By John Hartley For many years I have been deeply concerned about people turning up in church services and making baptismal statements of their own faith and the way they will bring up their children, only to be conspicuous by their absence from servic…
Capitalism is in the dock
Anger combined with resignation probably sums up the way most people in Britain are reacting to the economic downturn. There is anger about bankers with large bonuses whose activities helped to get us into the current situation. There is resignation be…
Borg takes a radical look at Christian doctrine
Speaking Christian, Marcus Borg SPCK, pb, £9.99 Marcus Borg is well known as a New Testament scholar who has written a number of popular books both on his own and in collaboration with John Dominic Crossan and Tom Wright. Borg is more radical than Wri…
Hindu Devotees Celebrate the Festival With Religious Fervor [PHOTOS]
| Feb 21, 2012 04:46 AM EDT Thousands of Hindu devotees from across India and Pakistan on Monday celebrated the festival of Mahashivaratri with traditional religious fervor as chants of "bam …
Lent could be about kindness not calories | Roz Kaveney
Wouldn’t it be nice if spring was a time when we worked on being better to each other, rather than giving things up?Spring. Songbirds and snowmelt and the first flowers. You know the routine – poets, painters and musicians have worked it beyond clich…
TYC burns Chinese flag calling for freedom in Tibet
Tibetans and supporters in the exile headquarters of Dharamshala and around the world carried out a flag burning protest coinciding with the 29th day of the last month of the Tibetan lunar calendar.
US commander in Afghanistan investigates ‘burning’ of Qur’ans at base
Afghans protest outside Bagram air base, saying Muslim holy books were burnt, as local chief appeals for calmThe US commander of international troops in Afghanistan has ordered an investigation into the improper disposal of a large number of Islamic re…
OIC high level delegation visits Iraq
A high level delegation from the OIC General Secretariat, headed by ambassador Mahdy Fathallah, visited the Republic of Iraq during the period 12-16 February 2012.
The delegation conducted consultations with Iraqi officials in follow up of recent dev…
Belarus: Why is state Financial Investigation Committee investigating a priest?
A Belarusian regional state Financial Investigation Committee is examining the activities of Fr Vyacheslav Barok, a Catholic priest in the northern Vitebsk Region. Committee officials have told him that he is suspected of evading tax on alleged earning…
Of press prostitutes and a cowed media
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has expressed indignation at DAP national election publicity bureau chief Hew Kuan Yau for likening journalists to prostitutes, and demanded that he apologise …
