by Agency Reporter | Dec 25, 2021 | Briefing
YOUTH AND CLIMATE JUSTICE featured powerfully in two discussions at the recent ACT (Action of Churches Together) Alliance Assembly 2021, with hope – a key theme of Advent and Christmas – central to both. An intergenerational panel on youth and climate justice took...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 24, 2021 | Briefing
THE SCHEHERAZADE FOUNDATION is pressing the newly installed chairman of the British Museum, George Osborne, to decide in the season of goodwill, on the restoration of hidden religious treasures to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The foundation made its case for the...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 24, 2021 | Briefing
IN A FOOTBALLING FIRST, almost 100 clubs from across the English and Welsh leagues – including Portsmouth, Salford City, Sheffield United and Cardiff – have signed up to ditch their home shirts on Boxing Day for Shelter’s #NoHomeKit campaign. In the space of...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2021 | Briefing
SOCIAL CARE LEADERS in England are pleading with the public to do all they can to limit the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, in the absence of further Government restrictions. In a statement released on 22 December, The Association of Directors of Adult...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2021 | Briefing
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT charity Christian Aid has called on the UK Government to issue guidance for UK agencies and banks “without delay” to ensure aid flows into Afghanistan, following a vote of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to revise the...
by Staff Writer | Dec 22, 2021 | Briefing
IN JUNE 2021, Dr Liam Fox MP presented the Down Syndrome Bill 2021-22 to the United Kingdom Parliament. The full title is ‘A Bill to make provision about meeting the needs of persons with Down syndrome; to place a duty on local authorities to assess the likely social...
