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 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 23, 2008
Five years after the 2003 invasion of Iraq the humanitarian situation for many people continues to deteriorate, says Mennonite Central Committee, which is extending its humanitarian work there. Churches, peace activists and development agencies say that just as...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 7, 2008
On a visit to the German Federal Defence Ministry in Berlin, members of a delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) have posed tough questions about German arms sales and about whether wars, such as the Iraq war, can ever really solve problems. The WCC...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 4, 2008
An Australian church leader has said his country should spend as much on reconstructing war-torn Iraq as its did on its military operations there – writes Kim Cain. The Rev Gregor Henderson, president of the Uniting Church in Australia, made his comments...
