In this issue
In this issue
- Justice and Peace conference: democracy and the common good
- Chilcot – the saddest truth
- The consequences of conflict: a personal response to Chilcot
- Poll shows rejection of post-Brexit cuts budget
- Post-Brexit: division, flux and mutual responsibility
- New report urges greater clarity in joint enterprise cases
- Methodists welcome LGBT people and review understanding of marriage
- Methodist Church issues progress report on Past Cases Review
- Methodists to review understanding of marriage and relationships
- Women bring open minds and honest words to Ghana workshop
- Amnesty condemns executions after Baghdad bombing
- Blockade leaves Gaza trapped in isolation and poverty
Upcoming events
5 Jul 2016
Justice and Peace conference: democracy and the common good
Around 300 people are expected at July’s annual conference of the Catholic National Justice and Peace Network from 15-17 July. The theme is Justice, Power and Responsibility; How Can Democracy Work for the Common Good?
Friday 8 July 2016
7 Jul 2016
Poll shows rejection of post-Brexit cuts budget
The Trades Union Congress has published findings from a poll taken immediately after the EU referendum ballot closed, and its action plan for protecting jobs and industry.
7 Jul 2016
Post-Brexit: division, flux and mutual responsibility
Referendums should only be used in the most exceptional of circumstances and certainly never as a remedy for a prime minister’s insecurities with his own
6 Jul 2016
New report urges greater clarity in joint enterprise cases
Much greater clarity and transparency are needed in the prosecution of ‘joint enterprise’ cases, a research report Joint Enterprise: righting a wrong turn? by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) of Birkbeck, University of London, in partnership with the Prison Reform Trust, has found.
7 Jul 2016
Methodists welcome LGBT people and review understanding of marriage
The Methodist Church in Britain will revisit how marriage is defined and understood (http://www.ekklesia.c
8 Jul 2016
Methodist Church issues progress report on Past Cases Review
A year after the apology to survivors and victims of abuse, and the publication of Courage, Cost and Hope – the report on the Past Cases Review, the Methodist Church has given an update to the Methodist Conference, the supreme decision-making body of the Church, about its work over the past 12 months.
6 Jul 2016
Methodists to review understanding of marriage and relationships
A task group established to consider whether the Methodist Church’s understanding of marriage and relationships should be revisited has reported back to this year’s Methodist Conference.
7 Jul 2016
Women bring open minds and honest words to Ghana workshop
At a workshop in Ghana, women have collectively asked a question: “Is it not time for women and girls to raise their voices to say what they want as mothers, as widows, as single parents, and as God’s children?”
5 Jul 2016
Amnesty condemns executions after Baghdad bombing
Amnesty International has criticised Iraq’s execution of five people following the suicide truck bombing in Baghdad at the weekend
8 Jul 2016
Blockade leaves Gaza trapped in isolation and poverty
Two years after war devastated large parts of the Gaza strip, claiming more than 1,500 civilian lives, Israel’s blockade stifles recovery for 1.8 million Palestinians living in the region.