Jenna Lyle

Christian Today Reporter

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  • Church Must Overcome Taboos to Win HIV Fight, Says Charity

    If churches are to play an effective role in the fight against HIV and AIDS, they need to first tackle their own taboos, says Christian HIV and AIDS charity ACET.

  • World Leaders Reject Violence in God's Name

    "Participating states affirmed their rejection of the use of religion to justify the killing of innocent people and actions on terrorism, violence and coercion, which directly contradict the commitment of all religions to peace, justice and equality."

  • African Faith Leaders Say Congo Crisis is Preventable

    African Faith Leaders Say Congo Crisis is Preventable

    A pan-African group of leaders said on Wednesday that renewed fighting between government forces and rebels in Congo could be prevented if signatories to peace agreements honored their commitments.

  • Faithbook Poll Finds More People Praying in Economic Downturn

    Among the 150 people polled, more than 80 percent said they did not see the economic turmoil as a crisis, but rather as a \"global financial watershed\" with the potential to see a reform of the economy with a moral and social framework.

  • Poll: Most Brits Would Vote Obama

    Barack Obama would win the U.S. presidential election by a landslide next month if the results were down to British voters.

  • Tributes Paid to Slain Christian Aid Worker in Afghanistan

    Tributes Paid to Slain Christian Aid Worker in Afghanistan

    Tributes have been paid to a Christian aid worker who was shot dead in Afghanistan on Monday. "She was killed violently while caring for the most forgotten people in the world; the poor and the disabled."

  • European Protestants Collaborate on Common Euthanasia Position

    Europe's Protestant churches are \"grappling intensively\" with the tension between individual autonomy, the safeguarding of life and support for the suffering. A group of Protestants met to begin drawing up a common position on euthanasia.

  • Poll: Credit Crunch Turning People to Unhealthy Food

    The credit crunch is having a knock on negative effect on people's diets, a specialist debt counseling charity has warned. Christians Against Poverty said just under a third of the UK's population were eating less healthily.

  • Missionaries Pray, Fast for God's Intervention in India

    Youth With A Mission is calling on its 17,000 workers worldwide to join in three days of prayer and fasting for the church in India as it continues to face violent attacks from Hindu radicals.

  • 'Promised Land' Conference Gives Fresh Perspective on Israel-Palestine Conflict

    The World Council of Church's 'Promised Land' conference has thrown up fresh theological perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Delegates agreed that the Bible 'must not be utilized to justify oppression or supply simplistic commentary on contemporary events.'