“The big question with the Pakistan floods is how many times can the Pakistani people be run over and get up again,’’ says Christchurch based aid and development expert, Nick Clarke.Mr Clarke was last in Pakistan on a monitoring visit for post earthquake conditions and results in April 2007.A visit to the North West Frontier […]
Read More...Food price hikes are adding to the misery for the millions of people affected by Pakistan’s worst flooding on record.Christian World Service has been told food prices had already drastically increased in the build up to the holy month of Ramadan. Now with the effects of ongoing flash floods and monsoon rains to the food […]
Read More...Christian World Service is appealing for assistance to Pakistanis facing the worst floods in living memory. It is channelling funds through its local partner in the ACT Alliance who have been delivering food, temporary shelter and medical relief from the beginning of the emergency. Life saving assistance is urgently needed. Donations can be made […]
Read More...Christian World Service joins campaigners, governments, agencies and those affected by cluster bombs in welcoming the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It comes into legal force on 1 August 2010. The international Convention bans production, use and transfer of cluster munitions that typically explode into dozens or even hundreds of submunitions or bomblets. Those that […]
Read More...CWS released the text of a letter to New Zealand Members of Parliament regarding the funding changes announced by Foreign Minister, Murray McCully. Subsequently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has issued an invitation to a meeting on the new funding scheme on 29 July. CWS will attend this meeting and report back to […]
Read More...The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported an increase in the numbers of people forcibly displaced in the world on June 15. The new report states that some 43.3 million people were uprooted by conflict and persecution at the end of 2009, the highest number since the mid-1990s. Overall refugee numbers remain relatively […]
Read More...Christian World Service partner Church World Service announced today that its long-time work in Afghanistan has been temporarily suspended by the Afghan Ministry of Economy, pending investigation. Allegations were made in an Afghan television news story that claimed Church World Service and another humanitarian agency, Norwegian Church Aid, had engaged in religious proselytizing. The station […]
Read More...ACT Alliance (Action by Churches Together) is calling on heads of states and governments to show their leadership in Rio de Janeiro this week. CWS a member of ACT Alliance, is supporting its call for agreement to transform the current economic system, for the good of the planet and its people. Decisive leadership must be […]
Read More...Auckland’s decision to become a Fair Trade City deserves praise says one of the fair trade movement co-founders Christian World Service.CWS national director, Pauline McKay said that the Christchurch based organisation applauds Auckland’s decision.“Before the terrific support from Auckland after the quakes Southerners were not always keen to say nice things about Auckland but this […]
Read More...Easter is RelationshipThe act of crucifixion and resurrection is that of a relationship most personal and general, at the same time. While on a personal level, each one of us sees in the crucifixion and resurrection a narrative that speaks to one’s situation, affiliations, afflictions and expectations; on a more general level Easter summarizes relationships […]
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