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  • 3 Aug 2007
    Support for South Asia flood victims

    India, Bangladesh and Nepal are in need of urgent aid and development support, following the latest disaster.

  • 3 Aug 2007
    Darfur talks must not be allowed to falter, says church agency

    The UK and France should use what ever leverage they have over Chad and Eritrea to encourage them to help build a consensus among the Darfur rebels and bring a just peace to the Sudan killing fields, says a leading church agency.

  • 31 Jul 2007
    Indian Christian women protest against female feticide

    Christian women activists have expressed anger at what they say is an alarming crisis due to female feticide in India, after two dumps of illegally aborted female foetuses were found in the world's second most populous nation.

  • 30 Jul 2007
    Preparing to make peace possible

    The international Day of Prayer for Peace on 21 September is part of a growing movement in opposition to religiously-sanctioned violence.

    Or any kind of officially-sanctioned violence, really.

  • 30 Jul 2007
    Christians around the world prepare to pray and act for peace

    On 21 September 2007 Christians from Congo to the United States, and from Colombia to Switzerland to South Korea, will join in the International Day of Prayer for Peace - committing themselves to work for a better world.

  • 29 Jul 2007
    Chinese authorities prohibit rights-based AIDS gathering

    The Chinese authorities have prohibited a meeting of activists gathering to discuss the rights of people living with AIDS, because of official fears over foreign involvement in the sensitive issue.

  • 25 Jul 2007
    Non-violence: Jesus' last word to the church

    Evangelicals have enjoyed a major influence on the Bush administration, but John Dear points out that this does not mean they have a basic commitment to Jesus' way of peace.

  • 24 Jul 2007
    Crusades? No problem...

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, a Daily Telegraph writer is less than impressed with the notion that there could be a Christian problem with religious violence per se, not just Muslim versions of it.

  • 21 Jul 2007
    Re-evangelizing the religion of death

    At the root of death-dealing religion and ideology is fear, says Simon Barrow. The biggest challenge we face today is how to challenge cultures of death from within, replacing the logic of the sword with an invitation to life.

  • 16 Jul 2007
    London meeting to focus on nonviolent alternatives in conflict situations

    Pax Christi (the Catholic peace movement), the Fellowship of Reconciliation and St Ethelberga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation are co-hosts of an evening in central London looking at nonviolence in the midst of conflict.