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CSW demonstrate for 1988 Burma Masacre

On 6th August, Christians and human rights activists will protest and march from Berkeley Square in London W1 to the Burmese Embassy in Charles Street, to remember the student demonstration in Burma in 1988 in which thousands were massacred...

Religious Leaders unify Palestinians in Faith with WCC Ecumenical Program

Three heads of churches in Jerusalem – the Roman Catholic patriarch, Lutheran bishop, and Greek Melkite archimandrite - have visited three principally Muslim Palestinian communities...

OM TeenStreet Attracts 3,600 Christians to Germany

TeenStreet 2004 is now underway in Oldenburg, Germany, and will be carrying on the last 12 years of success, the international congress has attracted 3645 people from 20 nations...

Pope Proposes Evangelism with Olympics Sports

During the Olympic Games starting on 13th August in Athens, Greece, the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church have encouraged their churches to take action in evangelism...

Delirious to Perform at 2004 Athens Olympics

Along with Kutless, multi-award winning British pop and rock worship band Delirious has accepted an invitation to perform at the 2004 Olympic Games on 14th August 2004...

UK Alpha Conference to Raise Evangelism to New Levels

'Alpha Course' is known to be a very successful movement in evangelism over the past decade, and now in the UK, where it originated, it has moved to a higher level...

'World Help' promotes Church Planting in Iraq

It has been reported that many Christians are in fear of further violence after the bomb attacks on Sunday 1st August, and are now planning to flee the country. Religious leaders...

Anglican Communion Secretary Deplores Iraq Church Attacks as Christians Flee

A statement has been released by the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Canon John L. Peterson on the attack upon Christian Churches in Iraq...

Rapid Response by Churches to Help Paraguayan Fire Victims

With a rising death toll from a devastating supermarket fire, Paraguayan churches and Christian organisations have taken immediate action to assist families of those who were killed in the tragedy...

'Mission India' in the Midst of Monsoon Rains

Around 1,400 people have been killed, most of them in Bangladesh and eastern India after several weeks of intense monsoon rains...

Christians Plan Iraq Exodus amid Increasing Terrorist Threats

After churches were attacked in Baghdad on Sunday, many Christians are planning to flee Iraq. Some reports stated that small but steady numbers of Christians are slowly moving to Syria...

Church World Service Calls For Quick Intervention in Sudan

A global humanitarian agency called on citizens today to immediately pressure the United Nations and world bodies to intervene more quickly and definitively to protect more than one million Africans threatened by the escalating crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan...

Malaysian Prime Minister looks beyond Religious Boundaries with WCC

The international interfaith relationship between Muslims and Christians broke into new ground yesterday by the speech of the Malaysian Prime Minister on the World Council of Churches (WCC)...

Thirty Million Evangelicals Call for Immediate Intervention in Sudan

Thirty-five leaders from the Evangelical front signed onto a letter that urged President George W. Bush to take “decisive action to prevent further slaughter and death” in the Dafur region of Sudan, August 2...

CSW Condemns Use of Violence by Extremists

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has condemned extremists' use of violence to create inter-religious conflict in Iraq after five churches were targeted...

Evangelical Leaders send Sudan letter to Bush

On the first day of August, thirty-five evangelical Christian leaders signed a letter urging President Bush to provide massive humanitarian aid to Sudan...