by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
The run-off in the Zimbabwean presidential election will not be credible without an immediate end to intimidation, violence and torture and deployment of reliable international election observers, the Catholic Church in the region has said. “Out of concern for...
by Sean Reilly | May 13, 2008
The most powerful earthquake to hit China in 30 years, registered at a magnitude of 7.9, has killed at least 10,000 people in the south-western Sichuan province, with thousands more trapped and injured, says the BBC and news agencies. Chinese state media said that...
by Sean Reilly | May 13, 2008
Methodists in Britain have been told by their president that the future holds a mixed prospects for both renewal and demise for. The Rev Dr Martyn Atkins was speaking at a large Pentecost rally in the heart of the capital. The denominational head’s comments came...
by Sean Reilly | May 13, 2008
President Vladimir Putin’s successor, Dmitry Medvedev, was inaugurated in the Kremlin with pomp, circumstance, and prayers from Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church – writes Sophia Kishkovsky. After the main ceremony on 7 May, at a moleben,...
by Sean Reilly | May 12, 2008
Smoke rose into the sky above Colombo in July 1983 as Sinhalese men burned the homes and businesses of Tamils, and killed some, while others hid or fled. Twenty-five years later, violence is again tearing Sri Lanka apart. A former Olympic athlete, the national coach...
