An Armenian Christmas in Bethlehem
While many in the West think of Christmastide ending on the so-called ‘twelfth night’, Armenians celebrate Christmas in Israel and Palestine on 19 January.
Looking to the future of the Holy Land Coordination
The Holy Land Coordination (HLC) may sound a bit of a mouthful, or even a tad pretentious –
The BBC and political balance
We can’t expect political journalists not to have their own political views.
Upcoming events
Sex and Sensibility
Monday 11 January 2016
Symon Hill Book Tour
UK police ‘training Saudi forces’ despite rise in executions
A Freedom of Information response from the UK College of Policing has revealed that British police have trained hundreds of Saudi officers in the last four years.
Christian Aid welcomes councils’ action on company tax records
A growing number of UK councils are taking companies’ tax records into account when deciding how to award contracts worth tens of billions of pounds, in a trend welcomed by Christian Aid
TUC calls for disabiilty equality in new manifesto
With nearly half of disabled people not in work, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has published its manifesto to promote equality for disabled people and challenge discrimination against them.
Senior Anglicans urge repentance on treatment of gay Christians
Over 100 Senior Anglicans, including the Dean of St Paul’s, have signed an open letter to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York calling on the Church of England to repent of its ‘second class citizen’ treatment of Christians over issues of sexuality.
WCC leaders express concern over situation on Korean peninsula
Following the recent nuclear test conducted by North Korea, the World Council of Churches (WCC) is calling on all parties involved in the current situation on the Korean peninsula to invest in initiatives to reduce tensions and for peaceful co-existence on the Korean peninsula.
Moving people off disability benefits is not the same as getting them into work
Myself and other sick and disabled people choked on our mince pies as we got a foretaste recently of what the Tories have planned for us in 2016