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  • 26 Jan 2007
    Charity warns of crisis in Jordan over Iraqi refugees

    Concerns are growing at the level of hardship being experienced across Jordan as a result of the growing number of Iraqi refugees, in what Christian charity World Emergency Relief (WER) is calling a ‘hidden crisis'.

  • 26 Jan 2007
    Vigil outside London prison for Christian peacemaker

    A vigil is to be held tomorrow (Saturday) outside a London prison for a Christian peacemaker, jailed this week after protesting outside the Ministry of Defence.

  • 26 Jan 2007
    Noted Iraqi scholar and peacemaker assassinated

    The Church World Service has expressed its sadness at the apparently targeted killing of noted Iraqi peace and reconciliation advocate and trauma-healing specialist Dr. Alharith Abdulhameed Hassan.

  • 25 Jan 2007
    Lively global church debate about protecting vulnerable populations and the use of force

    The international community's responsibility to protect endangered populations when their governments fail to do so, and church support for protective measures, has been the subject of lively debate at a World Council of Churches (WCC) workshop at the 20-25 January World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.

  • 25 Jan 2007
    Charges against Christian anti-war protestor dismissed

    Christian peace campaigner Brian Haw, who maintained a protest against the Iraq war for over 2000 days in Parliament Square, has had a series of charges against him under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act dismissed in the High Court by Judge Quentin Purdy ‚Ä' who criticized the way the case had been brought.

  • 25 Jan 2007
    US church leaders keep focus on an Israel-Palestine solution

    Nearly 40 leaders from a broad coalition of US Christian denominations have sent a letter to President George W. Bush asking that he "make Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, in the context of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace initiative" a priority for his administration.

  • 24 Jan 2007
    Tutu says that the war against terror cannot be won by force

    The war against terror in the world will "never" be won by force and injustice, and will remain a problem "as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate," like dehumanizing poverty, disease and ignorance, Nobel laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has told participants at the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya.

  • 23 Jan 2007
    Learning to love my enemies in Hebron

    One of the reasons I wanted to come to Palestine with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) was to help children get to school and protect them from soldiers who caused them trouble. However, being a good peacemaker, I also came wanting to work hard at loving my enemies. My plan was to try to see the humanity of these soldiers and identify with them as individuals rather than as faceless, uniformed bad guys.

  • 22 Jan 2007
    Christian campaigner jailed after Iraq protest

    A Christian campaigner has been sent to prison for refusing to pay a fine arising from a demonstration against the invasion of Iraq.

  • 21 Jan 2007
    Killing of Armenian editor deplored by church leader

    The murder on 19 January 2007 of prominent editor Hrant Dink in Istanbul, Turkey "is a devastating development," said Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, diocesan legate and ecumenical officer, Diocese of the Armenian Orthodox Church of America.