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  • 24 Jul 2007
    US churches organise 'work week' for Hurricane Katrina anniversary

    To mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the National Council of Churches USA's Special Commission for the Just Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast is sponsoring an Ecumenical Work Week in late August.

  • 18 Jun 2007
    American religious leaders back uninsured children

    More than 20 religious groups in the United States are pressing for health insurance coverage for many of the nine million uninsured children across America – a good number of whom are living in poverty.

  • 17 Apr 2007
    US churches call for gun control following university shootings

    Expressing the sorrow of many Christians in the US at yesterday's killings in Virginia, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC) has also renewed the NCC's call for 'meaningful' legislation to prevent gun violence.

  • 7 Apr 2007
    US churches seek swift action on dramatic climate change report

    America's mainline churches are applying immediate pressure on their government following the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report - which predicts dire global warming consequences.

  • 21 Feb 2007
    Religious, scientific, business and social bodies unite against global warming

    The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the National Council of Churches USA (NCCUSA) are among dozens of international business, civic, educational, scientific and religious organizations who have joined together in a 'round table' network to stop global warming - as the international debate about the issue grows in urgency.

  • 21 Feb 2007
    US and Iranian religious leaders seek peaceful conflict resolution

    Religious leaders from the US and Iran met yesterday in Tehran to discuss the importance of faith groups finding common ground in peacemaking, particularly in light of the growing political tensions between Wtstern countries and Iran over nuclear power and Middle East politics.

  • 12 Jan 2007
    US churches chief resists Bush's urge to surge

    The head of the leading US ecumenical body, the National Council of Churches USA, has described the call for more troops to be sent to Iraq as "morally unsupportable".