by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
Ten years on from a terrible act of violence in conflict-torn Colombia, the UK-based international development agency Christian Aid is supporting the victims’ families in their quest for justice. The paramilitaries had been following the man involved for a few...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 28, 2008
This Easter season, Jerusalem Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan received visits to his office from a string of journalists. It happens every year at this time, with reporters wanting to write about the Holy Land during Christianity’s most important annual festival...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 15, 2008
A campaigning group that was formed 30 years ago to change law, attitudes and policy towards crime against women will mark the anniversary with a people’s trial of Britain’s justice system over the continuing scandal of rape. The event, “The rape of...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 14, 2008
Oikocredit, the leading private international microfinancier, which gives support to poor communities and social enterprise, has announced a significant growth in activity and impact in its preliminary results for 2007. The figures reveal an unprecedented growth in...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
Only a small number of the refugees arrested in a controversial police raid on Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa, remain in jail, according to the bishop there – writes Linda Bloom for UMNS. Thirteen people still were waiting for court...
