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  • 2 Jul 2009
    Neutralized health service?

    With health care a top reform issue in the USA, there is much discussion of the NHS and other social-based systems – just as they are potentially being further undermined in the UK.

  • 8 Jun 2009
    Healing Middle East wounds a priority, says church coalition

    A broad coalition of church groups has sent a message of support for President Obama’s efforts at reaching out to Muslims across the world and towards making Israeli-Palestinian peace a top priority of his administration.

  • 5 Jun 2009
    US churches welcome Obama's global message to Muslims

    Senior staff of the National Council of Churches USA have praised President Obama's address to the Muslims throughout the world yesterday, renewing the Council's commitment to friendship and dialogue with Muslim people of faith.

  • 2 Jun 2009
    Religious leaders urge Obama on in Middle East peace efforts

    As President Barack Obama's efforts towards a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine continue, religious leaders in the region and in the USA are urging him to press forward toward a lasting peace in the Middle East.

  • 17 May 2009
    Obama wins standing ovation for openness plea at Notre Dame

    After hardline Catholics had sought to prevent Notre Dame University from inviting President Barack Obama to give a commencement address, his call for people of divergent convictions to find common ground in reason and faith was warmly received.

  • 30 Apr 2009
    Amnesty wants Obama to fulfil promise to close Guantanamo

    Amnesty International has marked US President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office by alalysing his record on security and urging him to fulfill his promise to close Guantánamo Bay and to do more to stamp out torture.

  • 30 Apr 2009
    Tearfund urges Obama on towards Copenhagen summit

    The UK evangelical development charity Tearfund is urging US President Barack Obama to build on the success of his 100 days in office by turning his attention to the upcoming Copenhagen summit on climate change with renewed vigour.

  • 29 Apr 2009
    Accusations fly about attempts to convert Obama's grandmother

    A row is simmering between the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in western Kenya and Muslims in the country over reported attempts to convert to Christianity Sarah Obama, the grandmother of US President Barack Obama

  • 22 Apr 2009
    US churches back Earth Day pledge to Obama on climate change

    To mark Earth Day today the US agency Church World Service is backing immediate action to fight climate change through an national postcard ‘Countdown to Copenhagen’ advocacy campaign aimed at the Obama administration and Congress.

  • 17 Apr 2009
    Obama's release of Bush-era torture data is a victory for civil rights groups

    Barack Obama has published secret memos detailing the legal justification for the CIA interrogation programme in the Bush era, which critics say amounted to the legitimation of torture.