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  • 25 Dec 2010
    Hong Kong bishops call for social justice in Christmas messages

    Hong Kong Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops have called for social justice in their Christmas messages, praising human rights defenders in China as 'shining stars'.

  • 25 Dec 2010
    Christmas is for those living with pain and grief, says Methodist President

    The Methodist President has called on people to make Christmas "a generous and safe space to all for whom [it] is full of painful memories, grief and hardship."

  • 25 Dec 2010
    Archbishop's Christmas message calls for solidarity against tyranny

    In his Christmas letter to the heads of other churches, the Archbishop of Canterbury has urged support for Christians and others facing hardship or persecution.

  • 24 Dec 2010
    Why the Pope is - and isn't - the issue in broadcasting politics

    Some people seem to have got the idea that Ekklesia objects to the BBC broadcasting a Christmas message from the Pope. We don't. We simply think that the BBC ban on non-religious and some minority religious people sharing their reflections in the same 'Thought for the Day' slot should be ended. Giving an immensely powerful individual (and head of state) access to airwaves denied to those he attacked when he was last in Britain also raises wider questions which should not be ducked.

  • 23 Dec 2010
    Christmas, myths and the nudge towards truth

    It is good to enjoy the carol services, nativity plays, mince pies and mulled wine, says Jill Segger. But let us not ever mistake them for anything more than a nudge towards the truth.

  • 21 Dec 2010
    Bethlehem a 'centre of Christian spirituality' despite occupation

    Despite political conflict, Bethlehem remains the centre of Christian spirituality, especially at Christmas, says the Palestinian tourism minister.

  • 21 Dec 2010
    Knowing one another in the things that are eternal

    Quakers don't really 'do' Christmas. Partly in order to offer a sign of contradiction to the consumerism and commercialism of the season which is in conflict with our Testimony of simplicity; partly because we believe that all of life and all its days and times are sacramental; partly because there is such a wide range of views in the Society of Friends as to the nature of the man Jesus.

  • 19 Dec 2010
    Satirical boardgame challenges oil industry in run-up to Christmas

    A satirical boardgame has been launched about the global oil industry. Greenpeace have made the game - Deepsea Desperation - downloadable from their website.

  • 1 Dec 2010
    The retail gospel according to Pickles

    At first sight, it is seemed reasonable to assume that Eric Pickles had hitched his wagon to the to the 'Not Ashamed' campaign train which launches today (1 December 2010) with his claims about the “ambush of Christmas” by “politically correct Grinches” and an exhortation to local councils to “take pride in Britain's Christian heritage.”

  • 30 Nov 2010
    Christmas lights give way to radical Jesus film in Hoylake

    A community group in Hoylake, Wirral, will this Christmas be projecting the radical 1964 Pasolini film about the life of Christ onto a church in the town’s High Street.