by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
Christian leaders in Zimbabwe have called on parties to continuing power-sharing talks to shun partisan interests and urgently break the impasse that is holding back the conclusion of negotiations aimed at resolving the country’s political and economic crisis....
by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
In August 2008, the prime minister of Japan broke with tradition by refusing to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine, which honours two-and-a-half million Japanese war dead. Some of those commemorated had been found guilty of war crimes during the Second World War....
by Sean Reilly | Aug 21, 2008
The United Kingdom rates committed campaigners such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King far more highly than celebrities such as Sir Bob Geldof and Angelina Jolie, and more than one in ten would be prepared to break the law to campaign for a cause they believed...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 21, 2008
The campaign for a Welsh team at future Olympic Games has been stepped up with the launch of a national petition on the Welsh Assembly’s website. The petition by Dr Geraint Tudur, general secretary of the Union of Welsh Independent Chapels, says: “We call...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 29, 2008
Davis MacIyalla, director of the lesbian and gay rights group Changing Attitude Nigeria, has been granted asylum in the United Kingdom. Mr Davis has been subject to a range of attacks and death threats for his Christian work. MacIyalla fled Nigeria in 2006 following a...
