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Blair & Bush Make Progress to Eradicate Africa Poverty after Washington Meeting
British Prime Minister Tony Blair met US President George Bush yesterday in an attempt to merge their ideas on how to help save Africa from poverty and to provide aid to the continent. Two of the most powerful leaders...
Faitworks Launches Awards Search for Christian Church Projects
Faithworks is ready to award a £5,000 grant and consulting support to three projects based on the Christian faith. There are two awards in Community Innovation Awards and one award in Community Resource Award...
Persecution to Increase in India as Extremists Train Militants to Fight Christians
The Hindu Fundamentalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) announced on 6th June its shocking new initiative to train Hindu militants to fight Christians. A training camp has been set up in Jeypore...
Bible Society Welcomes New Director of Giving & Communication
The Bible Society has announced its welcome to its new Director of Giving and Communications, Peter Meadows. After working with World Vision UK as a member of the senior marketing team, Meadow joins the Bible Society...
Same-Sex Marriage Condemned in Unanimous Vote by Arctic Anglicans
Anglican Church leaders in the Arctic have condemned homosexuality and same-sex marriage. "Marriage is between a man and a woman," said Haydn Schofield, archdeacon of the western Arctic. "For there to be a relationship, even common-law, is un-biblical...
Ukraine Churches Unite to Defend Christian Ethics Curriculum in Schools
Ukraine Churches are now facing up to the challenge of proposed changes in the education curriculum for school students as the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has decided to implement a mandatory "Ethics" class...
Pope Benedict Denounces Same-Sex Union, Abortion & Embryo Research
At a conference of the Diocese of Rome regarding the role of the family held at St John Lateran basilica on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s stern opposition to same-sex union, abortion and embryo research...
Africa Aid Plan & Climate Change: Main Focus of Blair–Bush Meeting
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet the U.S. President George Bush today in the afternoon in Washington, D.C. The main focus of the meeting will be aid for Africa and climate change, however other topics...
Rally against Poverty to be endorsed by Churches in Africa
In the run-up to the high-profile Make Poverty History rally on 2nd July in Edinburgh, Scotland, the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) will join the hundreds of thousands of campaigners in the UK...
70 Christians Remain Jailed in Eritrea
Seventy Christians still remains in jail after the mass arrests during a wedding celebration in Eritrea's capital Asmara on 28th May 2005. During the wedding party approximately 250 attendants were arrested...
Over 10,000 Worldwide Baptists Ready to Join BWA Centenary Congress
The latest figure for the total number of people who will be participating in the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Centenary Congress at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, England tops 10,000...
WCC "Critical" Inter-Religious Conference Calls to Uphold Moral Values
Sponsored by the World Council of Churches (WCC), the ’Critical Moment in Inter-religious Dialogue’ conference opened in Geneva on 7th June morning with over 120 religious leaders attending...
Reformed & Pentecostal Leaders Gather in Germany under Holy Spirit
Reformed and Pentecostal Christian leaders gathered in Detmold, Germany for the third international dialogue between the two Christian families, from May 25 to 31, 2005. The theme of this year’s meeting was...
"A Million Hours of Praise" Mobilises All Nations to Global Day of Worship
Sponsored by the United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) based in the UK, a vision from Gatekeepers to make "a million hours of praise" across the world...
Evangelical Network Launches Prayers for Int'l AIDS Conference 2006
The Global AIDS Prayer Partnership (GAPP), a new and growing coalition of Christian organisations, has unveiled a plan to cover the next International AIDS Conference in August 2006 in Toronto, Canada, with massive prayer effort...
First Translation of Bible into Indigenous Australian Language Complete
Australia's first complete translation of the Kriol Baibul language has been finished and now the final draft is being checked in preparation for publication in 2007. This project has been 27 years in the making...