In this issue
In this issue
- Third Sunday of Advent – God’s Surprise
- Finding hope from the climate change talks.
- No answers from Tony Blair on Libya renditions and torture
- TUC publishes new guidance on well-being at work
- Painting raises £550,000 to help Us support refugees in Europe.
- Christian Aid hails Paris agreement and challenges UK government
- UN expert warns UN drug agency over executions
- Climate change agreement a ‘monumental triumph’, says UN chief
- Constant insecurity for council tenants will be costly
- Church of England seesaws on LGBT inclusion
13 Dec 2015
Third Sunday of Advent – God’s Surprise
In chapter 11 of Matthew’s Gospel Jesus speaks of his forerunner, the spiky and angular prophet known to us as John the Baptist.
12 Dec 2015
Finding hope from the climate change talks.
I have to confess I’m not a great climate change activist. It’s not that I don’t care, I absolutely do.
Monday 14 December 2015
14 Dec 2015
No answers from Tony Blair on Libya renditions and torture
Tony Blair has failed to provide information to MPs about his role in the UK-orchestrated rendition of two anti-Gaddafi dissidents and their families to the Libyan dictator.
11 Dec 2015
TUC publishes new guidance on well-being at work
With health and work being closely linked, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has today published guidance on well-being at work.
11 Dec 2015
Painting raises £550,000 to help Us support refugees in Europe.
A painting auctioned at Sotheby’s has raised nearly £550,000, which will be channelled through the Anglican mission agency Us (for and the Anglican Diocese in Europe to provide shelter, food and medicine to refugees in Europe, with a particular focus on Greece.
14 Dec 2015
Christian Aid hails Paris agreement and challenges UK government
Christian Aid has hailed the final Paris climate agreement as a new era which has the potential to transform the global economy to address climate change and says the UK government must now take a close look at its domestic energy policies.
11 Dec 2015
UN expert warns UN drug agency over executions
A UN human rights expert has warned the UN’s drugs agency that it is not doing enough to prevent a global surge in the death penalty for drugs offences.
12 Dec 2015
Constant insecurity for council tenants will be costly
The UK government plans to scrap lifetime tenancies for new council tenants.
13 Dec 2015
Church of England seesaws on LGBT inclusion
Church of England leaders have signalled both welcome and rejection to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, their families and friends in the same week.