by Sean Reilly | Dec 7, 2007
A cold wind blew through Park Lane, Central London, on Tuesday night as a small group of protesters supporting the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP) held banners for two hours and chanted for the Philippine president to “Stop the Killings in the...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 7, 2007
Concern about undue pressure exerted by the European Union on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to sign interim Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) by the end of the year has been expressed by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Dr Samuel...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
A new Government scheme which is being supported by Church Action on Poverty is to allow communities a direct say in how council money is spent. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears announced yesterday that local communities will get the chance to access their own...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 2, 2007
A church-backed group of farmworkers and their supporters donned walking shoes today on 30 November 2007 for a nine-mile march through Miami to the corporate headquarters of Burger King to demand higher wages and better working conditions in Florida’s tomato...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 1, 2007
Europeans who have no religion are growing in number but are becoming increasingly disadvantaged in the political process. This was the claim by the National Secular Society at a meeting in the European Parliament on “Religion and Politics in the New Europe” sponsored...
