by Sean Reilly | May 12, 2008
Smoke rose into the sky above Colombo in July 1983 as Sinhalese men burned the homes and businesses of Tamils, and killed some, while others hid or fled. Twenty-five years later, violence is again tearing Sri Lanka apart. A former Olympic athlete, the national coach...
by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
The Quilliam Foundation, a new think tank, is named after William Quilliam (1856-1932), an Englishman who embraced Islam and set up the first mosque in Britain, in Liverpool. According to the founders of this initiative, the history of European Islam — and especially...
by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
The Christian Research organisation, whose latest statistical survey on the overall decline of church attendance in Britain has annoyed the Church of England, has defended its work against charges of being inaccurate and superficial. It was reported yesterday that the...
by Sean Reilly | May 7, 2008
The president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, says that in parts of Europe, such as the western Balkans, where internecine “wounds still require healing”, spiritual leaders need to be involved in the process. Pöttering, from Germany, made...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
Millions of dollars have been spent promoting Ben Stein’s creationist propaganda movie ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ to conservative church groups, but that money would have been better spent on fact checkers, say its critics. The National Center for Science...
