by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
Join Amnesty’s campaign again torture. Click here for more details The global human rights group Amnesty International has called on the government of Iran to immediately abolish the “grotesque and horrific” practice of publicly stoning people to...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
The famous opening of the Gospel of St John — “In the beginning was the Word” — always reminds me that when the early Church spoke about the Word of God, it did not mean the Bible, it meant Jesus. Jesus was the Word — in Greek, the logos. It is a remarkable term, for...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
Oikocredit, a global member-based social investment co-operative which makes small loans to hundreds of vital development projects, has expressed hope that it will “really take off” in the UK after receiving its first major contribution. The Society of the...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
Supporters of Brian Haw, the Christian peace protestor whose long-running Westminster vigil against the Iraq war led to the government banning demonstrations in the vicinity, have expressed outrage at his arrest yesterday. They say that the police used excessive...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
One of the BBC chief reporters has defied a government ban on the Corporation’s personnel operating in Zimbabwe, and has reported that opposition to President Robert Mugabe is growing within his own Zanu-PF party. John Simpson, who came to the attention of a...
