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Ekklesia daily bulletin

by Archive | Feb 17, 2016

In this issue


In this issue

  • PCS union invites its members to join Stop Trident demo
  • Oxfordshire County Council approves budget.
  • Kidnapped Briton spends 600th day in illegal detention
  • Amnesty calls on Russian and Syria to end hospital attacks
  • UN health agency launches global response to Zika virus
  • Decision day in Oxfordshire – will the Council be able to ratify its budget?
  • A death in Georgia that diminishes us all
 

Upcoming events

Sex and Sensibility

February 23, 2016

 

SEX AND SENSIBILITY: SALLY HITCHINER AND PETER TATCHELL IN CONVERSATION 23rd February, 6.30pm, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235, Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP.

 

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Can Enemies Become Friends?

March 12, 2016

 

The Anabaptist Network are hosting an important event on peace and reconciliation on the 12th March 2016.

 

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Blessed are the Peacemakers: Fr. John Dear on the Beatitudes

March 31, 2016

 

 

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Wednesday 17 February 2016

16 Feb 2016

PCS union invites its members to join Stop Trident demo

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has backed a major anti-Trident demonstration which is due to take place in central London on 27 February.

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16 Feb 2016

Oxfordshire County Council approves budget.

Oxfordshire County Council approves budget after Conservatives make a deal with opposition parties.

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17 Feb 2016

Kidnapped Briton spends 600th day in illegal detention

A British father of three who was kidnapped to Ethiopia in 2014 has spent his 600th day in detention.

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16 Feb 2016

Amnesty calls on Russian and Syria to end hospital attacks

Attacks on at least two medical facilities in Syria yesterday (15 February) are just the latest of scores of apparently deliberate attacks on hospitals, clinics and medical personnel being committed in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, says Amnesty International .

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17 Feb 2016

UN health agency launches global response to Zika virus

As World Health Organisation officials briefed United Nations Member States in New York yesterday (16 February) on the Zika virus outbreak, the agency launched a global strategy to guide the international response to the spread of the virus and the neonatal malformations and neurological conditions associated with it.

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16 Feb 2016

Decision day in Oxfordshire – will the Council be able to ratify its budget?

As I was heading home from London yesterday, I received a text from my husband Chris, about a tweet from BBC Radio Oxford.

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16 Feb 2016

A death in Georgia that diminishes us all

In the early hours of 3 February, UK time, the US state of Georgia took the life of Brandon Astor Jones, a 72 year-old African-American.

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