by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
After police invoked security laws to ban open-air prayer meetings in some parts of the country, a Zimbabwean church group has said that freedom to worship in the southern African country is being infringed in the weeks before a presidential election run-off in June....
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
The outgoing leader of the Evangelical Alliance has urged programme makers not to focus on the ‘eccentric fringe’ of Evangelicalism, who he said was the focus of a recent Channel 4 documentary examining the rise of fundamentalism in the UK. His comments...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
After decades of debate, Australian Anglicans now have one female bishop, and they will get a second within 10 days of the first woman’s consecration – writes Matthew Fenwick. On 22 May 2008, West Australian Archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy was consecrated...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
With all its many complexities, the question at the heart of globalization remains alarmingly simple. Not ‘shall we have it or not?’ – there is now no serious choice about that. But what kind of globalization, determined by whom, and to what ends? Will it continue to...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
The leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has praised an initiative by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia for a reinforced dialogue between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They said in a statement that they considered it to be an ‘important...
