Micah Press Releases
Micah Challenge keen to help bishops keep on marching to 2015
Christian anti-poverty coalition Micah Challenge is delighted to have supported 650 bishops of the Anglican Communion in their July 24 march against global poverty – and is challenging them to keep on marching all the way to 2015.…
MPs taste injustice at anti-poverty event
The status of some of Britain ’s most powerful people was determined by a roll of the dice on Monday night (June 23), at a Micah Challenge event highlighting global poverty.…
Prime Minister and main UK political leaders endorse Micah's Challenge
Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have all endorsed the new book Micah’s Challenge: The Church’s Responsibility to the Global Poor…
Christian Aid joins Micah Challenge
International aid agency Christian Aid has added its weight to the Micah Challenge anti- poverty coalition. Micah Challenge is a global movement of churches and Christian organisations which take a united stand against world poverty. It challenges world leaders to meet the promise they made in 2000 to halve poverty by 2015…
‘Two degrees... one chance's breakfast highlights Micah's climate change challenge
‘Two degrees… one chance’ - that is the challenge to be put before church leaders and politicians at a special breakfast in Belfast on Tuesday 13 November. It is a Micah Challenge event to highlight the impact of climate change on the world’s poorest communities. Micah Challenge is a global movement of Christians…
PM calls on Micah Challenge leader to alleviate Poverty
Gordon Brown has called on church leaders, including the head of Micah Challenge International, to help the Government achieve its poverty targets. Mr Brown made the calls when he met the Black Christian Leaders Forum (BCLF) in 10 Downing Street last week…
Government pledges to unite with poverty campaigners
GOVERNMENT calls for the whole of society to halt global poverty are being hailed a major triumph by leaders of Micah Challenge UK. Micah Challenge UK is part of a global movement of Christians, churches and Christian organisations united in its aim of campaigning for governments to work to alleviate poverty…
Geordie urges churches to sign up to make a difference
If Andy Clasper, 36, was a Zambian, it is likely he would have just one year left to live. That was the reality faced by Andy, the executive director of Christian coalition Micah Challenge UK, when he travelled to Zambia in August. He said: “As soon as I arrived I was struck by how everything in Zambian life was completely different from the UK…
Micah Challenge empowers Christians to act against Aids
Churches urged to take part in Micah Sunday 07. Hundreds of UK churches are expected to hold Micah Sunday 07 events this autumn. Micah Sunday is an annual event which aims to galvanise the international church family to act on behalf of the world’s poorest people...
Micah Challenge welcomes Brown's united nations speech
Anti poverty coalition Micah Challenge UK is ready to be part of Gordon Brown’s “coalition of conscience”. Micah Challenge UK – a Christian coalition which campaigns to ensure the Government meets the Millennium Development Goals – applauded the Prime Minister’s UN speech yesterday (Tuesday)...
G8 2007: Better Than We Feared, Much Worse Than We Needed, Says Micah Challenge UK
This year’s G8 “paltry responses” risk squandering earlier successes in combating poverty and steering tragically close to failure on Africa, according to Christian anti-poverty coalition Micah Challenge.
Micah whistles raised for the world’s poor ahead of G8
Thousands of Christians made a deafening demand for justice today by blowing whistles in a call to G8 leaders to keep their promises to the poor.
Micah Challenge welcomes MP’s ‘Make Poverty History’ questions
Christian coalition Micah Challenge UK has welcomed the action of an MP who asked the Prime Minister how the UK Government aims to keep promises to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
Prime Minister back aims of Micah Challenge on issues of global poverty
Tony Blair has publicly pledged his “complete support” for Micah Challenge’s aims to alleviate global poverty, thanks to the determination of one Baptist church inspired by the Blow the Whistle campaign.
Campaigning Christians make Blow the Whistle Sunday a huge success
MPs, top Christian musicians and churches across the UK all took part in events to mark Blow the Whistle Sunday on May 20.
