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  • 4 Jul 2007
    Now is the time to end Palestinian isolation, says church agency

    With global attention focussing on news of BBC journalist Alan Johnston's release from captivity in Gaza, a leading church agency says it is time to end the isolation of the Palestinian authority if peace is to be possible.

  • 2 Jul 2007
    Churches' development agency launches new website

    The UK-based churches' international development agency Christian Aid has launched a new website - which it hopes will resource the struggle for global justice and engage more people with its work and that of its partners.

  • 29 Jun 2007
    Christian Aid welcomes progressive Brown cabinet appointments

    Christian Aid today warmly welcomed a number of new Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s ministerial appointments, saying that the changes are a good sign of his continuing commitment to justice for the world’s poor.

  • 27 Jun 2007
    Blair legacy mixed on global justice, says Christian Aid

    On the day Tony Blair stood down as British Prime Minister, the relief agency Christian Aid joined many others in applauding his achievements but expressing disappointment at "a job half done" on poverty and development.

  • 22 Jun 2007
    Sri Lanka faces continuing nightmare of violence

    Civilians are bearing the brunt of violence as fighting rages in Sri Lanka between the military and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE), church and civilian humanitarian agencies report. Long-term solutions are vitally needed.

  • 21 Jun 2007
    Church agency asks Brown not to repeat Blair's Middle East mistakes

    Christian Aid has this week urged Gordon Brown, who becomes British Prime Minister next week, not to make the same mistakes in the Middle East as Tony Blair.

  • 16 Jun 2007
    Gaza violence worsens isolation and injustice

    Fighting between the Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip has highlighted the urgent need for the international community to end the isolation and blockade on the Palestinian government, say churches and NGOs.

  • 12 Jun 2007
    Financial injustice is crippling Africa, says Christian Aid

    Billions of dollars are flooding out of Africa through ilicit means which have little to do with internal corruption, and which dwarf efforts at development assistance, says leading churches' agency Christian Aid.

  • 9 Jun 2007
    Welcome for Bali climate change commitment amid G8 woes

    While environment and development groups are generally dissatisfied with the outcome of the G8 summit this week, the pledge to launch climate negotiations in Bali in December 2007 and complete them in 2009 has been welcomed by Christian Aid.

  • 7 Jun 2007
    Christian Aid says G8 fudge will harm UK initiative on Africa

    The UK government's efforts to build a coalition to back sustainable development in Africa is being undermined by attempts at the G8 summit to fudge a deal on climate change, says Britsih-based agency Christian Aid.