The Sabian Mandaeans – one of the oldest religious groups in the world – are facing extinction, according to its leaders. They claim that Islamic extremists in Iraq are trying to wipe them out through forced conversions, rape and murder. The Mandaeans are pacifists, followers of Adam, Noah and John the Baptist. They have lived […]

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John Pilger describes another ‘day of mourning’ for the first inhabitants of his homeland, Australia, which for many whites remains a secret country behind the neo-conservative bluster of John Howard’s government. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17080.htm

Dr René Padilla is President Emeritus of the Kairos Foundation which he started in Argentina and which encourages Christians to meet the physical, social and spiritual needs of poor communities. He is Director of Kairos Books which specialises in books dealing with different aspects of integral mission, most of them written by Latin American authors. […]

Only a few decades ago, “making peace” was the exclusive province of prime ministers and presidents. For instance, no NGOs offered to mediate between President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Since the end of the Cold War, however, the popular definition of peace seems to have expanded — at least in […]

Published on Monday, January 29, 2007 by Reuters NEW DELHI – Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela joined top leaders, nobel laureates and elder statesmen on Monday calling on the world to reinvent Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent approach to solving conflicts. Mandela, who spent 28 years in prison for fighting white rule before leading South […]

by Kathy Freston Published on Saturday, January 20, 2007 by the Huffington PostPresident Herbert Hoover promised “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” With warnings about global warming reaching feverish levels, many are having second thoughts about all those cars. It seems they should instead be worrying about the chickens. Last […]

What Al Gore Hasn’t Told You About Global Warming George Monbiot’s new book Heat picks up where Al Gore left off on global warming, offering real solutions without sugar-coating the large personal sacrifices they will require. http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46318/

Sudan’s suffering is well known, with war-torn Darfur repeatedly hitting the headlines. Another destructive effect of this conflict is now predicted. There is growing concern that a combination of the violence and large numbers of displaced people will have a significant impact on food supplies in southern Sudan.Despite recent harvests the Food Early Warning System […]

This week sees the launch of the United Nations’ first arms monitoring operation in Nepal. This is in response to the UN’s ongoing support of the peace process between the Maoists and the interim government, which is currently made up of seven national parties. This action follows on from the peace agreement signed in November, […]

Subject: “DOOMSDAY CLOCK” HAND TO BE MOVED, REFLECTING WORSENING NUCLEAR, CLIMATE THREATS TO WORLD — Washington, D.C. and London News Advisory for January 17, 2007 — Simultaneous Announcement to be Made from Washington, D.C. and London; Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to Underscore “Most Perilous Period Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” NEWS ADVISORY//January 17, 2006///The Bulletin of […]

“Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq – mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor […]