by Sean Reilly | Jun 3, 2008
As the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation meets to discuss the food crisis in Rome today, debt campaigners have issued a call for a moratorium on debt repayments from afflicted countries. Jubilee Debt Campaign and Christian Aid in Britain describe the...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 3, 2008
This year’s annual Methodist Conference – the governing body of the Church – will take place in Scarborough from 5-10 July. he Methodist Church is one of the largest Christian denominations in Britain, with nearly 300,000 members and regular contact...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 2, 2008
Leaders of the World Jewish Congress have endorsed a call by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia for more dialogue between Jews, Christians and Muslims worldwide to reinforce common values among the Abrahamic faiths – writes Maurice Melanes. “It...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 2, 2008
An interfaith television game show, believed to be the first in Britain, in which Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh contestants compete against one another for cash prizes is to be broadcast weekly from the London studios of the Islam Channel from mid-June...
by Sean Reilly | May 30, 2008
Tony Blair will today launch his long awaited Faith Foundation in New York, saying that he wants religion to be seen as a force for good in the world. The new organisation, for which he is seeking hundreds of millions of pounds of charitable funding, will focus on...