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  • 22 May 2008
    Killer of archbishop receives death penalty despite church opposition

    An al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho - despite the church's opposition to the death penalty. The Iraqi government said the criminal court had imposed the death sentence on Ahmed Ali Ahmed.

  • 18 May 2008
    Christian Aid backs the work of Amity in quake-hit China

    The UK-based international developement agency Christian Aid is responding to the huge magnitude earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province on 12 May through the work of the Amity Foundation, a recognised NGO.

  • 17 May 2008
    Armenian spiritual leader decries genocide denial

    The leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, visiting Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, has spoken of the "genocide" suffered by his compatriots in the Ottoman empire, and said that those with power should ensure that justice prevails.

  • 14 May 2008
    Chinese churches and NGOs respond to earthquake crisis

    Chinese churches and Christian agencies, as well as the government and army, have begun responding to the recent earthquake. The quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, has devastated a region west of the provincial capital Chengdu.

  • 12 May 2008
    Kirk set to express outright opposition to death penalty

    The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is set to express its outright opposition to the death penalty for the first time. It has never previously resolved to oppose capital punishment ‘unequivocally’.

  • 10 May 2008
    Burma's dictators make propaganda out of suffering

    Burma's military regime is distributing international aid today. But it is covering the boxes with the names of top generals in an effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.

  • 8 May 2008
    British public urged to give 'desperately needed' aid to Burma

    Teams from Disasters Emergency Committee member agencies, along with flights of emergency relief items, are now reaching those affected by Cyclone Nargis. DEC is calling for urgent donations to the DEC Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal.

  • 7 May 2008
    Breaking the chains of global debt

    CELEBRATE ten years since the Birmingham human chain
    DISCOVER the impact of debt cancellation so far
    DEMAND a lasting solution to the debt crisis

  • 3 May 2008
    In War and Peace: the hard edge of peace-making in Northern Ireland

    “Some people think that peace-making is easy, but in my experience it requires toughness and resolution, as well as sympathy and integrity.”

  • 1 May 2008
    Jim Wallis: Seven Ways to Change the World

    Church.co.uk and Faithworks are hosting an evening with Jim Wallis to consider seven ways to change the world.