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Healing a 2000-year-old rift

Jim Pope | 27 January 2006 |

Since Vatican II, Christians and Jews have done much to heal their tormented relationship. The problem is, says Jewish scholar David Novak in this MercatorNet interview, not enough of us know about it.



Famine in Kenya: an avoidable disaster

Martyn Drakard | 27 January 2006 |

Famine has returned to Eastern Africa and the government of Kenya is ill-prepared. How is it that a country which fed its people during a worse famine more than 20 years ago is now caught off guard?



Religion flourishes but atheism looks sick

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 January 2006 |

Why does atheism get such a good press and religion such a bad one when, as a global survey shows, religious people outnumber atheists eleven to one?



Killing me softly with his song

Michael Cook | 18 January 2006 |

Euthanasia is back in the news. And no one is more qualified to lead the movement into the 21st century than Philip Nitschke.



Neutrality follies

Richard Bastien | 16 January 2006 |

Canada’s chief justice reckons morals are “subjective, arbitrary and unworkable”. Hmm. It’s an interesting principle for drafting laws.



Women converts find liberation in Islam

Carolyn Moynihan | 12 January 2006 |

Thousands of western women each year are exchanging hedonism for the headscarf and fasting at Ramadan. Does Islam have something to offer women that Christianity does not?



No more business as usual for stem cell research

Michael Cook | 12 January 2006 |

Revelations of fraud and unethical conduct in the world’s leading embryonic stem cell lab could lead to a rethink of stem cell ethics.



60 years after Nuremberg, how much have we learned?

Cason Cheely | 10 January 2006 |

The trial of German doctors who used prisoners for ghastly experiments during World War II is still relevant today.



Canadians battle over Church-State separation

Richard Bastien | 04 January 2006 |

The bitter debate over whether private religious beliefs should influence what policies politicians support has become an issue in this month’s election in Canada.



Breaking the spirit

Michael Cook | 03 January 2006 |

A government's legitimate need to interrogate terror suspects must not be allowed to slide into inhumane torture, argues Marc Zarrouati in this MercatorNet interview.



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