http://www.eni.ch/featured/ ENI for the latest news about churches and religion. en-gb Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:58:56 GMT Copyright: (C) Ecumenical News International http://www.eni.ch/ 15 http://www.eni.ch/rss/eni.gif http://www.eni.ch/featured/ Australia - described in the 19th century by a Scottish church minister as "the most Godless place under heaven" - will get its first saint when Sister Mary MacKillop is canonised by Pope Benedict XVI later in the year. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3873 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3873 The Roman Catholic bishops of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the only cities to have endured war-time nuclear bombings - are urging world leaders to abolish nuclear weapons. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3862 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3862 The World Student Christian Federation and its Zimbabwe Advocacy Office say they are shocked at recent attacks on trade union leaders by police and security forces in Zimbabwe during a period when the southern African country is trying to reconcile bitter divides. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3861 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3861 The Chinese proverb that women hold up half the sky does not apply to the news arena, results of the 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project suggest. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3857 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3857 Washington National Cathedral is currently hosting a summit of Christian and Muslim faith leaders, which seeks to promote understanding and reconciliation between the two traditions, and is due to culminate in a public dialogue on 3 March. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3854 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3854 Palestinian activists say they will continue protests against an apparent re-occupation of an abandoned Israeli army outpost on the outskirts of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem, despite being repelled by the Israel Defence Forces. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3844 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3844 The Salvation Army is renowned for helping people, sometimes when they are in desperate need. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3843 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3843 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and a group of nine other former heads and members of national truth commissions, have urged Bethuel Kiplagat to resign as the head of Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3839 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3839 South Africa's biggest Dutch Reformed Church, the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, is investigating an Internet church set up by one of its employees that the church's governing body complains allows swearing, and gives a platform to atheists. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3836 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3836 Roman Catholic leaders in the Philippines have lambasted a government campaign that encourages condom use to help prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS, while a health official has blamed the church for thwarting its drive. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3831 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3831