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Afghan Aid Delivery Threatened as More NGO Workers Killed

Two more aid workers were found murdered in Afghanistan, threatening the delivery of relief to the people in the war-torn country. The two victims were working for the health project run by the Coordination of Humanitarian...

SAT-7 to Air Unprecedented Number of Arabic Christmas Programs

After announcing its new 2006 television campaign on promoting the family, SAT-7 announced that it would further broadcast the message of Christ this Christmas season with the largest number of Arabic Christmas programs...

International Prayer Week for North Korea Ends; Efforts Continue

The International Prayer Week for North Korea concluded on Sunday, a day after Human Rights Day and after a week of vigils and prayers that brought the churches in South Korea...

Church World Service Welcomes US Water for the Poor Act

Executive Director and CEO of Church World Service, Rev. John L. McCullough, welcomed the US senate's approval of the Paul Simon Water...

Candlelight Prayer Vigil Calls for North Korean Human Rights, Religious Freedom

Some 20,000 people gathered in Seoul on Saturday to pray for the improvement of human rights in North Korea. The Rev. Choi Sung Kyoo, General Secretary of the Christian Council of Korea (CCK)...

Purpose Driven Urges Spiritual Support of Gulf Coast Pastors

Sponsoring churches are being asked to call pastors that they’ve adopted in order to help with their spiritual needs. Up to that point, sponsoring churches in the Purpose Driven network only committed...

Seoul Summit Concludes with Declaration on North Korean Human Rights

The landmark three-day Seoul Summit concluded on Saturday with a declaration agreed by the hundreds of international participants to bring a stop to the human rights abuses in North Korea. Christian...

New Methodist Church Planted in Cambodia

A new Methodist Church has been planted in Cambodia following the successful collaboration between Methodist mission groups from Asia, Europe and the United States and Cambodians. The new church already has...

Archbishop of Cape Town Joins Call for Trade Justice at WTO Conference

The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town has joined with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in its call for government representatives meeting in Hong Kong next week to renew efforts to secure trade justice...

Church Project for Bereaved Children to Run Out of Funds

A unique church project for bereaved children in Scotland is appealing for funding that will enable it to continue its work for the next three years. The current funding for Richmond's Hope will run out by April 2006...

Bishop of Nazareth: Israeli Barrier Must Come Down

The Latin Bishop of Nazareth, Mgr Paulus Marcuzo, has said that Israel must destroy the barrier put up around large parts of the West Bank if peace is to come to the conflict-torn region...

First Christian TV Channel Comes to Egypt

Christians in Egypt can now watch church services and other Christian programmes on the country's first completely Christian, Egyptian-run television channel, Aghapy TV. The new channel, funded by donations from around the world...

German Evangelicals: Torture Cannot Be Tool in Fight Against Terror

The head of the Evangelical Church in Germany has said that illegal imprisonments and interrogations under torture cannot be tolerated in a democratic state...

Christian Journalism Course Launched in UK

A Christian journalism course, the first of its kind in the UK, has been launched by Cleland Thom Journalism Training Services to give skills specifically to Christians feeling the call to enter journalism...

Bishops Pressure Government on Asylum Seekers

Nineteen Anglican bishops, as well as numerous other religious leaders, have pressured the Government to change its policy on asylum seekers in an open letter to The Times newspaper. Just one week after...

Bishop Defends Christian Peacemakers After Iraqi Kidnappings

In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Bishop of Jerusalem defended Christian Peacemakers Teams after the kidnapping of four...