by Sean Reilly | Dec 27, 2007
Officials in the Indian state of Orissa have imposed a curfew in the Kandhamal district and appealed for calm after clashes involving Hindu nationalists and the minority Christian community. The violence, which began on Monday 24 December 2007 with a dispute over...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 27, 2007
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the senior figure in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has called for a more welcoming approach to migrants in British national life. During his Midnight Mass homily, delivered and broadcast on Christmas Eve...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 26, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI has declared in one of his key Christmas messages that believers facing persecution, torture and death in some parts of the world and those who die forgiving their killers are a sign of hope and faith for humanity. In a message delivered to pilgrims...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 26, 2007
Violence, injustice and greed are the main threats to humanity right now – and a radical chnage of heart and mind is needed to address them. That was the message from Christmas sermons delivered yesterday by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. The two Church...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 26, 2007
Domestic violence and what the church needs to do to respond to this problem topped the agenda for the recent second gathering of Central American Anabaptist Women Theologians. The meeting took place in Guatemala City at the end of November and beginning of December...
