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Christians in Pakistan are considering how to rebuild their homes and churches in the aftermath of recent attacks on townships in Jaranwala, Punjab, following unsubstantiated allegations of blasphemy. Partners of UK-based Release International held services out of doors after mobs recently set fire to houses, churches and Bibles. Efforts are underway to galvanise emergency relief...

Eight months on from the devastating earthquakes that killed at least 58,000 people across southern Turkey and northwest Syria, Christian Aid has thanked the generosity of their supporters for raising over £3.4m to help “tens of thousands of people who lost their homes, livelihoods and loved ones.” Since the deadly earthquakes on 6th February, the...

‘Silver Sunday’ is 1st October – the ‘national day for older people’. So perhaps this is a good month to consider what churches can do to support their older people. Nearly one in five people in England and Wales is aged over 65. The over-70s currently make up around a third of the Church of...

How to fight back against artificial intelligence Come back to church! Chinese Christians learn in small groups – thanks to Bible Society Could you volunteer to help prisoners rebuild their lives this autumn? How China is increasing persecution of Christians Compassion for those in poverty – CAP Sunday 15th October Help more children get back...

I’ve been writing Christian comment columns for newspapers and radio for more than 30 years – but I had a shock when I asked an artificial intelligence computer programme to write one for me. The question that I posed was simple. Could an AI programme produce a column that would match up to one penned...

To encourage you to attend, how about if we offered: Beds – for those who say Sunday is their day to sleep-in. Safety helmets – for anyone who fears the roof would fall in if they entered a church door. Blankets and hot water bottles – for those who find our church too cold. Fans...

Church leaders in China have thanked Bible Society UK for sending them discipleship materials suitable for them to use in small groups. The Abundant Life and The Abundant Grace have been widely used to help Chinese Christians grow in their faith in a country which is actively against them having any faith at all.  Yet...

Prison Fellowship has opportunities in many prisons across England and Wales for PF volunteers to help run its various programmes for prisoners, including the Sycamore Tree programme, supporting prison chaplaincy ministry, and delivering the Angel Tree project this Christmas, as well as much more. If you would like to help Prison Fellowship reach out to...

China has been trying to tighten its grip on Christians in China through a programme of ‘Sinicization’, a policy to compel churches to adopt the atheist ideology of the Communist Party. According to reports, a recent conference in Jilin was attended by state-appointed pastors of the government-controlled Three Self Church. It called for Christianity with...

‘Compassion in action’. That is the theme for this year’s Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Sunday, which is next month, on 15th October. Churches play a vital role in helping people coping with UK poverty, and CAP says that it wants to help them “do more of that!” It says: “Whether you’ve partnered with us for...

As our children return to school this month, World Vision has been reporting on its work in countries where more and more children will NOT be going to school this autumn. Instead, the worldwide cost-of-living-crisis means that such children will either be skipping meals to make ends meet, unable to go to school because of...

Since the fighting broke out in Sudan this April, thousands have been killed and several million have been displaced. Ceasefire attempts by the warring parties – the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – have failed, and the conflict has now spread beyond the capital Khartoum to the south. It...