Why not take the time out to nurture the spirit by reading an inspirational book. Click here for a list of books that explore justice and spirituality, tell the stories of amazing people and hopefully inspire us to continue to “act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with our God”. For those people interested, you […]

The contribution that religion can make to peacemaking – as the flip side of religious conflict – is only beginning to be explored and explicated. All three of the Abrahamic faiths contain strong warrants for peacemaking. There are past cases of mediation and peacemaking by religious leaders and institutions. For example, the World Council of […]

Many Westerners think the world would be safer if it were less Muslim, more Western. And in the Middle East and beyond, many Muslims are horrified by our arrogance; a tiny minority respond with violence. Yet the so-called clash of civilizations, as Zachary Karabell’s important new book demonstrates, draws strength from a profoundly partial reading […]

World hunger is an issue we don’t hear much about. While the Bush administration in the US is spending $10 billion a month on the war in Iraq, people in the world are still going hungry. The American Friends Service Committee produced a video called “The Cost of War”. They write: “The Iraq war costs […]

Bryan, Jim, Adele and Donna were acquitted of their convictions under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952. It was a unanimous decision by the full bench of the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal. The three judges agreed with the submission that there was a miscarriage of justice at last year’s trial because the four […]

ABC News Online, 12 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will use the word “sorry” three times when he apologises to the Stolen Generations in Parliament tomorrow. Mr Rudd has tabled the words that he will deliver tomorrow morning. He has been widely criticised for withholding the release of the text, but has argued that […]

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A UK based Christian charity today has launched a new version of the Christmas nativity scene with a difference. The traditional nativity set has been updated by the Amos Trust with a modern day touch by including the Israeli Separation wall. Today the wise men would not be able to make it into Bethlehem, the […]

Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, gets political blessing for his attack on America’s foreign policy Sir Gerald Kaufman, who was Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1987 to 1992, said: “Basically I agree with the Archbishop . . . In my view, the present Administration of the US is a total disaster.” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2943516.ece?EMC-Bltn=IIRFH4

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has found himself at the centre of an unexpected row, following cautious remarks to a Muslim magazine, after a Sunday newspaper construed it as an all-out attack on the US and the BBC gave neocon hard-liner John Bolton free rein to attack him this morning. Dr Williams declared that […]

THE US military is experiencing a “suicide epidemic” with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by US television network CBS.”Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the bottom line is nobody comes home unchanged,” Paul Rieckhoff, a former Marine and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan […]

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 criticised by human rights and church groups for years. Now, under […]