by Sean Reilly | Dec 27, 2007
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who recently returned to the country to challenge the Pervez Musharraf regime, has been assassinated in a suicide attack which has killed 20 others and injured several more. Shock, mourning, anger and rioting have been...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 27, 2007
Officials in the Indian state of Orissa have imposed a curfew in the Kandhamal district and appealed for calm after clashes involving Hindu nationalists and the minority Christian community. The violence, which began on Monday 24 December 2007 with a dispute over...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 27, 2007
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the senior figure in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has called for a more welcoming approach to migrants in British national life. During his Midnight Mass homily, delivered and broadcast on Christmas Eve...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 24, 2007
Christmas and Chanukah share a spiritual message: that it is possible to bring light and hope in a world of darkness, oppression and despair. But whereas Christmas focuses on the birth of a single individual whose life and mission is itself supposed to bring...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Leaders of Britain’s 250,000 strong Jewish community have welcomed a decision by the Muslim Council of Britain, the country’s largest Islamic organization, to end its boycott of Holocaust Day held on 27 January every year – writes Trevor Grundy. The...
