As Australia prepares to stage the Olympics, John Williams offers a personal sketch of a fortunate country with huge questions before it.

Ordinary people have chosen to know and 'own' the shameful side of Australia's history.

Sir Conrad Hunte, the West Indian international cricketer, died in December. TC 'Dickie' Dodds, himself a former professional cricketer, pays tribute to a man who will be remembered for his contribution to human relations as much as for his sporting prowess.

Bjørn Ole Austad meets Monsignor Victor Grech, the Director of Caritas Malta, a priest who feels the pain of those in difficulties—and puts others to work to help them.

His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople is the spiritual head of some 250 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople

Paige Chargois travelled to West Africa for a meeting between the descendants of those who bought and sold Africans and the descendants of those they shipped to the Americas.

Margaret Smith finds lessons for peacemakers in a book which looks at conflict resolution through the lens of Jewish tradition.