In this section you'll find the latest press releases from Tearfund's Media Team.
Calls by the independent Climate Change Committee for the UK Government to set an 80 per cent reduction target for all greenhouse emissions, including international aviation and shipping by 2050, have been welcomed by international aid agency Tearfun... More >> |
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The new Department for Energy and Climate Change, headed up by Ed Miliband, has shuffled the fight against runaway emissions to its rightful place, its very own seat at the cabinet table, says international aid agency Tearfund.
The news, which has ... More >> |
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Lack of focus on health crisis highlights need for broader support of UK-Dutch framework for action
Despite yesterday’s positive announcement from the UK and Dutch Governments of a ‘global framework for action’ to boost efforts to meet the sanitatio... More >> |
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World leaders today gathered alongside UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called for accelerated action to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for sanitation and water.
End Water Poverty, an international coalition of more than 11... More >> |
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Tearfund welcomes Gordon Brown’s hint that the UK is moving closer to 80 per cent cuts in emissions by 2050, however, he has missed an opportunity to show leadership by failing to announce the cuts outright.
In an hour long speech, the Prime Ministe... More >> |
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Celebrity chefs Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Delia Smith and Rick Stein have donated nutritious recipes as part Christian relief and development agency Tearfund’s Step Up to the Plate church resource.
As harvest time approaches, the resource, in sup... More >> |
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New figures released today by the United Nations reveal progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
But with most of the goals currently off track, international development NGOs Tearfund and WaterAid say that political neglect and ... More >> |
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'The Bible has revolutionary power to free the poor', Archbishop Desmond Tutu told a conference of UK Christians and church leaders in London on Saturday (6 September).
The Nobel Prize winner was speaking at an event organised by Tearfund and Jesu... More >> |
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Aid agency Tearfund’s partners distribute food to the homeless (29 August 2008)
Tearfund partner organisations Eficor, Discipleship Centre and Emmanuel Hospital Association have been distributing food to relief camps as they respond to the huge floo... More >> |
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Tearfund partner organisation United Mission to Nepal is providing urgent food aid to the thousands affected by the floods that hit over seven regions in the south east part Nepal.
The Koshi River, Nepal’s largest river burst its banks on Monday d... More >> |
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Gender inequalities which fuel women's vulnerability to HIV must be addressed by the church, said Tearfund as the 17th International AIDS conference in Mexico draws to a close today. ‘There is a desperate need for the leadership of the church to smar... More >> |
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Tearfund have produced a report on unexpected responses of the local church to HIV, Working on the margins. Read the report here.
Aid agency says the church plays a key yet unrecognised role in reaching the most marginalised communities living with ... More >> |
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Soaring food prices and successive droughts are pushing families in East Africa, already struggling to afford basic foods, deeper into poverty, warns international aid agency Tearfund.
A combination of rising food prices and erratic rainfall has exa... More >> |
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Today, the leaders of the UK’s largest coalition dedicated to stopping climate change warned Gordon Brown that a green light for a new unabated coal plant at Kingsnorth will lock Britain into decades of spiralling emissions and severely undermine the... More >> |
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David Burrowes MP (Conservative) for Enfield Southgate, Tim Farron MP (Liberal Democrat) for Westmorland & Lonsdale and Andy Reed MP (Labour) for Loughborough took part in a cross party ‘Slum Survivor’ challenge with Christian aid agency Tearfund and... More >> |
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Developing nations upstaged G8 leaders on climate change, as talks on the issue continued on Wednesday - the final day of the annual summit in Japan this week. So says the British development agency Tearfund.
The G5 - China, India, Brazil, South A... More >> |
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At the second day of the G8 Summit in Japan comes to a close, British development agency Tearfund is calling on the leaders to keep their promises on aid spending and HIV and AIDS.
Fears that the G8 would backtrack on their commitment to increase a... More >> |
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As the day drew to a close today at the G8 Summit in Japan, aid agency Tearfund welcomed the summit leader’s statement on Zimbabwe.
As the crisis in the country escalates, summit leaders have said they will take further steps against those individ... More >> |
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As climate change talks take centre stage at the G8 Summit in Japan today, the world’s largest emitters have done little more than restate last year’s G8 commitment to halve emissions by 2050.
Speaking from Japan, Peter Grant, Tearfund International... More >> |
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On the opening day of the G8 Summit in Japan, African leaders attending the talks appeared to ask for virtually nothing of their G8 counterparts in discussions aimed at easing the crisis in Zimbabwe.
Comments made by a Japanese Government spokespers... More >> |
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As G8 leaders gather on the Japanese island of Hokkaido for their annual summit (7-9 July), aid agency Tearfund is urging them to take ambitious steps forward in efforts to tackle climate change and not to renege on existing commitments to tackle pov... More >> |
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On the opening day of the G8 Summit in Japan, Zimbabwean church workers at the forefront of aid efforts in the country issued an impassioned call to world leaders for decisive action to stop the violence in the country.
Seven African heads of state... More >> |
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Climate-concerned clergy cycled to Downing Street calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown for a stronger Climate Change Bill this morning and delivered over 10,000 signatures collected by relief and development agency Tearfund.
Graham Dodds, Minister... More >> |
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A carbon reduction scheme enabling people to reduce their emissions and help poor communities suffering the worst effects of climate change, has been developed by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Sir John Hou... More >> |
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This afternoon (Monday 9 June), the Harare offices of the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) were raided and five staff members were taken to the Harare Central Police station for questioning.
The raid was carried out by Zimbabwe’s riot police and i... More >> |
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‘Aid workers are continuing to reach out to the most vulnerable’ says Tearfund
Staff from relief and development agency Tearfund, returning from Myanmar (Burma) have called for the continued support of those hit by cyclone Nargis and to workers di... More >> |
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Tearfund partner agencies are working day and night to get relief aid to thousands of the desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis.
More than two weeks after Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta was smashed by the cyclone, the stories of those whose lives have be... More >> |
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Tearfund partner agencies inside Myanmar (Burma) are responding to the thousands of people that were hit by the devastating impact of Cyclone Nargis at the weekend.
Tens of thousands are now thought to have died when winds and waves ripped thorough... More >> |
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In the fourth week since Zimbabwe went to the polls a violent crack down is clearly underway.
As Zanu PF militias target those suspected of voting for the opposition MDC, Tearfund partner, The Churches in Bulawayo (CIB) today released a statement c... More >> |
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International development agencies, Progressio, Tearfund, Trócaire, the Foundation for Development and Partnership in Africa (FEPA), and Christian Aid warn that Zimbabwe is becoming increasingly tense as election results continue to hang in the balan... More >> |
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International development agencies, Progressio, Trócaire, Tearfund and FEPA today call for immediate action to stop what appears to impartial observers as government-led election rigging of Zimbabwe’s 29 March polls.
All four agencies are concerned... More >> |
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Churches in Zimbabwe are this week working hard at the centre of communities to make sure that voters turn out at the weekend for the election, according to UK relief agency, Tearfund. Many people are fearful of voting following frequent reports of o... More >> |
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‘This is a way of getting involved to help those most vulnerable to climate change,’ says Tearfund campaigner.
Leading Christian relief and development agency Tearfund is this week urging people to take part in the UK wide I Count Week of Action on ... More >> |
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‘Tearfund is urging the Prime Minister not to let Millennium Development goals on water and sanitation go down the pan.’
Leading Christian relief and development agency Tearfund is urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to prevent millions of unnecessar... More >> |
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More than 300 delegates gathered for the UK’s biggest church conference on HIV.
This was a unique assembly of Christians wanting to get informed – to engage with the issues that surround HIV and AIDS. An opportunity to discover not only what is alr... More >> |
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Tearfund’s Policy and Campaigns Director Andy Atkins has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Friends of the Earth. He joins Friends of the Earth in late June, before replacing Tony Juniper as Executive Director later in the summer.
Andy... More >> |
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The plight of the world’s poor already suffering the impact of global warming has been recognised in the Climate Change Bill going through Parliament thanks to the intervention of the Bishops of Liverpool and London.
Following advice from relief and... More >> |
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With Fairtrade Fortnight fast approaching (25 February – 9 March), Tearfund volunteers are encouraging their local communities to switch to fairtrade products, fresh from a visit to Tearcraft producers in India.
Earlier this month development agency... More >> |
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Church leaders are working alongside the Kofi Annan peace talks playing a leading mediation role at the centre of the current crisis in Kenya, according to Tearfund. The UK Christian relief agency says church leaders are facilitating dialogue between... More >> |
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Two of the Church of England’s most senior Bishops are today (5 February 2008) urging people to cut their carbon rather than give up chocolate this Lent.
Bishop of Liverpool and Vice President of Tearfund, James Jones and Bishop of London, Dr Richar... More >> |
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Kenya’s spiralling descent into violence and chaos is hampering the work of Tearfund staff and partners in the country.
In the worst affected areas workers have been confined to their houses due to violent clashes and looting.
Nationally hu... More >> |
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