by Sean Reilly | Sep 5, 2008
The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) have jointly called on the Prime Minister of India requesting his intervention to end the violence in the state of Orissa. The WCC is also inviting its member churches and all Christians to...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 4, 2008
Quite a lively debate has opened up on faith schools policy reform following the launch of Accord. What is clear from this is that those who justify discrimination in admissions and employment in state-funded religious schools are losing the argument from principle....
by Sean Reilly | Sep 4, 2008
In a surprise move, a major Anglican newspaper has joined a growing number within the Church of England, who are asking whether it is time to open up, or even ‘call time’ on church schools. In an editorial, responding to the launch of Accord, a broad...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 4, 2008
In developments which have been largely ignored in the US media, police have staged preemptive armed raids targeting protesters and alternative media around the Republican National Convention – including thousands of people demonstrating about war world poverty...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 4, 2008
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said that the UN Peacebuilding Fund “has swiftly become a unique and dynamic tool to help countries emerging from conflict avoid slipping back into war.” However the concept and practice of peacebuilding...
