by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
New research from international relief and development agency, World Vision, has revealed that half of men in the UK (51%) can’t remember what gifts their partners got them last Christmas. Women weren’t far behind with 43% forgetting what their loved ones bought them....
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
Israel is jeopardising chances of peace in the Middle East by announcing plans to build more than 300 new houses in east Jerusalem, Christian Aid has said. The Israeli government announced on Tuesday it had invited bids to build the homes in Har Homa, south of...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
A Catholic university in the US will honour the Buddhist monks of Burma (Myanmar) for their courage and nonviolent demonstrations against the tyrannical Burmese military earlier this year, by awarding them with an honorary doctorate. A representative of the monks,...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
A Baghdad-based Anglican priest, in an interview with a US news network, has declared that Christians are considerably worse off now than they were during the regime of the late Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s former dictator, whose deposition he nevertheless welcomed...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 6, 2007
Workers are still paid only 5p an hour for 80-hour weeks producing clothes for leading UK retailers Primark, Tesco and Asda in Bangladesh, says a charity. This is despite the publication a year ago of a report which exposed their ‘sweatshops’. The news...
