by Sean Reilly | Jan 24, 2008
Outdated language used to justify corporal punishment of children is set to be removed from new translations of the Bible in Norway. Church leaders have given the green light to the proposal, put forward by the Norwegian Ombudsman for Children, to replace the word...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 23, 2008
Caritas Jerusalem, part of the international Catholic aid network, is one of a range of church and faith bodies joining the call of UN agencies and NGOs for practical measures to end the escalating crisis in Gaza. Last week, Caritas points out, 35 people in Gaza were...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 23, 2008
Church agencies in Britain will be combining efforts during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week, from 26 January to 3 February, to highlight both the human face of inequality and the need to make it a public policy priority. The groups involved in a series of...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 23, 2008
The BBC are to broadcast a new prime time series about the days before Jesus’ crucifixion which it is suggested will attract audiences of ten million. The series, which follows several other major programmes exploring the Christian faith, as well as regular...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 23, 2008
The world is losing the war against AIDS, says Sister Sheila Flynn, an English-born Irish nun who works with HIV-affected women in South Africa, as she urged churches to mobilise a collective effort to tackle the pandemic. “We must not only think differently...
