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• South Sudan’s high-level talks are not enough to secure peace, warns new report

  Monday July 9th, 2018

  Securing long-term peace in South Sudan requires much more than deals between political leaders, says Christian Aid.
  

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• Christian Aid responds to General Synod vote on Church's fossil fuel investments

  Sunday July 8th, 2018

  Christian Aid has praised the prophetic vision of the Church of England’s General Synod after it voted to sell its [...]
  

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• Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams calls for Church of England to sell its fossil fuel holdings

  Saturday July 7th, 2018

  Writing for the Daily Telegraph today, the former Archbishop of Canterbury and Chair of Christian Aid, has said the time [...]
  

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• Christian Aid calls for Church of England to divest from fossil fuel companies ahead of crunch Synod vote

  Monday July 2nd, 2018

  Following the speech given by the Archbishop of Canterbury this morning at the London Stock Exchange, Christian Aid has called [...]
  

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• Christian Aid welcomes UN Human Rights Council move to include voices of people displaced by violence and conflict 

  Monday June 25th, 2018

  People uprooted from their homes by conflict and violence are set to attend the UN Human Rights Council’s first High [...]
  

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• Christian Aid calls on new President of Colombia to implement the 2016 peace agreement, amid concerns that changes may be made 

  Christian Aid has called on the newly-elected President of Colombia to implement the peace agreement signed in 2016, amid concerns [...]
  

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• Christian Aid calls for faster progress to put affected communities at centre of humanitarian system at crunch New York meeting 

  Monday 18th June, 2018

  Signatories of the Grand Bargain, the pact signed two years ago at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, meet in [...]
  

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• Christian Aid condemns the killing of partner volunteer in Gaza – statement

  Monday June 4th, 2018

  In response to the horrific killing of 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar, Christian Aid's Head of Middle East Policy, William Bell, said: [...]
  

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• Christian Aid welcomes first UK bank to wash its hands of coal projects 

  Wednesday May 30th, 2018

  Responding to the announcement from RBS that it will stop financing new coal projects as well as the exploration and [...]
  

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• Christian Aid condemns recent human rights violations in Nicaragua 

  Saturday May 26th, 2018

  Christian Aid condemns the recent human rights violations in Nicaragua and welcomes the preliminary findings of the Inter-American Commission on [...]
  

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