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  • 9 Feb 2012
    British aid to India defended by Christian Aid

    Christian Aid has backed continuing UK aid to India as an important intervention aimed at helping people living in abject poverty.

  • 7 Feb 2012
    Charles Dickens: a writer for our Hard Times

    “Even the burial of his body in the Abbey was a species of theft when you come to think of it”. George Orwell's words came into my mind as I watched the ceremonies surrounding today's 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.

  • 27 Jan 2012
    Scottish carers call for a full-scale enquiry on neglected children

    Charities have called for a formal inquiry to be launched into kinship care in Scotland, following growing concern about neglected children.

  • 11 Jan 2012
    Why the Social Fund is vital

    The government is proposing to cut the Social Fund, which provides emergency support for poor, sick and vulnerable people in desperate need.

  • 25 Nov 2011
    Pay gap fueling rising poverty

    Ekklesia is a co-signatory to a letter in the Guardian today (25 November 2011), along with five other churches and groups, regarding the growing pay gap.

  • 12 Nov 2011
    'Food stamp challenge' poverty wake-up call to US politicians

    A US interfaith TV cable channel has highlighted the recent "food stamp challenge" to challenge poverty and attitudes towards it in America.

  • 9 Nov 2011
    Poverty & Homelessness Week to highlight real cost of inequality

    Poverty and Homelessness Action Week 2012 aims to challenge barriers of misunderstanding, stigma and injustice resulting from inequality.

  • 21 Oct 2011
    Denying justice to least powerful

    The UK government is making it harder to challenge state decisions, the chair of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council has warned.

  • 6 Oct 2011
    The parallel universe of David Cameron

    Welcome to the parallel universe of David Cameron. It is a world in which the Tories stand up for the poor, lead the fight against dictatorship and stop people from being given benefits on demand. It is a world that exists in a conference hall in Manchester this week, in a few daily papers the rest of the time, and in the less well-informed parts of the right-wing blogosphere. It has nothing in common with the world that most of us live in.

  • 20 Sep 2011
    Addressing poverty together

    Today and tomorrow I am taking part in a consultation on the role civic groups and churches can play in combatting poverty, not least child poverty.