by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
An international team of church representatives will pay a solidarity visit to churches and ecumenical organizations in Sudan from 26 March to 2 April 2008, it has been announced. The team led by the WCC general secretary Rev Samuel Kobia will split in four groups to...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
President George Bush and his wife Laura Bush will greet Pope Benedict XVI, April 15, when he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base for a six-day visit to the United States that will take him to Washington and New York City. The pope is expected to arrive at four in the...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
An initiative in which 100 people have lived as failed asylum seekers for a week in a ‘visible act of solidarity’, comes to an end this Saturday, The people from across the country spent a week this Lent living on £3.50 and a typical food parcel in a...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 19, 2008
Zelda Jeffers and Fr Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker community were sentenced to days in prison yesterday, at Stratford Magistrates Court, after pouring fake blood onto the gangway entrance to the DSEi (Defence System Equipment International) Arms Fair at...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 19, 2008
The Tufts Institute for Global Leadership has awarded a coffee company in California a prestigious award for supporting a co-op of Muslim, Christian and Jewish farmers in Africa. The Dr John Mayer Global Citizenship award has been given to the Thanksgiving Coffee Co....
