14 September 2001
 Hatred on the school runAidan TroyCatholic schoolgirls and their parents at the Holy Cross school, which stands in a Protestant enclave of the Catholic Ardoyne, have suffered violent verbal abuse from Protestants as they try to walk to school. A Passionist priest who has walked with them tells his story. Church in the WorldChurch?s ?shock and sorrow? over attacks in United States |
AfricaChristian-Muslim strife spreads in Nigerian city. At least 165 people were killed and more than 900 injured as sectarian violence erupted in the central Nigerian city of Jos last weekend, Ellen Teague reports. The increasingly regular flare-ups of sectarian violence in Nigeria were attributed by Fr George Hufani, General Secretary of the Bishops? Conference, to destitution in Nigeria?s shanty towns, the 'jungle-culture' of young unemployed people, and tensions surrounding 'the politics of Sharia' (a phrase used to describe the growing power of Muslims) | AmericasChile?s government defeated over morning-after pill |
AsiaColumban missionary killed in Philippines. An Irish Columban missionary who dedicated his life to healing divisions between Christians and Muslims was shot dead in the rebellion-torn southern islands of the Philippines on 28 August | Rome?Mother Teresa was exorcised?, archbishop reports |
The body's seeds of construction
While debates rage over the ethics of cloning to produce stem cells to fight disease, a recent discovery could make that dilemma redundant. Scientists now think that patients can be treated instead with their own bone marrow. The Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol explains....
Into the Chinese web
What Hong Kong needs now is to keep its distance from the Chinese mainland, according to the author of City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's uncertain future. But its Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa is proving to be too reliant on 'Nanny China'....
Women of East Timor
The result of East Timor's first free election were announced this week (see Church in the World). A representative of the Catholic Institute for International Relations reports on the struggle of women to take their place in the new society....
Japan's secret religion
When missionary priests fled from Japan in the seventeenth century, they left something behind. A secret form of Christianity, based around Latin prayers. Fascinated by this strange religion, a writer set off to find out what was left of it....
