NEWS
MEDIA COVERAGE OF IofC UK

The Times' website, under its faith section, reports yesterday's latest launch of Michael Henderson's book No Enemy to Conquer at a Greencoat Forum in the London centre of Initiatives of Change. Under the headline 'Forgiveness is the key to bringing peace in Northern Ireland', Cheryl Gallagher reports Henderson's emphasis that 'forgiveness far from being just a personal or religious matter can affect the life of nations'.

Every weekday evening Channel 4 TV in the UK broadcasts a short three-minute film, under the series entitled 'three minute wonder', immediately after the main evening news. On Thursday 14 January, the 'three minute wonder' was about South Indian banker J S Parthibhan and his work to provide micro-credit to the villagers of Tamil Nadu.

An obituary of Dick Cosens, written by Mike Smith, appeared in The Independent (UK) on 13 October, with the headline "Dick Cosens: Trade union activist who helped get Concorde off the ground".

A tribute to John Faber appeared on the Obituaries page of The Guardian on 21 September, in the 'Other Lives' column of short obituaries submitted by readers. The Littlehampton Gazette had an article about John with the headline "Hero Pensioner Dies".

The BBC news website has a feature article on the 75 young Muslims from across Europe who are participating in a conference on the theme 'Learning to be peacemakers' at the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux, Switzerland.

In a public address at a recent Greencoat Forum at the London Centre for Initiatives of Change Sir Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain explained why the word Islam should not be accepted as a euphemism for 'terrorism' in the British press. Online editor Anna Bruce-Lockhart of the Guardian Weekly Online went to hear his views.