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Radio Archive
- 1 Jul
2008Jonathan Bartley debates with John Nicol on the Jeremy Vine show (Juliam Worricker standing in) saying any memorial to Bomber Command in the Second World War should incorporate the memory of the half - 16 May
2008Ekklesia director discusses the positive side to the economic slowdown, leaving behind consumerism, with a panel including the New Economics Foundation
Press Archive
- 19 Mar
2008What we're now seeing is the end of what was historically called Christendom in Europe," says Jonathan Bartley, "This has been the result of large-scale immigration, growth in democracy, a secularizin - 7 Mar
2008The church’s strategy is now clear – that if it is to have a hope of maintaining its privileges, it must try to get them extended to other religions too, says Jonathan Bartley
Web Archive
- 30 May
2008Inayat Bunglawala, Assistant Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain, quotes Simon Barrow on Michael Nazir-Ali's comments. - 8 May
2008Ekklesia quoted on Israel’s 60th anniversary, concerning 140 Christian leaders who joined together in a unified call for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians
Charity Gifts for the Developing World
Agenda - Globalisation and Development
Ekklesia was one of the first members of makepovertyhistory, and has commented widely on the values and thinking behind the idea of ‘Jubilee’ and debt remission. It has also taken part in debates over the idea of apology and whether Britain should ‘apologise’ for her part in the transatlantic slave trade, the effects of which are still felt by the continent of Africa.
- 8 May
2008Ekklesia quoted on Israel’s 60th anniversary, concerning 140 Christian leaders who joined together in a unified call for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians - 27 Feb
2008The religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, which actively backs Fair Trade initiatives as part of its work in exploring alternative economic and social policies, says that the just trade movemen
- 11 Feb
2008Responding to links being made between the debate about family Sharia in Britain and the situation in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, Simon Barrow of the religion and society think-tank Ekkles
- 30 Oct
2007The government's foreign labour statistics gaffe does not justify the apocalyptic tones of the current debate about migration, which is about people and development, not numbers and panic, says the
- 29 Aug
2007The current political debate about migration is over-preoccupied with controlling borders, says the co-director of Christian think tank Ekklesia.
- 18 May
2007Responding to the authoritative new report Human Tide: The Real Migration, Simon Barrow of the UK think tank Ekklesia welcomed Christian Aid's research.
- 8 Apr
2007
The release of the British service personnell held captive by Iran, and the Bishop of Rochester's comments about a moral vacuum, with Ekklesia's c - 21 Mar
2007Following London Mayor Ken Livingstone's article on the Guardian's Comment is Free web site, saying that London should
- 6 Mar
2007Looking at the latest symbol of clued-up, plugged-in people power - the 'We Are What We Do' bag - Ekklesia comments on whether people can learn 'to be good' - 4 Mar
2007What are we doing to our children? torture, and Abu Qatada feature in discussion, with Ekklesia's co-director Jonathan Bartley - 25 Jan
2007
The Government's announcement over human trafficking, and the celebrations to mark the - 16 Dec
2006
In an article that appeared throughout the US in publications such as the Houston Chroni - 27 Sep
2006Britain's leading Catholic the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, followed the Pope's lead and expressed doubts over the positive impact that allowing a predominately
- 27 Sep
2006A report of Ekklesia's comments regarding the opposition to Turkey's entry to the EU expressed by the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, and the Pope. - 26 Sep
2006
Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley, argues in favour of an apology for the slave tra
