The UK's Department for International Development (DfID) has formally withdrawn as a partner of the Greenbelt festival following budget cuts by the new government.

Robin Hood Tax campaigners from across the world will be taking part in Make Finance Pay Week, a global event aimed at making the financial sector take responsibility for its part in the global recession.

Christian Aid is urging the new British government to make a renewed effort to work with the Sri Lankan government and the international community

Amnesty International UK has expressed its disappointment today at the Financial Times’ decision to pull a new hard-hitting advert

A Malawian court has triggered outrage after convicting a same-sex couple of a criminal offence for going through a traditional engagement ceremony.

Afascinating paperhas been published by Maria J.read more

Some Christians throw around the word"sin"fairly unthinkingly, while others have become rather embarrassed by it. To talk about"sin"clearly and justly, we need to address the confusion of both society and churches around two major issues - sex and violence.

The Vice-Chancellors of the UK's leading universities have triggered a negative reaction by calling on the new government to lift the cap on tuition fees.

Anti-Slavery International is lobbying governments around the world to support a strong global convention on conditions for domestic workers when they meet to discuss the issue next month.

The news that human rights Peter Tatchell is to speak at this year’s Greenbelt Arts Festival, was met by a small number of conservative Christians with a call for a boycott, on the grounds that the Christian event is being ‘gayified’. Others haveexpressed puzzlementas to why an atheist like Tatchell would want to speak, when he has previously attacked the church’s unjust practices.read more

The UK-based team coordinating election observers for Somaliland have welcomed the recent announcement that the vote has officially been scheduled for 26 June 2010.

Contact: Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Christian Defense Coalition, 540-538-4741 BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., May 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- Christian leaders plan to hold a memorial service today, Sunday, May 16, in Boynton Beach, Florida, to honor the slain street preachers. Stephen Ocean and Tite Sufra were murdered earlier this year on the public sidewalk while they were sharing the gospel on the streets of South Florida. Dr. Gary Cass of the Anti-Christian Defamation Coalition Source: Christian Defense Coalition

Contact: Rev. David Anderson, National Clergy Council, 941-232-1621MOROCCO, May 14 /Christian Newswire/ -- A delegation of evangelical church leaders visiting Morocco at the urging of various Christian ministry organizations working inside and outside this North African country, today commented from the capital of Rabat about recent deportations of Christians and the announcement by US Representative Frank Wolf that he will hold hearings on the matter next month.Spokesman for the delega Source: Faith and Action

Contact: Annee Kahler, Media Coordinator, 267-210-8278, Annee@ChinaAid.org; Jenny McCloy, Directory of Advocacy in Washington, DC, 202-213-0506, Jenny@ChinaAid.org; www.ChinaAid.org, www.MonitorChina.orgTEXAS, May 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- On the eve of the U.S.- China Human Rights Dialogue, ChinaAid has partnered with fifteen other concerned organizations to call for justice on behalf of Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti, sentenced to 15 years in prison for his faith.In a signed Open Le Source: China Aid Association, Inc.

Contact: Jim Crumley, 703-690-1247MEDIA ADVISORY, May 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- The national advocacy group In God We Trust today called last night's theft of the famous Mojave Desert World War I memorial a disgusting and cowardly act that was most likely encouraged by increasingly strident rhetoric of anti-religion groups in the United States."While we do not yet know who tore down and stole this war memorial, I think it is obvious that the perpetrators where making a political poi Source: TRIO STRATEGIES