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Press obsessions with starvation and corruption in Africa are masking more positive images of the continent, according to development workers, and this diet of ?bad news? is putting off outside investors and stunting local self-confidence Free

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Religion is back Free

Alastair Campbell, the Prime Minister's former press secretary, once famously said: "We don't do God," expressing a common view that religion and politics do not mix. Certainly today, Britain often seems a markedly secular country. ...

Buck stops with Blair

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The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

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Alive in that dawn ? Free Chris Larkman The Archbishop of Canterbury will travel to Rome later this month to meet Pope Benedict XVI, marking the fortieth anniversary of the groundbreaking trip to Rome by Archbishop Michael Ramsey. A seminarian of the time recalls the remarkable mood of those days...	Good King Wenceslas Free Sr Ellen Flynn Over the next few weeks, readers are asked to nominate their favourite Christmas carols. Before the final poll, contributors argue the case for the carol they love the best....
Freed from snares Through God?s removal of things that are hostile to what is truly in our interests, we are able to cooperate in our own redemption. Daniel McCarthy explains how in this week?s prayer is an understanding of the link between the freeing of the mind and the pursuit of what God wants for us...	Unsung soldier, unknown musePhilip Dutton He died during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, one of 21,000 in that suicidal tragedy with no known grave. Yet, as the younger brother of Siegfried, Hamo Sassoon?s death helped inspire some of the greatest verse on war, the tragedy of which we reflect on this weekend...

Pay now, live laterSean McDonagh There is no time to delay: unless the international community unites in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, humanity will suffer irrevocably. The issue is a moral one that asks every country throughout the world to examine its collective conscience...	Our disappearing worldGerard Hanlon From a city deep in the Amazonian rainforest, from where the outside world is reachable only by river, a Jesuit missionary makes a personal plea to put caring for the planet at the heart of pastoral work...
High price of teaDanielle Vella In a country where poverty is widespread the Tamils who work on the tea plantations of Sri Lanka are the poorest of the poor. And the economic odds appear to be stacked to ensure that they stay that way...	In the poppy fields of HelmandRaymond Whitaker As the country falls silent tomorrow to remember those who fell in conflict, thousands of servicemen and women face another hot and hostile day amid the shifting sands of Britain?s Afghan policy...
Light for those in dark timesMartin Jakubas This weekend we gather to remember those who died in war. Here a parish priest reflects on ways that the church community can help people to deal with the pain of death and mourning...	Best of the summer wineN. O'Phile

Columnists

Tim Hames

?Stringing up Saddam is precisely the wrong course for Iraq at this pivotal moment?

Richard Rodriguez

?The war in Iraq has not gone as it was sold by the White House?

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Founder of Islam still an enigma Free
Muhammad: prophet for our time
Karen Armstrong

Exactly 50 years ago, W. Montgomery Watt in his book Muhammad at Medina described Muhammad as "one of the greatest of the ‘sons of Adam'" and "a moral and ...

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