aboriginal

In a landmark judgment, an Australian mining company has been fined for desecrating an Aboriginal sacred site.

A team travelling on behalf of the World Council of Churches has been welcomed to the Northern Territory of Australia by an Aboriginal elder.

Church leaders in Canada want action to follow a public apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to victims of a situation where aboriginal children were placed in residential schools run by churches in a policy of enforced assimilation.

The notion and shape of 'the land' means many things to many people, as the contradictory responses to this 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel are showing. Simon Barrow looks at the relationship between rootedness and aspiration.