The first refugees from the Iraq war this week told Tearfund partners at a camp just inside Jordan of their flight from Baghdad and their despair about the future.
04 April 2003
Members of the Mothers' Union (MU) and the Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC) called for greater ongoing commitment to the issue of debt relief today, stating that the time has come to lift stricken countries 'out of poverty and restore a sense of justice between the world's poorest and richest countries.'
03 April 2003
The decision to embark on military operations in Iraq last week produced something unfamiliar in our politics: the sense of the genuinely tragic - by which I mean not the sad or the catastrophic, but the awareness of desperately constrained choices, profound moral risk, the knowledge of the cost of what we do, even when we do it from conviction.
28 March 2003
My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, for giving us the opportunity of so timely a debate - a debate that recognises, as we needs must recognise at present, a major cultural shift. The time was when the family appeared as a safe and stable piece of territory, surrounded by the ups and downs of public life.
28 March 2003
A peace candle has been lit in the Holy House of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, following news of the outbreak of war against Iraq.
28 March 2003
As local leaders of the Christian and Muslim religions, two great world faiths, we stand shoulder to shoulder in our concern for our world at this dangerous and fearful time.
28 March 2003
It's a sobering business trying to guess where we'll be in a few weeks' time and seeking a word of gospel to speak into this unknown situation.
28 March 2003
In an unprecedented act of interfaith witness and cooperation, Muslims from Leeds and North Yorkshire have joined with Christians in prayers for peace at Ripon Cathedral today,
22 March 2003
Together with countless people around the World, we in the Middle East have been urging that war is not the solution to the situation in Iraq. Our hearts are deeply saddened, therefore, that war has broken out.
21 March 2003
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and The Muslim Council of Britain yesterday issued this joint statement:
21 March 2003