Anne Thomas

• World Vision calls for ceasefire in Georgia conflict

  World Vision is calling for an immediate ceasefire as fierce fighting continues between Georgia and Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia.

• CSW wants UN to intervene in Burma crisis

  Christian Solidarity Worldwide is calling for "urgent, specific and meaningful action" from the UN to address Burma's ongoing political and humanitarian crisis.

• Thousands of new radios let India's believers hear Gospel message

  International Gospel radio network Trans World Radio has doubled the goal it set earlier this year to distribute 2,000 radios to support believers in India.

• TV series sets hells angel, lesbian and playboy Bible challenge

  A hells angel, a lesbian and a playboy are just some of the non-Christians to go through Bible studies and mentoring as part of a new Channel Four documentary this month.

• India: Christians mourn stampede victims

  Christians have expressed their shock at the deaths of around 150 Hindu pilgrims in one of India's worst ever temple stampedes on Sunday.

• Pope hopes Olympics demonstrate peaceful co-existence

  The Pope has said that he will be following the upcoming Olympics in China "with great fondness" and said that the games should be an example of human dignity and peaceful co-existence.

• Evangelical Alliance enlists new technology to communicate Good News

  "If we are to present Christ as good news, we need to take advantage of every tool at our disposal," says Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance UK.

• Church tourism conference to focus on increasing visitor numbers

  A major church tourism conference this November will see Christians knock heads on ways to increase the number of visitors coming to their church buildings.

• Chinese restaurant evangelism taking Gospel to Europe's immigrant Chinese

  The Chinese Christian Herald Crusade Restaurant Gospel Ministry (CCHC) is taking the Gospel to hundreds of Chinese restaurant workers across Europe this summer.

• Black church leaders concerned over criminal DNA database

  Black church leaders are to join a symposium at Parliament next week to raise their concerns over the high proportion of African and Caribbean people without a criminal record who are listed in the national criminal DNA database.

• Evangelical Alliance welcomes ruling in favour of Christian registrar

  The Evangelical Alliance has hailed an employment tribunal's ruling in favour of a Christian registrar "a triumph for the place of conscience in public duties".

• Baptists, Street Pastors welcome Archbishop's knife crime call

  Baptists and Street Pastors welcome Archbishop's call to the Church of England to reach out to those caught up in knife-crime, a week before a Christian anti-violent crime conference.