1000 days left to meet poverty goals.

Here it is April already and there is that familiar feeling that the year is racing away. 

But there is an even bigger sense of urgency when we remember that this week on April 5^th we will pass the 1000 days landmark on the way to meeting the global goal to have extreme poverty by 2015.

Life without fear

It’s International Women’s Day on the 8th. 

For educated women in the West with many opportunities, the day might seem redundant, but being female is still a huge struggle for survival and dignity in many parts of the world. 

Women in the north of Democratic Republic of the Congo just want to live without fear. 

Risking Prison for Justice

February 2013

Last Monday, retired Anglican bishop, Rev Dr Zac Niringiye, was arrested and detained in Kampala for distributing materials denouncing corruption, to students at Makerere University in Kampala. 

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God believes in feminism

January 2013

Many Christian women (and men) have become distrustful of feminism: it can sound very strident and can relegate men to the sidelines, and while western feminists talk loudly about reproductive rights they don’t place those rights alongside the responsibilities of family relationships.

But recent news stories of the violence and hatred facing many women just because they are female, remind me that we need some Jesus feminism. We need to be advocates of the rights and equality of women. When Jesus defended the woman caught in adultery or spoke to women as equals, when he took time with widows and praised the faith of the woman who washed his feet with her tears, he was advocating for the rights of women. Sadly his message is needed just as much today.

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