Here we provide the latest news on issues of faith and community and up-to-date information on key Government decisions, charity initiatives, research findings and other important developments.
Poole Borough Chaplaincy was also set up as a direct challenge to the negative media coverage that so often engulfs the Church. We believe that it is time for local churches to tell different stories - stories of hope and of faith transforming lives and communities, so we would encourage you to send us details of your experiences and we will post them here to inspire and inform others. Email: news@chaplaincypoole.info, you may also attach one image in jpg format.
UN warning on India child health
The world will fail to reach millennium development goals unless India improves its record on health and child protection, a UN report says.
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Date: 06-08-2008
Bush presses China on freedoms
President Bush has urged China to allow more freedom of expression and worship.
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Date: 06-08-2008
'It's a place I can go for a hug'
AIDS support centres are closing but why?
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Date: 02-08-2008
LIving without Plastic
BBC correspondant Christine Jeavans
tries living plastic free for a month...
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Date: 02-08-2008
Self-interest derailed Doha development talks, says church agency
International development agency Christian Aid says the blame for the collapse of the latest Doha Development Round talks in Geneva lies squarely with major agricultural exporting countries putting self-interest above other considerations.
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Date: 02-08-2008
Council ban on atheist websites
A city council has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism.
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Date: 30-07-2008
Tearfund scales up aid response
‘For parents to be unable to feed their children is a torture difficult to imagine, but there are thousands now in this situation in Ethiopia.'
Keith Etherington, Tearfund’s Ethiopia Country Representative, on the desperate situation developing in the region, as Tearfund announces today a major scaling up of it's aid response to the hunger crisis that is affecting millions in Ethiopia.
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Date: 29-07-2008
Changes in murder laws proposed
Proposed reforms of the law on homicide in England, Wales and Northern Ireland could change the way a murder charge is reduced to manslaughter.
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Date: 29-07-2008
UK government grants asylum to Nigerian gay Christian activist
Davis MacIyalla, director of the lesbian and gay rights group Changing Attitude Nigeria, has been granted asylum in the United Kingdom. Mr Davis has been subject to a range of attacks and death threats for his Christian work.
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Date: 29-07-2008
EU executive endorses African farmer aid plan
The European Commission backed a plan on Friday to give 1 billion euros (795 million pounds) to farmers in Africa next year to help tackle high food prices and boost output, despite opposition by many EU states.
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Date: 18-07-2008