http://www.eni.ch/featured/ ENI for the latest news about churches and religion. en-gb Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:10:44 GMT Copyright: (C) Ecumenical News International http://www.eni.ch/ 15 http://www.eni.ch/rss/eni.gif http://www.eni.ch/featured/ Mitsuo Fuchida led the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, an event that catapulted the United States into the Second World War. After the war, Fuchida turned to Christianity and became an evangelist. Fuchida's maternal grandmother was a nationalist from a samurai family who resisted attempts by Emperor Meiji to throw off feudalism. Now he is to feature in a Japanese animated film about the love of God and how mutual forgiveness is necessary in order to establish peace. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2590 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2590 Unemployment has shrunk to 23 percent and hotel capacity is often around 100 percent these days, so things are looking up for Bethlehem says the head of the city's chamber of commerce and industry board. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2587 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2587 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. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2583 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2583 "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. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2580 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2580 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. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2573 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2573 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. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2570 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2570 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". http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2563 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2563 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. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2561 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2561 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. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2557 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2557 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. http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2555 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=2555