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Church tackles female poverty and child marriages with education boost

The Church of Bangladesh is helping women out of poverty, in an area where child marriage was rife, by providing accommodation for female students.

04 August 2016

Crisp income generation scheme boosts typhoon relief

A micro-business in which a group of women from the Philippines make a nutritious crisp snack from the taro fruit has proved to be so successful that a relief agency is buying the snack for use in disaster relief.

20 June 2016

Tackling poverty and conflict through microfinance

A partnership between the Anglican Church of Burundi and Unicef is helping to tackle poverty and strengthen peace by financing small-scale cross-community agricultural projects. It comes at a time that the UN warns that the country has been plunged into “civil unrest, growing insecurity, indiscriminate violence and sharp economic deterioration.”

23 May 2016

Churches unite to support Welsh steel workers

Leaders from the churches and chapels in the Welsh town of Port Talbot have formed an ecumenical ministry team to support thousands of local workers who could lose their jobs following the announcement that the Indian steel company Tata, which owns the majority of the UK’s steel works, is looking to divest from its operations in the country.

31 March 2016

PE cancelled so pupils can feed the hungry

The largest Episcopal parish day school in the United States of America cancelled a PE lesson and pupil meetings and instead used the time to package more than 10,000 meals for hungry children in developing countries.

29 January 2016

New York church helps human trafficking victims

Daisy, a 37-year-old mother, hasn’t seen her three children in more than seven-and-a-half years, since she left them in the care of her husband in the Philippines so that she could come to work cleaning hotel rooms in New York.

19 November 2015

European churches call for unified political response to current migrant crisis

Conference of European Churches and Commission of the Episcopates of the European Community on humanitarian crisis

02 October 2015

WCC event explores ways to advance SDGs to end extreme poverty

Faith-based actors revisit commitments in light of new Global Goals

01 October 2015

Faith leaders encourage world community to transform lives through Global Goals

Anglican Alliance committed to helping Communion understand Goals and take action

25 September 2015

Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes UN 'Global Goals' for sustainable development

Church must seek to model Jesus Christ in responding to poverty and inequality

25 September 2015