Prince may work with Black churches on youth programmes

The Prince of Wales has met leaders of some of the UK’s largest Black-led churches as he sought to lay the groundwork for intended civic collaboration to help tackle the problem of disaffected young people in modern Britain. Charles, who will succeed Queen...

United Methodists get tough on racism in church and society

The bishops of The United Methodist Church have declared that tackling racism and eliminating it from the church, society and even their own Council of Bishops is a major priority. The denomination is the one President Bush was raised in. The bishops’ council...

Violence, the media and redemption

Earlier in the summer, Mediawatch UK issued a report called Children and the Media. Its research claims that small children can be traumatised by images of war in television news bulletins. Perhaps some teen-agers are also getting a message from such footage, one that...

Ugandan rebel group seeks forgiveness for its crimes

A Ugandan rebel group which has committed appalling human rights abuses over the years and has been implicated in cult-like religion has said it realises it was wrong and wishes to seek forgiveness from its many victims. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been...

Faiths will use their billions to back ethical business

Religious organisations already have a major stake in the global economy and can now shift decisively towards using their resources for ethical purposes and to redistribute wealth to the poor, a major group of faith investors says. “Faith organisations have the real...