From 20 to 27 June, delegates from 31 member bodies and ecumenical guests met as CWM’s 2009 Assembly in Mamallapuram, just south of Chennai, India, where they were generously hosted by the Church of South India and CWM’s South Asia Region.

The CWM Assembly has appointed Rev Dr Prince Dibeela as Moderator to lead CWM’s Trustee Body for the next three years.

CWM’s Assembly 2009 has opened with a service of celebration and worship encouraging participants to be open to God's transforming will and to live with integrity.

The routine offer of an HIV test to children admitted to a hospital in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, resulted in more than 3,000 being diagnosed with the virus over an 18-month period.

What does a solar panel have in common with a jujube tree? Not much – except they're both helping to conserve energy at Bangladesh church hospitals. James Pender reports.