Posts Tagged ‘leaders’
by Bibliothèque de Toulouse Evangelicals are calling upon Europe’s leaders to do their “utmost” to address the eurozone debt crisis as they meet in Brussels for emergency talks. EU leaders are to consider a new rescue package that includes expanding the 440 billion euro European Financial Stability Facility and dealing with Greece’s debt. Prime [...]
by Texas State Archives An international Christian movement is calling upon G20 leaders to tackle world poverty when they meet in France next month. Micah Challenge wants world leaders to recommit to ending corruption, which it holds partly responsible for the continued reality of poverty around the world. International director of Micah Challenge, the [...]
by Swedish National Heritage Board Church leaders in the UK have spoken out against the excessive use of military force against Christian, in Christian Family,s in Egypt last weekend that resulted in the deaths of at least 25 people, mainly Coptic Christian, in Christian Family,s. The Egyptian army has claimed that its soldiers acted [...]
by The Library of Congress The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of Wales have offered their prayers for the four miners trapped in a flooded mine in Wales. Rescuers have been working since yesterday to free the men from the Gleision Colliery, near Cilybebyll, Pontardawe. Police say that three of the trapped miners [...]
by State Library and Archives of Florida The number of students taking short course Religious Education at GCSE level has fallen by eight per cent, latest figures show. 2011 figures reveal an increase in the number of students taking the full course version of RE for the 13th year in a row, up by [...]
by State Library of New South Wales collection Global Day of Prayer London is calling for 1,000 leaders to pray together to set Britain ablaze at the Carry the Torch national leaders summit. The event is taking place in the Great Hall at Wembley Stadium on September 17. The key focus of the [...]
by The Library of Congress Constable Ronan Kerr, 25, was killed when a bomb was triggered outside his home on the Highfield estate on Saturday afternoon. The police have not identified those responsible for the attack but said there had been dissident threats in the area recently. In a joint statement, the Archbishop of [...]
by State Library and Archives of Florida The Christian Federation of Malaysia – which comprises the nation’s largest ecumenical, Evangelical, and Roman Catholic Christian bodies – announced Thursday that it is “greatly disillusioned, fed-up and angered by the repeated detention of Bibles written in our national language, Bahasa Malaysia”. “Since March 2009, all attempts [...]
by The Library of Congress In a telegram to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Pope spoke of his “profound pain and firm condemnation” of the attack and “his feelings of spiritual closeness and heartfelt condolences to the victims’ families”. A 39-year-old British man was among those killed in the suicide attack on Domededovo Airport. [...]
