by Sean Reilly | Sep 5, 2008
Black church leaders have joined health experts in welcoming findings from a new opinion poll showing widespread opposition to the current trend of adding the DNA of innocent mental health patients to the National Criminal DNA database. New research by campaign group...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 4, 2008
Following a series of horrific attacks in Orissa, Indian church and human rights organisations have been keeping up pressure on the government for decisive action against militants, and they are asking for world attention to the crisis. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 3, 2008
A conference in Bern this month will discuss the often thorny concept of the “Promised Land” and related theological issues with a view to helping more churches become advocates for a just peace in the Middle East. The organisers say that the challenge for...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 2, 2008
Civil rights organisations, advocates of religious freedom, anti-censorship groups and government in Europe and beyond are expressing alarm at a United Nations General Assembly resolution that demands respect for religion but which critics say has been used to justify...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 31, 2008
A Filipino army officer, who served in the line of fire in the fight against Muslim secessionist rebels in southern Philippines, says he realised that somehow the cycle of violence must end, so he helped pioneer Project I.S.L.A.M., or I Sincerely Love All Muslims...
