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  • 25 Mar 2013
    Jobseekers’ welfare sanctions may violate multiple rights

    Do you go to church on Sundays? Do you have young children who need you to look after them on Saturdays, or adult caring responsibilities for even a few hours a week? If you lose your job in the UK, you might be punished with destitution.

  • 25 Mar 2013
    Drones ‘violate children’s rights under international law,’ says new report

    A new report finds America’s covert drone programme, violates a range of children's rights as established under international law.

  • 25 Mar 2013
    One nation, aspiration nation or condemnation?

    Politicians tend to become grandiose when they are trying to sell us an idea. The rhetorical use of the concept of 'nation' to corral us together under a conveniently high-sounding label has, in recent months, tried to sign us up to being both 'one nation' and an 'aspiration nation.'

  • 24 Mar 2013
    Internship exploitation is part of the low-pay and no-pay culture

    Research published by the TUC suggests that almost 4 in 5 of 18-34 year olds could not afford to live in London away from home to become even unpaid interns.

  • 24 Mar 2013
    Pros and cons of the sexual violence law in India

    A new law passed by the Indian Parliament aimed at addressing sexual violence, while positive in some respects, has several deficiencies and illegalities.

  • 24 Mar 2013
    A different angle on current affairs: Ekklesia on the airwaves

    Ekklesia staff, associates and friends have been much in demand on the radio and television recently. Tomorrow (Sunday 24 March 2013), new associate Keith Hebden, an Anglican priest involved in social justice advocacy and the activist network Christianity Uncut, will be appearing on a range of local BBC radio stations across England (7am - 9am), making the case against the government's unpaid 'workfare' mandatory work placement programme.

  • 24 Mar 2013
    Workfare: Hurting the poor, helping the rich

    By requiring people to work without pay, the government's workfare schemes are pushing more and more people into poverty and unemployment, says Ekklesia associate Symon Hill. Christian organisations need to campaign against workfare, not participate in it, he argues.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    Earth Hour: Uniting people to protect the planet

    Earth Hour claims to be the single, largest, symbolic mass participation event in the world.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    Sacrifice or change? The NHS and health after Mid Staffs

    A change of heart, procedure, policy and resources is needed to make health for all a priority in Britain, says Savitri Hensman, looking at the lessons that need to be learned from Mid Staffs and beyond.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    The media, the temple, and learning to turn the tables

    As politicians fret about the Leveson inquiry and struggle to square the circle of defending a media free from state interference that some argue needs to be better protected by the state from unethical corporate politicking and domination, there is great value in us returning to examine Jesus’ engagement with the a major medium of communication in his day: the Temple. Keith Hebden argues that across the chasm of the centuries, lessons in confronting power and 'domination systems' are there to be learned if we pay proper attention.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    World churches' chief welcomes new Archbishop of Canterbury

    The WCC General Secretary joined church and civic leaders as Archbishop Justin Welby was installed in his new ministry at Canterbury Cathedral.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    Faslane anti-nuclear Easter peace witness hit by bad weather

    The anti-nuclear weapons rally at Faslane nuclear base in Scotland will not go ahead today, due to snow, ice and dangerous conditions in the area.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    Sharp rise in number of homeless families

    Government figures released yesterday (22 March) show a sharp increase in the number of homeless families over the past year.

  • 22 Mar 2013
    PM cannot afford to ignore environmental challenge, say charities

    Leading charities have expressed disappointment that the Prime Minister is not attending a high-level global development panel that he co-chairs.

  • 22 Mar 2013
    Do we have a new pope for a reformed church?

    We have begun to learn something of the varied influences that have shaped the new pontiff. What is required from the new pope today, says Dr Harry Hagopian, is more than an evocative name and a humble posture. Catholicism also needs someone who can bringing a cleansing brush to bear on tired structures, on the abuse scandal, and on the existential, ecclesial, structural, ecumenical and global challenges that Christians face in a fast-changing world. It is a monumental task, but which many hope the first Jesuit pontiff can begin and lead.