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  • 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'.

  • 28 Mar 2013
    We are challenged by a Gospel that points us to those in most need

    When people talk about Christians who hail from an Orthodox or Catholic background, the temptation at times here in the Protestant-influenced West (but not so much in other parts of the world) is to suppose that these are men and women who are not necessarily Scripture-based in their faith - and therefore somehow ‘not Christian enough’.

  • 27 Mar 2013
    Secret courts vote 'a terrible day for British justice', says Amnesty

    Amnesty International has called yesterday's vote in the Lords which approved the government's controversial Justice and Security Bill "a terrible day for British Justice".

  • 27 Mar 2013
    New study shows 4 in 10 families cut back on food to stay in their homes

    Four out of 10 families with children have cut down on food to help pay for their housing costs during the past year, says Shelter.

  • 27 Mar 2013
    Arms trade needs stronger controls, say UN treaty draft critics

    Campaigners for the civil society coalition Control Arms say radical changes are still needed in the latest draft of the Arms Trade Treaty under negotiation at the UN.