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Ekklesia weekly digest

by Archive | Dec 17, 2015

In this issue


In this issue

  • Advent Reflection – 11th December
  • Advent Reflection 16th December
  • Church of England seesaws on LGBT inclusion
  • South Brent Community Land Trust Self Build Project
  • Lawyers say government supply of arms to Saudi breaks law
  • Church of Scotland welcomes climate agreement
  • No answers from Tony Blair on Libya renditions and torture
  • Reprieve challenges Jack Straw’s comments on Libyan rendition
  • Climate change agreement a ‘monumental triumph’, says UN chief
  • Israeli settlers attack international human rights monitors
  • Border protection must not be at expense of refugees, says Amnesty
  • Constant insecurity for council tenants will be costly
  • Christian Aid hails Paris agreement and challenges UK government
  • Finding hope from the climate change talks.

 

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16 Dec 2015

Advent Reflection 16th December

“The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city.” (Jeremiah 26.12)

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13 Dec 2015

Church of England seesaws on LGBT inclusion

Church of England leaders have signalled both welcome and rejection to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, their families and friends in the same week.

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14 Dec 2015

South Brent Community Land Trust Self Build Project

The Dartmoor based South Brent Community Land Trust is developing a radical new scheme to ensure affordable, environmentally stable housing for local people.

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Upcoming events

Symon Hill Book Tour

January 20, 2016

 

We are delighted to be hosting the London leg of  Ekklesia associate Symon Hill’s new book “The Upside Down Bible” which is published by Darton, Longmann and

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Thursday 17 December 2015

17 Dec 2015

Lawyers say government supply of arms to Saudi breaks law

The UK Government is breaking national, EU and international law and policy by supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia in the context of its military intervention and bombing campaign in Yemen, say international law experts.

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15 Dec 2015

Church of Scotland welcomes climate agreement

The Church of Scotland has welcomed the international agreement to tackle climate change.

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14 Dec 2015

No answers from Tony Blair on Libya renditions and torture

Tony Blair has failed to provide information to MPs about his role in the UK-orchestrated rendition of two anti-Gaddafi dissidents and their families to the Libyan dictator.

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16 Dec 2015

Reprieve challenges Jack Straw’s comments on Libyan rendition

Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has reportedly claimed that “the British government never condoned, nor was complicit, in the torture or ill-treatment of detainees, wherever they were held.”

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14 Dec 2015

Climate change agreement a ‘monumental triumph’, says UN chief

Following the adoption of the new Paris Agreement on climate change on 12 December, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said government representatives had made history.

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15 Dec 2015

Israeli settlers attack international human rights monitors

International human rights monitors whose presence protects vulnerable schoolchildren in Hebron, occupied Palestine, are facing verbal and physical attack by Israeli settlers.

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16 Dec 2015

Border protection must not be at expense of refugees, says Amnesty

The protection of the EU’s external borders must not come at the expense of refugees’ rights to protection and the broader human rights of migrants and asylum-seekers, says Amnesty International.

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12 Dec 2015

Constant insecurity for council tenants will be costly

The UK government plans to scrap lifetime tenancies for new council tenants.

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14 Dec 2015

Christian Aid hails Paris agreement and challenges UK government

Christian Aid has hailed the final Paris climate agreement as a new era which has the potential to transform the global economy to address climate change and says the UK government must now take a close look at its domestic energy policies.

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12 Dec 2015

Finding hope from the climate change talks.

I have to confess I’m not a great climate change activist. It’s not that I don’t care, I absolutely do.

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