by Sean Reilly | Nov 12, 2007
The appointment of Evangelical Alliance UK head the Rev Dr Joel Edwards to the new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has already caused some controversy, especially among campaigners for lesbian and gay rights. Mr Alan Wardle, director of public and...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 9, 2007
The General Assembly of the National Council of Churches USA and development agency Church World Service, holding its annual meeting from 6-8 November 2007, has urged the US House of Representatives to pass legislation recognizing the slaughter of Armenians in 1915 as...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 9, 2007
Despite intense lobbying from the religious right in the USA, the Democratic-led House of Representatives has defied a White House veto threat by voting to outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. “We are protecting the rights of millions of...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 8, 2007
Christians in the UK are to run an enquiry into poverty and homelessness, culminating in a ‘state of the nation’ report. Christian homelessness charity Housing Justice has joined with Scottish Churches Housing Action, Church Action on Poverty and the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 8, 2007
Towards the end of this past summer, findings were reported from a series of laboratory tests conducted in both England and Switzerland , in which researchers effectively sought to disturb the sensory signals received by the brain. This caused study participants to...
