by Sean Reilly | Feb 9, 2008
As Dr Rowan Williams faced calls for his resignation last night over the row about his Sharia speech, Lambeth Palace issued a statement suggesting that recognition for Christianity in a secular state requires a multi-faith settlement. In a media release designed to...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
Join Amnesty International’s campaign against torture. Click here for more details Religious practices have often been tied to violence and torture, but this connection is often hidden within public discourse. That is the situation in the United States with the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
I sat in the Jerusalem Hotel restaurant on Sunday 27 January 2008 and read the headline in the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, “Yeshiva counselor who killed terrorists lives to tell the tale.” In that article Elyakim Kovatch, the counselor who shot two...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
The newspaper L’Osservatore Romano claims that the students and scientists who protested about the Pope giving a speech at their university last month had misunderstood his views on Galileo because of a mistake on Wikipedia – the open source,...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
The year has not begun well for Afghanistan, with suicide bombings, fears of a deteriorating security situation and reports of an increased presence by Taliban forces throughout the country – writes Chris Herlinger. “The threats are not always related to...
