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Quake - Tsunami Death Toll Passes 175,000
South Asia's quake-tsunami death toll soared past 175,000 Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands more dead. Sri Lankan officials said another 7,275 people were now known to have died...
Project Raises Funds for Prisons in Greater Paris
The French Bible Society and local prison chaplains have launched a project which plans to fund the purchase of Bibles for prisoners who request them. The Bible in Prison appeal asks customers at Christian bookshops in the Greater Paris region...
Debate on "Blasphemous" Springer Opera Still Boiling
One week after the screening of Jerry Springer the Opera on BBC, the debate has continued to heat up. The outrage of Christian evangelicals regarding the alleged "blasphemous" opera is still boiling...
Orthodox Pre-assembly Meeting Affirms Need for Spiritual Transformation
The international pre-assembly meeting of WCC Orthodox member churches ended yesterday on the island of Rhodes, Greece. Participants coming from all of the WCC’s Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox member churches observed that the spiritual dimensions of transformation underlie its social dimensions ...
UK Clergywomen March for 'Make Poverty History' Campaign
Nearly 600 clergywomen joined one of Britain's most popular television comedy actresses to campaign for ‘Make Poverty History’ on Thursday by marching to 10 Downing Street — London’s most famous street address and home and office of Prime Minister Tony Blair...
U.S. Anglicans, Lutherans Struggle with Gay Issues
The 140-member House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, USA issued a statement on Thursday after a two-day meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, expressing their regret for having consecrated the group’s first openly gay bishop...
Christian Group Pressured to Drop Indonesia Orphanage Plan
An evangelical Christian charity has suspended fund-raising plans to place 50 Muslim children orphaned by the Asian tsunami in a Christian orphanage in Jakarta. World Help stopped the fund-raiser after they have been told...
Loving Lord
Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Mt 22: 37-38
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Protect Asian Tsunami Orphans from Trafficking
With thousands of children left orphaned by the southern Asia tsunami, authorities and international agencies are concerned for children’s safety in the region where trafficking networks are entrenched and where markets for forced labour and sexual slavery thrive.
The UK-based charity Save the Children acknowledged that effort in child protection is acute. Especially in the worst hit area, the Aceh Province of Indonesia, there have been substantiated reports of abductions and sm
Music in our Lives...
Date: Mon 31st January - Fri 4th February
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: Meeting with worship leader Adrian Snell. How can we discover or rediscover a place where music can unite us...
The Discipline of Intimacy with God
Date: Mon 31st January - Fri 4th February
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: Our lives are often parched and our souls thirst for God. Charlie Cleverly will guide us...
Anglican Bishops back Williams for Windsor Report Implementation
The House of Bishops has given the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rev Rowan Williams its full backing in ensuring that the Windsor Report is properly implemented and installed...
The Local Church at Prayer
Date: Fri 28th - Sun 30th January
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: How much does your church live by prayer? How much do you talk to and listen to God?
Meeting Stuart Townend at Lee Abbey
Date: Mon 24th - Fri 28th January
Venue: Lee Abbey Devon
Description: Come and meet Stuart Townend, one of the UK's best known and inspired worship leaders and songwriters...
Race Relations Chief Backs Modernisation of Blasphemy Laws
Last weekend, the screening on BBC2 of Jerry Springer - The Opera, prompted a record 50,000 complaints from outraged viewers and various Christian groups who objected to the programme’s offensive material and ridicule of Jesus Christ...
Evangelicals tell Tsunami Victims to Gain Life Perspective
A US-based evangelical organisation has distributed relief agency leaflets amongst tsunami survivors telling them to prepare for death. Detailed descriptions have been implemented of famous disasters and tragedies across the globe...