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  • 11 Dec 2009
    Protesters remind Peace Laureate that war is not justifiable

    Protesters turned out in force in New York and elsewhere yesterday to remind Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama that war is not justifiable, and to oppose his 30,000-strong troop surge in Afghanistan.

  • 5 Dec 2009
    President Obama reschedules visit to Copenhagen summit

    US President Barack Obama has rescheduled his visit to the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen in order to give momentum towards a “meaningful” climate change, the White House said yesterday.

  • 3 Dec 2009
    Make sure it's a return trip to Copenhagen, Obama told

    Development and environment groups are urging President Obama, who is going to Copenhagen on 9 December, to return to the conference after collecting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

  • 20 Nov 2009
    An open letter to Barack Obama on Afghanistan

    America can either tolerate constant and crippling conflict, or recognise that the yearning for peace is universal, and strengthen its resolve to end conflicts around the world, say US Christian leaders, echoing President Obama's words back to him. They are calling for a new approach to Afghanistan based on "a humanitarian and development surge".

  • 22 Oct 2009
    US anti-poverty agency head urges child nutrition action

    Bread for the World, a collective Christian voice urging US decision makers to end hunger at home and globally, has welcomed the child nutrition priorities mentioned during a White House event hosted yesterday by Michelle Obama.

  • 10 Oct 2009
    Global church bodies praise Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win

    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.

  • 9 Oct 2009
    Campaigners urge Obama to live up to Nobel ideals

    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.

  • 7 Sep 2009
    US church launches major health care reform mobilisation

    In what it is describing as a "massive mobilization effort," the United Church of Christ in the USA is launching a major healthcare advocacy campaign on Tuesday 8 September 2009.

  • 22 Aug 2009
    Ignorant barracking of the NHS

    The National Health Service has continued to take a bashing in the USA, says Giles Fraser. The outrage of the religious right is fuelled by ignorance and prejudice, he argues.

  • 8 Jul 2009
    Resetting the American faith dialogue?

    Both believers (not least evangelical Christians) and non-believers are having a hard time pinning Barack Obama's faith down, says Martin Davis. This is because he is redrawing the dialogue about religion in the US.