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March 2007


Archbishop John Sentamu backs challenge to UK Government Micah Challenge – a coalition of Christian charities – is launching its ‘Blow the Whistle’ campaign, to challenge the UK Government to fulfil its promises to poor nations. At the United Natio... More >>

On World Water Day (22 March) a coalition of organisations launch End Water Poverty, an international campaign to tackle the global crisis in sanitation and water. Water-related diseases are the second biggest killer of children under five years old ... More >>

Scotland’s First Minister Jack McConnell today (22nd March) heard a first-hand account of how a Malawian organisation is helping to protect children at risk from modern-day human trafficking, in the week of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolit... More >>

Step in the right direction Christian relief and development agency Tearfund very much welcomes the first draft of the climate change bill.  It is a significant step forward for the UK, which could become the first country to develop a legal framewo... More >>

A Chessington man has raised almost £1,500 by carrying a table football game across London, playing members of the public on 10 of the city's bridges. Pedro de Barros, a member of Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, is raising cash to help paint ... More >>


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