The director of the Catholic Aid agency CAFOD, has said that the greed that underpins many developed countries’ economies and personal lifestyles is pushing the world’s poorest to the edge of existence.

Catholic aid agency CAFOD says that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should use his audience with Pope Benedict XVI to reflect on his part in the current global economic crisis.

Protesters set fire to their TV licenses in a sit-in at the BBC broadcasting centre in London yesterday evening, as complaints continued about the Corporation's refusal to show a Gaza charity appeal.

Backed by Catholic aid agency CAFOD, two indigenous indians from Brazil have arrived in London this week to make an urgent plea to members of parliament for help to save their Amazon forest home.