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  • 2 Jan 2009
    Pope says 'common good ethics' must replace global greed

    Pope Benedict XVI has attacked the "unbridled pursuit of wealth and short term profit" as the root cause of poverty and the global food crisis at the expense of "the common good".

  • 2 Jan 2009
    Archbishop says people are our treasure, not wealth

    Job losses and house repossessions brought on by the financial crisis are an opportunity for people to think about where their treasure truly lies, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said in his New Year’s message.

  • 24 Nov 2008
    Investing creatively in impoverished communities
  • 3 Oct 2008
    Time to invest practically in social change

    The current global financial crisis is not a counsel of despair, says Patrick Hynes. It is an opportunity to review our priorities and invest practically for change through agencies like Oikocredit.

  • 1 Oct 2008
    US Catholic bishops say that the global market needs taming

    The US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development has issued a strong statement on the economic crisis, urging the Bush administration and Congress to focus on finance as a moral issue.

  • 26 Sep 2008
    Politics faces an economic crunch

    The main British party conferences were about to sidestep the economy, but the latest bank crunch has made the topic unavoidable, says Simon Barrow. But do politicians or the churches have anything meaningful to say?

  • 28 Mar 2008
    Tackling the 'credit crunch' justly

    Everyone is talking about the 'credit crunch'. Patrick Hynes, from Oikocredit, reflects on how access to fair finance continues to be a problem for people who are poor, and proposes a simple solution.

  • 19 Jan 2008
    Public service reform

    Britain's public services are continually under pressure. How do we begin to shift the agenda in a more positive direction?

  • 19 Jan 2008
    Blaming the jobless, migrants and workers

    It's too easy too blame the vulnerable for the failings of public services and the economy, says Savi Hensman. We need a new culture, and both faith groups and secular ones like trades unions can contribute.

  • 26 Oct 2007
    Tanzanian poor supported by church bank

    On the southern slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, a small bank owned by 330,000 members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania's Northern District is improving the lives of poor people, while still managing to make a profit.