The history of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is not just about church cosiness, says Kersten Storch. It is about the quest for healing in a divided church and an unjust and unequal world.

Fairtrade flowers can be hard to find for birthdays, Christmas and anniversaries, but there are a couple of places that you can order them online quickly and easily for delivery including Virginia Hayward and John Lewis

While the global news agenda has moved on, UK-based development agency Christian Aid is asking people not to forget the ongoing victims of the tragic South Asia earthquake two years ago - and has pledged to continue its material support.

To mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the National Council of Churches USA's Special Commission for the Just Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast is sponsoring an Ecumenical Work Week in late August.

In June and July 2007 the campaigning group Church Action on Poverty (CAP) will mark 25 years of action alongside those at the bottom of the economic, social and political pile in modern Britain.

A vigil in London today will remember victims of the Iraq conflict, the death of hostage Tom Fox in 2006, and the release of three other Christian Peacemaker Teams activists - including Norman Kember.

Quakers in Britain have launched an online exhibition of archived resources tracing the history of the anti slavery movement from its Quaker beginnings to the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807 and beyond.

Campaigners bound in chains have set off on a 250-mile march to commemorate the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.