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  • 6 Apr 2007
    Good Friday calls for a human change of heart, says archbishop

    Easter calls all people – including those in the churches – to recognize the suffering they cause, and to seek a change of heart and direction, says Dr Rowan Williams in his Good Friday message.

  • 10 Mar 2007
    We must take risks for peace, says Norman Kember

    Reflecting on his Iraq captivity, the Christian peacemaker says he has no regrets – except the pain it caused his wife and others

  • 19 Feb 2007
    Europe is focus of global churches' peacemaking initiative

    St Francis of Assisi's prayer, 'Make me a channel of your peace', was the theme for a celebration of common commitment to overcome violence at a gathering of Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant church representatives on 17 February 2007 in Wittenberg, Germany.

  • 13 Feb 2007
    Indian churches show the way to unity, justice and peace

    The head of the world's largest inter-Christian body says that the role of churches in combating prejudice and offering an alternative vision of justice and peace is a key component of their Gospel calling

  • 15 Jan 2007
    Jerusalem church leaders appeal for an end to Palestinian violence

    In a message to all the Palestinian people, Jerusalem church leaders alarmed at worsening relations between two main political parties are calling for an end to violence and an urgent return to the "real priorities" of Palestinians. The plan is to work with Jerusalem's top Islamic leaders on a similar Christian-Muslim message as well.

  • 23 Dec 2006
    New UK opinion poll shows continuing collapse of 'Christendom'

    Church leaders preparing for Christmas, people who justify violence in the name of religion, and protagonists of anti-gay causes in the Anglican Communion and elsewhere, woke up to a shock this morning ‚Ä' far more people in Britain think that religion causes harm and division than good, according to an ICM survey conducted on 12-13 December for The Guardian newspaper.

  • 19 Dec 2006
    Pope calls for global assistance to Iraqi refugees

    As violence continues to make life intolerable for many people in Iraq, Pope Benedict XVI, head of th world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, has made an appeal to the international community for direct assistance to those forced to leave their homes as a result of the "dramatic situation" in the country.

  • 14 Nov 2006
    Not giving peace a chance by Simon Barrow

    Examining the politics and theology of remembrance