by Sean Reilly | Mar 16, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has joined worldwide tributes paid to Chiara Lubich, founder of the religious and humanitarian Focolare Movement, whose death was announced on Friday 14 March 2008. Focolare is an international organization promoting human...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 16, 2008
The US United Methodist Church needs to think less about charity and more about social justice, according to the leader of the denomination’s mission agency. Becoming a partner in establishing free health clinics across the United States may be one way to do...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 15, 2008
Alex James, farmer, writer, broadcaster and former Blur band member, is joining forces with international development agency Christian Aid to help highlight the plight of farmers on the frontline of climate change in developing countries at the Royal Show (3-6 July...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 15, 2008
Michael Heller, a Polish Roman Catholic priest and cosmologist whose intellectual and religious life has been grounded in the insights of both science and religion, has won the 2008 Templeton Prize, believed to be the largest yearly monetary award given to a single...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
In October 2007 a priest was convicted of complicity in 7 murders, 31 cases of torture and 42 kidnappings. Christian Von Wernich had been chaplain to the Buenos Aires police force in the years of Argentina’s military dictatorship from 1976-1983. For his role in...
