve as...

Churches prepare to mark fifth anniversary of Iraq invasion

In the run up to the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, churches are reiterating their call for British troops to withdraw from the country and setting out their plans to mark the occasion. The Fellowship of Reconciliation and Pax Christi are amongst those...

Healing the psychological wounds of war

What must [hu]mankind be, before such a thing as war could ever be known or thought of upon earth? How shocking, how inconceivable a want must there have been of common understanding, as well as common humanity, before any two Governors, or any two nations in the...