by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
Quakers are gearing up to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their award of the Nobel Peace Prize. On 10 December 2007 it will be sixty years since Quakers were awarded the Prize for their relief work helping displaced people and those facing poverty in Europe in the...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
A new report from United States intelligence agencies has undermined those close to the White House who have been arguing for unilateral military action against Iran by saying that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003. The findings, issued yesterday (3...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
To loud cheers at Tate Liverpool gallery, 48-year-old artist Mark Wallinger last night won the 2007 Turner Prize, the world’s premier art award, and dedicated his win to campaigner Brian Haw, whose anti-Iraq war protest shaped his work ‘State...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
The Methodist Church in Britain has pronounced A Word in Time, the online Bible study for daily life, launched at the beginning of September 2007, “hugely successful”, and is extending the programme to reach a wider audience. Thousands of visitors have...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 3, 2007
Teacher Gillian Gibbons is to be released from prison in Sudan after she was jailed for allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Mrs Gibbons was jailed for 15 days by a court in Sudan. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir pardoned her after a...
