Arms giant BAE lobbied Fraud Office to stop investigation

Documents released in the High Court yesterday show that Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE Systems, wrote to the Attorney General on a “strictly private and confidential” basis urging him to halt the Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations...

Globalisation is reshaping the church, says WCC chief

New expressions of Christianity, the growing prominence of the global South, the impact of globalization and increasing religious diversity are radically changing the shape of the church says the head of the world’s largest church body. These factors and others...

Church and aid groups say Gaza situation is worsening

Church and aid workers are warning that the situation in Gaza is deteriorating as Israelis and Palestinians continue to face off, more than two weeks after Israel cut the electric power supply to Gaza in response to Palestinian missile launchings into Israel –...