by Admin | Mar 29, 2024 | Update
WE ARE grateful to our friends at Christians for Palestine for producing a moving set of meditations and prayers for Gaza, using the traditional form of the Stations of the Cross, which depict Jesus’s path to crucifixion. In commending these reflections we...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 28, 2024 | Briefing
IN a new letter released during Holy Week, more than 140 Bishops and executive leaders from churches, denominations, and church-based organisations in the US and around the world have called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. They urge the US and other world powers to...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 28, 2024 | Briefing
AS Yemen enters its tenth year of war, its people face renewed airstrikes and a deepening economic crisis that risks pushing millions into starvation, Oxfam has warned. This week marks nine years since the escalation of the conflict. A temporary UN-brokered truce...
by Rosemary Brien | Mar 27, 2024 | Commentary
ISSUES around gender identity, wider equality, law and policy have been much in the news recently. A Scottish government attempt to overturn the UK government veto of a bill to make it easier to change legal gender failed. But Scotland’s leaders are pressing ahead...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2024 | Briefing
AS many as eight million people face being disenfranchised at the next election due to an electoral registration system which is neither effective nor efficient, says the cross-party Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee in a new report. The report finds...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2024 | Briefing
SINCE the 2015 Paris climate agreement, European banks have lent about €256 billion to corporations that put forests, savannahs and other climate critical natural ecosystems at risk, according to new research. The study, published by Greenpeace International,...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE decision on 24 March by Israeli authorities to reject United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) food convoys into northern Gaza will accelerate the risk of famine and send already starving children more quickly to their graves, says aid...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 26, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK is one of many countries that considers itself to be in the midst of a housing crisis. But a comparison of housing costs, floorspace, quality and wider price levels across countries reveals that households in Britain are paying more for less, and that our...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 25, 2024 | Briefing
NEW official household income statistics show that the real incomes of the poorest third of households were roughly the same in 2022-23 as in 2019-20, despite the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis. But other measures of material wellbeing, such as food...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 25, 2024 | Briefing
NEW Global Witness analysis shows Scotland’s renewable energy jobs rose by 70 per cent between 2015 and 2022, according to Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates. In contrast, between 2015 and 2021 – the last year for which data is available – jobs in...
