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  • 16 Aug 2011
    We must engage with those who feel they have no stake

    I returned last Friday from a week more or less out of reach of TV, radio and electronic communications to what feels like another country: A country convulsed by anger, outrage and anguish. A country in which the ‘old certainties’ of even ten days ago, now seem past their sell by date.

  • 12 Aug 2011
    Punishing rioters’ and looters’ families

    Many people are angry and frightened at the rioting that has caused such damage in cities across England. Some favour harsh punishments. Ideas which have become popular include cutting off welfare benefits to those convicted and evicting their families from social housing. Wandsworth Council has reportedly already applied to the courts to evict a tenant whose son was involved.

  • 10 Aug 2011
    Communities respond to riots with calls for rebuilding

    With the smell of smoke and wail of sirens in the background, about 200 to 300 people from a range of faiths on the evening of 8 August gathered for a prayer and a walk to the center of Tottenham, north London, scarred by a weekend of rioting.

  • 10 Aug 2011
    Faith groups work to heal riot-scarred English neighborhoods

    Many faith communities in England are working together on the front line this week after several days of rioting across the country.

  • 9 Aug 2011
    Unrest and violence spreads right across England

    Rioting spread across a number of major cities in England last night, including many parts of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol.

  • 5 Sep 2008
    Faithworks strengthens participation in English regional policymaking

    Religious groups will have their capacity to participate alongside others in regional policy-making in England enhanced thanks to the new Regional Networks Support project, says Faithworks, which has established the initiative.

  • 22 Apr 2008
    St George is no crusader
  • 22 Mar 2008
    Anglican group's leader condemns 'shocking' anti-gay attack

    The head of Changing Attitude England, a group of Anglican Christians working for an inclusive church, has exposed a "shocking" act of anti-gay violence in Nigeria and called on the Church there to condemn it unequivocally.

  • 25 Jul 2007
    Vicar sees divine love rather than anger in flood tragedy

    The way tens of thousands of ordinary people have banded together to fight rising floodwaters and help the poor, elderly and ill has revealed God's love, not his wrath, says a Christian leader from Tewkesbury.

  • 23 Apr 2007
    BBC debate on England's day

    The BBC website has featured Ekklesia's call that "the English should celebrate their role as global citizens and not as 'narrow nationalists' on the patron saint's day."