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  • 2 Jan 2008
    Christian Aid urges restraint over Kenya's political crisis

    The UK-based international development agency Christian Aid has voiced disappointment in the conduct of Kenya’s electoral commission following President Mwai Kibaki's disputed election victory - and has called for restraint.

  • 22 Sep 2007
    Kenyan religious leaders campaign for violence-free elections

    Christian, Muslim and Hindu groups in Kenya are to launch a campaign to urge political leaders to sign a peace charter and pledge to avoid violence ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for December 2007.

  • 20 Sep 2007
    Brown to take tougher line on Zimbabwe following archbishop's call

    Prime Minister Gordon Brown look set to boycott a summit of European and African leaders to be attended by the Zimbabwean President. It follows a call at the weekend by Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, to take a tougher line on Zimbabwe.

  • 18 Sep 2007
    Christian students question possibility of elections under Mugabe

    Christian students who held a public meeting in Harare to discuss the "Prospects of a Free and Fair Election in Zimbabwe" have resolved that such prospects do not exist in their country, which they say has repressive laws.

  • 18 Sep 2007
    Zimbabwe Catholic bishops do not know why Ncube has resigned

    The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference has said it does not know why Pius Ncube, who is facing adultery charges in his country's courts an arch-critic of President Robert Mugabe, has resigned as archbishop of the Bulawayo diocese.

  • 10 Aug 2007
    Sierra Leone elections a crucial test, says Christian Aid

    The international development agency Christian Aid says the presidential and legislative elections which will be held on 11 August 2007 are a crucial test of whether Sierra Leone has truly turned away from conflict.

  • 2 May 2007
    Concerns about Scottish Christian Party

    Following our report on the activities and ethos of the Scottish Christian Party and its analogue in Wales (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5185), we have received several communications from concerned voters.

  • 1 May 2007
    Scottish Christian Party tries to be 'so macho'

    As Labour and the Scottish Nationalists battle for control of Holyrood on 3 May, an extreme political party claiming to speak on behalf of Christians is comparing equalities legislation with Nazi anti-Semitism.

  • 23 Apr 2007
    Scottish Catholic bishops launch election attack on government

    Furious at government policy on gay adoptions and other issues, Scotland's Catholic bishops have sent a letter round to churches with a thinly-veiled call for a anti-Labour vote in the the forthcoming elections.

  • 22 Apr 2007
    Tracking the far right

    The progressive Asian blog Pickled Politics will be "running a regular series of information posts and articles on the BNP and their tactics in advance of the upcoming Local Elections in May", says founder Sunny Hundal.