by Sean Reilly | May 23, 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has addressed the 61st World Health Assembly which ends in Geneva tomorrow. Holding up a t-shirt proclaiming “HIV Positive Kids Need Treatment,” he highlighted the need to address the challenges faced in relation to HIV positive...
by Sean Reilly | May 22, 2008
The rector of one of Oxford’s largest Anglican churches has called plans to broadcast a Muslim call to prayer from the city’s main mosque “un-English”. Charlie Cleverly, of St Aldate’s Church, in a seven-point statement to his...
by Sean Reilly | May 22, 2008
An al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho – despite the church’s opposition to the death penalty. The Iraqi government said the criminal court had imposed the death...
by Sean Reilly | May 18, 2008
The UK-based international developement agency Christian Aid is responding to the huge magnitude earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province on 12 May through the work of the Amity Foundation, a recognised NGO. Despite an aftershock yesterday that has worsened...
by Sean Reilly | May 17, 2008
Catholicos Karekin II of the Armenian Apostolic Church, visiting Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, has spoken of the “genocide” suffered by his compatriots in the Ottoman empire, and said that those with power should ensure that justice prevails – writes...
