by Agency Reporter | Jan 27, 2022 | Briefing
A GROUP HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED to promote the ‘living legacy’ of a Scot who gave her life to protect Jewish school girls during the Holocaust. The Jane Haining Project was formed by a cohort of Christian and Jewish people who believe that her story is very...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 27, 2022 | Briefing
A SURVEY LED by the University of Birmingham says people from middle and upper-class occupational groups are more likely to hold prejudiced views of Islam than people from working class occupational groups. The survey, which was carried out in conjunction with YouGov,...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 26, 2022 | Briefing
SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF MEMBER CHURCHES throughout the world, the acting General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) the Rev Pro. Dr Ioan Sauca, has urgently appealed for peace for the people of Ukraine. Dr Sauca said: “As we follow the news of the mad...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 26, 2022 | Briefing
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Christian Aid has published a new report, which says the international community must acknowledge that vulnerable communities in areas of violence have “little choice but to engage in the illicit [drug] economy” and calls on the...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 26, 2022 | Briefing
PROTESTERS WILL GATHER outside the Science Museum in London today (26 January) to call for an end to the museum’s sponsorship deal with Adani, a huge conglomerate operating highly contested coal mines on Indigenous peoples’ ancestral lands. The protest is in...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 25, 2022 | Briefing
THE FINAL REPORT FROM COVID REALITIES, a research programme documenting the everyday experiences of families with children living on a low income, has been published. It concludes that the pandemic has exposed and exacerbated problems with the UK’s welfare system and...
