by Sean Reilly | Jun 3, 2008
As the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation meets to discuss the food crisis in Rome today, debt campaigners have issued a call for a moratorium on debt repayments from afflicted countries. Jubilee Debt Campaign and Christian Aid in Britain describe the...
by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
British prime minister Gordon Brown today faces heavy criticism for launching his Business Call to Action on global poverty alongside corporations that have been widely attacked for deepening poverty and undermining human rights. The attack comes from the charity War...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 28, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has called on the government to do more to protect the poorest and most vulnerable from the likely consequences of an economic downturn. His comments, made late last week on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, in other...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 23, 2008
Agricultural export subsidies in developed countries which destroy local food production as well as the income of farmers in the global South and therefore contribute to the world food crisis need to be withdrawn, says Swiss ethicist the Rev Christoph Stückelberger...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
Christians in the US should close their churches and channel their energies into helping the poor. This is the message from the campaign ‘Faith in Action’, a resource developed by Christian humanitarian organization, World Vision, church communication...
