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  • 8 Dec
    2006
    Churches condemn Fiji coup and seek peace with justice

    The head of the Fiji Council of Churches has condemned the administration set up by army commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama after a military seizure of power as "illegal and unconstitutional" and has urged prayers for God's intervention ‚Ä' reports Ecumenical News International.

  • 7 Dec
    2006
    Christians welcome new dynamic of Iraq Study Group report

    The National Council of Churches USA has said that the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group "generally resonate" with church leaders' recommendations, and has urged President Bush and the United States Congress "to understand the opportunity presented by this report."

  • 3 Dec
    2006
    Mennonite youth pit nonviolent Jesus against gun culture

    More than 100 US urban youth and members of local Anabaptist churches came together earlier this month (November 2006) for Packing the Peace of Christ, a conference focused on a Christian response to handgun homicide, which takes an average of one life per day here - write Justin Shenk and Shannon Burgess.

  • 13 Nov
    2006
    Not giving peace a chance by Simon Barrow

    Examining the politics and theology of remembrance

  • 13 Nov
    2006
    Debate about White Poppies - Sky News - 9th November 2006
    Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley find common ground with the British Legion over white poppies on Sky News.
  • 31 Oct
    2006
    Peace and War

    Ekklesia proposes non-violent alternatives to military action as well as peace-making strategies. Ekklesia hit the headlines in 2002 by proposing public consideration of strategies for non-violent regime change in Iraq.

  • 19 Jun
    2006
    Football teaches non-violence to Colombian street children

    Club Deportivo in Colombia, a partner of the UK Christian aid agency Tearfund, is using football to help children likely to be caught up in violence to learn reconciliation skills.

  • 27 Mar
    2003
    Lessons for Iraq from the Balkans

    Ekklesia’s director Jonathan Bartley: “In 2000, the US International Republican Institute taught activists in Serbia how to strike, communicate with symbols, hide from police, respond t

  • 29 Sep
    2002
    Alternatives to the invasion of Iraq ‚ Sunday Programme Radio 4, 29th September 2002
    Radio 4Ekklesia proposes an alternative of non-violent regime change in Iraq on Radio 4's Sunday Programme.
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