Push for gender justice in Zambia

07 January 2010

Churches in Zambia have joined together to fight rising violence against women and children, Ecumenical News International reported.

The pledge was agreed by the country's three main church umbrellas, the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia, the Council of Churches in Zambia, and the Zambia Episcopal Conference.

"We will respond to eradication of violence against women and children as a Southern Africa Development Community member," the churches stated in the declaration entitled Gender Injustice and Gender based Violence.

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Churches hail Indian minority champion

28 December 2009

Christian groups in India have hailed the appointment of Hmar Tlomte Sangliana, a Presbyterian and former member of the Indian parliament, appointed as the vice chairman of the autonomous National Commission for Minorities.

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Free churches blast Copenhagen failure

23 December 2009

The Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches have condemned the world’s richest countries for failing to reach a binding agreement at the Copenhagen climate change summit.

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Stay Until You Agree!

17 December 2009

Stay until you agree! That is the appeal to the crises ridden climate summit in Copenhagen from Christian AID.

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UWI supports soldier care home appeal

17 December 2009

The Union of Welsh Independent's has got behind an appeal to set up a convalescent home for soldiers recovering from service in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The Golden Grove Mansion Appeal is aiming to raise £10m to buy and renovate an historic Welsh mansion in rural Wales to care for soldiers that are mentally or physically scarred as a result of the overseas conflict.

The project has united peace campaigners and military chiefs that want to see provision - which will be the first of its kind in Wales - made for UK armed forces personnel wounded in the fighting in the Middle East.

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URC hosts sleep-out for homeless

17 December 2009

Volunteers from the United Reformed Church got a taste of what Christmas on the streets will be like for thousands of homeless when they staged a fundraising sleep-out.

Fifty-four people braved the wind and rain to bed down for the night in the car park of Immanuel United Reformed Church in Swindon.

The sleep-out was organised by local homelessness charity Threshold Housing Link to raise money and highlight the realities of life on the streets.

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