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Westminster Cathedral Lectures Explore the Christian Roots of Europe
A series of lectures held every Wednesday evening at London's landmark Westminster Cathedral will aim to inspire UK Christians to re-live the Christian roots that have been set in Europes history...
Christian Aid Funds Aid Partners in India's Tsunami Relief Effort
Christian Aid has reported that they are supporting eleven long-standing partner organisations in India – providing them with emergency relief since the tsunami struck in the Indian Ocean in December 2004...
Botswana Christian Council Vice-President to Campaign Against Death Penalty
Reverend Kebinang Moenga, the vice president of the Botswana Christian Council (BCC) said that he intends to launch a massive campaign against capital punishment -- a practice he dubbed as a social evil...
Domestic Divisions Arise Within ECUSA
The dispute over the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA)'s decision to ordain an actively gay man as bishop has not yet formalised into a full-fledged Anglican division at an international scale, but it continues to shred the fragile fabric...
Vietnam Human Rights Deadline Approaches
U.S and Vietnamese officials are holding intensive talks ahead of next week's deadline to decide if Vietnam remains on the U.S. State Department's "worst-offender" list for religious violations...
Imprisoned Iranian Pastor may Face Death Penalty
Tehran, Iran - A military court in Iran has sentenced Christian pastor Hamid Pourmand to jail for three years and has ordered his immediate transfer to a group prison cell in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison...
Food Program Growth and Development in Aceh Province
The Tsunami Response Team of one of the largest Christian relief and development organisations in the world is targeting new camps and communities of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh Province...
First Major Prayer Movement Unites Sydney Anglicans
A call for focused prayer from Easter Sunday, March 27 to Ascension Day, May 5 has been taken up by over 70 parishes that are rallying congregations in prayer for everyone to respond to God in repentance and faith...
Open Doors World Watchlist Released
For the third straight year, the isolated communist nation of North Korea remains atop an annual list of countries where Christians are persecuted most. Over the past few years, the Open Doors International "World Watch List" has...
World Evangelical Alliance Calls All Christian Leaders to Unite
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has commenced its campaign to draw as many evangelicals as possible to its gathering in May 2005. The gathering will be titled, 'Move the Stones – The Power of Alliance'...
Annual Black Church Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS Begins
The Annual Black Church 'Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS', that began on Sunday 6th March, has mobilised thousands of churches in three countries - the United States, Africa and the Caribbean - to unite in prayer...
UN Emergency Session Agrees Immediate Action for Peace in Sudan
At a closed-door emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council ambassadors, Kofi Annan requested for immediate action to breakthrough the peace deadlock in war-torn Darfur, Sudan...
BBC: Christian Protestors to Springer Musical Threaten Freedom of Speech
The Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson has accused Christian groups that opposed the broadcast of Jerry Springer – The Opera of being extreme, and said that they were a threat to freedom of speech...
Bishop Corrects Catholic Ban on Red Nose Day
A Catholic bishop has corrected a statement from a colleague at the weekend stating that Catholic schools in a diocese in Wales would ban Red Nose Day after concerns that cash would be given for abortions...
Methodists Launch Huge Petition against New Gambling Bill
The UK's new gambling bill will reach its final legislative stage in the House of Lords on Thursday 10th March. By staging a nationwide signing petition, the Methodist Church, Salvation Army and National Children’s Home (NCH) will make their final attempt...
Disney’s The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe to Stay True to Christian Themes
Walt Disney is set to target worldwide Christians to support its latest movie release – C S Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Disney is to promote its new release as a "Passion of the Christ for Kids" to attract Christian families into cinemas...