20 December 2008
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Breaking free of the consumer culture: Canadian author's tips
At a time of year when people will fight with each other for the latest toy for their children, and after the trampling to death of a store worker in the United States by shoppers who had queued overnight for post-Thanksgiving holiday sales, parents need help to break free of the consumer culture, says the author of a new book.
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S. African anti-apartheid cleric Boesak joins ANC breakaway
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The former head of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and prominent anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak, has joined the newly-launched Congress of the People, South Africa's newest political party.
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Humanists, agnostics, atheists blitz media for 'the holidays'
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Hundreds of people showed up in Olympia, the capital of Washington state, for a two-hour rally to protest against Christmas with a "winter solstice" sign. The gathering was sponsored by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which calls religion a "myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds".
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Make Gulf of Mannar a sacred site, say conservationists
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The Alliance of Religions and Conservation, known as ARC, is backing a call for the United Nations, the World Bank, non-governmental groups and conservation bodies to recognise the Gulf of Mannar - between India and Sri Lanka - as a World Heritage Sacred Site.
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Globalisation 'needs values' to succeed, says Blair at Yale
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair has completed his first semester as a visiting lecturer at Yale University, an experience he says has strengthened his belief that religious faith and economic and social globalisation are partners.
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African churches to pray for end of 'illegitimate' Zimbabwe rule
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Africa largest Christian grouping, the All Africa Conference of Churches, has pledged to "pray for an end to illegitimate rule in Zimbabwe" after debating and toning down a statement about the country on the doorstep of Mozambique, where they have been meeting.
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World Council of Churches seeks candidates for top job
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The World Council of Churches has announced plans to find a successor to the Rev. Samuel Kobia after the general secretary of the WCC had stated in February he did not wish, for personal reasons, to take on a second term of office.
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News Highlights
H. Kong religion leaders say they should inspire hope during crisis
Hong Kong (ENI).
Religions have a role to inspire people with hope and to help them to overcome the present global financial crisis, leaders of different faiths in Hong Kong have emphasised at an inter-religious event.
Churches frustrated by government rejection of Sri Lanka truce
Bangalore, India (ENI).
Church leaders in Sri Lanka say they are disappointed by the government rejecting their call for a Christmas truce in the country's continuing civil war.
Obama defends choice of evangelical Warren for inauguration
New York (ENI).
U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has defended his selection of evangelical leader and best-selling author Rick Warren to deliver the prayer at his 20 January inauguration, a move criticised by some gay groups and supporters of abortion rights, saying Warren opposes what they stand for.
Cut off Mugabe's lifeblood, say Southern African Catholic bishops
Cape Town (ENI).
The Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference has called on all nations to stop colluding with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe who is trying to stay on as president of his country which has been reduced to pauper status under his rule.
Christians debate putting UK petty offenders into 'shame jackets'
Canterbury, England (ENI).
"Some of us are asking if Britain is beginning to turn its back on its Christian heritage," 87-year old Welsh-born Charles Preece, a leading member of the Probation Christian Fellowship, told Ecumenical News International.
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