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  • 19 Nov 2007
    100 Poverty Hearings for Poverty Action Week 2008

    Poverty Action Week will be a major opportunity to for local churches to discover and engage with poverty and social justice issues within their own communities.

  • 8 Nov 2007
    Christians to launch enquiry into poverty and homelessness in UK

    Christian homelessness charity Housing Justice has joined with Scottish Churches Housing Action, Church Action on Poverty and the Church Urban Fund to launch an investigation into the experience of poverty, homelessness and bad housing across Britain.

  • 31 Oct 2007
    Churches lobby United Nations members on Horn of Africa tragedy

    Leaders from the World Council of Churches and its Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and independent member churches are lobbying the United Nations and member states as part of their concerted advocacy efforts for Africa and other causes.

  • 31 Oct 2007
    Vatican pushes message of sustainable development

    Archbishop Celestino Maggiore, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, has said, in a UN debate on development in New York,that global sustainability should be a priority for the nations of the world.

  • 26 Oct 2007
    Tanzanian poor supported by church bank

    On the southern slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, a small bank owned by 330,000 members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania's Northern District is improving the lives of poor people, while still managing to make a profit.

  • 24 Oct 2007
    Neoliberal globalisation is the new slavery, say Reformed churches

    Leaders of the world's biggest grouping of Reformed churches have compared the effects of neoliberal economic globalisation to the transatlantic slave trade, and said that Christians need to combat this modern form of "enslavement".

  • 23 Oct 2007
    Church economics consultation will tackle links between need and greed

    The question of when the pursuit of economic well being turns into greed is one of the key issues to be discussed at a 5-9 November inter-Christian consultation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, looking at poverty, wealth and ecology.

  • 23 Oct 2007
    Growing African churches urged not to neglect anti-poverty struggle

    The leader of the All Africa Conference of Churches, the Rev Mvume Dandala, has called on churches to renew their energy and resources to fight poverty, while expressing fears that the poor are being forgotten as African Christianity grows.

  • 21 Oct 2007
    President Bush accused by churches of failing poor children

    The organisation linking together 35 of America's mainline Christian churches, accounting for 50 million members, has accused President George W. Bush of neglecting the needs of sick children, especially in poor communities.

  • 17 Oct 2007
    Churches push against Bush on bipartisan kids' health programme

    The health of children should be a bipartisan concern, says the US United Church of Christ's general minister and president, calling politicians to override of a presidential veto against an expansion of a crucial children's health insurance programme.