by Sean Reilly | Jun 15, 2008
The military strategy of trying to win ‘hearts and minds’ in Afghanistan by building schools and health clinics is failing to address the root causes of violence in the country, a new report launched earlier this week by a group of European and Canadian aid agencies...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 2, 2008
The Church of Scotland has resolutely rejected the ‘war on terror’ language being used in some political quarters in discussions about the future of Pakistan following the assassination of former PM Benazir Bhutto. Other churches and church related...
by Sean Reilly | Oct 31, 2007
The UK government has not made a convincing case for extending the time suspected terrorists can be detained without charge, according to the Church of England. None of the options put forward for increasing the period beyond 28 days (itself a quadrupling of the seven...
