by Sean Reilly | Jun 6, 2008
Christian members of the Campaign Against Arms Trade, which recently won a crucial court victory in the BAE Systems corruption allegation case, are holding a day of prayer across the country on Sunday 8 June 2008. The initiative will involve local churches and is part...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
Join the campaign by clicking here Yang Chunlin is 52 years old and a human rights activist in China. He has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for his involvement in collecting signatures for a petition entitled “We Want Human Rights, not the Olympics. For six days...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
After police invoked security laws to ban open-air prayer meetings in some parts of the country, a Zimbabwean church group has said that freedom to worship in the southern African country is being infringed in the weeks before a presidential election run-off in June....
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
The newspaper L’Osservatore Romano claims that the students and scientists who protested about the Pope giving a speech at their university last month had misunderstood his views on Galileo because of a mistake on Wikipedia – the open source,...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 6, 2008
There are fears that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is set to worsen after a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court, supported by church and civil rights groups (both Palestinian and Israeli), failed to stop the government from stepping up its blockade of fuel...