by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
A British charity has said that children in post-conflict areas are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers. The abuse involves children as young as six. After research in Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, Save the Children said an international...
by Sean Reilly | May 23, 2008
Gordon Brown will meet the Dalai Lama at Lambeth Palace, the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, today. The British Prime Minister has been accused of “kow-towing” to China by meeting the exiled Tibetan leader in his capacity as a spiritual leader at...
by Sean Reilly | May 23, 2008
Hopes for a global agreement to outlaw cluster bombs have been given a boost after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a total ban on the use of the weapons by the British military. Church groups have been prominent amongst those calling for an...
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 22, 2008
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) has expressed shock and sadness over the violence directed at foreigners living in the Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg. The violence has now spread to the city centre and across the Gauteng region. Churches and...
