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  • 1 Mar 2007
    World Debt Day

    World Debt Day
    Events and acts of worship nationwide to mark the achievements so far and to hilight the campaign against debt
    Web http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk
    http://www.cafod.org.uk/

  • 15 Feb 2007
    Liturgies from Christian Aid
  • 13 Feb 2007
    New kids water campaign aims to flush out poverty

    International development agency Christian Aid is launching a new campaign and fundraising initiative for March 2007 ‚Ä' designed especially for five to 16 year olds, and concerned to help ‚Äúflush out‚Äù poverty. Almost literally.

  • 12 Feb 2007
    WCC chief says China and India will reshape our world

    China and India are growing influences on global change which will transform the way the world is governed and also the meaning of development, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, has declared - report Fredrick Nzwili from Nairobi for Ecumenical News International (ENI) and Paulino Menezes (WCC).

  • 12 Feb 2007
    Pope and UK Chancellor join forces on major child vaccination programme

    Both the Vatican and the UK government have declared themselves pleased with the private audience that UK Chancellor Gordon Brown enjoyed with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome last week.

  • 10 Feb 2007
    G7 rich countries urged to keep promises to poor nations

    UK chancellor Gordon Brown and other finance ministers at the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations meeting which opened tyesterday in Essen, Germany, must fulfill their two-year-old promise to stop international financial institutions imposing damaging economic policies on developing countries, according to Christian Aid and other church-related development NGOs.

  • 9 Feb 2007
    Cheap loans to Africa could do more harm than good, says church agency

    UK-based international development and advocacy agency Christian Aid is backing British international development secretary Hilary Benn's criticism of the new Chinese loans policy to Africa.

  • 8 Feb 2007
    Global churches' development alliance launched

    The capacity of the alliance of global churches from different Christian traditions "to respond to the challenges of today's world depends to a large extent on more creative and future-oriented forms of co-operation and networking," said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia in launching a fresh ecumenical initiative.

  • 1 Jan 2007
    Episcopal Primate makes global poverty her New Year target

    The new head of the US Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, has made tackling global poverty her 2007 resolution. In a message sent to local congregations and other church and public leaders, the ECUSA Primate highlights the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a practical Christian priority.

  • 12 Dec 2006
    Sainsbury's goes bananas over Fairtrade

    The Fairtrade Foundation has confirmed that today's announcement by supermarket chain Sainsbury's that all its banana supplies will be Fairtrade certified, is the biggest ever commitment to date by a single company anywhere in the world.