European Anglicans train to combat human trafficking

[ACNS] The Church of England’s Diocese in Europe has held the first of a number of one-day training conferences to teach Anglicans how to combat human trafficking. The event at Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral in Brussels at the end of January followed a diocesan-wide...

Melanesian women become financial decision-makers thanks to savings club

The women in four hamlets of Rarumana village in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands had heard that, thanks to savings clubs the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM) began offering last year through the Mothers’ Union, women in neighbouring...

Massive storm hits Fiji: Church response begins as emergency appeal launched

Cyclone Winston was described as the strongest recorded tropical storm in Fiji’s history, reaching category five storm level, with wind gusts up to 325km per hour and wave surges of up to 12m high. The damage is widespread but, with communications down, the...

Churches’ Ebola response is model for future epidemics

Bishops from Sierra Leone and Guinea joined representatives from partner agencies and link dioceses at a meeting convened by the Alliance to explore lessons learned and how they might be applied to similar crises elsewhere. One learning was immediately clear: the...

When receivers become givers: rebuilding communities in the Philippines

The super typhoon, the strongest land-falling tropical cyclone ever recorded, devastated the central part of the country on 8 November 2013, killing 6,300 persons, injuring more than 30,000 and rendering hundreds of thousands homeless. The inaugural celebrations of...

Brazil’s churches respond to Zika virus through Lent campaign

The campaign “Care for our Common Home” lifts up the right to clean water and sanitation in Brazil, a significant economy but one with great inequality and severe gaps in basic services and environmental standards.  “CONIC’s...