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A year ago today, 15 December, violence broke out in Juba. Since then, the conflict has left nearly 2 million people displaced in South Sudan or in neighbouring countries. Overall, nearly 4 million are in need of humanitarian assistance, with the food crisis growing. Although there is relative calm at the moment, security needs to be sustained before people feel safe to return home and start rebuilding their lives and communities.

The Anglican Alliance is calling leaders in education from Commonwealth countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Pacific, to apply to their next fellowship programme with the Commonwealth Secretariat. 

The Anglican Alliance is marking International Day of Persons with Disabilities with the launch of a new resource, ‘A better life together’, to help faith communities engage with and support people with disabilities living in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.

On Tuesday 2nd December the Vatican City saw a truly historic gathering of global faith leaders. The Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other global faith leaders from Orthodox, Jewish, Sunni and Shia Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist communities came together to make a joint declaration on ending modern slavery.

World AIDS Day is marked every year on 1 December. World AIDS Day is an important annual event giving people worldwide the opportunity to unite in highlighting HIV, to demonstrate their support for those living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, and to remember those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses.

On Sunday 7^th December 2014 the Our Voices campaign is asking churches and faith communities worldwide to hold a vigil at 8pm local time and mark the climate discussions in Lima, Peru.

Anglicans around the world are taking part in events from 25 November – 10 December 2014 to mobilise and equip them to respond on gender based and sexual violence issues as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. 

Fighting poverty, inequality and climate change: the action/2015 movement brings together civil society organisations to mobilise citizens worldwide to take part in the post-2015 development agenda.

Rachel Carnegie, Co-Executive Director of the Anglican Alliance, spoke today at the Church of England’s General Synod about the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and Syria and the ways that parishes and individuals can respond.

The Anglican Archbishop of Polynesia, the Most Reverend Doctor Winston Halapua, has this morning reiterated the urgency of the G20 nations tackling the issue of climate change.  Archbishop Halapua, Primate of the Diocese of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, delivered the sermon at a special service at St Augustine’s Anglican Church in Hamilton, Brisbane, to mark the G20 and the issue of climate change.