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 Simon Barrow | Jun 20, 2021 | Update
ALTHOUGH Ekklesia does not have any associates in Northern Ireland at present, we are pleased to have policy and political analyst Peter McColl among a number of new and recent contributors to our comment section. Peter wrote a good, short explainer on the situation...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 20, 2021 | Briefing
LIBRARIES HAVE A VITAL ROLE TO PLAY in helping to build back following the pandemic, says the Local Government Association (LGA) of England, with many libraries already supporting children to recover from missed classroom time and helping to plug the widening...
by Staff Writer | Jun 19, 2021 | Briefing
UNHCR, THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY, has urged world leaders to step up their efforts to foster peace, stability and cooperation in order to halt and begin reversing nearly a decade-long trend of surging displacement driven by violence and persecution. Despite the pandemic,...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 19, 2021 | Briefing
NEW POLLING IN A REPORT published by the TUC reveals an emerging class divide in England, as some workers opt to keep working from home while those who can’t work from home have little access to any forms of flexible working. The number of workers who work from home...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 18, 2021 | Briefing
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION’S latest estimates, published on 17 June 2021 in Suicide worldwide in 2019, finds that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria, breast...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 18, 2021 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN have joined people from other faith and belief bodies in appealing to the prime minister to protect the Human Rights Act. In January 2021, the government instigated an independent review of the UK’s Human Rights Act. This will report at the end of...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 17, 2021 | Briefing
NEW MEASURES to provide free NHS dental care for all young people aged 18 to 25 (inclusive) were introduced at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 15 June 2021. .Amendments to the regulations which cover the cost of NHS dental care will mean around 600,000 young people...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 17, 2021 | Briefing
THE PRESIDENT OF IFAD (the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development) has called for urgent investments in digital infrastructure and mobile services in developing countries to ensure rural families are not left behind. “Migrants have shown their continued...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 16, 2021 | Briefing
THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC) has shared its hopes for peace with an open letter and prayer as the first summit between the US and Russian presidents takes place in Geneva today. “From our headquarters in the same city in which you will meet, and from so many...
by Staff Writer | Jun 16, 2021 | Briefing
THE TUC HAS WARNED that employers in England and Wales are breaching official guidance by forcing staff to “needlessly” work in offices and other workplaces, saying that this points to wider a health and safety enforcement crisis. New TUC polling reveals that...
