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Faith leaders encourage world community to transform lives through Global Goals

Faith leaders encourage world community to transform lives through Global Goals

As world leaders adopt Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations post-2015 agenda summit today, faith leaders are urging their communities to play their part to ensure that the Goals move from policy to action to transform the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable while also tackling climate change.

Canadian Anglicans support wildfire relief efforts

Canadian Anglicans support wildfire relief efforts

Based on articles by Matt Gardner for the Anglican Church of Canada and Diana Swift for Anglican Journal .
Canadian Anglicans were among both evacuees and responders as wildfires across Western Canada in the past months devastated huge swathes of forest and forced over 12,000 people from their homes.

Welcoming the stranger in Athens: the Church responds to the refugee crisis

Welcoming the stranger in Athens: the Church responds to the refugee crisis

Athens, Saturday, 1 August, 7:30am. Armed with bags of sandwiches, Canon Malcolm Bradshaw, Anglican Senior Chaplain in the city, joins Captain Polis Pandelis of the Salvation Army and heads to a park close to Victoria Square where newly-arrived Afghan refugees have found temporary shelter in tents.

Freedom Sunday: resources launched to mobilise churches to end human trafficking

Freedom Sunday: resources launched to mobilise churches to end human trafficking

The Freedom Sunday resource promotes a day of worship, prayer and action towards ending human trafficking / modern slavery. Together churches and faith groups have developed resources to raise awareness and mobilise their communities so that they can be united in their response to end the worldwide crime of modern slavery.

Anglican cathedral in Zanzibar to join the fight against modern slavery

Anglican cathedral in Zanzibar to join the fight against modern slavery

The Anglican Alliance welcomes the Anglican Diocese of Zanzibar’s plan (ADZ) to create a centre at its renovated Christ Church Cathedral to raise awareness about the history of slavery in Zanzibar and current human trafficking realities in East Africa and worldwide.