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US Propose Amendment to UN Declaration: No Guaranteed Right to Abortions
The 49th session of the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) has opened, and one of the issues which has been reviewed is the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action...
Russian Evangelicals Preach Sexual Purity amid Rising AIDS Epidemic
The leading evangelical mission organisation in Russia - Russian Ministries - has recently started a new initiative to spread "Biblical values" and an "anti-drug [and] sexual purity" message among Russian children and youth...
LWF Hails Mission of African Churches in Healing the War-Torn Country
On behalf of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), the president bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Rev Mark S. Hanson, has made an 8-day visit to Lutheran ministry sites in West Africa...
Former Archbishop of York to be Installed in New Post
On Wednesday evening, the former Archbishop of York Dr David Hope will be formally installed as a parish priest at a service in Ilkey, West Yorkshire. A large curious congregation is expected to attend the service...
WARC Holds Priority-Setting Meeting
The first meeting of newly elected officers of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) ended in Geneva, Switzerland on 26th February. They convened for 4 days to formulate priorities for the Alliance...
British Baptists Preparing for Upcoming World Congress
In about 5 months, Baptists all over the world will gather in England for the Baptist World Congress. The hosting organisation the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) is now gearing up the preparation ...
China’s New Controversial Religious Law Comes into Effect
From 1st March, the new regulations on religions will be implemented in China. While the government claims that the law will protect freedom of faith, critics are appearing among Chinese Christians in both Mainland China and Hong Kong...
US Lobbies UN to Declare Abortion Not a Human Right
The 49th session of the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) opened yesterday in the New York Headquarters. The international dispute over women's rights for abortions...
Hundreds of Coptic Christians End Conversion Protests
An alleged forced conversion of two Egyptian Christians to Islam has triggered a large scale demonstration of hundreds of believers in Cairo. The dispute began on Sunday as news circulated that two young Christian...
ACT Intl' Tsunami Relief in Sri Lanka Progresses despite Rebel Violence
Action by Churches Together (ACT) International have appealed for a greater global awareness for tsunami-battered Sri Lanka, where violence triggered by the unrest between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels is prevalent...
Churches Attack 'Inhumane' Political Asylum Policies
Church leaders have launched a scathing attack on the government's asylum policy, as well as the leading opposition party's policy, and have condemned them as being 'inhumane' and 'grotesque'...
Churches Launch "Just Wealth" Document in Parliament
On Monday 28 February, a document entitled "Prosperity with a Purpose - Christians and the Ethics of Affluence" published by the national official ecumenical body Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) was launched...
Evangelical Movement Shifts Centre of Christianity to the South
Amid the crisis over homosexuality in Western churches in America and Europe which has consumed their unity and power, Christians in the Southern Hemisphere are rising as a new hope to revive the religion...
Prayer Breakfast Build-Up to Evangelical Alliance's "Hope for London 2005"
The annual prayer initiative of the Evangelical Alliance United Kingdom (EAUK), Hope for the City, will kick-off very soon. A series of prayer breakfasts are to be held as a prologue to the event...
Evangelicals Warn of Child Abuse in Exorcisms among African Churches
A widespread rumour regarding child exorcism is now spreading among African communities and churches in London. Evangelicals warn that some cases are alleged physical abuse, mental abuse or even emotional abuse...
International Caribbean Congress Unites and Guides Evangelicals
A four day Congress of Evangelicals in the Caribbean 2005 (CONCECAR) has brought about the announcement that the Evangelical Association of the Caribbean have re-elected Rev Ken Ragoonath, from Trinidad to remain as its president...