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Dr Rowan Williams: Redistributing power is crucial to tackle violence and poverty

In an inaugural parliamentary lecture on Friday night to launch Christian Aid Week, Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, will highlight the role that inequality plays in provoking violence. 

08 May 2014

Safe Zone in church to highlight plight of refugees

A section of a Welsh church has been transformed into an interactive Safe Zone to highlight Humanitarian Safe Zones set up in areas of war and conflict around the world.

08 May 2014

Rowan Williams lives below the line for Christian Aid

Christian Aid chair, Rowan Williams has Lived Below the Line ahead of Christian Aid’s biggest fundraiser of the year, Christian Aid Week (11th to 17th May).

07 May 2014

Rock legends play secret gig for Christian charities

Led Zeppelin legends Plant, Steve Windwood and guitarist Steve Gibbons were surprise guest stars at a fundraiser for The Children’s Society, Christian Aid and Open Door

08 April 2014

1500km to go: Cyclists on a mission blaze through town

With legs of jelly, a team of cyclists pedalled into Toowoomba this afternoon.

09 April 2013

Guide aims to get religions, secular world closer on HIV and AIDS

Guide aims to get religions, secular world closer on HIV and AIDS
More than 70 percent of the world's population define themselves as people of faith, and faith-based organizations are involved in more than a quarter of care and treatment projects world-wide on HIV and AIDS, says the head of a Geneva church-based advocacy group.

12 February 2007

Time to Talk' a new HIV information and training resource for churches and faith organisations

Time to Talk' a new HIV information and training resource for churches and faith organisations
Published by the Strategies for Hope Trust
Editors Note: More information, including extracts of the material, can be found on our ''resources' page.The Strategies for Hope Trust announces the launch of 'Time to Talk: a guide to family life in the age of AIDS'. This is the third title in the 'Called to Care' toolkit of handbooks, designed for use by churches and faith-based organisations.

08 February 2007

New Global Alliance of Churches Working on Development Launched in Nairobi

New Global Alliance of Churches Working on Development Launched in Nairobi
"The capacity of the ecumenical movement to respond to the challenges of today's world depends to a large extent on more creative and future-oriented forms of co-operation and networking," said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia today. Kobia was speaking at the first assembly of ACT Development, a new alliance of churches and related organizations working on development.

07 February 2007

Bishop of Chelmsford's speech during a debate on the white paper Making Governance Work for the Poor

Bishop of Chelmsford's speech during a debate on the white paper Making Governance Work for the Poor
Every time I am confronted by these issues, I cannot get the words of Jesus out of my mind. The poor you will always have with you.Those words are not some fatalistic doctrine suggesting that there is nothing we can do, they are words that encourage generosity, but they also encourage us to face reality. Poverty is persistent, deeply embedded in human experience and profoundly resistant to all our endeavours to shift it. It is an evil, inhuman experience demanding that every generation faces it, fights it and seeks to overcome it.The full text is available here

01 February 2007

Faith communities call for action on AIDS

Faith communities call for action on AIDS

A two-day ecumenical conference in mid-August addressed the moral and spiritual dimension of the worldwide AIDS pandemic, shortly before the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Toronto.

16 August 2006