by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has described his private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican earlier this week as “friendly and informal”. They spent almost half an hour in the Pope’s study. Afterwards Dr Williams said:...
by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
Hardly a month seems to go by these days without a high profile story in the newspapers concerning another Christian who is feeling discriminated against or claims by church leaders that Christianity is being ‘marginalised’. Back in December it was local authorities...
by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
Teams from UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) member agencies, together with flights of emergency relief items, are now arriving in Burma and reaching those people most affected by Cyclone Nargis. More aid is desperately needed and the DEC is calling on people to...
by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
The notion and shape of ‘the land’ means many things to many people, as the contradictory responses to this 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel are showing. For some it looks like triumph, for others it betokens tragedy. To people who...
by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
An unprecedented range of leaders from all sections of the Christian community have come together to affirm the right of both Israelis and Palestinians for a just and peaceful future – after years of division and violence. In a letter published in today’s...
