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WCC pilgrims remember atom bomb's deadly destruction 70 years ago in Hiroshima

Anglican Communion Primates from Japan and Pakistan part of group seeking end to nuclear weapons

07 August 2015

Church in Myanmar responds as floods engulf country

Provincial relief team shifting focus from emergency assistance to recovery and rehabilitation

06 August 2015

WCC encourages churches to pray on Hiroshima Day

Anglican Communion Primates join ecumenical pilgrimage to abolish nuclear weapons

06 August 2015

WCC: prayer for peace, reunification of Korean peninsula

Global ecumenical body invites churches to focus on 9 August on Korean peoples’ struggle for peace and justice

04 August 2015

Cast vote for common good, says Anglican Diocese of Colombo

Sri Lanka bishop urges stand against corruption and greed in upcoming parliamentary elections

04 August 2015

Spotlight on gender justice at Us annual conference

‘The Gospel does not stop women, culture does,’ says Church of Pakistan educational trainer

03 August 2015

New Mothers' Union Chief Executive to continue support for families

New leader looks to further ongoing transformation of communities through fighting poverty and injustice

03 August 2015

Commemorations mark 70 years since atomic bombs ended Second World War

Commemorations to mark VJ Day – the end of the Second World War in the Pacific – have tended to be a lesser commemoration, in Britain at least, than VE Day – the end of the Second World War in Europe.

31 July 2015

We have not recovered yet, says Dean of Nepal

Nepal is still decades away from full recovery, nearly 100 days after an earthquake left thousands dead and many more injured and without homes

31 July 2015

Education, health and chaplaincy in one of Anglican's remotest villages

An Anglican chapel dedicated to Saint Francis will shortly be dedicated in the village of Pivo

30 July 2015