by Sean Reilly | Jan 31, 2008
For the first time, a general secretary of the World Council of Churches has taken part with a pope in a Rome service to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which ended last week, recalling the centenary of this initiative born in the United States in 1908....
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
The giant arms company BAE Systems is so far over budget with two of its latest projects that they will cost UK taxpayers £2.2 billion more than expected, a government report acknowledges. Peace campaigners say it is a scandal. The figure is revealed in a report by...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
For the third year running Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, a former human rights campaigner, has hit the headlines with a hard-hitting report on Britain’s dire prison situation, calling for action not political posturing. In 2006 the...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
Churches working for peace amidst post-electoral violence in Kenya are receiving a pastoral and solidarity visit from an international delegation sent by the World Council of Churches from 30 January to 3 February 2008. Churches in Kenya are struggling to work for...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has told a gathering of academics that science should serve rather than enslave humanity, warning that the reduction of human beings and nature to mere ‘objects’ is not good for the spirit of reasoned enquiry. The comments came on Monday...
