Christians have responded with 'shock and sadness' to the news that the number of children living in relative poverty in the UK rose by 200,000 last year.

International development agency Christian Aid is launching a new campaign and fundraising initiative for March 2007 ‚Ä' designed especially for five to 16 year olds, and concerned to help ‚Äúflush out‚Äù poverty. Almost literally.

Church campaigners have condemned Manchester's victory in super-casino race for 'creating crippling debts and undermining efforts to tackle child poverty in the city.'

A Church of England-based urban regeneration charity has launched a new public campaign to tackle poverty in England, in the aftermath of a new churches' report on urban life which said that Britain is divided society.

In the week of doorstep lender Provident Financial's Annual General Meeting, Christian campaigners have taken to the street in the company's hometown of Bradford to tell the public and staff that their profits are based on extortionate lending.

A church agency is challenging Christians and others to take on the life of someone who has been refused asylum.

The challenge is part of Church Action on Poverty's (CAP) Living Ghost's campaign to change Government policies that make people seeking asylum destitute.

Church Action on Poverty (CAP) is calling on the Britain government to take more decisive action against inequality in Britain, after official statistics indicated that more than one in four children in the UK still live in poverty.

The Anglican Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, a local vicar and John Battle MP are renewing calls for an inquiry into the detention and subsequent suicide of an African asylum seeker - who killed himself so that his son would not be deported.