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- This year Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) marks 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It also marks the 25th anniversary of the Genocide in Bosnia. Both dates are worth remembering. And it is also a time to thank God for all the various people who did whatever they could at the time to defend the...Holocaust Memorial Day – 75 years since Auschwitz
- World Leprosy Day aims to raise awareness and knowledge of this horrific disease. The good news is that nowadays, it can in fact be cured, and so it is vital to change attitudes that stigmatise the people affected. Many churches and groups across the country will hold their own local Leprosy Sunday sometime between 26...World Leprosy Sunday – 26th January
- Political parties often describe themselves as ‘broad churches’, by which they mean that they are able to accommodate widely differing views. The title was first applied to the Church of England, where some churches are so ‘Catholic’ that they would make the Pope himself feel like a Protestant, and where the noisiest and most exuberant...Silence can be golden – as long as the transmitters don’t cut out!
- Too cold for gardening? Time to sort out the tool shed! The Tools Shed project collects old unwanted and broken garden hand tools and repairs them in prison workshops. The lovely refurbished tools are then donated free of charge to local schools and community gardening groups. We’re asking local residents to help us by doing...Garden recycling project needs your old tools
- The recent overwhelming pro-democracy vote in Hong Kong and revelations of brainwashing camps have only highlighted the growing intolerance in China towards religious minorities. It’s not just the Uighur Muslims who are facing a crackdown. Recent reports from China indicate that Christians are facing the worst persecution since the Cultural Revolution, say partners of Release...China’s growing religious persecution
- The Clergy Support Trust, formerly Sons & Friends of the Clergy, helps Anglican clergy and their families in times of need with various grants. This year, they are seeking to double the number of clergy and families whom they reach, offering assistance with financial support grants, health grants, emergency grants, wellbeing grants, and debt support....Looking for clergy in need of financial support
- An Anglican church leader has explained the Church’s official stance on yoga in churches after a church in Devon rejected a request from a yoga instructor to hold a class in its church hall. Archdeacon Mark Butchers of Barnstaple, who oversees churches in North Devon, told the news site Devon Live that Church of England...Yoga and church halls
- Growing insecurity in Iraq and on its border could lead to a fresh exodus of Christians from the country, warns a partner of Release International, which is supporting refugees in the country. Only around 300,000 Christians remain in Iraq from a peak of 1.8 million in the year 2000. They’ve been driven out by conflict...New wave of Christians set to flee Iraq
- The two earthquakes which recently rocked Albania caused massive damage, killing at least 47 people and injuring 750. The first was magnitude 6.4, the worst earthquake Albania has experienced for decades. In the weeks since the quakes, the Albanian Evangelical Alliance has been coordinating churches across the country to provide hot meals, tents, blankets, transport...After the Albanian earthquakes
- Ethical Christmas presents ‘Tis the season for Angels! Free gifts for festive shoppers C of E’s Environment Group calls for greater action on Climate Change The Nazareth Trust – working to heal and improve lives Millennium yew trees – 20 years on Don’t ignore RE! Paradise and the Final Judgement in danger of flaking **...Looking at your Church (all articles) for December 2019
- How much damage to the earth will we manage to do this Christmas? Those hundreds of millions of presents we are going to buy come from somewhere – usually raw resources. Are the presents worth the strain on our already struggling planet? Here are some alternative presents, that are eco-friendly, useful, and fairly traded. Christian...Ethical Christmas presents
- Angels make a big appearance in the story of Christmas, but over the next few weeks other kinds of angels will be making appearances throughout the country, on streets and inside nightclubs. Teams of Street Angels and Club Angels will work hard this month to help to keep communities and people, especially within the night-time...‘Tis the season for Angels!