CAFOD says European nations must assist Chad peace effort

With conflict rife and peace in peril, the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has called on member states of the European Union, especially France, to look re-examine their role in troubled Chad. The move comes as China is put under more pressure to use...

Edwards wants Evangelicals to be ‘good news people’

Evangelical Alliance UK leader Joel Edwards is embarking on a tour to help rehabilitate the word ‘evangelical’ and restore its links with the sense of good news (gospel) in which it has its roots. He is publishing a new book called Agenda for Change....

Vatican visit to Cuba coincides with Castro stepping down

As Cubans inside and outside the country absorbed the news that communist leader Fidel Castro had stepped down, Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque prepared to welcome Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state, who visits the country from 20 to 26...