by Sean Reilly | Jan 8, 2008
Church and civic leaders in Iraq are expressing concern after reports that a number of churches were bombed on Sunday 6 January 2007, following Eid and Christmas, and at a time when Orthodox Christians were celebrating New Year’s Eve. Various explosive devices, mortar...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 8, 2008
Anabaptism, a dissenting Christian tradition associated with the world’s historic peace churches, provides a specific way of understanding what it means to follow Jesus, a leading presenter at a major Mennonite consultation has declared. The comment came as the...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 8, 2008
An MP will this week seek to bring an end to Britain’s controversial blasphemy laws – as a broad cross-section of believers, humanists and civil rights campaigners continue to argue that they are unnecessary, repressive and outdated. Today British Humanist...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Representative’s of Britain’s armed forces are reacting with fury to a report which says that some of their recruitment advertising is giving young people, in particular, a misleading and glamourised picture of military life. ‘Informed Choice? Armed...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Christian groups and churches in Indian’s eastern state of Orissa are demanding urgent protection, saying they have been hounded by Hindu extremists, with reports of nine people being killed in attacks since Christmas – writes Anto Akkara....
