In this issue
In this issue
- Echo chamber: breaking the cycle of violence
- Tasers inquiry ‘urgently needed’ say researchers
- Using toxic waste to reduce poverty and save lives
- Call to stop ‘revolving door’ to prison as recalls to custody soar
- Economic conditions support minimum wage increase says TUC
- ‘Welfare dependency’ or essential redistribution?
- Nigerian Christians and Muslims open historic peace centre
- UN chief condemns reported airstrike on Yemeni hospital
- Widespread inequality risks increasing race tensions says EHRC
- Amazon fires threaten to wipe out uncontacted tribespeople
- Praise for aid workers on front line in South Sudan
- Olympic medals, arms sales and national ‘greatness’
Upcoming events
Greenbelt. The Upside Down Bible
August 28, 2016
Ekklesia associate Symon Hill will be signing copies of his latest book, Read more
Monday 22 August 2016
Greenbelt Sexuality Struggle and Saintliness: Same Sex Love and the Church
August 27, 2016
Ekklesia Associate Savi Hensman will be discussing her book ‘Sexuality, Struggle and Saintliness: Sam
22 Aug 2016
Echo chamber: breaking the cycle of violence
Beekeepers and market gardeners, university lecturers, teachers and men who left school aged twelve, doctors, printers and politicians, were conscientious objectors in World War I. Their courage – and the global plight of COs today – has inspired an art exhibition in London, set in a chamber resembling a WWI field tent made of bandages.
20 Aug 2016
Tasers inquiry ‘urgently needed’ say researchers
A robust parliamentary inquiry into the police use of Tasers is urgently needed, a leading body of rights-based agencies said yesterday (19 August 2016), following the death of Dalian Atkinson for which two West Mercia police officers are under criminal investigation.
18 Aug 2016
Using toxic waste to reduce poverty and save lives
As Olympic athletes encounter untreated sewage dumped into Rio de Janeiro’s watercourses, a new report from the Christian charity Tearfund and the Institute of Development Studies, finds that the mountains of waste that pollute our environment and cause disease could instead be used to reduce poverty and save lives.
17 Aug 2016
Call to stop ‘revolving door’ to prison as recalls to custody soar
Against a backdrop of violence and deaths behind bars, the number of people in prison due to recall has soared by 15 per cent in a year and is now 55 times greater than it was in 1993, according to evidence being submitted to the United Nations by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
19 Aug 2016
Economic conditions support minimum wage increase says TUC
Record employment and high profits show that employers can afford a national minimum wage increase, according a submission to the Low Pay Commission by the Trades Union Congress published yesterday.
20 Aug 2016
‘Welfare dependency’ or essential redistribution?
The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has issued an Economic Read more
22 Aug 2016
Nigerian Christians and Muslims open historic peace centre
Nigerian Christians and Muslims gathered on 19 August to open the International Centre for Inter-Faith Peace and Harmony
17 Aug 2016
UN chief condemns reported airstrike on Yemeni hospital
Reiterating his call on all warring parties in Yemen to immediately implement the cessation of hostilities, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the reported coalition airstrike on a hospital in the rural town of Hajjah which killed 11 people.
18 Aug 2016
Widespread inequality risks increasing race tensions says EHRC
Failure to tackle deep-rooted race inequality will exacerbate divisions in our society unless urgent Government action is taken, the new Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned today.
19 Aug 2016
Amazon fires threaten to wipe out uncontacted tribespeople
Forest fires are raging in an indigenous territory on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, threatening to wipe out uncontacted members of the Awá tribe.
22 Aug 2016
Praise for aid workers on front line in South Sudan
On World Humanitarian Day, (Friday August 19 2016), Christian Aid has paid tribute to aid workers who face significant dangers and difficulties as they provide relief to people caught up in crisis zones.
19 Aug 2016
Olympic medals, arms sales and national ‘greatness’
Great Britain’s success at the Olympics seems to be in danger of becoming a proxy for national ‘greatness’.There are questions to be asked about this fie
Greenbelt. Home from Home: Britain’s Housing Crisis
August 27, 2016
Virginia Moffatt, Ekklesia’s Chief Operating Officer, will be hosting this important housing panel looking at the UK’s housing crisis.