Edmund Rice International

 UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres poses  with some of the participants in the Dialogue on Faith and Protection. UNHCR photo/ J M Ferré Following a ‘Dialogue on Faith and Protection’ convened by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in December 2012, an inter-religious drafting group was asked to reflect on common principles, shared among […]

Tiwari, a friend of the Bow Bazar community of Brothers, spent some time one Saturday morning sharing his spirituality with them. He told this story of Lord Vishnu, who was wondering who, of all his millions of devotees, was the most devout. Vishnu sent his assistant around the world to find the most devout disciple. […]

Sometimes we wonder about the connection between prayer and doing the work of justice. Scrabbling around on the Internet this morning searching for a prayer resource I came across a reference to Margaret Rizza, the composer of chant and sacred music. Margaret has been involved for many years with spirituality and with different groups seeking […]

These days the media has been focused, at least in the UK, on the tragic death of Jade Goody, a reality TV celebrity, who when diagnosed with cancer decided to live her final days and last moments as a media event. One thinks of others who lived their final illness more or less publicly; Pope […]

Solidarity, one of the great words of the last century when we still believed that humanity was fundamentally on an upward trajectory towards the Kingdom of God, social justice, the triumph of the proletariat, and whatever other form of Utopia happened to be around. Maybe we’ve become a little disenchanted in the meantime. And present […]

Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day. Except, here in Geneva, it did not feel like St. Patrick’s Day. There were some token efforts in the Irish pubs. But no parades down Fifth Avenue. No Macnas gambolling in the streets of Galway. Nothing apart from a staid reception at the Irish Mission and a perfunctory broadcast on […]