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18 May 2007

World facing biggest ever migration crisis, says new report

Some 1 billion people will be forced from their homes by 2050 as climate change deepens an already huge global migration crisis, predicts an authoritative new report by Christian Aid - which shows that scapegoating immigrants is the wrong approach.
16 May 2007

World churches' body seeks end to wasteful medicine use

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is giving its backing to a resolution on rational use of medicines to be considered by the 60th World Health Assembly taking place in Geneva, Switzerlkand, from 14-23 May 2007.
16 May 2007

Keeping faith with young offenders and justice
16 May 2007

Is Marx's gospel a dead letter?
15 May 2007

The theological legacy of the slave trade

David Ford says that slavery is still very much alive, and that the systems and ideas that underpin it also challenge the church's deep collusion with racism - and its unwillingness to be grasped by the Gospel.
15 May 2007

Pope warns Latin American Christians against Marxism

The Pope has attacked Marxism as well as unfettered capitalism on his visit to Brazil. But the ghost of Marx has positive as well as negative connotations for Christians and social justice campaigners concerned with inequity.
14 May 2007

US religious groups launch initiative for a nuclear-free world

A coalition of national and regional religious leaders across the United States has launched a major initiative to "zero-out" funding for the production of new nuclear warheads. It has Christian and interfaith backing.
13 May 2007

Bishop apologises for use of the Bible to justify slavery

The Anglican Bishop of Ripon and Leeds has apologized for the way Christians misused the Bible 200 years ago to justify slavery. In a parliamentary speech he called for more action against its modern manifestations.
13 May 2007

Iran denounces Alan Johnston kidnap as Sentamu makes appeal

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has gone on al-Jazeera to appeal the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, whose kidnap in Gaza has been denounced by the Iranian government and galvanised media freedom activists.
13 May 2007

Polish Christians face moral dilemmas of communist era

Attempts to bring to justice past participators in human rights abuses in communist-era Poland are raising moral dilemmas for Protestant and Catholc Christians across the country. New law makes the issues unavoidable.

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