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World Council of Churches presses for direct US-North Korea talks

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The World Council of Churches has urged the United States and North Korea to hold direct talks on the north Asian country's nuclear programme. WCC general secretary, the Rev. Samuel Kobia, called for the bilateral talks in a 12 November letter addressed to the governments of North and South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the United States.

Kenya's Mungiki leader goes into hiding after Christian conversion

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A Pentecostal bishop who aided the conversion to Christianity of the leader of a violent religious group says she has advised him to go into hiding after he received death threats.

In church near Berlin Wall site, leaders remember candlelight vigils

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, officials have returned to a church in what was East Berlin, where protests of candlelit prayers helped bring down communism in East Germany.

Faith leaders present 60 plans to help UN on climate change

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Leaders of nine major faiths have presented 60 ideas to lessen carbon emissions to the United Nations after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon singled out the religious community as key in fighting climate change.

Kenyan churches head criticises government for ICC rebuff

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The head of the National Council of Churches of Kenya says he is not happy that the east African country has failed to refer cases of post-election violence to the International Criminal Court.

Tutu lauds Allan Boesak for leaving politics to join 'God's party'

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has lauded the decision by anti-apartheid icon and former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the Rev. Allan Boesak to quit politics and join "God's party".

Australian church lashes bank over link to cluster bomb maker

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An Australian church leader has strongly criticised one of the country's largest financial institutions for providing financial support to an international firm that manufactures cluster bombs.

Faith groups hail US lifting entry restrictions for people with HIV

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Campaigners on HIV and AIDS have welcomed a decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to remove entry restrictions to the United States based on HIV status and have called on other nations with similar policies to follow his example.

German cardinal says Vatican looking for new steps to unity

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Vatican official responsible for links with other churches has rejected suggestions of a "standstill" in the search for Christian unity.

Believers can change planet's fate, UN's Ban tells religious leaders

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has told leaders from the world's major faiths that they occupy a "unique position" in future discussion on the fate of the planet, and that their communities count on this crucial issue.