by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called on the government to support the new report from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights which calls for children to be given the right to withdraw from worship in schools. The report says that any child of...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
Chinese churches and Christian agencies, as well as the government and army, have begun responding to the recent earthquake. The quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, has devastated a region west of the provincial capital Chengdu. Latest figures coming out of...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and the Anglican Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, welcomed leaders from business, government and civil society to Lambeth Palace yesterday for a Climate Change round table. The event was organised by the Together campaign,...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
The National Council of Churches in India has joined the battle to turn green by calling for Christians to mobilise in the world’s second most populous nation, and to join in the fight against global warming – writes Anto Akkara. “We urge all member...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
In a move which belies the anger of Christian groups complaining at the downgrading of religious imagery on British stamps, the Royal Mail yesterday issued a set of ten stamps celebrating ten of Britain’s historic cathedrals. They will probably now face...
