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...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 2, 2008
A Russian Orthodox Church missionary has defended Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II against charges that he is a Georgian nationalist, whilst other leading Russian clerics have warned against the war between their country and Georgia turning into an ethnic vendetta...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
Some twenty Christian and Muslim women will meet together in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the beginning of next month, as part of an ongoing practical dialogue and conflict transformation process called ‘Moving towards peace through religion’. Hosted by the...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
In August 2008, the prime minister of Japan broke with tradition by refusing to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine, which honours two-and-a-half million Japanese war dead. Some of those commemorated had been found guilty of war crimes during the Second World War....
by Sean Reilly | Jul 16, 2008
Churches working for peace in Indonesia – a country which over the last decades had to cope with repeated outbreaks of ethnic and religious conflicts, the integration of internally displaced people as well as refugees from outside its borders – will...