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  • 29 Mar 2013
    Good Friday: Is Christianity life-giving or death dealing?

    Christians need to re-envision the meaning of the Cross in history and in our culture, such that we are equipped to go and do the Gospel that shapes us in a confused, broken, unjust and often violent world, says Simon Barrow. This will help us see that it is not true that the only ‘weapons’ at the Church's disposal are not the coercive ones wielded by our opponents. Rather, God’s cross points to the resources of suffering love that only the God of life can offer, because they are ‘beyond our means’ humanly, but not beyond divine gifting.

  • 29 Mar 2013
    Burying enmity: the language of the Cross

    Much has been written about the meaning of the cross, a subject on which Christians hold varying views, says Savitri Hensman. In Christ’s sacrifice, the true horror is exposed and the hope of a different way of life revealed. This can be difficult to comprehend, but it cannot be ignored or sidelined.

  • 29 Mar 2013
    NGOs want to make multinationals pay their fair share of tax

    The recent Google, Amazon and Starbucks scandals in Britain have shown that loopholes for multinationals to avoid tax need to be closed, says Christian Aid.

  • 29 Mar 2013
    Turkey forces hundreds of Syrian refugees back across border

    Up to 600 Syrian refugees have reportedly been deported by the Turkish authorities in a move that shows a shocking disregard for their safety.

  • 29 Mar 2013
    Cyprus: the danger of using the financial crisis to impose a political solution

    Cyprus has a special place in my heart, as I spent many years living there as I built up my professional legal, and later ecumenical, career.

  • 29 Mar 2013
    Syria and the rapid descent into bloodshed

    We have recently passed the two-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. What started as a series of peaceful demonstrations against a vicious dictatorship has been turned into a bloody war of Scud missiles and cluster bombs by the Assad regime against their opponents.

  • 28 Mar 2013
    Church leader to work with Brazil’s National Truth Commission

    A Central Committee member of the World Council of Churches, a Methodist lecturer, has joined up with Brazil’s National Truth Commission.

  • 28 Mar 2013
    Our welfare works

    For all who care about social justice, the last few years have been dreadful. To see the incomes of the poorest people cut, and to see those cuts justified by inaccurate and divisive ‘scroungers’ rhetoric has been depressing. For those at the receiving end it has been very painful.

  • 28 Mar 2013
    Obama was in Israel...and also in Palestine and Jordan

    Hope solely in an America-tailored and enforced settlement between Israelis and Palestinians today is nothing more than a chimera, says regional expert and Ekklesia associate Dr Harry Hagopian, in the wake of the US President's regional visit. Moreover, the two peoples will only manage to draw nearer to a peaceful resolution of the conflict if Israel acknowledges that it is occupying and colonising another people on their land and desist from applying those oppressive measures that are apartheid-like.

  • 28 Mar 2013
    Easter Monday protest: Trident is no April Fools' joke, says CND

    Fifty-five years after their first London to Aldermaston march, CND will return to Britain's nuclear bomb factory on April 1 to say 'stop fooling with nuclear weapons'.