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  • 21 Nov 2007
    Improve your cultural intelligence: What is culture?

    How does our culture effect the way we communicate? How can we become more sensitive to cultural factors in when in dialogue or working alongside people of different backgrounds?

  • 21 Nov 2007
    Love your enemy: Within a divided community (the re-opening of St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square)

    The St Ethelburga’s team reflect on issues of inter-religious co-existence as part of the events marking the re-opening of St Martin in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square.

  • 19 Nov 2007
    Interceders Conference HIV/Aids

    The Interceders Conference will offer information and help on health and spiritual issues, providing the Church with an opportunity to make itself heard on the subject of HIV/AIDS.

  • 19 Nov 2007
    Bringing reconciliation home

    What are our societal conflicts in London and the UK and what needs to be reconciled? Is faith a factor in these conflicts and in what ways can it help us work with them constructively?

  • 19 Nov 2007
    Should religious dress and symbols be banned at work?

    Trying to make workplaces religion free is no solution to human fears about 'the other', says Simon Barrow, reflecting on recent cases of controversy involving religious dress and symbols in schools and companies.

  • 15 Nov 2007
    Violence, the media and redemption

    If children are traumatised by media images of violence, the answer is not censorship says Colin Morris, but deeper questions about the networks of wrong doing we are part of and the question of whether and how redemption is possible.

  • 15 Nov 2007
    Caste and rules create 'dual faith' Dalits in India

    According to Indian government documents, Christians account for less than 10 percent of the population of the southern Karnataka state. But the proportion may be much higher because of the impact of caste and categorisation, research shows.

  • 14 Nov 2007
    Justice needed for Britain's black communities, says Jesse Jackson

    Britain’s black communities have still to throw off the mentality of slavery and need to invest in the future of its young people and rediscover their self-confidence, leading US civil rights campaigner the Rev Jesse Jackson says.

  • 13 Nov 2007
    US Lutherans back tough anti-child trafficking measures

    Lutherans and other churches have been urging a US House of Representatives Committee to expedite the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2007 (TVPRA), to help identify and protect child victims of trafficking.

  • 9 Nov 2007
    Religious right defeated on lesbian and gay equality in the US

    Despite intense lobbying from the religious right in the USA, the Democratic-led House of Representatives has defied a White House veto threat by voting to outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.