by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
The new Anglican Bishop of Harare, the Rt Rev Sebastian Bakare, said this week that lawlessness and violence is threatening elections due on 29 March, and has called on Zimbabweans to pray for an end to the conflict and chaos. Bakare was part of three-member committee...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
Two organisations with strong church support who have been working to call business and financial institutions to the bar of social responsibility have joined forces, and will redouble their efforts in promoting ethical investment. The Ecumenical Council for Corporate...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
Students across Britain yesterday joined protests against their universities’ links with the arms trade. They called for an end to university arms investments and to the involvement of arms companies in academic research. The protests were supported by the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
William Hague, the Conservative MP for Richmond and current Shadow Foreign Secretary, has made what many regard as a remarkable political transition from an electorally unsuccessful Leader of the Opposition mocked for his baseball-cap diplomacy to a ‘national...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 27, 2008
The Church of England today is a weak institution with a strong leader. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, though given few official powers, uses his office and voice in efforts to hold together the polarized eighty-million-member Anglican Communion [1]. He is...
