by Sean Reilly | Aug 9, 2008
As fierce fighting continues in Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia region, international aid agency World Vision is calling for the international community to help broker an immediate ceasefire. “Thousands of civilians are in harm’s way right now,...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 8, 2008
Gender inequalities which fuel women’s vulnerability to HIV must be addressed by the church, aid agency Tearfund has said as the 17th International AIDS conference in Mexico draws to a close today. “There is a desperate need for the leadership of the...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 1, 2008
International development agency Christian Aid says the blame for the collapse of the latest Doha Development Round talks in Geneva lies squarely with major agricultural exporting countries putting self-interest above other considerations. The talks were supposed to...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 31, 2008
Gene Robinson, the openly gay US bishop whose consecration in 2003 polarised the worldwide Anglican Communion, says he believes that one day the Church will regret its rejection of homosexuals the way that it now regrets its support in the past for slavery. “We...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 30, 2008
Addressing more than 600 of the world’s Anglican bishops, Britain’s chief rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks has appealed to Jews and Christians to forge common cause and reach out to other people in a world dominated by politics and economics. “Though we do...
