In this issue
In this issue
- Change of leadership for Ekklesia as Bartley steps down
- Month of protest at Trident warhead plant
- Government refuses to answer questions on Saudi police training
- UK training Saudi police in techniques that risk torture
- MPs raise concerns on treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
- Only one in four ‘feel well informed’ on EU referendum
- The Brexit referendum gloves are off
- Pilgrimage draws young leaders from 14 Asian countries
- Faith communities issue call to action: end AIDS by 2030
- Celebrities join international call for rights of Botswana Bushmen
- Pakistan to consider case of juvenile facing hanging
- Cross-party MPs urge Cameron to take leadership on global goals
- Christian realities in Syria after five years of war
- Convalescence and a small transfiguration
Friday 10 June 2016
8 Jun 2016
Change of leadership for Ekklesia as Bartley steps down
Ekklesia founder Jonathan Bartley is standing down as co-director of the organization after 14 years. Simon Barrow, who has been Ekklesia’s co-director since 2005, is continuing as the sole director of the politics and beliefs think tank.
No Faith in Trident Day
June 27, 2016
On Monday 27 June, faith groups from across the UK will gather at the Atomic Weapons Establishment Bu
6 Jun 2016
Month of protest at Trident warhead plant
Anti-nuclear campaigners will gather at AWE Burghfield today (6 June 2016) to highlight the role the site plays in the manufacture and maintenance of nuclear warheads for Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapons system.
9 Jun 2016
Government refuses to answer questions on Saudi police training
The government yesterday refused to answer questions from MPs about its controversial police training programme with Saudi Arabia.
8 Jun 2016
UK training Saudi police in techniques that risk torture
The UK College of Policing is teaching the Saudi Arabian interior ministry high-tech forensic skills that risk being “used to identify individuals who later go on to be tortured”, an internal police report obtained by the human rights charity Reprieve reveals.
6 Jun 2016
MPs raise concerns on treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
A group of MPs has made a series of recommendations calling on the Government to improve the support and protection it gives to asylum seekers and refugees.
7 Jun 2016
Only one in four ‘feel well informed’ on EU referendum
Only 24 per cent of voters say they feel ‘well’ or ‘very well’ informed about the EU referendum, according to new BMG Research polling released today (7 June 2016) by the Electoral Reform Society.
8 Jun 2016
The Brexit referendum gloves are off
Recently, I listened to a radio interview with a man from Iran who had migrated to the UK some three decades ago.
6 Jun 2016
Pilgrimage draws young leaders from 14 Asian countries
Nearly 30 young ecumenical leaders from 14 Asian countries have gathered at the Jakarta Theological Seminary in Indonesia for the third Youth in Asia Training Programme for Religious Amity (YATRA)
9 Jun 2016
Faith communities issue call to action: end AIDS by 2030
At an interfaith prayer service on 7 June 2016, people from diverse faith communities issued a call to action to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
8 Jun 2016
Celebrities join international call for rights of Botswana Bushmen
A host of celebrities are supporting the campaign of Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, for the Bushmen in the 50th anniversary year of Botswana’s independence.
7 Jun 2016
Pakistan to consider case of juvenile facing hanging
Judges in Pakistan will tomorrow consider the case of a prisoner who could be hanged at as little as three days’ notice, despite evidence that he was arrested as a child.
9 Jun 2016
Cross-party MPs urge Cameron to take leadership on global goals
David Cameron helped create the Sustainable Development Goals and must now use his power to make UK government departments work towards them, a cross-party group of MPs warn in a welcome new report yesterday.
10 Jun 2016
Christian realities in Syria after five years of war
The war in Syria has now raged for over five years.
6 Jun 2016
Convalescence and a small transfiguration
Last weekend, strolling round a nature reserve, I saw something so beautiful it took my breath for a moment – a rabbit, nibbling on summer-lit grass with