by Sean Reilly | Mar 4, 2008
Jordanian Prince El Hassan bin Talal, who chairs the board of trustees of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, has condemned strongly the kidnapping of the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Paulus Faraj Rahho, and the killing of...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 4, 2008
A potentially landmark faith schools court case for alleged racial discrimination is now underway, involving the JFS (formally the Jewish Free School). It is being brought by parents whose child was denied a place at the school. The admissions criteria used by the...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 3, 2008
People of all faiths and of none will be involved in a new Government-backed global volunteering scheme for 18 to 25-year-olds announced on 2 March 2008 by UK International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander. The scheme, says the government, will offer young...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 3, 2008
As US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice travels to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the wake of the chaos occasioned by Israel’s intervention in Gaza, senior US church figures have written calling for urgent action. The letter from the the leaders of US...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 3, 2008
According to my good ‘Christianity with attitude’ colleague Giles Fraser, writing in the Church Times, the Adam Smith Institute has “just exploded a bomb under Fairtrade Fortnight” by asking whether fair trade is really efficacious, or whether...
