by Sean Reilly | Jan 12, 2008
Pastor Sidheswar Digal was making Christmas preparations on 24 December when he heard a mob howling anti-Christian slogans outside his house. “When I came out, I saw our people running away into the jungle. They urged me, ‘run’, and I joined...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
UK-based international development agency Christian Aid has welcomed US President George Bush’s statement on the Middle East calling for ‘an end to the occupation that began in 1967’, referring to Israel and Palestinian lands. Mr Bush, who made the statement on...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
One of the few of its kind in the world, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame has announced a Ph.D. program in peace studies. The program welcomes applications from scholars of all religious and secular traditions for its...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
A major international conference on Catholic peacemaking is to take place later this year, bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and peacebuilding practitioners from countries around the world that have been torn by conflict, it was announced...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
An event at Washington National Cathedral in the US later this month is to gather young people together to ask what Martin Luther King’s platform would be for the next US President. Local poet, performer and educator Bomani Armah will lead the multi-sensory,...
