Anne Thomas

• The Nativity Story to Premiere at the Vatican

  New Line Cinema's The Nativity Story will become the first feature film ever to premiere at the Vatican on 26 November. Scheduled for release in the US on 1 December, the film will open worldwide throughout the month of December.

• Operation Christmas Child Rejects 'Christmas' Gifts

  Operation Christmas Child, which is run by Samaritan's Purse, is requesting that donors pack shoeboxes with toys, notepads, and basic necessities such as soap - but not with items related to the Christian Christmas.

• Christian Aid Unites with Artists to Raise HIV Awareness

  Christian Aid has joined forces with several high profile artists from the North East to hold an exhibition that will raise awareness and funds for people living with HIV.

• Hackney Church to Host International Women's Conference

  The annual Kingsway International Christian Centre's women's conference will gather more than 4,000 women this month in Hackney, East London, for the Winning Women 2006.

• Climate Change Will Hit Hardest in Africa

  Following the recent 'I Count' event, where thousands gathered at London's Trafalgar Square to march against climate change, a United Nations report has warned that the impact of climate change will hit hardest in Africa.

• Eritrean Christian Singer Held in Container Released After Two Years

  Eritrean gospel singer Helen Berhane has been released from a steel shipping container, after being held in the desert for two years, for refusing to give up her religious activities.

• First Female Minister for Next Church of Scotland Moderator

  The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has appointed its first female minister as the next Moderator, the Rev Sheilagh Kesting. Kesting, 53, from Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis, is Secretary of the Church of Scotland Committee on Ecumenical Relations.

• UK Church Brings 'God Pod' into the Community

  A church has converted a van to deliver God's message into the communities and create a congregation. The God Pod, a converted van, is run by the Lincoln North Circuit of Methodist Churches and visits Cherry Willingham and the St Giles estate every week.

• Christian Aid Commissions Famous War Artist to Depict 'Children in Conflict'

  A famous war artist was commissioned by Christian Aid to produce a series of paintings that portrays children in conflicts around the world.

• Climate Campaigners: Blair Needs to Push More

  Only 4 per cent of the nation's population thinks Prime Minister Tony Blair has made effective progress on climate change, despite his claim that Europe must lead the way on conversion to a low carbon economy at last week's EU energy summit.

• Faith Leaders Hold 'Inclusive Meeting', Archbishop Resists New School Plan

  Following plans for new faith schools in England to admit up to 25 per cent of pupils from other religions, Education Secretary Alan Johnson met with representatives from the UK's major religious groups on Monday for an "inclusion summit".

• Evangelical Alliance Calls on Prince Charles to be Defender of the Faith

  The Evangelical Alliance will call on Prince Charles to take the title 'Defender of the Faith' when he is crowned king. The EA will make the submission in its Faith and Nation report due to be launched today.