by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
British prime minister Gordon Brown today faces heavy criticism for launching his Business Call to Action on global poverty alongside corporations that have been widely attacked for deepening poverty and undermining human rights. The attack comes from the charity War...
by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
The United Methodist Church is urging justice for migrants worldwide and reform of U.S. immigration laws. Delegates to the denomination’s top legislative body, meeting from 23 April – 2 May 2, adopted resolutions covering both global migration and...
by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
A Catholic bishop has launched a strong attack on the government’s failure to regularise undocumented migrants living in Britain, branding its policies ‘irresponsible’, ‘shameful’ and ‘unjust’. Bishop Thomas McMahon of...
by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
Indian church leaders attending a once-every-four-years meeting of the National Council of Churches in India in Shillong have spoken out against what they describe as the growing commercialisation of the Christian faith – writes Atto Akkara. “Churches too...
by Sean Reilly | May 1, 2008
Since becoming prime minister, Gordon Brown has fended off accusations of ‘kitchen cabinet’ government with remarkable ease. He has done so mainly by putting some of those who previously sat round the hearth into the real Cabinet and gathering a new galley crew. But...
