Student Christian leader calls for peace monitors in Zimbabwe

A leader of the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe has urged the international community to intervene in the southern African nation, following the decision of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the presidential runoff, citing escalating violence...

Small-scale diplomacy brings peace in Papua New Guinea

Not all wars and conflicts make the pages of newspapers, nor are all peace agreements the result of the high diplomacy of the United Nations, and that certainly includes those now being reconciled in the jungles of Papua New Guinea – writes Pat Cain. After...

MOD urged to end ‘hypocrisy’ over failure to shop local

Church leaders are to call on the Ministry of Defence to support the struggling farming industry by buying British food for its soldiers, rather than cheaper, intensively farmed, foreign food, following a debate held this weekend at Ripon Cathedral. Church...

Church bulk buys energy monitors for congregation

A church in Cheltenham is bulk buying energy monitors in a drive to shrink the carbon footprint of its congregation. Bethesda Methodist Church, which recently received it’s second ‘Eco-Congregation Award’, is buying in the Owl energy monitors for...