As the countdown clocks tick their way towards the year 2000, Mary Lean looks at plans to mark a global rite of passage.

William Winter, one of the architects of Clinton's new initiative on race, grew up on a farm on the edge of the Mississippi Delta. What turned him into a reformer? He talks to Robert Webb.

William Smook is a Cape Town-based journalist and subeditor, and Vice-Chairman of the Cape Town Press Club

Cricket White describes how near-disaster pitched her into working with Hope in the Cities.

When her husband Medgar was killed, Myrlie Evers-Williams realized, she says, that it's not what happens to you that matters; it's how you deal with it.

Nobody said that healing history or treading the path of forgiveness would be easy.

Philip Boobbyer, a lecturer in modern European history at the University of Kent, puts cleaning one's slate in a wider philosophical context.

For the last three years, western Christians have been retracing the steps of the first Crusaders--with a message of peace and repentance. Christy Risser explains:

Michael Smith meets the man behind an international move to outlaw bribery

When her husband and her daughter became seriously ill, Harriet Cameron's world was turned upside down.

In this new feature, we shall report on developments since our publication of a major story.

Robert Corcoran, National Coordinator of the Hope in the Cities (HIC) coalition based in Richmond, Virginia, reports on the third annual Metropolitan Richmond Day, where HIC activists from across the USA gathered:

Italian journalist Luigi Accatolli has documented 94 occasions when the Pope has apologized publicly for different aspects of his Church's history. Laurie Vogel takes his message to heart.