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US Lobbies UN to Declare Abortion Not a Human Right
The 49th session of the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) opened yesterday in the New York Headquarters. The international dispute over women's rights for abortions...
Hundreds of Coptic Christians End Conversion Protests
An alleged forced conversion of two Egyptian Christians to Islam has triggered a large scale demonstration of hundreds of believers in Cairo. The dispute began on Sunday as news circulated that two young Christian...
ACT Intl' Tsunami Relief in Sri Lanka Progresses despite Rebel Violence
Action by Churches Together (ACT) International have appealed for a greater global awareness for tsunami-battered Sri Lanka, where violence triggered by the unrest between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels is prevalent...
Churches Attack 'Inhumane' Political Asylum Policies
Church leaders have launched a scathing attack on the government's asylum policy, as well as the leading opposition party's policy, and have condemned them as being 'inhumane' and 'grotesque'...
Churches Launch "Just Wealth" Document in Parliament
On Monday 28 February, a document entitled "Prosperity with a Purpose - Christians and the Ethics of Affluence" published by the national official ecumenical body Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) was launched...
Evangelical Movement Shifts Centre of Christianity to the South
Amid the crisis over homosexuality in Western churches in America and Europe which has consumed their unity and power, Christians in the Southern Hemisphere are rising as a new hope to revive the religion...
Prayer Breakfast Build-Up to Evangelical Alliance's "Hope for London 2005"
The annual prayer initiative of the Evangelical Alliance United Kingdom (EAUK), Hope for the City, will kick-off very soon. A series of prayer breakfasts are to be held as a prologue to the event...
Evangelicals Warn of Child Abuse in Exorcisms among African Churches
A widespread rumour regarding child exorcism is now spreading among African communities and churches in London. Evangelicals warn that some cases are alleged physical abuse, mental abuse or even emotional abuse...
International Caribbean Congress Unites and Guides Evangelicals
A four day Congress of Evangelicals in the Caribbean 2005 (CONCECAR) has brought about the announcement that the Evangelical Association of the Caribbean have re-elected Rev Ken Ragoonath, from Trinidad to remain as its president...
Permanent Anglican Split over Homosexuality may be Inevitable
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion has given a worrying warning that the recent split of the Communion over the ordination of gay bishops in North America may be a permanent move...
Top Vatican Officials Tell Pope to Delegate Tasks
Senior Roman Catholic Church officials have urged the Pope, John Paul II to cut back on his workload, amid further indications that he is too old and frail to make a full recovery to handle his full agenda...
Gay Unions in Greece called for by Human Rights Watchdogs
In a move expected to provoke fierce opposition from the Orthodox Church, Greece's human rights committee yesterday called for same-sex civil unions so that homosexuals and heterosexuals have equal social benefits...
Anglican Head: Only Repentance from One Side will Heal Rift
After the release of the long-awaited communiqué from the 38 Primates concerning the resolution for the rift over homosexuality in the Anglican Church, Anglicans around the world have been responding actively...
Church Survey Indicates Declining Church Caused by Lack of Pastoral Care
A recent report released by the Ecumenical Research Committee has attempted to reveal the reasons behind the declining church attendances in the UK. The year-long survey named "Let the People Speak" is based on...
Marriage Debates Continue Across the Atlantic
The hotly contested gay "marriage" debate flared through the Western world as Great Britain announced it will recognise civil unions for homosexuals by the end of the year and Canada's Ontario officials introduced a bill to amend 73 marital laws ...
Evangelical Relief Ministry Seeing Gradual Success in Sudan
A ministry that seeks to spread the message of Christ in persecuted nations is involved in ongoing work in war-torn Sudan. For the past five years Oklahoma-based Strategic World Impact has been working in Eastern Sudan ...