Category - tsunami

Independent affirmation for Christian Aid's tsunami work

staff writers — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:30:32 +0000

An independent evaluation of UK-based international development agency Christian Aid’s tsunami programme, which was published last week, has praised its strong and committed response, especially in building new homes.

Lambeth Palace attacks ‘misleading’ Times headline about bishop case

staff writers — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:32:13 +0000

The HQ of the Archbishop of Canterbury has described a headline in the Times newspaper as “completely misleading” in suggesting a report had declared the Bishop of Southwark drunk in a 2006 Christmas Party incident.

Churches continue to put money into 'forgotten' Asian tsunami recovery

staff writers — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:05:51 +0000

Communities in Asia are slowly and patiently continuing the process of recovery from the major Indian Ocean tsunami of late 2004 – with the active support of churches and other NGO networks.

Australian agency urges greater disaster preparedness

staff writers — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:47:51 +0000

Governments, aid agencies and humanitarian actors must spend twice as much on disaster preparedness activities that could save millions of lives, according to Robert Tickner, CEO of Australian Red Cross.

Turning God into a disaster area

Simon Barrow — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:43:33 +0000

Richard Dawkins is right to attack facile God-talk, says Simon Barrow. Misidentifying the divine as a 'thing' attached to or manipulative of the world is disastrously to misunderstand who and what God might be.

Paper admits it misrepresented Archbishop of Canterbury over Tsunami - Inclusive Church News, 15th January 2005

Press Office — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:58:21 +0000

A report on Ekklesia's discovery that the Sunday Telegraph had privately apologised to the Archbishop of Canterbury for suggesting that the Archbishop had doubted God's existence following the Asian T

Methodists affirm commitment both to tsunami victims and making poverty history

staff writers — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:00:00 +0000

As Methodist Relief and Development Fund's (MRDF) appeal to aid the victims of the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami reacthes more than £155,000, the fund is also emphasising its long-term commitment to poverty elsewhere in the world.