In this issue
In this issue
- Advent Reflection – 10th December
- Did Jesus believe in saving money?
- ‘One more card’ campaign highlights effect of benefit changes
- Still no accountability for UK’s role in CIA torture programme
- Liberty challenges ‘disproportionate’ criminal records disclosure
- Christian Aid welcomes progress at Paris climate summit
- New report reveals how ‘Islamic State’ got its weapons
- UN chief welcomes climate summit $5 billion Africa plan
- George Osborne: ‘Britain has got its mojo back’
10 Dec 2015
Advent Reflection – 10th December
“And after these things I saw another messenger come down from heaven,having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.” (Rev 18. 1)
10 Dec 2015
Did Jesus believe in saving money?
David Cameron likes to describe people who work hard and save money as those who “do the right thing”.
Savitri Hensman Book Launch
January 5, 2016
You are invited to join us at the launch of Savitri Hensman’s important new book, “Sexuality, struggle and saintliness: same-sex love and the church”.
Thursday 10 December 2015
7 Dec 2015
‘One more card’ campaign highlights effect of benefit changes
UK Churches are encouraging people to add Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to their Christmas card list and include a personal greeting asking the minister to ensure that every family and child has enough this Christmas.
9 Dec 2015
Still no accountability for UK’s role in CIA torture programme
A year after the US Senate published a major report into the CIA torture programme, there is no sign of either the UK’s own inquiry or a decision from the Crown Prosecution Service regarding the role the British Government played, says the legal and human rights organisation Reprieve.
8 Dec 2015
Liberty challenges ‘disproportionate’ criminal records disclosure
The civil liberties and human rights organisation Liberty will today launch a legal challenge to the Government’s criminal records disclosure scheme, which forces people with more than one conviction to divulge them forever when applying for certain types of work, regardless of individual circumstances or the minor nature of the offences.
10 Dec 2015
Christian Aid welcomes progress at Paris climate summit
As the COP21 climate summit in Paris draws to its close on 11 December, Christian Aid’s Senior Climate Advisor, Mohamed Adow, said: “The new Paris Outcomes text represents good progress. It is much cleaner and presents clear options to help ministers get tougher and resolve the sticky issues.”
9 Dec 2015
New report reveals how ‘Islamic State’ got its weapons
Decades of poorly regulated arms flows into Iraq as well lax controls on the ground have provided the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) with a large and lethal arsenal, says a new report from Amnesty International.
8 Dec 2015
UN chief welcomes climate summit $5 billion Africa plan
The UN and its partners have launched a $5 billion initiative to expand renewable energy capacity in Africa as the Secretary-General told the UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris that saving energy is a triple-win in the battle against global warming.
8 Dec 2015
George Osborne: ‘Britain has got its mojo back’
Some MPs who voted to bomb Syria may have done so with reluctance or misgivings. Remarks made by George Osborne in the USA, and evidence which has emerged since the vote, may already be causing them to regret their decision just one week later.
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