by Sean Reilly | Nov 27, 2007
The Methodist Relief and Development Fund (MRDF) has held its first conference for African partner organisations from 22-26 November 2007. The conference, entitled ‘Strength to Strength’, wss held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Representatives from...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 23, 2007
A coalition of African and US Methodist church leaders have met to ask how African people and nations are being affected by Chinese long- and short-term investments in the region, often in exchange for mineral and mining rights. The discussion took place earlier this...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 22, 2007
Campaigners have welcomed revised estimates of the global AIDS pandemic published yesterday by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) but cautioned that funding levels for tackling HIV/AIDS were still far too low,...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 16, 2007
A severe reminder “of the wealth that was built and sustained on the continued extraction and plunder of Africa’s resources as well as on the exploitation of Africa’s people” has been addressed to Christians in the global North by the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 13, 2007
World Vision has launched its Alternative Gifts’ Christmas catalogue, encouraging the UK public to buy Alternative Gifts this Christmas and help make a life-changing difference to families and communities living with poverty around the world. TV presenter Michaela...
