by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Leaders of Britain’s 250,000 strong Jewish community have welcomed a decision by the Muslim Council of Britain, the country’s largest Islamic organization, to end its boycott of Holocaust Day held on 27 January every year – writes Trevor Grundy. The...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Fashion designer Nicole Farhi has teamed up with artist John Keane and international development charity Christian Aid to launch a range of limited edition clothing which will help highlight the plight of millions of children in war torn Angola. Prints from four of Mr...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Representatives from the Asia Mennonite Conference (AMC) have decided to move ahead on an “outline of merger” with Mennonite World Conference (MWC), strengthening relations in the 1.2 million world-wide peace denomination. According to the proposal, the AMC will be...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
At this time of year those of us who are Christians come to focus on the meaning of a particular birth, and in so doing find ourselves drawn further into the deep mystery, pain and possibility of living and dying on this beautiful but naked planet. Yet most of the...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Last month, headlines were grabbed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s attack upon US foreign policy. But the deeper point, widely missed, was his attack upon western modernity in general. “There is something about western modernity which really does eat...
