Sponsor a monkey – a monkey sponsorship guide

by | Jun 24, 2008

You can make a huge difference as well as giving a great gift by sponsoring a monkey through WWF. Less than 63,000 monkey orang-utans are estimated to survive in the wild today, meaning that monkey sponsorship is more important than ever. Sponsoring a monkey helps the...

Sponsor an elephant – an elephant sponsorship guide

by | Jun 24, 2008

Sponsoring an elephant makes a great gift, and can now be done quickly and easily online. You can sponsor an elephant like Kiruba (opposite) through the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The elephant Kiruba lives in Corbett National Park, in the Terai Arc lowlands of India....

World churches’ bodies call for urgent action on Zimbabwe

by | Jun 24, 2008

Two international ecumenical Christian bodies have called on the UN, the South African Development Community and the African Union “to increase [their] efforts to address the rapidly deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe”. Emergency aid, postponement of the...

Gordon Brown’s search for purpose

by | Jun 24, 2008

Working in ‘the Westminster village’, as many politicians and journalists do, makes for a one-eyed view of life. Which is why, early on in the BBC’s television coverage of the local elections in England and Wales back in May 2008 (remember them?), veteran commentator...