What's on: Spirituality under the sun, July 23. READ ON
Christian aid agencies unite
for Sudan
The
UK’s best known international aid charities,
including Christian agencies World Vision, Tearfund
and Christian Aid, are have launched a joint national
appeal for public help as the crisis in
Sudan deepens. READ
ON Powell warns Sudan
on bloodshed. READ
ON Australian
aid for Sudan
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ON
NCC-USA
General Secretary arrested in Sudan protest. READ
ON Action by Churches
Together Darfur emergency response. READ
ON Background to conflict. READ
ON Meet the orphans,
widows, rape victims and wounded in Darfur.
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Turmoil endangers Iraq's Christians
Now
that a host of Islamic extremists are jockeying
for power in post-Hussein Iraq, Christians from
Mosul in the northern part of the country to Basra
in the south reportedly feel intimidated
and are trying to flee the country. READ
ON
Presbyterians
attempt to mend ties with Jews
The
Presbyterian Church (USA), under fire from Jewish
groups for its funding of messianic Jewish congregations
and a move to divest from Israel, is appealing
to both faiths to respect whatever "fragility
of trust" still exists between them. READ ON Council of
Christians and Jews welcomes anti-Semitism
liturgy. READ ON
From outback to outrage
Greer
believes that riding on the coat-tails of Britain,
itself on the coat-tails of the US, has brought
Australia neither power nor wealth. READ
ON
Banner on show to the country
The
work of members of the Chatham congregation of
the Uniting Church in Australia will soon be on
display to congregations around the nation. READ
ON
Is
Protestant church in East Timor down for count?
Report
from the Presbyterian Church (USA) news service.
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ON Response by John Barr, Executive
Secretary, Uniting International Mission,
Uniting Church in Australia National Assembly.
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US religious revolution cutting
number of Protestants
The
United States is undergoing a religious revolution
which will soon result in Protestants being outnumbered
people of other faiths, other Christian
denominations and agnostics, a new survey
has found. READ ON Old-time religion
on the decline.
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