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Nigeria: Three killed, 36 abducted in latest attacks on churches (added 24/06/2022)

Pax Christi's 'unique contribution to creating cultures of peace' (added 20/06/2022)

New Report: 'Squandered - 2021 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending' (added 15/06/2022)

Migrant deportation an "immoral policy that shames Britain," say bishops (added 14/06/2022)

Bruce Kent, peace campaigner, has died (added 10/06/2022)

Renewable energy and green transport (added 09/06/2022)

China: Activists, survivors disappointed at UN Commissioner failure to condemn human rights violations (added 08/06/2022)

Nigeria: Dozens killed in attack on Catholic Church (added 06/06/2022)

Parliamentarians call for audit of Hong Kong and Chinese officials' assets in UK (added 28/05/2022)

Plater Trust makes record number of awards to social justice projects (added 27/05/2022)

China: Newly-revealed police files detail mass detention of Uyghurs (added 27/05/2022)

Nottingham weekend for young people on climate emergency (added 24/05/2022)

New report: Climate change could see London and other cities run out of water (added 23/05/2022)

Mexico: Priest who ran migrant shelter murdered (added 21/05/2022)

Laudato Si' Week 2022: Church action to Care for Creation (added 19/05/2022)

Laudato Si’ Week is being celebrated during 22nd – 29th May. It reminds us of our duty towards and celebration of creation. (added 18/05/2022)

Holy Land: Churches condemn attack on funeral of slain journalist (added 18/05/2022)

Sign up now, count your plastic for one week and together let’s gather the evidence we need to push for proper action to tackle the plastic crisis.

Ian Linden: Priti and the people smugglers (added 16/05/2022)

Nigeria: Christian student stoned and burned to death (added 14/05/2022)

Letter: SJOG stands with Ukraine (added 08/05/2022)

Nigeria: Fulani militants kill eight Christians (added 07/05/2022)

Pakistan: Woman tortured, threatened says: 'I'll never deny Jesus' (added 06/05/2022)

Pope repeats warning on nuclear weapons (added 05/05/2022)

Report shows Christian persecution growing in Afghanistan, India and Nigeria (added 30/04/2022)

Dark day for human rights and humanity, says SVP (added 30/04/2022)

East Anglia: Diocese joins campaign against plastic pollution (added 25/04/2022)

Earth Day demands urgent action from us all (added 25/04/2022)

Holy Land: UN voices concern over growing violence (added 23/04/2022)

Celebrities, refugees on boat urge MPs 'protect not punish refugees' (added 22/04/2022)

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Seeking Sanctuary expresses shock at plan to send refugees to Rwanda (added 16/04/2022)

Nigeria: Simultaneous attacks target communities in Plateau State (added 16/04/2022)

Myanmar/Burma: Soldiers raid Catholic cathedral, detain clergy (added 11/04/2022)

London: Olallo House seeks Project Workers (added 10/04/2022)

Healthy planet, healthy people (added 09/04/2022)

Trocaire says latest devastating IPCC Report must be a 'clarion call' for urgent global action (added 06/04/2022)

What the Nuncio did next: A gathering in Dover (added 05/04/2022)

Kent: Nuncio visits asylum seekers at Napier Barracks (added 02/04/2022)

Faiths working with UN to protect Biodiversity (added 31/03/2022)

South Sudan: Sight saving clinic at Ave Maria Mission (added 30/03/2022)

Seven years of war in Yemen - seven years of UK complicity (added 28/03/2022)

Families will suffer after Spring Budget warns Catholic Union (added 25/03/2022)

Holy Land: Christian, Muslim, Jewish leaders urge Patriarch Kirill to do everything possible to stop war in Ukraine (added 24/03/2022)

Over 200 church leaders urge UK government to cut use of fossil fuels (added 22/03/2022)

East Anglia: Youth team record song for peace in Ukraine (added 19/03/2022)

Poland: Women religious assist thousands of Ukrainian refugees (added 19/03/2022)

Ireland: Archbishop urges government to address modern slavery (added 18/03/2022)

Columban Competition Winning Article: 'One Small Act' (added 17/03/2022)

Campaigners protest at PM's trip to Saudi Arabia in wake of mass executions (added 16/03/2022)

Russian Orthodox Church in Amsterdam breaks with Moscow (added 14/03/2022)

Sr Ann Teresa, Founder of Medaille Trust has died (added 11/03/2022)

Message from Passionist community in Poland + video (added 08/03/2022)

Global Catholic Church prepares for Season of Creation - Webinar (added 24/06/2022)

Rwanda asylum initiative: 'Treating people like landfill' (added 24/06/2022)

SCIAF launches Hunger Appeal as people "killed by famine" (added 17/06/2022)

Bishop: Asylum seekers' dignity must be protected and upheld (added 15/06/2022)

WCC denounces military aggression against Ukraine (added 14/06/2022)

New Resource for Refugee Week 20 June - 26 June (added 14/06/2022)

Archbishop Nolan appalled at UK plan to send migrants to Rwanda (added 13/06/2022)

Jerusalem: CMEP dismayed by Israeli Court ruling to expropriate Greek Orthodox property (added 11/06/2022)

Jerusalem: Threatened demolition may leave 74 Palestinians homeless - again (added 08/06/2022)

Celebrating church nature sites (added 28/05/2022)

World Environment Day: We must address diminishing Biodiversity (added 27/05/2022)

Campaigners bring Shell's first UK AGM to a standstill (added 27/05/2022)

Campaigners call on Coventry to end investments in arms trade (added 23/05/2022)

Ukraine: Cardinal Parolin appeals for immediate peace talks (added 23/05/2022)

Campaigners urge Eritrean government to improve human rights (added 21/05/2022)

JPIC religious condemn Government plan to send refugees to Rwanda (added 20/05/2022)

Britain's duty to advance equal rights in Palestine/Israel (added 19/05/2022)

'Water Yes, Mining No!' - Mexican villagers protest at mining company AGM (added 18/05/2022)

This is Dr Sarah Benn (on the left). One of the most mild mannered GPs you could ever meet. She has just left jail after 8 days inside for her work with Just Stop Oil. (added 16/05/2022)

Invitation to join next global divestment announcement (added 16/05/2022)

BYCS Bicycle Mayors by Philip Brown BYCS is an Amsterdam-based global NGO guided by the belief that bicycles transform cities and cities transform the world. (added 16/05/2022)

Iraq: Christians arrested trying to protect land from confiscation (added 14/05/2022)

Put peace at the heart of education, say Quakers (added 13/05/2022)

Can you step out to help Christians get back on their feet in the Holy Land? (added 07/05/2022)

Justice and Peace in prison - an unhappy divorce (added 06/05/2022)

Vocation for Justice: War is a choice, but so is peace (added 05/05/2022)

US Bishops thank President for restoration of environmental laws (added 04/05/2022)

Nigeria: Was kidnapped priest tortured to death? (added 30/04/2022)

Colombia: Mining company under fire from parliamentarians over human rights (added 30/04/2022)

Chernobyl anniversary revives nuclear energy concerns (added 26/04/2022)

Aid agencies call for urgent action against famine in Horn of Africa (added 25/04/2022)

Bishop critical of plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda (added 22/04/2022)

Church leaders write to MPs ahead of Nationality & Borders Bill vote (added 21/04/2022)

Poland: Focolare welcomes refugees from Ukraine (added 16/04/2022)

Bishop Christopher Cocksworth on Nuclear Threat in 21st Century (added 16/04/2022)

Burkina Faso: Elderly nun kidnapped (added 11/04/2022)

EU church leaders call for peace and justice at Polish-Ukrainian border (added 09/04/2022)

South Sudan: Bishop says being shot was a moment of grace (added 06/04/2022)

The Nuclear Threat in the 21st Century (added 05/04/2022)

CAFOD director on new climate report: 'Its now or never' (added 05/04/2022)

Christian Aid demands action as UK ranks 17th in Covid league table (added 31/03/2022)

Holy Land: Report documents harsh treatment of children at checkpoints (added 30/03/2022)

Bishop in Brussels to lobby against Investment in Mining (added 29/03/2022)

Canadian Bishops and Indigenous delegates on historic trip to Holy See (added 25/03/2022)

London: Homelessness and the Pandemic: What have we learnt? (added 22/03/2022)

Pope Francis: 'War against Ukraine is inhuman and sacrilegious' (added 21/03/2022)

Church bells in London and Durham to ring with bells of Lviv (added 20/03/2022)

WCC Easter initiative for Jerusalem (added 19/03/2022)

Poland: ACN volunteers working 24/7 for Ukrainian refugees (added 18/03/2022)

Pope in video call with Patriarch Kirill: 'Wars are always unjust' (added 17/03/2022)

Brazil: Bishops protest at government plan to rush through takeover of more indigenous land (added 14/03/2022)

Laudato Si online library opens to public (added 03/03/2022)