Targets to cut the number of hungry people in the world will not be met without far greater international effort, the United Nations food agency has warned.

In the aftermath of the World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October, Amnesty International has highlighted several cases of people facing execution - including one in the USA being distorted by religious fundamentalism.

The Anglican Communion Environmental Network is urging Christians to prepare for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties Meetings to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.

The search for Christian unity is costly, slow and painful, Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has told a WCC Faith and Order meeting. Yet there are many signs of hope.

Amidst concern among human rights groups for the worsening human rights situation in the Philippines, an Irish priest has been kidnapped by a gang of armed men there.

Detention camps in Sri Lanka lack basic facilities and may be a 'collective punishment' that is exacerbating a humanitarian disaster, say Amnesty International and the United Nations.

A new report based on a recent national US survey has found that a clear majority of Americans favour allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into legal civil unions.

US President Barack Obama's Nobel Prize should inspire the young to be "bridge builders for understanding and reconciliation", says the head of the Lutheran World Federation.

Progress on a global climate deal went into reverse during the Bangkok talks, threatening to tip the world into catastrophic global warming, Christian Aid has said.

The US President Barack Obama has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation”. Campaigners welcomed the news but urged Obama to live up to the Prize.