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  • 21 Mar 2008
    Barack Obama the evangelical?

    There have been all kinds of speculations about the religious convictions and background of US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Justin Thacker looks at his Christian outlook and asks what his relation is to evangelicalism.

  • 21 Feb 2008
    Lent and the Iraq war

    For the next four weeks, the US God's Politics group blog will be featuring posts from a variety of voices on Iraq: Iraqis, US veterans and parents, Christians from other countries, pastors, and peacemakers.

  • 10 Dec 2007
    Rupert Murdoch buys into online religion

    Rupert Murdoch's global media organization News Corporation has announced it has acquired Beliefnet, said to be the largest faith and spirituality information site on the World Wide Web, for an undisclosed sum of money.

  • 24 Sep 2007
    Brown beats Cameron with Bible during Labour conference speech

    In what is believed to be the first time a Labour leader has quoted the Bible in a conference speech in decades, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has used the words of Jesus to attack Conservative leader David Cameron.

  • 7 Sep 2007
    Spiritual renewal key for social transformation, says US progressive evangelical

    The social transformation of the world - alleviating poverty and disease, restoring human rights and religious freedom, bringing peace overcoming prejudice - can only come through spiritual revival, progressive evangelical Jim Wallis has said.

  • 24 Jun 2007
    UK Christians hear call for 'justice revival' to call Brown to account

    American evangelical social activist Jim Wallis has made a stirring plea for a ‘justice revival’ among the churches in the UK and beyond - saying that Christians and those of goodwill must help Gordon Brown keep his promises.

  • 9 Mar 2007
    Jesus in the City - The 5th UK Urban Mission Congress - "Setting People Free !"

    ‘Setting People Free’ (as part of marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slave trading) Exploring the good news of Jesus in three ways:

    1. releasing captives

  • 12 Feb 2007
    Pope and UK Chancellor join forces on major child vaccination programme

    Both the Vatican and the UK government have declared themselves pleased with the private audience that UK Chancellor Gordon Brown enjoyed with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome last week.

  • 12 Jan 2007
    Church groups call for alternatives to Bush's "unjust and unworkable" Iraq strategy

    Peace and security in Iraq will not come from increased levels of US troops and more warring ‚Ä' it will be achieved only by diplomacy, political processes, reconciliation, and reconstruction, says leading Quaker agency the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

  • 4 Dec 2006
    Evangelical leader seeks unifying moral path in US politics

    Jim Wallis, a well-known progressive evangelical leader who has challenged the US religious right on their own turf, has taken the opportunity to give a national radio broadcast commending a broad and inclusive moral agenda rather than the sectarian divisions which some faith groups have been stirring up.