Even ten years ago, few people would have thought the day would come when the peace of the world would depend so directly on the peace of Jerusalem.
14 April 2003
Sunday 14 September has been designated by the Churches in Britain and Ireland as a national day of prayer for racial justice.
11 April 2003
An innovative video showing churchgoers what happens to the money they put on the collection plate will be launched on Saturday 12 April by the Church of England in Ripon and Leeds.
11 April 2003
The Church of Ireland Primate, Archbishop Robin Eames, tonight called for a new world order where compassion compels prosperous nations to strive for higher standards of living for those denied the basics of life.
11 April 2003
"Building Bridges" was the title of a significant Christian-Muslim Dialogue Seminar that has just ended in Doha in the State of Qatar. Fifteen Christian scholars, led by Dr Rowan Williams.
09 April 2003
John Belchem in his book Merseypride subtitled 'Essay in Liverpool exceptionalism' quotes the writings of C.A. Healy of the Daily Post who 75 years ago served as Secretary of "The Society of Lovers of Old Liverpool!"
05 April 2003
The first refugees from the Iraq war this week told Tearfund partners at a camp just inside Jordan of their flight from Baghdad and their despair about the future.
04 April 2003
Members of the Mothers' Union (MU) and the Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC) called for greater ongoing commitment to the issue of debt relief today, stating that the time has come to lift stricken countries 'out of poverty and restore a sense of justice between the world's poorest and richest countries.'
03 April 2003
The decision to embark on military operations in Iraq last week produced something unfamiliar in our politics: the sense of the genuinely tragic - by which I mean not the sad or the catastrophic, but the awareness of desperately constrained choices, profound moral risk, the knowledge of the cost of what we do, even when we do it from conviction.
28 March 2003
My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, for giving us the opportunity of so timely a debate - a debate that recognises, as we needs must recognise at present, a major cultural shift. The time was when the family appeared as a safe and stable piece of territory, surrounded by the ups and downs of public life.
28 March 2003