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• Christian Aid responds to UK setting net zero emissions date

  Embargoed for 22:30, June 11, 2019

  - ‘Until we go net zero we’ll be trying to tackle a housefire by dousing it with petrol’  Responding to the [...]
  

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• Christian Aid joins call for accountability after killings of peaceful protesters in Sudan

  6 June 2019

  Christian Aid is one of 30 agencies demanding urgent action to prevent further violence against peaceful protesters in Sudan.  
  

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• Christian Aid calls on UK Government to adopt Labour's proposal on global debt crisis

  5 June 2019

  Christian Aid calls on UK Government to adopt Labour's proposal on global debt crisis
  

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• Faith communities vital in tackling rising intolerance, says UN deputy secretary general
   

  Tuesday, 4 June 2019

  On a visit to Christian Aid, UN deputy general secretary Amina Mohammed rallies faith communities.
  

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• Stop turning a blind eye, Christian Aid tells UK after Overseas Territories top tax haven index. 

  28 May 2019

  The UK must stop turning ‘a blind eye’ to its shameful role in tax avoidance, Christian Aid has warned.
  

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• School strikers to have climate demands raised in mass lobby of Parliament

  Friday, May 24, 2019

  As school children go on strike in the UK and around the world today, Christian Aid has called on members [...]
  

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• 43 Syrian and international NGOs call for immediate end to attacks on civilians and hospitals in Idlib, Syria

  24 May 2019

  43 Syrian and international NGOs call for immediate end to attacks on civilians and hospitals in Idlib, Syria
  

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• UK must act to stop spiralling debt of world’s poorest countries, says new Christian Aid report

  Embargoed until 00:01 on 15 May 2019

  UK must act to stop spiralling debt of world’s poorest countries, says new Christian Aid report
  

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      string(510) "‘Mama’ Jebbeh Swaray with her granddaughter, Hawa Fortune, in Pujehun district, Sierra Leone. Jebbeh’s only daughter died giving birth
  to Hawa: their home country, Sierra Leone, has the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. Christian Aid is calling on the UK Government to push the International Monetary Fund to cancel debts
  incurred by Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis, so that the country can invest more funds in the healthcare it so desperately needs.
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• Gordon Brown launches Christian Aid Week making moral and ethical case for aid and development, says Britain must rediscover its internationalism

  12 May 2019

  The former Prime Minister launches Christian Aid Week at an event in Westminster, speaking about the moral need for aid.
  

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• Pre-loved baby grows from famous mums highlight Sierra Leone’s shocking maternal death rate

  10 May 2019

  One hundred and fifty baby grows are displayed outside famous London landmark as a symbol of solidarity with mothers in [...]
  

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