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Christian Aid Calling Thousands to Lobby Parliament for Trade Justice
Christian Aid has highlighted a crucial World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in December as a time where something must be done to tackle trade justice.
The Christian charity is calling on all people supporting the calls for trade justice to join thousands of others at parliament in London to demand that support be given to make poverty history by delivering trade justice – not free trade...
Samaritan's Purse Helping Texas Towns Destroyed by Hurricane Rita
A different kind of storm is blowing through East Texas this week, according to an international Christian relief organisation that has been involved in U.S. disaster response for nearly two decades.
Sri Lanka to Vote on Making Buddhism State Religion
Sri Lanka’s parliament will vote next week on an amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution that, if passed, would make Buddhism the official state religion. On Oct. 4, the Sri Lankan parliament will once again review...
Turkey Holds 'Meeting of Civilisations' for Religious Tolerance Amid EU-Bid Threat
An interfaith conference was held this week by the Turkish Prime Minister in a bid to ease out the criticism over its religious intolerance, thus gaining favour for the upcoming European Union (EU) membership talk next week...
Baptists Calling on Churches To Play Their Role in Combatting Racism
Baptists should do more to integrate the different cultures in its Churches, according to Revd Wale Hudson-Roberts, Racial Justice Co-ordinator for the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB)...
Evangelical Alliance & YWAM to Launch Million Leaders Training Programme
A new training programme will be launched next month by the Evangelical Alliance in partnership with YWAM and pastoral training guru John C. Maxwell. The Million Leaders Mandate...
Salvation Army Congress to be ‘Longer, Later, Louder’
On the 19th-20th November the Wembley Conference Centre will be hosting the 2005 Salvation Army Conference. The theme of the event will be the words of Acts 2:42, with people of all ages being invited...
Witnesses Declare 'Intelligent Design' Is Religious As US Court Battle Continues
A federal court in the US has heard testimony from witnesses regarding the role religion played behind decisions to include “intelligent design” in a Pennsylvania school district’s curriculum, as the case...
India: Court Date Set for Dalit Christians’ Human Rights Case
The Indian Supreme Court will decide 18 October whether to allow Dalit Christians the same basic human rights as Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits. Dalits are the low caste of Indian society and are denied...
Christian Freedom International Demands Release of Indonesian Sunday School Teachers
Christian Freedom International has called on the Indonesian government to release three Sunday school teachers imprisoned after being tried and convicted of converting Muslim children to Christianity in early September...
Episcopal Church USA Meeting Focuses on Rita and Katrina Devastation
The Episcopal Church U.S.A. met last week in Puerto Rico to discuss the response of the Church to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as the Windsor Report and Anglican women...
Akinola Warns Nigeria May Break from Church of England over Homosexuality
Nigeria’s Anglican primate has said that Nigerian churches might cut ties with the Church of England if its stance on homosexuality, which accepts gay priests is not revised...
Christian Aid Partner Workers Kidnapped in Latest Sudan Violence
Three staff working for the Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO), a partner organisation of Christian Aid, have been kidnapped in Darfur, Sudan. The workers were reportedly hijacked at gunpoint...
Emmanuel Healthcare Nile Valley Bike Ride 2005
This is Emmanuel Health's 14th annual bike ride in support of the Nazareth Hospital and this year, takes us into new territory. Egypt captures the imagination of all who go there. The awe-inspiring monuments left by the Pharaohs, Greeks and Romans, as well as by early Christians and Muslims are testimony to the power of this civilisation...
UN Reveals New Violence in Volatile Sudan as Darfur Camp Refugees Attacked
A camp for displaced black villagers in Darfur was attacked yesterday by Arab men, killing 29 people, in what the United Nations has said is the first assault on a refugee camp...
Evangelicals Urge House of Bishops to Revise Advice on Civil Partnerships
The conservative Evangelical umbrella group Anglican Mainstream has sent a letter to all the House of Bishops regarding the position the bishops have taken on Civil Partnerships...