Christmas savings bring buffaloes to families in India

British families have helped send buffaloes to impoverished families in India by meeting Operation Mobilisation’s challenge to spend less at Christmas. The ‘Just Christmas’ campaign is the brainchild of an...

Poverty expert: Give the poor a hand up, not hand out

Instead of helping poor people with charity that will eventually run out, it is more effective to lift people out of poverty through microfinance, says a Christian poverty expert. “If we give individuals food for...

CBM laments passing of clubfoot pioneer

CBM is a Christian disability charity which supports around 16 million people around the world. It said around a quarter of its physical disability work was with clubfoot sufferers. The 'Ponseti method' has...

Rescuing the vulnerable in the Philippines

"This social relief aspect is really about “showing our faith by our works.” It’s putting the biblical principle into practice," says Don Foster, Siloam’s South East Asia Voluntary Representative. He was...

Outrage as Chinese Christians are imprisoned for aiding North Korean refugees

Chinese officials in Erlianhaote city have sentenced two Christians – Miss Li Mingshun and Mr. Zhang Yonghu to 10 and 7 years respectively in prison, for aiding North Korean refugees fleeing to South Korea through...

Vicar to sport half a beard for Christian Aid Week

Roger Gayler, the 65-year-old vicar of St Mark’s Church at Mark's Gate in Barking and Dagenham is to preach, meet the scouts, speak to schoolchildren, study with his bishop and collect envelopes door-to-door - all...