by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, has made another appeal for peace and dialogue in Kenya following recent violence and disturbances in the wake of the country’s presidential elections. In a Letter, signed by Cardinal...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
A marriage registrar has vowed to make a legal challenge to the acceptance of civil partnership ceremonies, claiming that she objects to them on religious grounds and should therefore be exempt from having to perform them. The woman, who has not been named, is...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Church members in affected areas are being urged to join consultations on sub-post office closures by the Anglican Archdeacons of Berkshire, Buckingham and Oxford – after protests by local communities hit by threatened closures. In December 2007 a consultation...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Churches in Pakistan, condemning the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, have appealing for international help in eradicating terrorism in their country – writes Anto Akkara. “We earnestly appeal to the national and global communities...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 6, 2008
Islamic extremism has turned some communities into no-go areas for people of a different faith or race, and Britain is disintegrating because it is no longer seen as a Christian nation, claims the Bishop of Rochester in a newspaper article. The Rt Right Rev Dr Michael...
