by Sean Reilly | Dec 1, 2007
Faith-based campaigners and religious leaders say churches should not relax their efforts to deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic despite UN figures showing a drop in the number of people worldwide living with the virus. “This is not the time for complacency nor...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 30, 2007
The Christian service agency Faithworks, which contracts with government and has some 20,000 community and church partners across the country, has given a critical response to a new report challenging the contribution religious groups make to public service provision....
by Sean Reilly | Nov 30, 2007
The main Scottish denominations are launching a £500,000 appeal to transform Scottish Churches House in Dunblane – which has a long tradition of radical thinking and outward social engagement – into a modern conference and hospitality centre to be at the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 30, 2007
A civic organisation in Mali has won the International Service Human Rights Award for the Defence of Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS. The Association pour le Developpement et l’Appui Communautaire (ADAC) – the Association for Community Development and...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 28, 2007
As the humanitarian and military crisis continues in Iraq, European Catholic bishops have issued an appeal to governments to permit more refugees from the country to live in the region – against the backdrop of growing refusals. “We ask the EU to increase...
