by Simon Barrow | Jan 17, 2021 | Update
EKKLESIA IS PLEASED to be launching its new website for a new year – our twentieth in operation as a pioneering think-tank (and now change network) on beliefs, ethics and politics. This is the fourth redesign since we appeared on the web in 2002. It also marks a...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 29, 2024 | Briefing
LAWYERS for ClientEarth have warned the UK’s environmental watchdog that the 2024 ‘emergency authorisation’ of a pesticide which poses a serious risk to honeybees and waterways may be yet another instance of the government breaching environmental law. This comes just...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 29, 2024 | Briefing
THE UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters has agreed guidance on designing wealth tax laws, opening the door for countries to tax extreme wealth. It is estimated that there is more than twice as much wealth hidden offshore beyond the rule...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2024 | Update
WE ARE grateful to our friends at Christians for Palestine for producing a moving set of meditations and prayers for Gaza, using the traditional form of the Stations of the Cross, which depict Jesus’s path to crucifixion. In commending these reflections we...
by Simon Barrow | Mar 29, 2024 | Update
IT HAS long been said that truth is the first casualty in war. In the age of digital technology, social media, AI and deepfakes, that awful reality has been turbo-charged. The continuing bombardment and assault on Gaza and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are prime...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 28, 2024 | Briefing
IN a new letter released during Holy Week, more than 140 Bishops and executive leaders from churches, denominations, and church-based organisations in the US and around the world have called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. They urge the US and other world powers to...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 28, 2024 | Briefing
AS Yemen enters its tenth year of war, its people face renewed airstrikes and a deepening economic crisis that risks pushing millions into starvation, Oxfam has warned. This week marks nine years since the escalation of the conflict. A temporary UN-brokered truce...
by Rosemary Brien | Mar 27, 2024 | Commentary
ISSUES around gender identity, wider equality, law and policy have been much in the news recently. A Scottish government attempt to overturn the UK government veto of a bill to make it easier to change legal gender failed. But Scotland’s leaders are pressing ahead...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2024 | Briefing
AS many as eight million people face being disenfranchised at the next election due to an electoral registration system which is neither effective nor efficient, says the cross-party Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee in a new report. The report finds...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2024 | Briefing
SINCE the 2015 Paris climate agreement, European banks have lent about €256 billion to corporations that put forests, savannahs and other climate critical natural ecosystems at risk, according to new research. The study, published by Greenpeace International,...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE decision on 24 March by Israeli authorities to reject United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) food convoys into northern Gaza will accelerate the risk of famine and send already starving children more quickly to their graves, says aid...