by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
Mao Zedong died in 1976, and since then, two big things have happened to China. The first is the explosion of the Chinese economy. Everybody has been talking about that. The other is the explosion of religion. The distinguished sinologist Professor David Ownby went...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
People in Britain, whether religious or not, have been used to negotiating their directions by first locating churches, pubs and other notable landmarks. But in the age of web maps that will have to change, because traditional sites are disappearing. That is the view...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
Churches in India are today closing about 30,000 of their educational institutions across the country to protest against continuing attacks by mobs of Hindu militants in the country’s eastern state of Orissa and which Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
A number of key African civil society organisations have come together with church development campaigners, to demand billions in compensation from rich countries for the impacts of global warming. The demand comes at the close of the United Nations climate change...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 28, 2008
People in Britain rate committed campaigners such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King far more highly than celebrities such as Sir Bob Geldof and Angelina Jolie, a recent YouGov poll commissioned by the international development agency Christian Aid shows. More...
