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 Agency Reporter | Sep 20, 2021 | Briefing
SCOTTISH AND UK RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE SIGNED a declaration urging governments to take transformational climate action at the COP26 in November. More than 50 religious leaders signed the Glasgow Multi-Faith Declaration which calls for those in power to put the 2015...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 20, 2021 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT RELEASED BY GREENPEACE USA reveals how consumer goods companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé are driving the expansion of plastic production and threatening both the global climate and communities around the world. The report, The Climate Emergency...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 20, 2021 | Briefing
THE HIGH COURT HAS REJECTED THE APPLICATION by the mother of Jodey Whiting for a second inquest into her death. The court ruled on Friday 17 September that the first inquest into Jodey Whiting’s death, which lasted only 37 minutes, was sufficient and that the...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 19, 2021 | Briefing
THE GOVERNMENT MUST DROP ITS DISMISSIVE APPROACH TO SCRUTINY says an annual report from the Institute for Government. Parliamentary Monitor 2021 finds that the efforts of MPs and peers to hold ministers to account during the 2019–21 parliamentary session were impeded...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 18, 2021 | Briefing
THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION (LWF) speaking at the Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights (GIF), has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to establish a Special Rapporteur mandate on human rights and climate...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 18, 2021 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN WILL JOIN PARTNER ORGANISATIONS in launching the new Make Polluters Pay campaign as part of the first ever international Loss and Damage Awareness Day, on Thursday 23 September. As part of the day, Quakers are supporting the launch of a new film,...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 17, 2021 | Briefing
BRITISH PACIFISTS HAVE CONDEMNED the new defence and security pact announced by the governments of the UK, US and Australia, saying it will make the world less safe. The Peace Pledge Union (PPU), the UK’s leading pacifist group, said that the only thing that...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 17, 2021 | Briefing
DURING A THREE DAY MISSION TO TURKEY, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, praised the country for its continued commitment to protecting refugees and asylum-seekers, and including them in public services like education, health and livelihoods. Turkey...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 16, 2021 | Briefing
THE SIX MILLION UNIVERSAL CREDIT CLAIMANTS set for a £1,000 annual income loss from this October are unlikely to make up the shortfall given the scale of extra pay or hours needed to offset the £20 a week cut, says the Resolution Foundation. The Foundation says that...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 16, 2021 | Briefing
DESPITE 52 PER CENT OF THE PUBLIC saying they do not regard themselves as belonging to any religion, new research among British adults has revealed that over two-thirds of us (69 per cent) still consider it important to understand other people’s beliefs in everyday...
