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  • 8 Jun 2011
    Stand up for the poorest by sitting down with your MP

    By the time you read this I imagine I will be in amongst the throng of more than 1,200 people travelling to Westminster to lobby their local MPs on making life better for the poorest in the world.

  • 24 Apr 2011
    Christian opposition grows to US budget cuts that hit the poor

    A diverse US coalition of Christian leaders will next week announce a new coalition to fight cuts to anti-poverty programmes.

  • 17 Oct 2010
    The chancellor versus the poor

    The benefit system is notoriously complicated, leaving both claimants and officials struggling, says Savi Hensman. Errors are far higher in value than estimated fraud. This in turn is far less than the estimated £16 billion of unclaimed benefit every year. Yet the UK government is seeking to further punish the poor.

  • 30 Sep 2010
    Delhi's poor swept from the streets for Commonwealth Games

    Human rights activists say the Indian government is treating the poor on Delhi's streets like "rubbish" in its Commonwealth Games "clean up".

  • 14 Jan 2010
    Why poverty and wealth remain the issue

    Modern political discourse often denies the centrality of wealth and poverty to the concerns it addresses, says Simon Barrow. It is in denial. But so are Christians when they fail to see the centrality of wealth and poverty to the biblical narrative and to the Gospel vision.

  • 23 Apr 2008
    Church report says the rich benefit from global corruption

    Rich nations are the real beneficiaries of the "boom industry" of global corruption that is making the world's poor even poorer, says a hard-hitting new report from the United Church in Australia. It calls for an end to tax havens.

  • 21 Mar 2008
    Remembering Romero

    Easter Monday marks the 28th anniversary of the murder of Monseñor Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, in El Salvador - killed for defending the poor in the name of Christ.

  • 21 Feb 2008
    Beyond rich-poor stereotypes

    In a world where we are used to generalizing, it is inevitable that we will continue to use expressions like “the rich” and “the poor”, says Paul Mukerji. But his time in Colombia led him to question the way this division is formulated.

  • 2 Dec 2007
    Christian Aid says rich must pay towards poor nations' climate action

    Christian Aid will push for a follow-on agreement to the Kyoto Protocol to include large-scale financial support for developing nations from the rich industrialised world at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali starting tomorrow.

  • 25 Nov 2007
    Rich have reneged on pledges to the poor, says church agency

    Rich countries have utterly reneged on their promise to pay £200 million a year to help poor countries cope with climate change, Christian Aid claims. Had the promise been kept, wealthier countries would have now contributed £584 million.