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Relief Teams Respond as Thousands Feared Dead in South Asia Earthquake
Thousands are feared dead in the Himalayan region across the Pakistan and India border on Saturday as a huge earthquake shook villages, instigating landslides and pulling down two apartment blocks...
York Students Get Plugged into Church through new Website
York Students is the new website by One Voice for Students in the York area designed to help new and returning students get 'plugged in' to the local church scene...
WARC Challenges Members to Uphold Justice
Leaders of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches have decried the current expansion of neoliberal economic globalisation and called on its members to work for justice in the world...
Christian Mission Organisation Fears for India’s Christians
U.S.-based Mission India has warned of greater persecution amid calls from Hindu leaders for an anti-conversion law to be passed. The new law could also mean imprisonment for missionaries...
EAUK Prayer Rally Against Religious Hatred Bill Hits Hyde Park
The African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance and the Evangelical Alliance will gather today in Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner protesting against the proposed Religious Hatred bill...
Red Cross Disasters Report Supports Christian Aid Policies
The Red Cross has released its annual World Disasters Report earlier this week. The report scrutinises on how aid agencies could have responded better to recent natural disasters around the world, especially the tsunami...
Bali Bombings Generate Fear & Concern for Indonesian Christians
A wave of terrorist attacks near a tourist area in Bali, Indonesia over the past weekend has generated alarm in people throughout the world. As persecutions against Christians in Indonesia by Islamic extremists persist...
Thousands of Youth Pray for Second Great Revival for Churches in Korea
Around 5,000 Christian youth from 45 churches and about 10 organisations in the city of Pohang in South Korea were praying from Sunday evening to the next morning for the revival of churches in Korea. The "Again 1907 in Pohang" Prayer Gathering...
Kenya Church to Begin Civic Education on Draft Constitution
A massive civic education programme is to be launched by the Anglican Church of Kenya in the run-up to the national referendum on the Draft Constitution on 21 November. Two hundred and fifty leaders from the Anglican Church...
Church of Ireland Primate Warns Against Anglican Split Over Homosexuality
Archbishop Eames, the Primate of All Ireland, has warned the Anglican Communion not to become so polarised over the issue of gay rights. Archbishop Eames is head of a task force engaged in bringing reconciliation between...
Religious Groups Concerned by Proposed Highway Code for Racial Equality
Religious groups have expressed their unease after the head of the Commission for Racial Equality called for a ‘highway code’ of rules for race relations. Trevor Philips has put forward that this would offer guidance for race relations...
Imprisoned Christian Sunday School Teachers in Indonesia Establish Church
The three Indonesian woman that are serving a three-year prison sentence after their convictions in Indonesia, have started a church within their prison walls. A huge outcry against their convictions...
Upsurge in Violence across India Ahead of International Day of Prayer
Founder of Hopegivers International, Archbishop M.A. Thomas, has called for the Christian community to join together in prayer with believers in India after an upsurge in violence in the country...
Anglican Evangelical Assembly Calls for Bold Mission as Modern Witnesses
The annual meeting of the Anglican Evangelical Assembly took place this week at St Helen’s Bishopsgate, London. The Chairman of the Church of England Evangelical Council was spoke in his final...
Results Continue to Come in for Church of England General Synod National Elections
The liberals in the Church of England have led a determined campaign to gain greater control of General Synod in the national elections, as the results continue to trickle in. The results so far reveal Frank Knaggs, a leading conservative evangelical, to be the winner of the poll in the House of...
Methodist Relief & Development Fund Celebrates Gift Aid Contributions
The Methodist Relief and Development Fund has received an extra £110,000 from the UK government's Gift Aid scheme. Through members carrying out simple acts it has been able to raise precious extra money for a number of projects...