by Sean Reilly | Nov 8, 2007
A member of a leading workers’ rights organisation in Brazil, partnered by Christian Aid and other aid agencies, has been shot dead at point-blank range after fighting broke out during the occupation of a genetically modified crops testing site. Valmir Motta, a...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 8, 2007
Student Umedjon Sharifov uses blow-up dolls in his voluntary work for a Tajikistani non-governmental organization around the Central Asian country’s third-largest city of Kulob and he shows videos against domestic violence to men and women – writes Peter...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 7, 2007
A diverse group of prominent lay Catholics – including 11 former ambassadors and former chairmen of the Republican and Democratic National Committees – have called for a more civil tone to replace the ‘divisive rhetoric and partisan attacks that...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 6, 2007
As fireworks cracked and revellers cheered to mark the anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ unsuccessful plot against parliament in 1605, a very different kind of conspiracy was launched on the world from an office near London Bridge last night. Speaking at the HQ of the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 5, 2007
Pakistani Christians are expressing concern about the public order situation in their country, and the security of minorities, following President Pervez Musharraf’s widely criticised suspension of consitutional government and his declaration of a state of...
