by Simon Barrow | Jan 17, 2021 | Update
EKKLESIA IS PLEASED to be launching its new website for a new year – our twentieth in operation as a pioneering think-tank (and now change network) on beliefs, ethics and politics. This is the fourth redesign since we appeared on the web in 2002. It also marks a...
by Staff Writer | Aug 12, 2022 | Briefing
THE DRIEST WEEKS FOR PARTS OF ENGLAND since 1935 have left nature under pressure with wildfires devastating landscapes, habitats left parched, and wildlife endangered by concentrated levels of pollutants in low-flowing rivers. The Wildlife Trusts are extremely...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 12, 2022 | Briefing
ONE YEAR SINCE THE TALIBAN TOOK CONTROL of Afghanistan, an economic crisis, crippling drought and new restrictions have shattered girls’ lives, excluding them from society and leaving them hungry, with a quarter showing signs of depression, according to a new report...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 11, 2022 | Briefing
AHEAD OF THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT’S Programme for Government, expected to be published at the start of September, IPPR Scotland has revealed that four in five Scots (79 per cent) would support a minimum income guarantee. A minimum income guarantee is a safety...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 11, 2022 | Briefing
THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination should recommend the United States government to take immediate, tangible measures to dismantle structural racism in the US, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2022 | Briefing
THE WORLD’S LARGEST NURSING TRADE UNION and professional body is recommending that hundreds of thousands of its members support industrial strike action in a ballot that opens in mid-September. The postal ballot will ask RCN members working for the NHS in...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2022 | Briefing
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE has called on the UK government to condemn the abuses inflicted by Israeli forces over recent days, including air strikes that have killed 44 Palestinians, including 15 children, and injured over 300 people. The airstrikes are the latest...
by Doug Hynd | Aug 9, 2022 | Commentary
LAMENT BY CHRISTIANS in response to the emerging reality of post-Christendom in Australia has extended along a spectrum from doom laden invocations of the imminent arrival of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, to a grouchy stoic muttering of “we’ll all be rooned.”...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 9, 2022 | Briefing
OVER 4,500 PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSES worth of homeless children are spending the summer holidays in temporary accommodation in England, amid a national shortage of affordable housing, says the Local Government Association (LGA). Latest figures for England show there are...
by Staff Writer | Aug 9, 2022 | Briefing
THE TRUCE IN YEMEN which began in April has been renewed for an additional two months, from 2 August until 2 October, UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg has announced. The extension includes a commitment by the Government and Houthi rebels to intensify...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 8, 2022 | Briefing
FORMER PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN has joined with 56 faith groups, charities and politicians to call on the government to take urgent action to bridge the cost of living gap faced by the lowest income families. The call responds to a report written by poverty expert...
