Lambeth bishops to be challenged on HIV in Africa

While the media focus is on in-fighting over sexuality and gender, the July 2008 Lambeth Conference of worldwide Anglican bishops will be challenged to look outwards at the HIV-AIDS pandemic facing millions in Africa. The UK-based international development agency...

Calendar makes Advent a time to remember AIDS struggle

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, evangelical leaders Rick and Kay Warren and the Rev Gideon Byamugisha, the first African Anglican priest to openly say he is HIV-positive, are contributors to a new Advent Calendar focussing on the HIV-AIDS struggle. The daily devotional...

Welcome and warning after revised estimates on AIDS pandemic

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,...

New range of charity gifts for Christmas from Oxfam

Click here to visit Oxfam’s charity gifts web site Charity Oxfam have brought out a new and bigger range of charity gifts this Christmas, following the success of last year’s animal gifts. Part of the scheme to send virtual gifts to Africa and the...