Agenda - Globalisation and Development

Response to Lord Carey on immigration

Press Office — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:02:04 +0100

Commenting on former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey's comments about immigration, printed in the Times today (Wednesday 10 September 2008) Ekklesia associate and URC minister Vaughan Jones, wh

Joint declaration by Christian leaders on the occasion of Israel?s 60th anniversary, Palestinian News Network, 8th May 2008

Press Office — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:15:36 +0100

Ekklesia 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

Fair trade shows that ordinary people can bring change

Press Office — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:21:39 +0000

The 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

Williams, Sharia and global justice issues

Press Office — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:09:31 +0000

Responding 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

Migration is about people, before statistics

Press Office — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:59:14 +0000

The 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

More realism needed on global migration, says think tank

Press Office — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:21:46 +0100

The current political debate about migration is over-preoccupied with controlling borders, says the co-director of Christian think tank Ekklesia.

Migration is an issue of justice not scapegoating

Simon Barrow — Fri, 18 May 2007 09:10:08 +0100

Responding to the authoritative new report Human Tide: The Real Migration, Simon Barrow of the UK think tank Ekklesia welcomed Christian Aid's research.

Moral of The Story, ITV, 8th April 2007

Press Office — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:36:14 +0100

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

Apology for transatlantic slave trade

Press Office — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:28:00 +0000

Following London Mayor Ken Livingstone's article on the Guardian's Comment is Free web site, saying that London should

Could a bag really save the world? by Ed Caesar, Independent, 6 March 2007

Press Office — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:28:49 +0000

Looking 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'

Moral of the Story, ITV, 4 March 2007

Press Office — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:33:50 +0000

What are we doing to our children? torture, and Abu Qatada feature in discussion, with Ekklesia's co-director Jonathan Bartley

Human Trafficking and Slavery, Thought for the Day BBC Radio 4 24th January 2007

Press Office — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:04:11 +0000

The Government's announcement over human trafficking, and the celebrations to mark the

'Post-Christian Europe'? The issues are old but the landscape is changing by Brian Murphy, Associated Press, 16 December 2006

Press Office — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:34:37 +0000

In an article that appeared throughout the US in publications such as the Houston Chroni

Comment on opposition to Turkey's accession to the European Union

Press Office — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:45:57 +0100

Britain's leading Catholic the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O‚ÄôConnor, followed the Pope's lead and expressed doubts over the positive impact that allowing a predominately

Doubts Over Turkish Entry to EU - The Universe 27th September 2006

Press Office — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:38:38 +0100

A 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‚ÄôConnor, and the Pope.