Fr Dermot Preston, a noted film buff, has worked in Guyana for five years and also in South Africa
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MPs seek to tighten abortion law
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Labour and Tory MPs are tabling amendments to a new health bill that they say will dramatically reduce the number of abortions in Britain
Man with paralysed leg walks 1,000 miles after visit to Lourdes
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Bishop recognises healing as ‘remarkable’ but says further study is needed before it can be declared a miracle
Time is running out for Iraq’s Christians, says archbishop
Friday, 18 March 2011
Ancient Christian community may soon disappear, senior Iraqi churchman says
‘Prayer is absolutely essential – or you die’
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Ed West meets Fr Michael Shields, the priest who exchanged the frozen wastes of Alaska for the post-Soviet wilderness of Siberia
Pope: violence in God’s name is inspired by the Antichrist
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Benedict XVI has condemned religious violence as the instrument of the anti-Christ in the sequel to his book Jesus of Nazareth
Catholic critic of blasphemy law is shot dead in Pakistan
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Shahbaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities, had received death threats from extremists but refused to stop speaking out
The papal visit gave a boost to Humanism
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Catholics were thrilled by Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Britain. A leading Humanist journalist tells Ed West that secularists were too
Pakistani Christian leader: death threats won’t stop me speaking out
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Shahbaz Bhatti, the first Christian to hold a cabinet post in Pakistan, vows to continue opposing blasphemy law despite threats
‘Every needy child is your child’
Friday, 4 February 2011
Ed West meets the woman known as ‘the Mother Teresa of Cairo’ for her work with the city’s ‘garbage people’
Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Ed West