by Sean Reilly | Sep 9, 2008
‘The Bible has revolutionary power to free the poor’, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told a conference of Evangelical UK Christians and church leaders in London at the weekend. The Nobel Prize winner was speaking at an event organised by Evangelical aid agency...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 8, 2008
The Angolan government is threatening to close the Association for Justice, Peace and Democracy (AJPD), one of the country’s most active human rights organisations. The constitutional court began proceedings to ban AJPD, a Christian Aid partner organisation, on 4...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 8, 2008
A major arms fair due to begin on Remembrance Day in Adelaide, Australia, has been cancelled because of high levels of protest. In the UK, the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has welcomed the news as further evidence that opposition to the arms trade is growing...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 8, 2008
The President and Vice-President of the British Methodist Conference will join Free Church leaders attending the three main party political conferences this autumn and will be pushing a message of social justice in the UK and globally. President the Rev Stephen Poxon...
by Sean Reilly | Sep 6, 2008
The United Nations is warning that more than half a million people are in need of emergency assistance after storms Fay, Gustav and Hanna battered the island of Haiti. Over 500 people are now known to have been killed in floods and landslides in Haiti caused by...
