by Sean Reilly | May 19, 2008
A delegation representing British Baptists is travelling to Jamaica this Thursday (20 May) to apologise to Jamaican Baptists for the transatlantic slave trade. During their stay (22 to 29 May) the delegation will have opportunities to meet with Jamaican Baptists and...
by Sean Reilly | May 19, 2008
Children and adults from Washington, DC held the 1st Annual ‘Cluster Bomb Olympics’ organised by religious groups and others this weekend outside the White House. The event was organised to generate public awareness of cluster bombs before today’s...
by Sean Reilly | May 19, 2008
Dr Suha Rassam, founder of the charity Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN) and author of the book Christianity in Iraq, has been named one of the four Catholic Women of the Year. Dr Rassam set up the charity last year with a group of fellow Iraqis in the London area to...
by Sean Reilly | May 18, 2008
The UK-based international developement agency Christian Aid is responding to the huge magnitude earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province on 12 May through the work of the Amity Foundation, a recognised NGO. Despite an aftershock yesterday that has worsened...
by Sean Reilly | May 18, 2008
As the State of Israel marked the 60th anniversary of its founding, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) affirmed the Lutheran communion’s responsibility and challenge to continue working “to remove any vestiges of antisemitic attitudes toward our Jewish sisters and...
