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  • 10 Feb 2013
    Background to Autism Sunday (10 February 2013)

    Churches across Britain will mark Autism Sunday once again today (10 February 2013).

  • 2 Apr 2011
    UN Secretary-General marks World Autism Awareness Day

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has called for greater public awareness of autism, in a message to mark the annual World Autism Awareness Day.

  • 27 Apr 2010
    Stop punishing sick and disabled welfare claimants

    The ‘get tough’ approach to sick and disabled welfare claimants promoted by the big party players in the run up to this General Election, and in recent media rhetoric, is not just morally cheap, says Savi Hensman. It is reflective of a profoundly inadequate policy approach which ends up scapegoating those we should be supporting most.

  • 14 Feb 2010
    Churches across the country mark Autism Sunday

    While the main media focus will be on Valentine's Day today, many churches across the UK have been 'spreading the love' in a rather different way - by showing support for those living with autism and those who support them.

  • 7 Jan 2009
    Autism Sunday

    Cathedrals, Churches and religious organisations across the world have been urged to pray for over 60 million people with autism and Asperger's Syndrome.

  • 7 Jan 2009
    Churches urged to observe autism sunday

    Autism Sunday, the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger's Syndrome falls on Sunday 8th February this year.

    Cathedrals, Churches and religious organisations across the world have been urged to pray for over 60 million people with autism and Asperger's Syndrome.

  • 30 May 2008
    Call for Pope to act on autism in the wake of church ban

    Autism campaigners around the world are urging Pope Benedict XVI to act on autism in the wake of the banning of a 13 year old boy with severe autism from the Roman Catholic Church of St.Joseph, in Bertha, Minnesota in the United States.

  • 20 May 2008
    Call for understanding in the wake of church autism ban

    Autism campaigners around the world are urging church leaders and clergy to understand the complex needs of children and adults with autism after a Roman Catholic priest banned a boy with autism from his church

  • 28 Jan 2008
    Churches urged to take action on autism and Asperger's syndrome

    Churches of all denominations across Britain and Ireland are being encouraged to mark Autism Sunday and the International Day of Prayer for those living with autism and Asperger's Syndrome on Sunday 10 February 2008.