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  • December 3, 2006
    More than good intentions needed in AIDS struggle, says Archbishop

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has warned of the alarming impact of the AID-HIV pandemic and its actual and potential impact on women and young people, especially.

  • December 3, 2006
    Presbyterians urged to remember Middle East Christians in 2007

    Presbyterians in the United States are being urged to celebrate a week of prayer and witness next year in support of Christians in the Middle East - writes Evan Silverstein for PC (USA) news.

  • December 3, 2006
    Mennonite youth pit nonviolent Jesus against gun culture

    More than 100 US urban youth and members of local Anabaptist churches came together earlier this month (November 2006) for Packing the Peace of Christ, a conference focused on a Christian response to handgun homicide, which takes an average of one life per day here - write Justin Shenk and Shannon Burgess.

  • December 2, 2006
    Discriminating against those with HIV is anti-Gospel, says church leader

    Churches should use their influence and their Gospel message as tools to help reduce the appalling stigma attached to living with HIV in many parts of the world, a leading church HIV activist told UK-based development agency Christian Aid this week.

  • December 2, 2006
    Blair calls on Vatican to face reality over condoms and AIDS

    Yesterday (1 December 2006) British Prime Minister Tony Blair, an Anglican widely canvassed as a possible Catholic convert when he leaves office, risked the wrath of Roman Catholic leaders by saying that religious groups need to face the reality of HIV and AIDS in their teaching and practices regarding the use of condoms.

  • December 2, 2006
    Christians mourn murdered Kashmiri leader

    Christian groups in India are mourning the killing of a prominent Christian worker who had converted from Islam and was shot dead at a bus stop in front of his home in the state Kashmir - writes Anto Akkara for Ecumenical News International.

  • December 2, 2006
    Support continues for Darfur refugees despite fighting

    Development and church organisations in north Darfur continue with emergency work in spite of heavy fighting there. They are helping to provide aid to some of the millions of people who have been displaced and are now living in camps.

  • December 2, 2006
    Pope and Orthodox Patriarch look to common Christian roots

    Pope Benedict XVI has prayed with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomeos I, who is often referred to as the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, making a step to healing a 1000 year rift, which the pontiff said obstructs the proclamation of the Gospel - writes Luigi Sandri for Ecumenical News International.

  • December 1, 2006
    Theologians to tackle cruelty as a major world problem

    Some 25 theologians from all over the world will gather on 5-8 December 2006 in Cret-Berard (near Lausanne, Switzerland), to discuss why and to what extent the persistence of cruelty can be considered as an important theme for theological reflection.

  • November 27, 2006
    Peace and freedom coming to Nepal, says church leader

    There are growing signs of peace and religious freedom in Nepal, according to Dr Tirtha Thapa, a Nepalese Christian leader - writes Tim Shenk of MCC Communications.