<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Church Mission Society (CMS)</title><link>http://www.cms-uk.org</link><description>The Church Mission Society (CMS) is a voluntary society working with the Anglican Church and other Christians around the world.</description><language>en-GB</language><copyright>&amp;copy; 1999-2010 Church Mission Society (CMS) - Reg Charity 1131655&lt;br /&gt;</copyright><webMaster>admin@churchmissionsociety.org.uk</webMaster><item><title>Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa wins election (Guardian)</title><description>The Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has won the country's first election since the defeat o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:01:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2463</guid></item><item><title>SMS 'helped stoke Nigeria violence' (SkyNews)</title><description>Text messages that urged people to murder and then burn their victims' bodies reportedly helped stok...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2467</guid></item><item><title>Will endemic corruption suck away aid to Haiti? (Reuters)</title><description>Despite the best intentions of the international community, Haitians have little faith they will see...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:57:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2466</guid></item><item><title>Muslims attack silence over anti-Islamic hostility (BBC)</title><description>There is growing disenchantment at the government's "lacklustre response" to rising anti-Islamic hos...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:55:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2465</guid></item><item><title>Only Christ can fill your soul, Graham tells 85,000 Indians (Christian Today)</title><description>An evangelistic festival headlined by Franklin Graham in southeast India ended on Sunday drew nearly...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:49:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2464</guid></item><item><title>Outside of the rubble, Haiti tends to its living (Reuters)</title><description>With food, cash and medicine starting to flow, Haiti's government and aid workers are turning to the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:15:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2458</guid></item><item><title>France arrests doctor accused in Rwanda genocide (CSM)</title><description>France arrested a Hutu doctor wanted at home on charges of involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwand...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:14:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2457</guid></item><item><title>DRC: Concern for refugees rises as river runs low (IRIN)</title><description>The risks to the population are also more acute because of the lack of rain; local food production i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:13:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2456</guid></item><item><title>Accused Pakistani Christian says Muslims tried to coerce him (Compass)</title><description>A Pakistani Christian accused of killing a Muslim during the Aug. 1 Islamist attack on Christians in...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:11:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2455</guid></item><item><title>Vatican blames Israel for driving out Christians (WND)</title><description>However, Christians who fled their homes in Palestinian-controlled territory largely blamed Muslim i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:10:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2454</guid></item><item><title>Christians prevented from baptising in Jordan (Ma'an)</title><description>Orthodox Christians celebrated Epiphany on the banks of the Jordan but were prohibited from doing th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:47:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2453</guid></item><item><title>Nigeria: not just Jos (allAfrica)</title><description>Nigeria's Vanguard trieds to uncover the reasons for the Jos violence - but detects a wider pattern ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:08:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2452</guid></item><item><title>Jos deaths: some say 460 killed (allAfrica)</title><description>Some estimates of the deaths resulting from Christian-Muslim violence in Jos are as high as 460 - wh...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:06:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2451</guid></item><item><title>Resurrection of Christ to hit big screen in 2011 (Christian Today)</title><description>Movie on the resurrection gets green light - will focus on 'the players' - Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:38:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2450</guid></item><item><title>Soldiers discover biblical references on gunsights (BBC)</title><description>Practice of US arms maker that claims to be run to biblical standards disturbs US and UK forces who ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:36:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2449</guid></item><item><title>Nigeria religious riots 'kill 200' in Jos (BBC)</title><description>At least 200 people have been killed in violence between Christians and Muslims in the Nigerian city...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:10:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2448</guid></item><item><title>UK promises amendments to controversial Equality Bill (RIN)</title><description>Public opposition to the Equality Bill has forced the British Government to promise amendments clari...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:09:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2447</guid></item><item><title>Haiti violence fears lift, US troops help deliver aid (Reuters)</title><description>Fears of violence and looting eased in earthquake-devastated Haiti as U.S. troops provided security ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:09:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2446</guid></item><item><title>Consecration of women bishops faces setback (Christian Today)</title><description>The consecration of women bishops in the Church of England has suffered a setback after it emerged t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:08:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2445</guid></item><item><title>Egypt Copt killings: World attention sought (Baptist Press)</title><description>The shooting deaths of six Coptic Christians is fueling efforts to publicize and protest what Copts ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:07:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2444</guid></item><item><title>Will Afganistan troop surge cause aid crisis? (IRIN)</title><description>Aid agencies worry intensification of conflict could simply lead to more civilian casualties</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:23:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2440</guid></item><item><title>Jos Christian leaders say attacks by Muslims 'premeditated' (allAfrica)</title><description>Council of Christian Elders in Jos, Nigeria, say the latest violence was started by premeditated att...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:21:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2443</guid></item><item><title>Jos violence: Imam appeals for calm (allAfrica)</title><description>The chief imam of Jos central mosque has appealed to young Muslims to keep calm while the cause of t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:19:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2442</guid></item><item><title>Nigeria's tragic history of religious violence (allAfrica)</title><description>Comment piece on history of religious riots in Nigeria</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:16:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2441</guid></item><item><title>Recession is crisis of ethics too, say many (Telegraph)</title><description>A survey reveals at least two thirds fo people think the worldwide economic crisis is also a crisis ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:12:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2439</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: IDP widows struggle to cope (IRIN)</title><description>“Since I was married when I was 16 years, I only cared for the livestock and did household tasks. I ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:44:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2434</guid></item><item><title>Haiti quake aid effort hampered by blockages (BBC)</title><description>Bottlenecks and infrastructure damage have been holding up aid efforts in Haiti, where Tuesday's ear...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:36:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2438</guid></item><item><title>Uganda backs down on anti-gay bill (RIN)</title><description>Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has acceded to the private entreaties of church and world leaders ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:35:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2437</guid></item><item><title>Evangelical body makes urgent appeal for prayer after Haiti earthquake (Christian Today)</title><description>The World Evangelical Alliance is calling on Christians to pray for Haiti as aid agencies race to br...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:34:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2436</guid></item><item><title>New Greenbelt director chosen to 'grow ambition and nurture distinctiveness' (Ekklesia)</title><description>Greenbelt Trustees, who made the appointment, said they considered Gawain to be a strong communicato...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:31:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2435</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: concern over IDP voting rights (IRIN)</title><description>Tens of thousands of displaced people may miss out on voting rights in upcoming elections </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:46:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2433</guid></item><item><title>Sudan Archbishop critical of China (CISA News)</title><description>The Sudanese Archbishop, the Rt Rev Daneil Deng, has accused China of pursuing a damaging policy in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:40:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2432</guid></item><item><title>Haiti: bloggers' experiences of earthquake (Global Voices)</title><description>Excerpts from Caribbean blogs on the Haiti earthquake </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:25:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2431</guid></item><item><title>Haiti Anglicans: "There is no cathedral" (Church Times)</title><description>Among the destruction in Haiti, including the death of the Roman Catholic Archbishop, the Anglican c...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:22:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2430</guid></item><item><title>A gift economy for Europe? (Guardian)</title><description>A brilliant piece noting that the new EU president has got his head screwed on the right way - we mu...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:12:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2429</guid></item><item><title>Haiti earthquake feared to have killed hundreds (BBC)</title><description>A 7.0-magnitude quake which hit south of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is feared to have killed...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:29:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2428</guid></item><item><title>British Prime Minister defends faith groups (RIN)</title><description>Prime Minister Gordon Brown has continued in his bid for the Christian vote by defending the right o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:28:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2427</guid></item><item><title>Making way for women bishops (Christian Today)</title><description>In the lead-up to legislation to approve women priests in the Church of England, a package was put b...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:27:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2426</guid></item><item><title>Church buildings attacked in Malaysia following court decision (Compass)</title><description>In unprecedented acts that stunned Christians in Malaysia, suspected Islamists have attacked eight c...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:26:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2425</guid></item><item><title>How are homeless people coping in frozen Britain? (BBC)</title><description>With Britain still in the grip of a big freeze, homeless charities are warning of "life-threatening"...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:25:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2424</guid></item><item><title>Confidence in the Covenant? (RIN)</title><description>The Anglican Communion is still ‘teetering on the brink’, still ‘looking over the precipice’, but it...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:34:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2421</guid></item><item><title>Teacher suspended after offering to pray for student (Christian Today)</title><description>Olive Jones, 54, had given math lessons to a 14-year-old girl who suffers from leukemia at the stude...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:33:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2420</guid></item><item><title>Egyptians riot after 7 killed in church attack (WashingtonTimes)</title><description>Witnesses and security officials say relatives of seven people killed in an attack on churchgoers le...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:32:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2419</guid></item><item><title>Christians demand US/UK action in central Africa (Spero News)</title><description>Missionaries reject the claims that it is an ethnic conflict and state that "the crisis revolves aro...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:31:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2418</guid></item><item><title>Malaysian church firebombed amid 'Allah' flap (Baltimore Sun)</title><description>The attacks sharply escalated tensions in the Muslim-majority country ahead of planned protests late...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:29:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2417</guid></item><item><title>Somali militants force UN's World Food Programme to halt aid work (BBC)</title><description>The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has pulled out of large parts of southern Somalia because of thr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:16:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2416</guid></item><item><title>Christian Aid appeals for funds as recession takes its toll (Christian Today)</title><description>Christian Aid has launched a new appeal to raise funds for its work in impoverished communities stru...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:14:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2415</guid></item><item><title>Islamic body criticizes attempt on Danish cartoonist’s life (RIN)</title><description>OIC spokesperson stated that the alleged attempt on the life of the Danish cartoonist  should be rej...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:13:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2414</guid></item><item><title>Muslim mob in Pakistan wounds Christian family (Compass)</title><description>Infuriated by an alleged anti-Islamic comment by a mentally ill man, more than a dozen Muslims attac...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:10:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2413</guid></item><item><title>Archbishops condemn police intimidation against Anglicans in Zimbabwe  (Christian Today)</title><description>The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have condemned fresh police intimidation against members of t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:09:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2412</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan govt under pressure after deadly attack (Reuters)</title><description>Pakistan's government came under renewed pressure on Saturday to bring stability to the country afte...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:10:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2411</guid></item><item><title>Malaysian government to appeal court ruling on use of 'Allah' by non-Muslims (Christian Today)</title><description>Malaysia’s government is to file an appeal against a recent ruling by the Supreme Court deeming a ba...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:09:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2410</guid></item><item><title>Volunteers accuse government of neglect for the homeless (Ekklesia)</title><description>Volunteers working with church and secular homeless relief and action groups over the Christmas peri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:08:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2409</guid></item><item><title>Christians in India faced three attacks per week in 2009 (Compass)</title><description>After unprecedented large-scale attacks on Christians in the previous two years, 2009 brought hardly...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:07:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2408</guid></item><item><title>Christian missionary freed from Gambian jail after year of hard labour - but her husband's still there (MailOnline)</title><description>The couple were jailed in December last year for allegedly sending a letter to individuals and group...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:06:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2407</guid></item><item><title>International community must not withdraw from Afghanistan, says Nazir-Ali (Christian Today)</title><description>Writing in the latest edition of Standpoint magazine, Michael Nazir-Ali said any withdrawal from a p...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:22:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2406</guid></item><item><title>Christmas season attacks worry Christians in India (Compass)</title><description>Hindu extremists launch two assaults and claim hundreds of 'reconversions.' </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:21:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2405</guid></item><item><title>Colombian Christians detained for refusing to denounce their faith (MNN)</title><description>28 indigenous Colombian Christians have been imprisoned since October for refusing to denounce their...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:21:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2404</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani Muslims gun down Christian friend (Compass)</title><description>A group of Muslims shot their Christian friend dead this month on the outskirts of this town after s...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:20:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2403</guid></item><item><title>Safe water flows for Southeast Asia on the fifth anniversary of the Tsunami (CNW)</title><description>Relief efforts initiated by Water Missions International are still providing sustainable access to s...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:19:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2402</guid></item><item><title>Uganda Pastors defend anti-gay bill (Christian Post)</title><description>A group of 20 denominational heads who recently formed the Uganda National Pastors Task Force Agains...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:54:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2401</guid></item><item><title>Young Sinhalese and Tamils for peace, against prejudices (AsiaNews)</title><description>The National Fisheries Solidarity association organised a three-day meeting in mid-December with you...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:46:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2398</guid></item><item><title>Blast outside Peshawar press club kills two (BBC)</title><description>At least two people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a club for journ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:45:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2400</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop encourages provinces to approve Anglican Covenant (Christian Today)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has advised the Anglican Communion's 34 provinces to ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:43:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2399</guid></item><item><title>Bishops offer differing views on the Taliban (RIN)</title><description>The Taliban is a destructive force of darkness, said the former Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Mich...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:05:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2397</guid></item><item><title>Two-thirds of population live in religiously restrictive countries (Christian Today)</title><description>Two out of three people in the world live in countries with high levels of restrictions on religion,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:13:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2396</guid></item><item><title>India readies special law to check communal violence (RIN)</title><description>Six years after making the promise, the ruling United Progressive Alliance central government is fin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:08:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2395</guid></item><item><title>Anti-Homosexuality bill divides Ugandan and American Christians (Christianity Today)</title><description>American pastors and leaders are united in condemning the legislation while Ugandans are united in s...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:07:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2394</guid></item><item><title>Mayhem, fear and fighting in Congo (MNN)</title><description>Rebels of the Lords Resistance Army are threatening to repeat last year's Christmas massacres in the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:06:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2393</guid></item><item><title>South London council throws out appeal of Christian homelessness adviser (Christian Today)</title><description>The advisor was dismissed by Wandsworth Council after he suggested to a terminally ill client that t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:05:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2392</guid></item><item><title>Atheist's Guide to Christmas (Guardian)</title><description>Find out what celebrity atheists are saying about the feast in the latest skirmishes in the great de...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:48:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2388</guid></item><item><title>Christianity dying? Don't bet on it (Telegraph)</title><description>George Pitcher comments on these new statistics, which of course don't prophesy the gloom they prete...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:47:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2391</guid></item><item><title>Pleas from church leaders as climate talks falter (Ekklesia)</title><description>Pope and Tutu demand moral leadership from governments </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:43:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2390</guid></item><item><title>New stats on 'faith's sharp decline' (Telegraph)</title><description>'Fuzzy faithful' increase, those who call themselves Christians fall in numbers, says new survey </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:25:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2389</guid></item><item><title>Burma's Suu Kyi meets senior members of her NLD party (BBC)</title><description>Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to meet top officials of her Na...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:36:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2387</guid></item><item><title>UN peacekeepers sent to Sudan (RIN)</title><description>United Nations peacekeepers were sent to protect a camp of refugees from Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:35:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2386</guid></item><item><title>U.S. outlines conditions for aid to Pakistan (Reuters)</title><description>The Obama administration sought to reassure U.S. lawmakers this week it would demand "maximum accoun...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:34:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2385</guid></item><item><title>London: Christian registrar loses discrimination case (Christian Today)</title><description>A Christian registrar has lost her appeal against a north London council after it disciplined her fo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:33:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2384</guid></item><item><title>Orissa: “Maoist” threats against Hindu radicals raise Christian fears (AsiaNews)</title><description>Police go on alert after a Hindu-owned store is bombed and anti-Sangh Parivar posters appear. They i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:31:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2383</guid></item><item><title>Tough times for returning displaced people in Swat (IRIN)</title><description>Rebuilding lives from scratch in Pakistan's Swat valley is proving hard, with crops failing, despite...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:32:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2382</guid></item><item><title>Needs unmet as refugees flee from Congo to Congo (IRIN)</title><description>Now inter-communal clashes in northwest DRC cause more displacement</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2381</guid></item><item><title>Britain on course for first woman bishop (TimesOnline)</title><description>Dr Alison Peden on shortlist for see of Glasgow and Galloway</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:26:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2380</guid></item><item><title>Ugandan politician's view of gay people (Guardian)</title><description>While there seems to be a growing recognition that the death penalty will be removed from the anti-h...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:25:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2379</guid></item><item><title>Uganda: Bishop to reward virgins (allAfrica)</title><description>We know we shouldn't believe everything we read in the newspapers. Can this really be true? New Visi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:17:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2378</guid></item><item><title>Five Americans arrested in Pakistan don't fit typical profile (Christian Science Monitor)</title><description>It appears that some of the best and brightest may have been susceptible to recruitment efforts by i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:00:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2376</guid></item><item><title>UK Government attacked over Equality Bill (RIN)</title><description>The British Government’s Equality Bill fails to take sufficient account of religion and instead sees...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:58:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2377</guid></item><item><title>115,000 flee ethnic violence in north-western DRC (Reuters)</title><description>Raging ethnic violence in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo has now driven 115,000 people f...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:55:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2375</guid></item><item><title>Teachers forced to 'hide in closets' to pray (WorldNetDaily)</title><description>School employees ordered to stop others from 'communicating with a deity' </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:54:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2374</guid></item><item><title>Fear of new attacks means “silent” Christmas for Christians (AsiaNews)</title><description>Pakistani Christians are preparing for a silent and low key Christmas without much public pomp and d...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:54:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2373</guid></item><item><title>Bishop’s appeal over digital revolution (RIN)</title><description>The Anglican Bishop of Manchester has called on the British Government to ensure that poorer communi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:44:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2372</guid></item><item><title>Kenya leaders stoking ethnic division (Reuters)</title><description>Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan warned on Tuesday that some Kenyan politicians were reverting to the da...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:43:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2371</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop: God takes an interest in the Earth (Christian Today)</title><description>As 15,000 delegates meet in Copenhagen this week for the UN climate summit, Dr Rowan Williams dismis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:42:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2370</guid></item><item><title>Crackdown on Christians cast shadow on Eritrea (Persecution Blog)</title><description>There are unconfirmed reports of a new wave of arrests of Christians in Eritrea over the weekend. An...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:41:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2369</guid></item><item><title>Official Chinese newspaper publishes call to change religion policy (Christianity Today)</title><description>Religious freedom experts are surprised and cautiously optimistic, but disagree on proposal. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:40:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2368</guid></item><item><title>Five more Christian leaders sentenced in China (Compass)</title><description>Arbitrary administrative decision sends church leaders to re-education labor camp. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:04:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2365</guid></item><item><title>Confrontation threatened over women bishops issue (RIN)</title><description>Confrontation is threatened by traditionalists in response to the latest news from the Revision Comm...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:57:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2367</guid></item><item><title>Christians campaign for return of homelessness adviser sacked over God advice (Christian Today)</title><description>A campaign has been launched by the Christian Legal Centre seeking justice for a Christian homelessn...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:56:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2366</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: IDPs hit by female health worker shortage (IRIN)</title><description>Insecurity in many parts of northwestern Pakistan, where the military have been fighting militants f...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:54:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2364</guid></item><item><title>Episcopalians eye gay bishop (Washington Times)</title><description>If she's chosen this weekend in an election for two suffragan bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Lo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:53:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2363</guid></item><item><title>Bishop of Winchester: Britain urged to do more on Congo (RIN)</title><description>The British Government should give sustained attention to the situation in the Democratic Republic o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:46:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2362</guid></item><item><title>Half a million people flee war in Somalia (Reuters)</title><description>Hundreds dying on a perilous crossing across the Gulf of Eden to Yemen UN refugee agency has said. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:46:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2361</guid></item><item><title>Young people challenged to live the Bible (Christian Today)</title><description>"It's time for you to take the tandem skydive leap of faith and start living the dream - the way God...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:44:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2360</guid></item><item><title>Three churches attacked in Tamil Nadu (AsiaNews)</title><description>Church buildings belonging to the Church of South India are targeted. Christian leader pleads with t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:42:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2359</guid></item><item><title>Argentine judge stops gay marriage (BBC)</title><description>A judge in Argentina has overturned a ruling that would have allowed the first gay marriage in Latin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2358</guid></item><item><title>Swiss minaret referendum decision condemned (Guardian)</title><description>Swiss referendum vote to ban minarets on mosques even condemned by Vatican </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:55:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2357</guid></item><item><title>Uganda: church leaders want oil deals exposed (allAfrica)</title><description>National church leaders in Uganda ask government to reveal details of oil deals so local citizens wi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:38:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2356</guid></item><item><title>Children who front Richard Dawkins' atheist ads are evangelicals (TimesOnline)</title><description>The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins’s latest assault on God could not look more free of...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:26:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2351</guid></item><item><title>Faith schools 'strong on community cohesion' (BBC)</title><description>Secondary schools run by faith groups are better than non-religious schools at building community re...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:22:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2354</guid></item><item><title>Bishop backs free speech clause (RIN)</title><description>The Bishop of Winchester has supported the retention of a “free speech” provision to the law on homo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:21:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2353</guid></item><item><title>Russia: Rising tensions between Orthodox and Muslims following a priest’s murder (AsiaNews)</title><description>Muslim and Orthodox religious leaders are trying to appease confessional tensions following the kill...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:21:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2352</guid></item><item><title>Muslim states back limits on free speech ahead of UN debate (CSM)</title><description>The UN is expected to vote on a controversial proposal for members to be able to punish religious "d...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:19:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2350</guid></item><item><title>CofE online advent calendar launched by Tutu (CofE)</title><description>Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched the Church of England's online calendar, which will feature contrib...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:29:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2349</guid></item><item><title>Straight couple seeks civil partnership (TimesOnline)</title><description>A couple who "don't agree with marriage" are threatening to go to the European court after being ref...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:27:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2348</guid></item><item><title>Southern Sudanese still besieged by LRA (IRIN)</title><description>At least three attacks in Southern Sudan this month have forced civilians to flee their homes, in ra...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:14:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2347</guid></item><item><title>Green American Evangelical? Growing breed (Christianity Today)</title><description>CT talks to one US writer about his conversion to greenery and his ministry of spready the word </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:09:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2346</guid></item><item><title>Cyclone Nargis survivors still homeless 18 months on (AlertNet)</title><description>Hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar (Burma) are still living in makeshift homes 18 months aft...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:36:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2345</guid></item><item><title>Sentamu's latest column on recession (The Sun)</title><description>The Archbishop of York thinks the recession is bringing out the good neighbour in us and calls for "...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:31:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2344</guid></item><item><title>U.N. peacekeeping in east Congo "failing" (Reuters)</title><description>Report by U.N. experts says peacekeeping in DRC has aggravated conflict. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:48:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2343</guid></item><item><title>Bishop praises resilience in midst of floods (Christian Today)</title><description>The Rt Rev James Newcome, spoke of his pride and gratitude to local clergy and congregations who hav...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:47:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2342</guid></item><item><title>Eliminate "God" from national anthem. The Russian Communists against Putin and patriarchate (AsiaNews)</title><description>A parliamentary deputy maintains reference to God undermines national unity, discriminates against n...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:46:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2341</guid></item><item><title>Nigerian Christians welcome Muslim governor to preach in church (Ekklesia)</title><description>For the first time in northern Nigeria, a Muslim state governor has accepted an invitation to a chur...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:45:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2340</guid></item><item><title>Global warming with the lid off (Wall Street Journal)</title><description>The emails that reveal an effort to hide the truth about climate science. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:44:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2339</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: What now becomes of IDPs? (IRIN)</title><description>UN calls for proper care of returnees amid worries about freedom of movement </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:14:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2336</guid></item><item><title>Sudan violates peacekeeper agreements in Darfur (AlertNet)</title><description>UN accuses Sudanese government of harrassing international peacekeepers </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:41:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2338</guid></item><item><title>Sudan elections postponed (IRIN)</title><description>Worries about proper voter registration dog the Sudanese election process - is this the first of man...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:35:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2337</guid></item><item><title>Author: "Pakistan is the place to live" (Guardian)</title><description>Celebrated author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, is taking his newborn daughter and ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:03:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2335</guid></item><item><title>Nigerian Muslims priced out of Eid ram market (allAfrica)</title><description>Muslims getting ready to celebrate the upcoming Eid al-Adha (or Eid El Kabir - when they commemorate...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:59:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2334</guid></item><item><title>Maryam and Marzieh: Two Iranian Christian women freed after 259 says in prison (CNW)</title><description>For almost nine months the two Iranian Christian women have been held in the notorious Evin prison i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:27:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2332</guid></item><item><title>BBC can continue blocking atheists from popular broadcast (RIN)</title><description>The BBC Trust has ruled that there is no discrimination in excluding non-religious figures from the ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:25:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2331</guid></item><item><title>Black and white churches called to speak with one voice (Christian Today)</title><description>An Assemblies of God minister has appealed to black majority and white majority churches in the UK t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:24:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2330</guid></item><item><title>World Council of Churches against the settlements in East Jerusalem (AsiaNews)</title><description>The ecumenical organization, which brings together 349 Christian denominations, appeals for "Israeli...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:24:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2329</guid></item><item><title>Bishop backs move to restrict DNA database (RIN)</title><description>A move to severely restrict the number of people whose details are held on the national DNA database...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:22:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2328</guid></item><item><title>Congo: Archbishops speak up (Lambeth Palace)</title><description>Rowan WIlliams together with the Archbishop of Congo and the Bishop of Winchester, has issued a stat...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:29:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2327</guid></item><item><title>Afghanistan: report highlights thirst for peace (IRIN)</title><description>The Afghan people's desire for real peace and stability has remained strong as a new report emphasis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:33:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2326</guid></item><item><title>ABC at TUC (Guardian)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury seems to be in incresing demand as an economics commentator, now invite...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:30:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2325</guid></item><item><title>Methodist youth say age of apathy is over (Ekklesia)</title><description>Methodist youth are up for it </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:27:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2324</guid></item><item><title>African church reacts to Swedish lesbian bishop (allAfrica)</title><description>"Not a hot issue" in Sweden, ENI highlights another angle of the ongoing debate </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:25:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2323</guid></item><item><title>Germany arrests top Rwanda rebels (BBC)</title><description>Police in Germany have arrested two Rwandan militia leaders on suspicion of crimes committed in the ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:32:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2322</guid></item><item><title>Bishop of Blackburn says he will not convert to Rome (RIN)</title><description>The Bishop of Blackburn will not be taking the Pope up on his offer of a home for disaffected Anglic...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:30:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2321</guid></item><item><title>Colombia failing to support displaced and abused women (Reuters)</title><description>The Colombian government is failing to provide adequate humanitarian assistance to thousands of disp...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2320</guid></item><item><title>Orissa: European delegation meets victims of anti-Christian pogrom (AsiaNews)</title><description>Representatives from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland visit the region more than a year ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:28:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2319</guid></item><item><title>Muslims must quit British Forces, says Iranian envoy Abdolhossein Moezi (TimesOnline)</title><description>The Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative in Britain has told Muslim servicemen and women to quit ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:18:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2318</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: increasing hunger could fuel conflict in South (IRIN)</title><description>"Where there was peace, there was no rain and then where there were good rains, there was insecurity...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:56:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2317</guid></item><item><title>Serbian Orthodox patriarch dies (BBC)</title><description>Serbia is mourning the death of 95-year-old Patriarch Pavle </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:50:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2316</guid></item><item><title>Nigeria's Christian pilgrims begin arriving in Israel (allAfrica)</title><description>The first of 20,000 expected Christians from Nigeria ahve arrived in Israel, on an annual pilgrimage...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2315</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: chruches express concern over peace accord (allAfrica)</title><description>Sudan ecumenical forum issues communique saying peace agreement is on "brink of collapse" </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:41:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2314</guid></item><item><title>Blast hits Peshawar security HQ (BBC)</title><description>A suicide car bomb attack on Pakistan's main intelligence agency in the city of Peshawar has killed ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:00:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2312</guid></item><item><title>Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poor (Reuters)</title><description>Poor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:58:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2311</guid></item><item><title>Concern over UN resolution that could lead to Christian persecution  (RIN)</title><description>The resolution provides international cover for domestic anti-blasphemy laws in countries like Pakis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:57:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2310</guid></item><item><title>Convictions few in anti-Christian violence in Orissa, India (Compass)</title><description>BJP legislator, a key suspect in Kandhamal violence, acquitted again and out on bail. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:46:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2309</guid></item><item><title>Pressure on Iran builds; calls increase for Christian women's release (MNN)</title><description>Iran's nuclear games have the global spotlight focused on them once more. That is actually good news...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:43:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2308</guid></item><item><title>Severe flood damage, loss of life in El Salvador (Reuters)</title><description>More than 140 people have lost their lives, and many more people are injured or unaccounted for. Ove...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:33:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2305</guid></item><item><title>Yet another deadly blast hits Pakistani town (BBC)</title><description>At least 24 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a car bombing in the north-western ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:31:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2307</guid></item><item><title>Bishop opposes end of blasphemy law in N Ireland (RIN)</title><description>The Anglican Bishop of Winchester has opposed an attempt to abolish the offence of blasphemy in Nort...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:30:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2306</guid></item><item><title>Indian government urged to support Orissa Christians (Christian Today)</title><description>More than 20,000 letters are to be handed to the Indian High Commission later in the month in a show...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:28:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2304</guid></item><item><title>Vatican keeps celibacy in rules on Anglicans (New York Times)</title><description>The Vatican said on Monday that its new rules facilitating the conversion of Anglicans, including ma...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2303</guid></item><item><title>Why the lottery is bad for your health (Guardian)</title><description>Perceptive comment by Austen Ivereigh on the fate that could await the EuroMillions winners </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:21:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2299</guid></item><item><title>After the wall: 20 years of mission in Europe (Christianity Today)</title><description>Jonathan Lamb offers thoughtful reflections on the tensions of mission in Eastern Europe after Weste...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:19:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2298</guid></item><item><title>Cardinal Newman's miracle cure (Guardian)</title><description>A US deacon is touring the UK talking about his miraculous cure from a spinal disorder following pra...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:18:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2302</guid></item><item><title>Houses still under water for Philippines flood victims (IRIN)</title><description>IDPs trying to return home in the Philippines after Tropical Strom Ketsana find themselves caught be...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:17:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2301</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: unexploded mines barring return (IRIN)</title><description>Unexploded landmines and ordnance are one of the main barriers to IDPs returning home - more than 1....</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:11:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2300</guid></item><item><title>For secular and Catholic France, a shock to the system: the rise of the evangelicals</title><description>Church insists it is not like the US right, but many fear growth of a political 
force.</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:13:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2297</guid></item><item><title>Why Africa welcomes the ‘new colonialism’ (TimesOnline)</title><description>Beijing is enjoying its burgeoning power. But it should tread carefully: the continent has a habit o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2296</guid></item><item><title>Four new dioceses for Church in Sudan (RIN)</title><description>The Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) has created four new dioceses and elected seven new bishops ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:03:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2295</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Church-run school burned down in suspected terrorist attack  (Episcopal Life)</title><description>A historic girls' school run by the Church of Pakistan was burned to the ground Nov. 3 in what is su...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:02:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2294</guid></item><item><title>Authorities asked to release 15,000 seized Bibles (StarOnline)</title><description>Kuala Lumpur: The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) has called for the immediate release of the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:01:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2293</guid></item><item><title>Jerusalem bishop, partners aim to coordinate mission in Middle East (Episcopal Life)</title><description>'Absence of genuine peace' presents ministry challenge to Christian community. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:59:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2292</guid></item><item><title>Faith Diary: Whose God is Allah? (BBC)</title><description>Religion can be a tense affair in Malaysia. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:34:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2290</guid></item><item><title>More backing for Anglican Covenant (RIN)</title><description>The Dioceses of Western Louisiana and South Carolina have endorsed the Ridley-Cambridge draft of the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:33:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2289</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka steps up return of war-displaced - UN (Reuters)</title><description>Sri Lanka has begun allowing tens of thousands of war-displaced Tamils to return home after months o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:32:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2288</guid></item><item><title>Profit 'Not Satanic,' Barclays CEO says, after Goldman invokes Jesus (Bloomberg)</title><description>Barclays CEO John Varley says rewarding high-performing bankers with more pay doesn’t conflict with ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:31:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2286</guid></item><item><title>Fears of lack of justice for Orissa victims (Christian Today)</title><description>As the EU-India Summit approaches, Christian Solidarity Worldwide has sent a letter to EU leaders, u...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2287</guid></item><item><title>A new stage in South American partnership</title><description>Joint Statement from the Province of the Southern Cone and SAMS/CMS </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:24:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2285</guid></item><item><title>Climate change, justice and faith (Guardian)</title><description>John Houghton on why God's concern for justice must drive us to urgent action on climate change </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:39:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2284</guid></item><item><title>World Food Programme distributes food by text (IRIN)</title><description>In what is claimed to be a world first, the WFP are sending food vouchers to Iraqi families' mobile ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:30:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2283</guid></item><item><title>Georgia: freedom of speech concerns over 'Orthodox insults' (Global Voices)</title><description>Two students in Georgia have been pursued by police for making videos lampooning a senior Orthodox f...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:25:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2282</guid></item><item><title>Uganda anti-gay bill: Fulcrum briefing</title><description>Andrew Goddard examines the situation about the proposed draconian law in Uganda imposing severe pen...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:20:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2281</guid></item><item><title>Anti-gay bill tests Christian witness (Ekklesia)</title><description>The Guradian's Savi Hensman on the anti-gay bill proposed in Uganda </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:17:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2280</guid></item><item><title>Eyewitness: Fleeing Waziristan's war (BBC)</title><description>Muhammad, a student from South Waziristan, left his home town of Jandola days after the Pakistani ar...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:21:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2274</guid></item><item><title>Suicide bomb damages Iraq church (RIN)</title><description>The suicide bombing of Iraq’s Justice Ministry has badly damaged St George’s Memorial Church, the “V...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:20:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2273</guid></item><item><title>UN must cease all support for Congolese army - rights' group (Reuters)</title><description>The UN must cease all support for the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch h...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:20:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2272</guid></item><item><title>Philippines: Typhoons knock churches' rehabilitation work (Christian Today)</title><description>Weeks after a major storm hits, churches are usually looking to shift from aid to rehabilitation wor...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:19:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2271</guid></item><item><title>Evangelical march in Brazil draws 1.5 million (AP)</title><description>More than 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil's annual "March for Jesus" on Monday, an ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:18:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2270</guid></item><item><title>Re:Source weekends 2010</title><description>Creating Church in the emerging culture </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:33:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2269</guid></item><item><title>Another deadly blast hits Pakistan city (BBC)</title><description>At least 24 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Rawalpin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:19:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2268</guid></item><item><title>Sudanese register for first free vote in 24 years (Reuters)</title><description>Sudanese began registering on Sunday for the country's first multi-party elections in 24 years, but ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:18:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2267</guid></item><item><title>New bishop invites Shrewsbury locals to ‘pull up a pew’ (Christian Today)</title><description>A town crier will be inviting locals to ‘pull up a pew’ with the new Bishop of Shrewsbury on Monday....</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:17:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2266</guid></item><item><title>Orissa: Hindu politician free on bail charged with murder of 7 Christians (AsiaNews)</title><description>The Orissa High Court has granted bail to Manoj Pradhan, a local lawmaker from the Bharatiya Janata ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2265</guid></item><item><title>15,000 Bibles seized in Malaysia (AP)</title><description>Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles in recent months because they referre...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:12:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2264</guid></item><item><title>Religious leaders join to battle climate change (Telegraph)</title><description>At a meeting hosting by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leaders called on the UK and G2...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:12:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2252</guid></item><item><title>Ecumenical group calls for action on Honduras rights abuses (RIN)</title><description>An international ecumenical delegation has met with the General Secretary of the Organization of Ame...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:03:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2255</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop of York and London Mayor to join inaugural Street Pastors conference (Christian Today)</title><description>Street Pastors is gearing up for its first Practitioners Conference aimed at church leaders, heads o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:57:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2256</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Inconvenient Truths (Reuters)</title><description>Tens of thousands of civilians fled South Waziristan in the past few days, as the Pakistani army con...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:55:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2254</guid></item><item><title>Anglicans wary of pope's invite (Washington Times)</title><description>More than a week has passed since Pope Benedict XVI put out a call for disgruntled Anglicans to cros...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:54:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2253</guid></item><item><title>Many dead in Peshawar explosion (BBC)</title><description>At least 43 people have died and dozens were hurt by a large blast in a market in Peshawar, Pakistan...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:35:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2251</guid></item><item><title>Rebuff for Vatican offer to Anglicans (RIN)</title><description>A mass exodus of overseas Anglo-Catholics in response to last week’s announcement of a proposed Angl...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:34:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2250</guid></item><item><title>Obama officially extends sanctions on Sudan (Reuters)</title><description>U.S. President Barack Obama formally renewed U.S. sanctions on Sudan on Tuesday under his new strate...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:33:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2249</guid></item><item><title>Member of parliament lives on fiver a day for living simply experiment (Christian Today)</title><description>A Leicestershire MP has survived the first few weeks of the political year on just £5 a day as part ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:32:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2248</guid></item><item><title>Damage in Philippines is 'Katrina times four' (MNN)</title><description>According to disaster response teams typhoon damage is worse than caused by hurricane Katrina. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:31:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2247</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: A movement to raise awareness against the blasphemy law (AsiaNews)</title><description>Pakistani civil society representatives are holding  two days of meetings to discuss the controversi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:30:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2244</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: Ugandan rebels attack Darfuris, kill five - army (Reuters)</title><description>Ugandan rebels desperate for supplies attacked a camp for Darfuri displaced persons in south Sudan, ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:29:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2242</guid></item><item><title>'Anti-slavery laws' before Lords (BBC)</title><description>The House of Lords is expected to vote later on proposed new laws for England and Wales to deal with...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:28:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2245</guid></item><item><title>Bishop of Exeter urges British Government to do more to help armed forces (RIN)</title><description>The Anglican Bishop of Exeter has called on the Government to do more to help the families of member...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:26:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2243</guid></item><item><title>SAT-7 extends reach into Arab world (Christian Today)</title><description>SAT-7 KIDS and SAT-7 ARABIC launched on the AB4 satellite on October 1, bringing their programmes to...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:25:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2241</guid></item><item><title>Journey through Sri Lanka’s refugee camps, where life is a daily struggle (AsiaNews)</title><description>An Indian volunteer talks about his experience with internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Vanni in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:44:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2238</guid></item><item><title>Fresh attacks rock north Pakistan (BBC)</title><description>Two bomb attacks in northern Pakistan have killed at least six people and wounded many amid rising v...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:42:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2240</guid></item><item><title>Somalia's Shabaab rebels threaten Uganda, Burundi (Reuters)</title><description>"We shall make their people cry. We'll attack Bujumbura and Kampala ... We will move our fighting to...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:41:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2239</guid></item><item><title>UN envoy says North Korea should feed its 9 million hungry citizens (Guardian)</title><description>North Korea should take urgent steps to improve its "abysmal" human rights record by providing food ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:39:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2237</guid></item><item><title>BNP does not speak for British Christians, says Evangelical Alliance (Christian Today)</title><description>The British National Party is not the defender of genuine Christianity, the Evangelical Alliance has...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:39:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2236</guid></item><item><title>Handsome Muslim men accused of waging 'love jihad' in India (Telegraph)</title><description>Muslim fundamentalists in India have been accused of waging a "love jihad", using charming young men...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:25:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2229</guid></item><item><title>Pope opens gates to Anglicans disaffected over women clergy (Guardian)</title><description>Disaffected Anglicans could become Roman Catholics following a decree made today by Pope Benedict to...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:21:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2233</guid></item><item><title>Clergy oppose BNP TV debut (RIN)</title><description>The Bishop of Burnley, the Rt Rev John Goddard, said the BBC’s decision to go ahead was ‘entertainin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:20:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2232</guid></item><item><title>UK Pakistanis share nation's pain (BBC)</title><description>The remote mountains of north-western Pakistan may be a long way from Britain's bustling streets, bu...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:18:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2231</guid></item><item><title>Philippines starts evacuation ahead of new typhoon (Reuters)</title><description>The Philippines began evacuating thousands of people in northern areas prone to floods and landslide...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:17:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2230</guid></item><item><title>Pope: World Mission Day to proclaim the Gospel to those who do not know (AsiaNews)</title><description>Benedict XVI recalls the missionaries who suffer persecution, especially Don Ruggero Ruvoletto, kill...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:01:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2226</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan pounds militant targets (BBC)</title><description>Pakistan's army is engaged in fierce fighting for the third consecutive day as it continues its driv...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:57:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2228</guid></item><item><title>Micro health system launched by Anglicans (RIN)</title><description>People on very low incomes in the developing world may soon be able to access health insurance thank...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:08:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2227</guid></item><item><title>Churches denounce African children as "witches" (AP)</title><description>Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches w...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:05:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2225</guid></item><item><title>Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears (Reuters)</title><description>The Philippines deployed emergency teams across flooded and landslide-hit areas in northern regions ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:04:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2224</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Another deadly bomb shakes Peshawar (BBC)</title><description>At least 11 people have died in a bomb blast in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2222</guid></item><item><title>Church of England facing $70 m loss (RIN)</title><description>The Church of England appears set to take a $70 million loss in the US real estate market, losing it...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:23:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2221</guid></item><item><title>ICC prosecutor to examine Guinea killings (Reuters)</title><description>At least 157 people were killed and 1,200 injured on Sept. 28 when security forces in the West Afric...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:23:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2220</guid></item><item><title>The story of Orissa martyrs told at Indian Mission Congress (AsiaNews)</title><description>John Barwa, bishop of Rourkela, is among the delegates. His niece, Sister Meeva, was raped during th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:22:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2219</guid></item><item><title>Egypt's Copts uphold tattoo tradition (GlobalPost)</title><description>A baby’s wail echoed across the plaza. His mother’s face was etched with joy as she struggled to sub...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:20:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2218</guid></item><item><title>Egypt: Christian conscripts ‘forced to convert to Islam' (RIN)</title><description>The mistreatment of Christian conscripts in the Egyptian army, including beatings, psychological har...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:17:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2217</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani jets bomb militants, more troops move (Reuters)</title><description>Pakistani aircraft bombed Taliban fighters in their South Waziristan bastion on Wednesday as more so...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2216</guid></item><item><title>London: Pastor fears church will lose members after noise complaints (Christian Today)</title><description>A south London church pastor fears for the future of his church after being told by the local counci...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:15:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2215</guid></item><item><title>Angola-DRC: Retaliatory expulsions reach a new peak (IRIN)</title><description>The expulsion of thousands of Angolan refugees living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the r...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:14:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2214</guid></item><item><title>Guinea: 'Another strategy' required to deal with the deteriorating situation (AllAfrica)</title><description>An international observer group on Guinea has recommended setting up an international commission of ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:13:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2213</guid></item><item><title>Sky's no limit for fundraisers</title><description>Seven brave souls jumped out of a plane above Oxford on Saturday - all to raise funds for mission wi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:02:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2210</guid></item><item><title>Sky's no limit for fundraisers - Sky is not the limit for fundraisers</title><description>		 
		 Imagine the wind whistling past as you plummet towards the earth at 120mph, nothing but empt...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:02:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2210&amp;PageID=618</guid></item><item><title>Anglican environment network issues statement on Copenhagen (ACNS)</title><description>The Anglican Communion Environmental Network has issued a statement of "hope but realism" ahead of t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:19:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2209</guid></item><item><title>Bible infliuences death penalty judgment in USA (Ekklesia)</title><description>Controversy over imminent execution in the States - the jury used the Bible to justify death penalty...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:16:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2208</guid></item><item><title>Guinea 'facing new dictatorship' (BBC)</title><description>African ministers criticise the brutal crackdown on opposition by the military government in Guinea </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:06:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2207</guid></item><item><title>Black Christians in White spaces</title><description>Greenbelt 09: The challenges and realities with Yemi Adedeji and Dionne Gravesande </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:01:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2206</guid></item><item><title>Start a community - change the world</title><description>Greenbelt 09: Some pointers along the way and starters for discussion on ‘small missional communitie...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:53:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2205</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan government ready to reassess blasphemy laws (Christian Today)</title><description>Minority minister Shabaz Bhatti told a Chirstian Solidarity Worldwide conference that the Pakistani ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:47:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2204</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop Sentamu enters prostitution debate (TimesOnline)</title><description>The Archbishop of York wants to criminalise those who use prostitutes </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:35:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2200</guid></item><item><title>Pope creates five new saints (NY Times)</title><description>Pope Benedict has canonised five new saints - "luminous examples" including a priest who worked for ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:32:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2199</guid></item><item><title>US evangelicals endorse immigration reform (Christianity Today)</title><description>The National Association of Evangelicals has spoken up for fair and equal treatment of immigrants </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:18:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2198</guid></item><item><title>Cholera kills 29 as Kenyan drought keeps biting (IRIN)</title><description>At least 29 have died and many more are suffering cholera symptoms in a region that has had no rain ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:16:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2197</guid></item><item><title>Politicial instability undermines Nepali development (IRIN)</title><description>Feuding between political parties has slowed progress in the three years since the end of the war </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:12:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2196</guid></item><item><title>Philippines: ‘they have nothing now’</title><description>Manila’s flood tragedy hit hard three areas where CMS-backed Jigsaw Ministries operates. We have rep...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:47:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2193</guid></item><item><title>Prayer for Peace in Congo</title><description>CMS is backing a call to prayer for Congo on 21 September. Join in the London conference or post a p...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:04:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2133</guid></item><item><title>Philippines flood survivors face misery (IRIN)</title><description>Among the homeless following Manila's flood disaster at the weekend </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:08:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2192</guid></item><item><title>Brazil's evangelical churches (Guardian)</title><description>A look at Brazil's growing evangelical, especially Pentecostal, churches - one of which owns one of ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:57:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2191</guid></item><item><title>Salvation Army church scoops architecture award (Christian Today)</title><description>A new Army building in Chelmsford Essex won building of the year from the eastern region of the arch...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:54:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2190</guid></item><item><title>Church leaders call for sanctuary pledge (Ekklesia)</title><description>Church leaders went to the Labour Party conference to urge them to rebuild public sup[port for sanct...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:52:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2189</guid></item><item><title>'Children on brink of death' in NE Kenya (IRIN)</title><description>Drought ravaging north-east Kenya has affected the supply of milk, undermining child nutrition, say ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:50:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2187</guid></item><item><title>Congolese map resources for survival (IRIN)</title><description>Villagers in DRC have begun standing up for their rights by mapping their region and the areas they ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:48:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2186</guid></item><item><title>Beyonce stirs Islamist ire in Malaysia (Reuters)</title><description>Malaysia's opposition Islamist party is urging young people to boycott Beyonce's upcoming concerts, ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:47:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2185</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop: why world must be nuclear-free (Lambeth Palace)</title><description>Unsurprising views, perhaps, from the Archbishop of Canterbury - but a succinct appraisal of the nat...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:44:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2184</guid></item><item><title>Climate change robs Nepal of water (IRIN)</title><description>Nepal is one of the countries predicted to be most affected by climate change, and the chronic water...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:42:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2183</guid></item><item><title>20 million lost homes to climate-related disaster in 2008</title><description>New study reveals just how much climate change impacts lives of vulnerable poor</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:37:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2181</guid></item><item><title>Reframing the atheist debate historically (Christianity Today)</title><description>Review of Atheist Delusions - a book which sets current pop culture wars between the New Atheists an...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:32:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2180</guid></item><item><title>Bradford Cathedral appoints Muslim member of staff (RIN)</title><description>Bradford Cathedral has appointed a Muslim as the Cathedral’s first Interfaith Development Officer. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:08:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2175</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop tells Pakistani president of blasphemy law danger (Christian Today)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of his concern about violence against Chri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:06:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2179</guid></item><item><title>Congo: Aid workers focus on violent attacks (RIN)</title><description>Violent attacks against humanitarian workers operating in the volatile North Kivu province of the De...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:05:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2178</guid></item><item><title>IMF urges donors to deliver on Pakistan aid (Reuters)</title><description>The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged donors at a meeting in New York this week to follow...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:05:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2177</guid></item><item><title>Honduras: Aid agencies close offices after ousted President's return (Christian Today)</title><description>Aid agencies in Honduras have closed their offices for fear of a backlash after ousted President Man...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:04:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2176</guid></item><item><title>Blasphemy law petition presented to Pakistan Hign Commissioner (ACNS)</title><description>The petition to the Pakistani government - backed by CMS - to address the country's unfair blasphemy...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:56:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2171</guid></item><item><title>Anglicanism: more M&amp;S than Aldi?</title><description>A little light relief as Stephen Tomkins wonders if the Church of England is trying just a little to...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:55:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2173</guid></item><item><title>Cross-wearing nurse redeployed 'under duress' (UKPA)</title><description>A Christian nurse who refused to stop wearing a cross necklace has been forced to move to an admin r...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:51:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2172</guid></item><item><title>More than 100 die in Sudan attack (BBC)</title><description>More violence blamed on those who want to scuttle peace deal </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:45:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2170</guid></item><item><title>Climate change statement by bishops (CofE)</title><description>Church of England Bishops have reiterated that climate change is an issue of global justice </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:42:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2169</guid></item><item><title>Homosexuality: elevating the conversation</title><description>Gene Robinson's invitation to Greenbelt was met with rancour by some. Andrew Goddard looked for a be...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:59:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2168</guid></item><item><title>Deadly blast hits Pakistan market (BBC)</title><description>At least 10 people have been killed and many injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a village marke...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:45:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2165</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka's released refugees moved to new camps (Reuters)</title><description>At least half the 10,000 war refugees the Sri Lankan government said it sent home last week are stil...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:43:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2164</guid></item><item><title>WCC to visit India's persecuted believers (Christian Today)</title><description>A team comprising of church representatives from Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia who will vis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:42:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2163</guid></item><item><title>When losing a job can help recover one’s faith (AsiaNews)</title><description>This year more than 200,000 Filipinos working abroad have lost their job. A Catholic mechanical engi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:41:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2162</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan rights groups seek answers on Christian’s death (New York Times)</title><description>A Christian man detained on blasphemy charges was found dead in his jail cell on Tuesday in eastern ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:40:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2161</guid></item><item><title>Lifting the lid off black-led churches</title><description>In the first of this year's Greenbelt talks from the CMS tent postmodern dad Jonny Baker talks to Pe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:22:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2160</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop condemns bank excesses (BBC)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury has told the BBC he fears financiers feel no "repentance" for the exces...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:25:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2158</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Young Christian man accused of blasphemy killed in prison (AsiaNews)</title><description>His death was “judicial murder” according to human rights activist. The day before a Muslim mob atta...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:24:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2159</guid></item><item><title>Appeals to Somalia's warring parties to spare hospitals (Reuters)</title><description>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned parties in Somalia's conflict against tar...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:23:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2157</guid></item><item><title>Colombian pastor assassinated by suspected paramilitaries (Christian Today)</title><description>A Colombian pastor was assassinated in his home last Sunday by three masked gunmen. Forty-one year o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:22:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2156</guid></item><item><title>Convert languishing in jail in Ethiopia for handing out Bibles (Compass)</title><description>Leader in Christian-Muslim relations accused of ‘malicious’ distribution. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:21:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2155</guid></item><item><title>LRA attacks escalate in southern Sudan (IRIN)</title><description>Security forces cannot contain LRA attacks which have displaced 68,000 people since January. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:19:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2153</guid></item><item><title>St Francis poster banned for religious content (TimesOnline)</title><description>Local church advertises climate change events - or not, in Camden </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:16:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2152</guid></item><item><title>West African floods hit crowded suburbs (IRIN)</title><description>Urban population growth has fuelled increased flooding in West Africa, say experts </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:14:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2151</guid></item><item><title>Bishop warns of moral crisis at farewell service (Christian Today)</title><description>“It is obvious to many people that the weakening of family life is responsible for what we face on o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2150</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Muslim extremists burn church over alleged blasphemy case (AsiaNews)</title><description>Call to hunt Christians launched at local mosque after the Friday prayers. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:22:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2149</guid></item><item><title>Wheels of Justice Begin Turning in Orissa Violence (Compass)</title><description>A fast-track court in Orissa state sentenced six people to four years of “rigorous imprisonment” for...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:17:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2148</guid></item><item><title>Christian women hold prayer vigil for Iranian converts (Christian Today)</title><description>Christian women gathered outside the Iranian embassy in London on Saturday to highlight the plight o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:16:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2147</guid></item><item><title>Congo refugees too scared to move camp (IRIN)</title><description>Congolese refugees in Burundi are resisting attempts to move them to a new camp, saying it is too cl...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:13:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2146</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka to resettle IDPs by February (IRIN)</title><description>The Sri Lanka government has said it will release IDPs to their relatives and most will be resettled...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:09:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2145</guid></item><item><title>Atheist sums up Alpha (Guardian)</title><description>"The revelation and truth I witnessed is this: if you are an atheist,
you could do a lot worse than...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:07:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2144</guid></item><item><title>It's Friday - try a religion quiz (Guardian)</title><description>Test your awareness of world faiths with the Guardian's Friday religion quiz </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:00:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2143</guid></item><item><title>Zambia committed to being Christian nation (allAfrica)</title><description>Drafters of new constitution look positively on declaration of being a Christian nation, says minist...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:42:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2142</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani bishop speaks out against war on terror (Ekklesia)</title><description>When Obama says war on terror is not a war on Islam, Muslims do not believe him, says Bishop John Ma...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:55:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2141</guid></item><item><title>Conrad Black: why I am a Catholic (Catholic Herald)</title><description>...but, remarkably, not "Why I am in prison" nor any acknowledgement of the wrongdoing that brought ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:53:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2140</guid></item><item><title>Major relaunch for 'emerging mission' course</title><description>ReSource is an invaluable training course for people who want to pioneer mission in today's emerging...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:13:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2138</guid></item><item><title>Demos against Arms Trade fair (Ekklesia)</title><description>Christians well represented among protesters against London's arms biennial arms fair </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:35:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2137</guid></item><item><title>Trouser-wearing Sudanese woman freed (NY Times)</title><description>Lubna Hussein, the journalist jailed for wearing trousers, has been released, though she's not sure ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:53:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2136</guid></item><item><title>Epidemic warning for Southern Sudan (IRIN)</title><description>Continuing conflict in Southern Sudan, like the attacks by the LRA, results in displacement and lack...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:51:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2135</guid></item><item><title>Jenny Taylor on Tablighi Jamaat (Guardian)</title><description>CMS's former media officer writes on the true nature of the Islamic sect linked to airline plotters </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:54:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2134</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka aid worker kicked out (IRIN)</title><description>A UNICEF worker has been given two weeks to leave Sri Lanka after making comments about the war, whi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:15:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2130</guid></item><item><title>Pull troops out of Afghanistan say Presbyterians (Ekklesia)</title><description>The Moderator of the Welsh Presbyterian church has called for troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:11:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2129</guid></item><item><title>Australian churches come together in Jesus campaign (Christian Today)</title><description>Bible Society's new campaign - Jesus. All about life - has kicked off with 1,500 churches taking par...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:09:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2128</guid></item><item><title>Street pastor fights off deportation (RIN)</title><description>Street pastor, Constant Moussavou, who is fighting against deportation to the Republic of Congo has ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:58:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2125</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka opposition urges fast resettlement of refugees (Reuters)</title><description>Sri Lanka's main opposition on Thursday urged Sri Lanka's government to release nearly two-thirds of...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:57:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2124</guid></item><item><title>Leading Indian Christian politician killed in helicopter crash (Christian Today)</title><description>The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has been killed in a helicopter crash along...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:56:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2123</guid></item><item><title>Thousands flocked to Greenbelt festival despite criticism (Ekklesia)</title><description>The Greenbelt Christian festival in Cheltenham has attracted over 15,000 participants, despite attac...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:55:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2122</guid></item><item><title>Jesus film instrumental in Nepal evangelism (MNN)</title><description>Last year, a Maoist party stood victorious in an assembly to make Nepal a democratic republic. Minis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:53:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2121</guid></item><item><title>'Churchless faith doesn't work' - interview (Christianity Today)</title><description>Interview with American authors of a book defending institutional church against the sceptics </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:27:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2120</guid></item><item><title>Mutinous soldiers add to fear in eastern DRC (IRIN)</title><description>A mutiny over pay by the army and attacks further north by the LRA are increasing fear and more disp...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2119</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop recruits PR man over Twitter (TimesOnline)</title><description>The Archbishop of York's new PR chief is a former Labour party blogger who got the call via micro-bl...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:22:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2118</guid></item><item><title>WCC condemns violence against women in Congo (Ekklesia)</title><description>The World Council of Churches is calling on member churches to publicly condemn violence against wom...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:20:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2117</guid></item><item><title>Suicide blasts in Pakistan create fear of new displacement (IRIN)</title><description>New suicide attacks - in Mingora, Swat, and on the Afghan border - have prompted fears of further di...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:12:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2116</guid></item><item><title>An atheist goes to Greenbelt (Guardian)</title><description>Intriguing insight into the festival from a committed atheist  </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:00:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2115</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: priest shot at altar is among 40 dead</title><description>Massacre in Jonglei State exposes deep fears for peace process</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:55:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2114</guid></item><item><title>Fresh clashes in Pakistan's Swat valley; dozens killed (Reuters)</title><description>Pakistani troops killed 15 militants in fresh clashes in Swat, the army said on Tuesday, taking the ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:26:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2113</guid></item><item><title>Israeli Leader: Time winding down for Iran (CBN)</title><description>Recent unrest in Iran has sparked speculation that Israel could be ready to take military action aga...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:25:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2112</guid></item><item><title>Missionaries using Internet to reach out to new souls (SJ-R)</title><description>For centuries, missionaries have ventured to the farthest reaches of the globe to share the gospel. ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:24:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2111</guid></item><item><title>Trial of suspect in Rwandan church massacre begins (AP)</title><description>The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda begins proceedings against a businessman accused of g...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2110</guid></item><item><title>EU urged to pressure Pakistan over Christian attacks (Christian Today)</title><description>Christians in Pakistan have come out in force to protest the violence, which most recently saw at le...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:22:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2109</guid></item><item><title>Petition against Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws</title><description>Hundreds join the growing chorus against ill-advised laws used to incite violence against Christians...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:34:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2090</guid></item><item><title>Tanzanian tragedy - loss of life in a girl’s dormitory (CMS Australia)</title><description>The Idodi Secondary School Environmental Centre has had a fatal fire in the girl's dormitory. CMS mi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:51:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2106</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Police issue warrant for Bishop (RIN)</title><description>Punjabi police have issued warrants for the arrest of the Bishop of Faisalabad and 128 other Christi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:49:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2107</guid></item><item><title>Oxfam warning over Nepal climate (BBC)</title><description>Oxfam has warned that millions of rural poor in Nepal could face hunger as a result of climate chang...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:46:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2105</guid></item><item><title>Myanmar fighting forces 10,000 to flee to China (Reuters)</title><description>Fresh fighting has erupted between Myanmar forces and an armed ethnic group in the remote northeast,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:45:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2104</guid></item><item><title>Record number of Religious Education students as GCSE's see record results (Christian Today)</title><description>As thousands of students across the UK celebrate their record top grades in GCSE examinations today,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:43:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2103</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan fails to secure timing commitment on aid (Reuters)</title><description>Pakistan failed on Tuesday to secure swift aid from donors to help the cash-strapped country improve...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:39:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2101</guid></item><item><title>Recession reduces appointment of missionaries but not applications (Christianity Today)</title><description>The economic downturn is pinching the budgets of mission organizations nationwide, although funding ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:38:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2100</guid></item><item><title>Uganda, Congo relations back to normal (AllAfrica)</title><description>Uganda and the DR Congo have restored full diplomatic relations 15 years after they severed them. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:37:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2099</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Mass graves found in Swat (IRIN)</title><description>Human rights groups and local residents say mass graves have been found in parts of northwestern Pak...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:36:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2098</guid></item><item><title>'Christians' celebrating Ramadan?  (WND)</title><description>As the Islamic observance of Ramadan begins this year, an increasing number of Christians will also ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:35:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2097</guid></item><item><title>Afghanistan: over 20 schools attacked on election day (IRIN)</title><description>Although 26 schools were attacked, no pupils were harmed as schools were shut. Hard to know though w...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:48:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2095</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka camps falling short (IRIN)</title><description>IDP camps in Sri Lanka are missing best practice targets, say aid workers </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:44:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2094</guid></item><item><title>Sudan - thousands flee renewed LRA attacks (IRIN)</title><description>LRA attacks flare up again creating an "atmosphere of terror" in Ezo region</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:42:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2093</guid></item><item><title>Secrets of the airport chapel (Guardian)</title><description>The Guardian meets the chaplains at Gatwick airport </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:38:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2092</guid></item><item><title>Missionary history hitches shuttle ride (CBN)</title><description>A piece of a plane used by a legendary US missionary to Ecuador will be going into space on the shut...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:33:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2091</guid></item><item><title>Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome (BBC)</title><description>"The sight of a mass murderer getting a hero's welcome in Tripoli is deeply upsetting, deeply distre...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:16:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2089</guid></item><item><title>U.S. drone strike kills 12 in Pakistan (Reuters)</title><description>A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan bord...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:16:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2088</guid></item><item><title>Gordon Brown accused of double standards on Libya (Guardian)</title><description>Gordon Brown was accused today of adopting double standards on Libya because of the government's arm...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:15:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2087</guid></item><item><title>Church rules no pants on Sunday (Fiji Times)</title><description>"The ban is meant to bring good luck to the island as we respect the day of the Lord" </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:14:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2086</guid></item><item><title>100,000 Chinese and English New Testaments to be distributed (MNN)</title><description>World Bible Translation Center wants to distribute around 100,000 Easy-to-Read Chinese Bibles in Chi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:13:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2085</guid></item><item><title>Some Pakistan displaced face winter in camps (AlertNet)</title><description>Though over a million have returned to Swat, thousands more still face winter in the displacement ca...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:59:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2084</guid></item><item><title>Typhoon Morakot: in the eye of the storm</title><description>Angry at their government, Taiwan’s people mounted a huge grassroots disaster response. CMS’s Cather...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:51:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2083</guid></item><item><title>Taiwan helps build churches in Philippines (Episcopal Life)</title><description>CMS mission partner Catherine Lee wrote this article about her church in Taiwan's links with the Phi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:22:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2082</guid></item><item><title>How diverse should church be? (Christianity Today)</title><description>US magazine visits Lollapalooza music festival and ends up wondering about genuine diversity in chur...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:19:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2081</guid></item><item><title>Insights into Blair's faith at HTB interview (Guardian)</title><description>Tony Blair's recent interview at Holy Trinity Brompton was surprisingly revealing says Guardian </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:17:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2080</guid></item><item><title>Religious Studies A Levels at all time high (CofE)</title><description>Church of England says rising numbers of students taking Religious Studies A Level points out 'incon...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:05:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2079</guid></item><item><title>Monsoon onset raising fears for Sri Lanka war-displaced (Reuters)</title><description>The onset of monsoon rains in Sri Lanka is raising fears for the safety of thousands of war-displace...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:41:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2070</guid></item><item><title>Somalia: "Increased hostility towards aid workers" (IRIN)</title><description>The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) issued a warning of increased suffering for malnourished Somali chil...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:39:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2068</guid></item><item><title>Manchester: Street preacher faces arrest after reading Bible in public (Christian Today)</title><description>"I was approached by police officers who falsely accused me, stating that I was inciting hatred with...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:38:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2066</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan's Pashtun could embrace militants (Reuters)</title><description>Pakistan may push ethnic minorities in its conflict-torn North West Frontier Province into the arms ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:37:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2065</guid></item><item><title>Missionaries attacked, fears abound as Orissa aniversary nears (ANS)</title><description>Nine Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries were arrested August 10 after an encounter with a group ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:35:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2064</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani General comments on Gojra violence (ahmedquraishi.com)</title><description>Retired Pakistan army general blasts government over Gojra violence </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:30:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2054</guid></item><item><title>Pentecostals and London locals clash over cinema conversion (Independent)</title><description>The Kingsway International Christian Centre has bought an old cinema in Crystal Palace to turn into ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:19:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2053</guid></item><item><title>Sudan Churches: we must rescue peace (allAfrica)</title><description>The Sudan Council of Churches has issued an impassioned statement to "rescue the Comprehensive Peace...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:16:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2052</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: rains compound IDP woes (IRIN)</title><description>Heavy rains are turning displacement camps into sea of misery for quarter of a million people in nor...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:13:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2051</guid></item><item><title>An atheist's prayer (Guardian)</title><description>Atheist advocates power of prayer - intriguing. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:11:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2050</guid></item><item><title>Rwanda's tribunal's work is incomplete (Reuters)</title><description>The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda may lose its credibility unless it indicts and tries ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:10:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2043</guid></item><item><title>Q+A-What is behind North Korea's conciliatory moves? (Reuters)</title><description>North Korea said on Monday it would reopen its border with the South, ending a self-imposed blockade...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:08:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2042</guid></item><item><title>Feeding hope under a rogue regime (Christianity Today)</title><description>Christian outreach to North Koreans helps to keep millions from starving. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:07:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2041</guid></item><item><title>Canadian women appointed to senior Anglican Communion post (The Journal, Canada)</title><description>Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan has been appointed director for Unity, Faith and Order for the Anglican C...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:05:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2040</guid></item><item><title>Obama warned: no Mid East Peace without Coptic Christians (Christian Post)</title><description>Ahead of Egyptian President’s visit to the United States to discuss plans for peace in the Middle Ea...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:01:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2039</guid></item><item><title>Libya: 200 Nigerians 'on death row' in Libya (AllAfrica)</title><description>About 200 Nigerians in Libya have been condemned to death, according to information made available b...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:51:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2035</guid></item><item><title>India 'regrets' US body's censure (BBC)</title><description>A US body's decision to put India on a list of states which failed to protect religious minoritie is...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:50:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2037</guid></item><item><title>Muslim and Christian leaders express shock over Pakistan deaths (RIN)</title><description>The Bishop of Bradford and the leadership of Bradford Council for Mosques have together expressed sh...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:49:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2036</guid></item><item><title>Taiwan leader says more than 500 dead in typhoon (Reuters)</title><description>President Ma Ying-jeou, under pressure over his government's response to the aftermath of Typhoon Mo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:47:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2034</guid></item><item><title>Evangelical leader, 9 others charged in Brazil (AP)</title><description>The founder of one of Brazil's biggest evangelical churches siphoned off billions of dollars in dona...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:46:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2033</guid></item><item><title>Multifaith conference: our differences are divine will (Aawsat.com)</title><description>An academic conference in Eqypt has warned of the rise of Islamophobia - some interesting viewpoints...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:00:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2030</guid></item><item><title>Death of Ian Smith</title><description>Ian Smith, CMS Ireland’s Director of Mission, died at home, on Wednesday 29 July. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:34:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1994</guid></item><item><title>BBC football presenter refuses to work Sundays (Church Times)</title><description>Dan Walker, the BBC's new footie presenter has taken an Eric Liddell-like stand - and still got the ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:50:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2032</guid></item><item><title>Akinola successor by December (allAfrica)</title><description>The Archbishop of Nigeria's successor will be elected by the end of the year, the Church has said, f...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:48:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2031</guid></item><item><title>Charity considers dropping ‘church’ from title (Christian Today)</title><description>A Christian charity is to vote on dropping the word ‘church’ from its name because it creates “unnec...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:24:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2029</guid></item><item><title>Tropical storm Etau: Japan sees 10 storm deaths (Reuters)</title><description>Video - At least 10 people are dead in western Japan as a tropical storm brings heavy rain. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:22:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2028</guid></item><item><title>Rescuers find 700 alive after Taiwan mudslide (Reuters)</title><description>Typhoon Morakot, which ravaged Taiwan over the weekend, has killed 63 people across the island. Over...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:21:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2027</guid></item><item><title>Charity guidance scrapped in UK (RIN)</title><description>The proposed ‘Charter for Excellence’ designed to guide religious groups receiving public money on t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:20:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2026</guid></item><item><title>Asian regrets at Suu Kyi verdict (BBC)</title><description>A key group of Burma's South East Asian neighbours has issued a rare statement condemning the convic...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:20:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2025</guid></item><item><title>Cautious optimism in Madagascar (IRIN)</title><description>Feuding politicians in Madagascar have signed up to a peace deal that will bring eventual elections </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:40:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2020</guid></item><item><title>Clinton takes fight against rape to eastern DRC (AlertNet)</title><description>US Secretary of State will call for an end to using women as weapons of war in Goma, eastern DRC tod...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:40:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2024</guid></item><item><title>Bush, Gog and Magog (Guardian)</title><description>So, did George W Bush launch Iraq war in response to Old Testament prohecies? This conversation piec...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:38:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2023</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: Abyei situation still fragile (IRIN)</title><description>Concern grows following reactions to ruling on borders of the oil-rich region between North and Sout...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:37:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2022</guid></item><item><title>More ethnic variety in new US monks and nuns (NY Times)</title><description>People taking holy orders in the States are from a much broader range of ethnic backgrounds than bef...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:34:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2021</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Taliban head Mehsud 'may be dead' (BBC)</title><description>There are growing indications that Pakistan's most wanted man, Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, has ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:12:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2016</guid></item><item><title>Nigerian child ‘forced to watch murder of pastor’ (RIN)</title><description>A thirteen-year-old Nigerian Christian has told Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) sources how she...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:11:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2015</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: New Tamil Tiger head held (Reuters)</title><description>Sri Lankan authorities said on Friday said they were interrogating the new head of the Tamil Tigers,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:10:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2014</guid></item><item><title>Churches in Bolivia hope for peace beyond conflict (Christian Today)</title><description>The major concern of the churches, is ethnic and gender violence, the significant gap between the ri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:09:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2013</guid></item><item><title>Why the Episcopal Church of the Sudan wants to have agricultural farms? (Sudan Vision)</title><description>Archbishop Dr. Deng was the only Bishop in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan who thought that tillin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:08:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2012</guid></item><item><title>Major Middle East satellite channels merge (Christian Post)</title><description>CMS partner Sat-7 is merging with Turk-7 to provide comprehensive Christian programming across the r...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:04:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2010</guid></item><item><title>Alternatives to tribalism in Burundi (Lausanne World Pulse)</title><description>Reflections on how the church can make a difference to the Great Lakes region's history of conflict</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:01:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2009</guid></item><item><title>Analysis: hurdles on road to peace in Sudan (IRIN)</title><description>The UN news services analyses the flashpoints in Sudan and their effect on the comprehensive peace a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:44:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2008</guid></item><item><title>Rwanda: church leaders call for new hearts (AllAfrica)</title><description>A high-profile international convention organised by the Anglican Church of Rwanda ended with the ca...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:39:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2007</guid></item><item><title>Who cares about Anglican schism? (Guardian)</title><description>This the Guardian's Cif Belief question of the week (that's Comment is free, not the popular cleanin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:35:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2006</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan questions 200 after 8 Christians killed (AP)</title><description>Police questioned more than 200 people to determine if rioting that killed eight Christians was spon...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:54:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2005</guid></item><item><title>New Bishop announced in England (RIN)</title><description>The Rev Canon Mark Rylands, the Canon Missioner for the Diocese of Exeter, is to be the next Bishop ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:53:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2004</guid></item><item><title>Video: Fear of Taliban haunts Swat Valley (Reuters)</title><description>Thousands of families who fled the fighting between security forces and Taliban militants in northwe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:52:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2003</guid></item><item><title>Sentamu calls on government to support armed forces (Christian Today)</title><description>Speaking on Yorkshire Day yesterday, Dr John Sentamu said the Government needed to ensure that the m...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:51:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2002</guid></item><item><title>World churches' body urges action on Nigeria human rights (Ekklesia)</title><description>The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, has urged the Niger...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:50:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2001</guid></item><item><title>CMS encouraged despite financial challenges </title><description>CMS makes reductions in response to financial challenges </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:12:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1987</guid></item><item><title>World churches protest Pakistan attacks</title><description>At least seven Christians killed and 40 homes torched in riots</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:58:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=2000</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Swat schools re-open (IRIN)</title><description>Schools across conflict-hit North West Frontier Province re-opened on 1 August though life is not ye...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:16:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1999</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop, social networks and suicide (Guardian)</title><description>More eminently sensible comment from Andrew Brown on Archbishop Vincent Nichols' comments on Faceboo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:15:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1998</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Christians under attack (TimesOnline)</title><description>Ruth Gledhill has some response to the Pakistan attacks from other bloggers </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:12:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1997</guid></item><item><title>Gojra: 'a misunderstanding' kills eight (Global Voices)</title><description>A clearly moved and clearly 'moderate' Muslim Pakistani blogger is baffled at how such a 'misunderst...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:05:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1996</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan attacks: the Catholic view (CNA)</title><description>Catholic bishop joins criticism of police inaction in the Gojra attacks </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:03:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1995</guid></item><item><title>Quakers 'to allow gay marriages' (BBC)</title><description>One of the UK's oldest Christian denominations - the Quakers - looks set to extend marriage services...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:55:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1992</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: future uncertain for many displaced people returning home (Reuters)</title><description>Most internally displaced people (IDPs) have returned home in recent weeks, but the future of many r...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:53:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1991</guid></item><item><title>Democracy icon Suu Kyi prepares for trial verdict (CBN)</title><description>The high profile trial of Myanmar's opposition leader and democratic icon Aung San Suu Kyi should co...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:52:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1990</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop’s TEC response reveals division (RIN)</title><description>Different visions of the future Communion have been provoked by the response of the Archbishop of Ca...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:51:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1989</guid></item><item><title>Gordian 'knot' for evangelicals (Washington Times)</title><description>"The problem with evangelicals is that they value marriage less than individual freedom." </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:51:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1988</guid></item><item><title>Charcoal fuels war in eastern DRC (IRIN)</title><description>Militia groups in the east of DRC are controlling the charcoal trade, funding their activities from ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1986</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: US marchers challenge ICC verdict on Abyei (VoA)</title><description>The International Criminal Court in the Hague have ruled on ownership of the oil-rich Abyei region i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:38:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1985</guid></item><item><title>Anglicans: schism AND disestablishment? (Guardian)</title><description>Andrew Brown analyses Rowan Williams' post-General Convention comments and says he is opening the wa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:36:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1984</guid></item><item><title>Malaysian Christians banned from saying 'God' (Christianity Today)</title><description>The law in Malaysia bans non-Muslims from using the name 'Allah' for God - even if you're a famous p...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:34:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1983</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: US presses for return of IDPs (IRIN)</title><description>The US government is trying to make the prompt return of displaced people the top priority in Sri La...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:29:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1982</guid></item><item><title>The young atheists' summer camp (the Guardian)</title><description>Is it that interesting? must be the question, as journalists struggle to come up with much copy.... </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:27:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1981</guid></item><item><title>Rights group urges resettlement for Sri Lanka's displaced (Reuters)</title><description>The international advocacy group Human Rights Watch urged the Sri Lankan government on Wednesday to ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:45:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1980</guid></item><item><title>Anglican leader mulls two-track Communion (Christian Today)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has issued a lengthy response to the recent move by T...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:44:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1979</guid></item><item><title>Irish blasphemers, beware! New law befuddles nation, but fulfills Constitution (Christian Science Monitor)</title><description>After years of decreasing influence for religion in public life, Ireland’s new blasphemy law has fre...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:43:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1978</guid></item><item><title>North Korea publicly executes Christian woman for distributing Bible (Fox News)</title><description>North Korea publicly executed a Christian woman last month for distributing the Bible, which is bann...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:42:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1977</guid></item><item><title>Sudanese woman 'faces 40 lashes' (BBC)</title><description>A Sudanese woman who is due to appear in court in Khartoum says she faces up to 40 lashes for wearin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:41:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1976</guid></item><item><title>ABC on communion: how it's reported (TimesOnline)</title><description>...and here's how it's being reported </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:38:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1973</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop's reflections on American vote (Lambeth Palace)</title><description>Archbishop of Canterbury's thoughtful comments on the recent vote by the General Convention of the E...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:38:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1972</guid></item><item><title>Third Eritrean Christian dies in prison (Compass Direct)</title><description>Reports that a third Christian imprisoned for beliefs has died in a military prison in Eritrea </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:37:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1975</guid></item><item><title>Christian rights activist released in Pakistan (CLAAS)</title><description>Joseph Francis, the director of the Christian human rights group CLAAS in Pakistan, spent 14 days in...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:28:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1974</guid></item><item><title>Even infidels are turning to sharia law (TimesOnLine)</title><description>As more and more non-Muslim Britons seek Islamic justice, Edna Fernandes asks how it will change our...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:34:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1969</guid></item><item><title>Doctor sacked over gay adoptions reinstated (London Telegraph)</title><description>A Christian doctor who was sacked from an adoption panel for her views on homosexual parents has bee...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:32:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1970</guid></item><item><title>East African users hail new internet era (All Africa)</title><description>The first undersea fibre optic cable went live in five African countries simultaneously on Thursday,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:20:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1968</guid></item><item><title>Surviving hard times (Christian Century)</title><description>Lessons of the economic downturn   How should Christians understand—and what should they learn from—...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:19:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1967</guid></item><item><title>Nigeria: scores killed in new religious violence (All Africa)</title><description>Bauchi, the capital city of Bauchi State, was awash with bloodbath early morning yesterday as scores...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:12:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1966</guid></item><item><title>CMS Speakers Bureau launched</title><description>With the aim of sharing our heart for mission with the body of Christ, CMS has launched a new Speake...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:50:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1943</guid></item><item><title>Burma trial reaches final stages (BBC)</title><description>The trial of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has resumed in Rangoon, with lawyers pres...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:43:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1965</guid></item><item><title>34 US Bishops ‘will observe moratoria’ (RIN)</title><description>Thirty-four American bishops have announced they will honour the calls for restraint made by the Arc...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:07:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1961</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: One cleric's legacy of peace</title><description>Pakistani madrassas, religious schools, are often seen in the west as incubators for terrorism. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:06:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1960</guid></item><item><title>Christians, Jews stand together for Israel (CBN)</title><description>For centuries, Christians and Jews had a rocky relationship that was frequently marred by anti-Semit...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:00:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1959</guid></item><item><title>Creative evangelism in Latvia (Christian Today)</title><description>As a student, it never occurred to Dave Glover that one meeting would prove life transforming. He re...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:59:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1958</guid></item><item><title>Ethiopia: Govt suspends 42 NGOs as hunger worsens (AllAfrica)</title><description>Ethiopian authorities have suspended the operations of 42 non-governmental organisations allegedly i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:56:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1957</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop of Canterbury: 'My desperate concern for troops in Afghanistan' (Telegraph)</title><description>Dr Rowan Williams said he was "deeply worried" about the plight of servicemen and women fighting in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:04:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1956</guid></item><item><title>Foreign companies’ links to Congo violence uncovered (Ekklesia)</title><description>European and Asian companies, including Bangkok-based THAISARCO, UK-based Afrimex, and Belgium-based...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:03:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1955</guid></item><item><title>Church of England ‘biased against the poor’ (RIN)</title><description>A bias against poor people applying for ordination is undermining the Church’s crucial work in urban...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:01:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1954</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani Muslims converting to benefit from blasphemy law (Pakistan Christian Post)</title><description>An alarm bell for clergy in Pakistan: Fake conversions could end in a prison sentence. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:59:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1953</guid></item><item><title>Confronting fears of Eurabia - Courrier International and Newsweek (Menassat)</title><description>The French weekly Courrier International and the mainstream US weekly magazine Newsweek deal with gr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:58:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1952</guid></item><item><title>Sudanese women flogged for wearing trousers (CBN)</title><description>Sudanese police raided a café on Monday, arresting 13 women for wearing slacks, a violation of Shari...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:58:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1945</guid></item><item><title>CMS and schools are first charities to face benefit test (Church Times)</title><description>Evangelism and conversion to Christianity can be of public benefit, the Charity Commission found in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:47:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1948</guid></item><item><title>Children from conflict hit areas in Pakistan urgently need life-saving health services (Reuters)</title><description>It is sweltering and overcrowded in the Government Higher Secondary School in Takkar, which is now h...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:45:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1947</guid></item><item><title>Christians want Thought for the Day to stay religious (Christian Today)</title><description>Christians have responded with concern to an announcement by the BBC this week that it is considerin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:42:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1946</guid></item><item><title>Church of England General Synod to debate communion with ACNA (Christian Today)</title><description>The General Synod of the Church of England is to be asked to decide whether it wants to be in commun...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:36:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1944</guid></item><item><title>Tour of Reconciliation</title><description>Only Jesus can bring true reconciliation say Tanas Alqassis and Joseph Steinberg</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:20:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1020</guid></item><item><title>Rapes by Congo army go unpunished</title><description>DRC's justice system is too weak to hold soldiers who rape to account, says Human Rights Watch </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:02:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1941</guid></item><item><title>Israel: Messianic Jew wins bakery battle (Compass Direct)</title><description>A Jewish believer in Jesus who runs a bakery and had her Jewish dietary law certificate removed has ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:01:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1940</guid></item><item><title>US Baptist college where Muslims study happily (Christianity Today</title><description>An American Baptist college where Muslim enrolment has tripled in three years </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:50:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1938</guid></item><item><title>Uganda's invisible war victims stuck in camps (IRIN)</title><description>Elderly, orphans and sick are in urgent need of help to transition back to homes from IDP camps in n...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:49:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1939</guid></item><item><title>Iraq: Christians face new wave of violence (IRIN)</title><description>Five attacks on churches last Sunday raise new concerns about security in Iraq </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:27:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1937</guid></item><item><title>Local heroes of Asian mission</title><description>In India, a recent gathering of remarkable people in mission showed the way forward for mission in A...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:24:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1922</guid></item><item><title>Congo civilians disapprove of military ops (Reuters)</title><description>Most civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo disapprove of the current military strategy b...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:12:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1936</guid></item><item><title>Jimmy Carter rejects the Southern Baptist Convention after 60 years of membership (The Observer)</title><description>Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society, argues the former US presi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:12:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1935</guid></item><item><title>Return 'gathers pace' in Pakistan (BBC)</title><description>An estimated 8,800 people displaced by fighting in the Swat valley have left relief camps to return ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:11:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1934</guid></item><item><title>Church must provide ‘safe space’ for children, says bishop (Christian Today)</title><description>The Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill made the comments in a presidential address to the Lichfield Diocesan B...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:09:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1933</guid></item><item><title>Girls rescued physically and spiritually in Kenya (MNN)</title><description>Kids Alive is rescuing girls before they're sold into marriage at age 10 to 12. When they're rescued...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:08:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1932</guid></item><item><title>CMS response on Greenbelt and Gene Robinson</title><description>An article has appeared on Anglican Mainstream which may concern some. To allay any confusion, CMS o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:27:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1931</guid></item><item><title>Excitement and apprehension as Pakistani IDPs return home (IRIN)</title><description>Atmosphere "cautiously festive" as busloads of displaced people start arriving back int he Swat vall...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:25:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1928</guid></item><item><title>Bangladesh: Dhaka's dying rivers (IRIN)</title><description>Industrial dumping is polluting Bangladesh's rivers </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:27:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1929</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan's displaced return home (AlertNet)</title><description>The first busloads of Pakistani IDPs have returned to Swat, with hope that the Taliban rule is over,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:50:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1927</guid></item><item><title>Tanzanian partner launches new anti-poverty project (allAfrica)</title><description>The Diocese of Ruaha, where CMS mission partners Andy and Susie Hart work, has just launched a new d...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:46:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1926</guid></item><item><title>US Catholic sisters under investigation - why? (NY Times)</title><description>Catholic sisters of an order with a seemingly first-class record of serving the poor are being inves...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:43:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1925</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan's Sikh refugees (Guardian pictures)</title><description>Some beautiful pictures of how Sikh refugees have been coping with displacement - finding refuge in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:40:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1924</guid></item><item><title>Unsung Heroes No.2 - Thomas Valpy French</title><description>He died alone on a beach in Muscat, with only minimal converts to his name but became an archbishop'...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:02:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1371</guid></item><item><title>Why the sun is setting on England (Christian Today)</title><description>Like so much of the rest of the West, the UK is committed to abandoning its Judeo-Christian heritage...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:43:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1919</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka asks aid agencies to scale down operations (Reuters)</title><description>Sri Lanka has asked aid agencies to scale down operations as the island nation's "challenges are now...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:36:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1920</guid></item><item><title>Should we all join the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans? (Fulcrum)</title><description>The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) launches in the UK on 6th July, just over a year after ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1918</guid></item><item><title>Economy takes a toll on Christian relief groups (Christian Examiner)</title><description>International Aid (IA), is ceasing operations while World Vision, is laying off staff members and cu...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:34:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1917</guid></item><item><title>Somalia - Sons of Christian beheaded (Persecution Blog)</title><description>Islamic extremists have beheaded two boys in Somalia because their Christian father, 55 year-old Mus...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:32:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1916</guid></item><item><title>Orissa: Indian government compensates victims of anti-Christian violence (The Christian Post)</title><description>Top Indian official Home Minister P. Chidambaram stayed true to his promise as the government began ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:17:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1915</guid></item><item><title>Red Cross scales back in Sri Lanka (BBC)</title><description>The news comes amid continuing concern over the fate of hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:16:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1914</guid></item><item><title>Kidnappers demand ransom for Darfur aid staff (Reuters)</title><description>Armed "bandits" have demanded a ransom for the release of two female aid workers kidnapped in Sudan'...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:15:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1913</guid></item><item><title>Twelve countries on climate change hit-list (IRIN)</title><description>The World Bank has made a list of the five main threats arising from climate change: droughts, flood...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:15:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1912</guid></item><item><title>Does global Christianity equal American Christianity? (Christianity Today)</title><description>Historian Mark Noll talks about how U.S. missionaries have - and have not - shaped the faith in othe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:14:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1911</guid></item><item><title>Congo: UN denounces coalition between rebels (AllAfrica)</title><description>The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MONUC, has denounced a coalition formed by...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:22:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1907</guid></item><item><title>Another strike on Pakistan militants (BBC)</title><description>Missiles struck a suspected training camp for militants in South Waziristan early on Wednesday, offi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:20:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1908</guid></item><item><title>Orthodox Anglicans see greater unity in new fellowship (Christian Today)</title><description>The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans was launched in Westminster in opposition to liberal shifts i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:18:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1906</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Christian homes attacked (Persecution Blog)</title><description>Beating of field worker leads to hatchet attack on his family, then on all village Christians. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:17:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1905</guid></item><item><title>Somalia: Conditions worsen as more IDPs flood into Kismayo (IRIN)</title><description>As more internally displaced persons (IDPs) flee fighting in Mogadishu for the southern coastal city...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:16:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1904</guid></item><item><title>Bangladesh: Cyclone Aila victims still in need (IRIN)</title><description>Hundreds of thousands of people are still unable to return to their homes more than a month after Ai...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:13:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1896</guid></item><item><title>African traditional religion and development (allAfrica)</title><description>A slightly tricky read, but real concerns voiced about the place of African traditional religion, Ch...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:11:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1895</guid></item><item><title>Kenyans get land after 50 year wait (IRIN)</title><description>Thousands of Kenyans who failed to secure land when demarcation took place in the 1950s have now bee...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:08:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1894</guid></item><item><title>Anglican schism? Bring it on (Guardian Comment)</title><description>A fired-up Theo Hobson, long-time campaigner for disestablishment, is a rare liberal who wants the c...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:33:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1893</guid></item><item><title>World's Oldest New Testament online</title><description>The digitised codex sinaiticus has been launched. All you Greek scholars go crazy now... </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:26:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1892</guid></item><item><title>Pressure intensifies for Gaza Christians (CBN)</title><description>The latest effort against Gaza's small Christian minority centers around a Palestinian Bible Society...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:44:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1887</guid></item><item><title>Taliban buying children for suicide bombers (Washington Times)</title><description>Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicid...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:40:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1891</guid></item><item><title>An eye-witness account of IDP camp conditions in Sri Lanka (Groundviews)</title><description>The dire conditions of internment in camps that are home to well over a quarter of a million fellow ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:39:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1890</guid></item><item><title>Fresh attacks on Egypt’s Christians reported (RIN)</title><description>The North American Coptic Assembly is reporting that another incident of a Muslim mob attacking, tor...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:37:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1889</guid></item><item><title>Court delivers first conviction for Orissa violence (Christian Today)</title><description>A court in Orissa, India, has handed out its first conviction nearly a year after the outbreak of an...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:36:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1888</guid></item><item><title>Zimbabwe - church has role in national healing (allAfrica)</title><description>Interesting spin on a Methodisct church fundraiser: "People from all sectors of society put aside th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:13:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1881</guid></item><item><title>North Kivu violence displaces more Congolese (IRIN)</title><description>Continuing clashes between government troops and militias are forcing more people out of their homes...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:12:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1885</guid></item><item><title>Competing Western and Islamic aid in Pakistan (NY Times)</title><description>Islamist aid agencies and the US are competing for the allegiance of the displaced, says the New Yor...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:09:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1884</guid></item><item><title>One in seven Brits are Creationists (TimesOnline)</title><description>Ruth Gledhill synthesises recent debates at Lambeth Palace on science and religion and frankly distu...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:05:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1883</guid></item><item><title>Finally home - a Sudanese refugee returns at last (IRIN)</title><description>The story of one mother who fled Sudan so long ago she can't remember her home, and then had to live...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:02:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1882</guid></item><item><title>CMS Schools Links Conference 2009</title><description>2 October 2009  </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:16:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1648</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: Rains raise fears of malaria setback (IRIN)</title><description>Health experts warn that the arrival of monsoon rains in July could increase the risk of waterborne ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:04:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1880</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani forces prepare pivotal Taliban battle (National Post)</title><description>Pakistan is bracing for a violent summer as the army prepares to launch a pivotal battle against the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:01:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1879</guid></item><item><title>Indian leaders call for protection in Orissa (RIN)</title><description>Christian leaders in India have asked the Union government to intervene decisively in Orissa. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1878</guid></item><item><title>Q+A-What next for Pakistan's Swat valley? (Reuters)</title><description>Pakistani soldiers are clearing the last pockets of Taliban in the Swat valley, northwest of Islamab...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:59:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1877</guid></item><item><title>Faith community has role to play in combating gang culture (Christian Today)</title><description>A leading criminologist says that the faith community has a role to play in combating gang culture i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:51:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1876</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani militants abandon peace deal (BBC)</title><description>One Taliban faction has said it is scrapping its peace agreement with the government in the wake of ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:40:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1875</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: IDP hosts under pressure (IRIN)</title><description>The economic pressure on host families looking after people displaced from Swat valley is beginning ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:35:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1874</guid></item><item><title>African struggle with 'unbiblical unions' - polygamy (Christianity Today)</title><description>A survey of African churches' attempts to deal with the issue of polygamous marriages. Is this compa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:32:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1873</guid></item><item><title>Kenyan clergy should criticise government says President (allAfrica)</title><description>The Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki, has told clergy at the consecration of a new bishop that it was t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:29:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1872</guid></item><item><title>Church resources to fight assisted suicide (CofE)</title><description>The Church of England has launched a new web page to give people resources in the debate about assis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:24:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1871</guid></item><item><title>Bishop Butler bussed up!</title><description>CMS chair takes driver’s seat in Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:18:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1870</guid></item><item><title>Gaza civilians mired in poverty after war (Reuters)</title><description>Six months after Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip, 1.5 million Palestinians remain trapped in ris...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:11:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1869</guid></item><item><title>Anti-Christian attacks prompt call for justice in Egypt (Christian Today)</title><description>Egyptian authorities have released from custody all suspects who were arrested last week following a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:04:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1868</guid></item><item><title>Indian court overrules Bishop’s early retirement (RIN)</title><description>An Indian appeals court has overruled the Moderator of the Church of South India (CSI), and ordered ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:03:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1867</guid></item><item><title>Fighting is still displacing Congolese</title><description>While the church struggles to provide aid in remote areas, militias are still making people homeless...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:51:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1866</guid></item><item><title>Fighting is still displacing Congolese - Congo IDPs fed by the church</title><description>    with h   Mama Suzike, widowed by the fighting, feeds her family with church food aid   (Photo: ©...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:51:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1866&amp;PageID=541</guid></item><item><title>DRC: Rutshuru’s slow recovery</title><description>Trauma, hunger and poverty are the lasting effects of recent war in eastern DRC, says the Rev Desire...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:46:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1588</guid></item><item><title>DR Congo prayer update June 2009</title><description>Keeping you updated on the prayer needs in the conflict-hit east of DRC </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:44:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1843</guid></item><item><title>Anxiety and opportunity in Jaffna</title><description>An isolated people is feeling cynical after war, but there are rays of hope, says the Bishop of Colo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:16:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1859</guid></item><item><title>Christians injured in Egypt attack (RIN)</title><description>International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that several Christians, including a priest, were ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:08:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1864</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka sets date for first post-war polls (Reuters)</title><description>The upcoming elections are aimed at entrenching a civilian administration in an area wracked by war ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:07:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1863</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan aid response requires higher quality and accountability, agency says (CWS)</title><description>In hopes of improving the effectiveness of aid to people displaced by the crisis in Pakistan, Church...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1862</guid></item><item><title>Church leaders call upon G8 leaders to fulfil commitments to poor (Christian Today)</title><description>The Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols and Archbishop of Edinburgh and St Andrews Cardinal Ke...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:57:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1861</guid></item><item><title>Maldives: Almost no religious freedom for migrant workers (Forum 18)</title><description>Just as citizens do not have the right to religious freedom, migrant workers too are denied this rig...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:55:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1860</guid></item><item><title>What is the future for the Tamils?</title><description>Sri Lanka must find a positive way to fill the hole left by the LTTE, says one theologian </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:19:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1769</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka Christian leaders' desperate plea</title><description>Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders unite in appeal for urgent ceasefire to enable evacuation</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:14:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1464</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka Christian leaders' desperate plea - Sri Lanka bishops’ desperate plea on behalf of civilians</title><description>		 
 
 
 
 
"Endless debates are not the most urgent need": The Rt Rev Duleep de Chickera, Bish...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:14:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1464&amp;PageID=427</guid></item><item><title>DRC: Mass rape in Goma prison (IRIN)</title><description>Twenty female prisoners were raped on Monday night in Goma prison, during an escape attempt by other...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:21:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1858</guid></item><item><title>Madagascar's shell-shocked youth (IRIN)</title><description>UNICEF report highlights dramatic impact of political violence on the country's youth </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:16:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1857</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani bloggers rally against Taliban (Global Voices)</title><description>Global Voices tracks the Pakistani blogosphere for responses to the upsurge in Taliban attacks </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:12:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1856</guid></item><item><title>Southern Sudan: mounting ethnic divisions (IRIN)</title><description>Analysis piece on recent violence between different ethnic groups in Southern Sudan, as leaders from...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:08:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1855</guid></item><item><title>Night vigil for victims of torture (ACAT)</title><description>Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture is urging people to join a prayer vigil 27-28 June...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:05:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1854</guid></item><item><title>Former Gitmo detainee accused of killing 3 missionaries (OneNewsNow)</title><description>Terrorism experts say they fear the crimes are the handiwork of Al Qaeda's number two man in the Ara...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:39:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1849</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan army says in final phase of Swat offensive (Reuters)</title><description>Pakistan security forces are near the end of their offensive in the Swat valley, the army said on Mo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:31:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1853</guid></item><item><title>BBC to launch new series on history of Christianity (RIN)</title><description>A new BBC series exploring the history of Christianity is set to air this autumn. The series will in...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:30:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1852</guid></item><item><title>Somali remittances hit hard by financial crisis (Reuters)</title><description>The global financial crisis is adding to the suffering of millions in Somalia, a country devastated ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:29:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1851</guid></item><item><title>New Indian government set to repeal anti-conversion laws (Christian Today)</title><description>The newly elected central government has agreed to repeal a Bill that has restricted the freedom of ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:29:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1850</guid></item><item><title>Tsvangirai booed at Southwark Cathedral (Ekklesia)</title><description>Zimbabwe's prime minister was booed  by sceptical exiles during an appearance at Southwark cathedral...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:39:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1848</guid></item><item><title>Sudan's all-female mine clearance team (IRIN)</title><description>Women deminers have proved more effective than men in Sudan. Officials say: "Women are very accurate...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:32:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1847</guid></item><item><title>C of E may cut bishops to save cash (Guardian)</title><description>Falling investment values and a pensions deficit mean the Church of England will have to decide at S...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:28:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1846</guid></item><item><title>Iran: two kinds of religion (Sojourners)</title><description>Brian McLaren says the current situation in Iran highlights that there are always two kinds of relig...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:26:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1845</guid></item><item><title>Jordanian poet accused of apostasy (Global Voices)</title><description>Global Voices picked up this Jordanian blogger wondering whether he'll know when he is blaspheming a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:25:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1844</guid></item><item><title>Why we can trust the Gospels (Church Times)</title><description>Richard Bauckham, 2009 Michael Ramsey Prizewinner, argues for a new reading. Interview by  Kay Parri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:59:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1842</guid></item><item><title>New U.S. Anglicans launch, to ban women, gays as bishops  (USA Today)</title><description>
		 
				 
 
 
 
   Hundreds of formerly Episcopal parishes are meeting this week to unify as ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:57:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1841</guid></item><item><title>Thailand: crisis briefing (Reuters)</title><description>
		 Muslim separatists in southern Thailand have stepped up attacks on symbols of the Buddhist stat...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:35:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1840</guid></item><item><title>Rwanda minister given 30 years' jail for genocide (Reuters)</title><description>   A U.N. court trying masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on Monday gave a 30-year jail sentence ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:32:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1839</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan army says in final phase of Swat offensive (Reuters)</title><description>
		 
				 Pakistan security forces are near the end of their offensive in the Swat valley, the arm...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:29:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1838</guid></item><item><title>Displaced push Pakistani communities "to the limit" (Reuters)</title><description>People fleeing fighting in Pakistan are putting a huge burden on communities where they are shelteri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:19:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1836</guid></item><item><title>UN experts call for fair trial for Aung San Suu Kyi (RIN)</title><description>Authorities of Myanmar called on to ensure an “open and fair” trial for opposition leader and Nobel ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1835</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lankans face tough time ahead (Christian Today)</title><description>Aid agencies warn that the condition of Sri Lankans living in camps will still be a major challenge ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:10:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1834</guid></item><item><title>Iranians continue mass demonstrations, protests (CBN)</title><description>Tens of thousands of demonstrators continue to openly defy Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:09:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1833</guid></item><item><title>Brazilian Bishop thanks pro-lifers for support (LifeSiteNews.com)</title><description>The head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has received a letter of t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:09:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1832</guid></item><item><title>US drones kill nine in Afghanistan/Pakistan (AlertNet)</title><description>Examining the conjunction of the US army's action in Afghanistan and the Pakistani military's Swat o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:43:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1831</guid></item><item><title>Northern Irish hate crime a legacy of sectarianism? (Guardian)</title><description>Spotlighting other racist attacks in Northern Ireland in the wake of the recent attacks on Romanians...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:40:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1830</guid></item><item><title>Hard times for Afghan potato farmers (IRIN)</title><description>Lack of facilities and infrastructure is hampering the potential productivity of Bamyan - Afghanista...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:38:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1829</guid></item><item><title>Cholera toll in northeastern Kenya (IRIN)</title><description>Water shortages are worsening the effects of cholera in north-east Kenya </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:35:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1828</guid></item><item><title>Witches claim religious discrimination  after church ban (Telegraph)</title><description>Church bans witches ball in its social hall - the coven can't believe it! </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:33:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1827</guid></item><item><title>World Weekend of Prayer for Children at Risk</title><description>Viva Network calls you to pray for children at risk all over the world - resources available </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:12:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1686</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: Finding a path to reconciliation - analysis (IRIN)</title><description>Sri Lanka has a historic chance to heal deep ethnic rifts in the country after the civil war and the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:38:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1826</guid></item><item><title>Sudan forces still attacking Darfur civilians (Reuters)</title><description>The U.N. human rights investigator for Sudan said on Tuesday that Khartoum's forces continue to carr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:37:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1825</guid></item><item><title>Muslims angry at school’s sex education plans (RIN)</title><description>British Muslims have reacted in anger at plans by a school in London to teach children about lesbian...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:37:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1824</guid></item><item><title>Iranian Christians dispute election results (Christian Today)</title><description>Many Iranian Christians are refusing to accept their country’s presidential election results that cl...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:36:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1823</guid></item><item><title>Hostage killings reflect Yemen's tensions (Baptist Press)</title><description>Three aid workers in Yemen were killed and another six, including three children, are missing after ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:35:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1822</guid></item><item><title>Nazir-Ali: 'repent and refocus on mission' (Christian Today)</title><description>Former CMS general secretary Michael Nazir-Ali plans to tell a conference of the GAFCON movement tha...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:53:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1821</guid></item><item><title>Bible is 'ultimate immigration handbook' (Ekklesia)</title><description>World Council of Churches chief urges Christians not to forget their call to stand with the oppresse...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:47:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1820</guid></item><item><title>Uganda: 'I was Joseph Kony's wife' (IRIN</title><description>Interview with Lilly Atong, kidnapped by the LRA when she was 10, who became the 'wife' of Joseph Ko...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:28:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1817</guid></item><item><title>Pictures from Iran's election protests (Big Picture)</title><description>Impressive and disturbing images from the protests in Iran. Let us pray. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:28:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1819</guid></item><item><title>Only faith can solve the energy crisis (Guardian)</title><description>Only faith-based reasoning can make people change the climate-damaging habits, says Andrew Brown </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:35:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1818</guid></item><item><title>Key role of internet monitoring events in Iran (BBC)</title><description>  All over the world people are monitoring unfolding events in Iran via the internet, where an appar...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:10:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1816</guid></item><item><title>Boost for bid to make Nyerere a saint (Religious Intelligence)</title><description>
		 
				 The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni has endorsed the campaign to declare the late P...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:04:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1815</guid></item><item><title>Protection of war-displaced Pakistanis at risk - aid agencies (Reuters)</title><description>
		 
				 
						 The presence of Pakistani soldiers and intelligence agents inside camps for war...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:02:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1814</guid></item><item><title>Scots Piscie chief says churches have positive role in open secular society (Ekklesia)</title><description>
		 
				 
						 
								 Bishop David Chillingworth was elected Primus of the Scottish Episco...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:01:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1813</guid></item><item><title>Tutu says: Don't forget people in Israel's peace movement (ENI) </title><description>
		 
				 
						 It is important to remember that "many people in Israel belong to the peace mov...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:59:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1812</guid></item><item><title>Peshawar 'under siege' as Church condemns killings</title><description>Security 'deteriorating by the day' in Pakistani provincial capital hit by Taliban; working women un...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:49:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1763</guid></item><item><title>Peshawar 'under siege' as Church condemns killings - Pakistani Church condemns Taliban killings</title><description>				     Peshawar old city - hit by bomb blast   (Photo: © Diocese of Peshawar)  
				 From the Pes...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:49:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1763&amp;PageID=535</guid></item><item><title> Pray for Swat – Pakistan update</title><description>Up to 2.5m people have fled fighting in northern Pakistan – we bring you up to date with the situati...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:48:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1728</guid></item><item><title>Wedding smiles amid Swat trauma </title><description>Pakistani IDPs marry in church relief camp, even as more are evacuated from their homes</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:48:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1805</guid></item><item><title>The Church in Europe: Imminent demise? (Beliefnet)</title><description>Both Christianity and Islam are under threat because of the wide-ranging power of cultural secularis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:59:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1808</guid></item><item><title>Humanitarian aid 'urgently needed' in Sri Lanka (Christian Today)</title><description>The aftermath of Sri Lanka’s three decade old armed conflict has displaced more than 300,000 people ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:55:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1810</guid></item><item><title>U.N. vows to stay in NW Pakistan despite deadly attack (Reuters)</title><description>The United Nations has no plans to suspend or reduce its activities in Pakistan despite Tuesday's bo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1809</guid></item><item><title>Dalit women offered back-to-school scheme in India (CWM)</title><description>Community leaders in India have stepped up efforts to reach out to women from slum areas by offering...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:51:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1807</guid></item><item><title>Church of England aims to shrink carbon footprint further (Christian Today)</title><description>The Bishop of London the Rt Rev Richard Chartres urged representatives from all dioceses to go one s...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:44:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1806</guid></item><item><title>Shrinking the footprint in every parish (C of E)</title><description>A senior bishop and a Government minister today spelled out the importance of the Church of England’...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:15:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1804</guid></item><item><title>Fresh Expressions launch phase two at Lambeth (Fresh Expressions)</title><description>CMS is a national partner of Fresh Expressions, and we're glad to see the network spreading, and now...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:14:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1800</guid></item><item><title>Women's stories from Swat (Pak Tea House)</title><description>"There is no Islam in Swat. The Taliban have finished it." That's the opinion of one woman in an IDP...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:53:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1799</guid></item><item><title>LRA reprisal attacks continue in north-east DRC (IRIN)</title><description>The ongoing military campaign against the LRA has provoked reprisal attacks from the outlaw army, ca...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:53:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1802</guid></item><item><title>WCC speaks up for indigenous Peruvians over oil rights (ENI)</title><description>Violence broke out in Peru after protests by indigenous people at government oil exploration on thei...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:49:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1803</guid></item><item><title>Under the table in India - Dalits (India Uncut)</title><description>A poignant photo from India where it's still acceptable for a Dalit servant to take his tea sitting ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:19:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1801</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka sends 2,000 war refugees home (Reuters)</title><description>Sri Lanka sent more than 2,000 people back to their home villages in the island nation's northwest o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:27:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1797</guid></item><item><title>Search for Pakistan blast victims  (BBC)</title><description>Rescuers are searching for victims of a suicide bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:25:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1798</guid></item><item><title>Chargesheets drawn up against suspected Orissa attackers (Christian Today)</title><description>In a sigh of relief for persecuted Indian Christians in Orissa state, the state police last week fil...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:22:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1796</guid></item><item><title>Iran: Suffering Christians bathe Friday's elections in prayer (MNN)</title><description>Pundits say hard-line conservatives champion the president and his religious fervor, while moderates...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:20:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1795</guid></item><item><title>New age, new mission? Evangelism and the rise of "The new spiritualities" (Lausanne World Pulse)</title><description>Until recently, Christian literature on the New Age was not geared to equipping Christians to share ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:19:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1794</guid></item><item><title>Tutu: don't forget Israel's peace movement (ENI)</title><description>Archbishop Desmond Tutu has urged people not to forget the campaigners for peace within Israel, duri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:18:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1793</guid></item><item><title>Crop boost in Burundi (IRIN)</title><description>Some good news: good rainfall has boosted crop yields in the Mid-African country, making staple food...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:16:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1792</guid></item><item><title>Measuring British religion (Guardian)</title><description>A cool look at statistics and how we really ought to be researching the reality fo religion in Brita...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:13:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1791</guid></item><item><title>Middle East bloggers react to Obama (Global Voices)</title><description>Collection of reactions to Obama's major speech "to the Muslim world"</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:11:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1790</guid></item><item><title>Divorce drops in recession (Reuters)</title><description>Have more couples put off divorce because it's too expensive in credit-crunch Britain?</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:10:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1789</guid></item><item><title>Kids forget God's rules (Express)</title><description>
		 
				 
						 
						 
				 
		 
		 
				 
						 More than a quarter of 11 to 16-year-...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:08:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1788</guid></item><item><title>Heaven's Above! We Want To Meet Jesus (Mirror)</title><description>
		 
				 
						 JESUS Christ is the dead person most Britons would love to meet, a study reveal...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:06:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1787</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: church ruins become peace memorial</title><description>Ruins of an Anglican church in Jaffna have become a special symbol in war torn Sri Lanka. An ENI rep...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:48:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=37</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: 71 Asian migrants held pending repatriation</title><description>Over 70 Bangladeshi and Burmese migrants rescued at sea are currently being held in the Illegal Migr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:47:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=154</guid></item><item><title>Floods hit Sri Lanka war zone</title><description>More than 50,000 people affected in fMannar district at frontline of LTTE/government clashes (AlertN...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:46:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=173</guid></item><item><title>Peace Talks in Sri Lanka a Distant Hope</title><description>Although Sri Lanka's army chief vowed to put an end to the guerrilla group - the Tamil Tigers - rece...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=251</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: Communal violence disrupts relief efforts in the east (IRIN)</title><description>Communal clashes and ethnic tension between Tamils and Muslims have been disrupting humanitarian wor...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=358</guid></item><item><title>22 killed in Sri Lanka bus bombing (CBC)</title><description>Being blamed on the Tamil Tiger rebels, this latest attack contributes to the more than 70,000 peopl...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=371</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: Air force jets attack Tamil Tigers' intelligence HQ (BBC) </title><description>Sri Lankan air-force jets have dropped bombs on an intelligence headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:44:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=714</guid></item><item><title> Sri Lanka: Churches set on fire (PersecutionBlog)</title><description>More than 60 people set fire to a church building used for Sunday school in Puttlam District, Nation...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:44:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=774</guid></item><item><title>Analysis: India and Sri Lanka's civil war (Reuters)</title><description>    Indian political pressure on Sri Lanka to throttle back an offensive to wipe out the Tamil Tiger...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:44:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=829</guid></item><item><title>WCC hears divergent views on Sri Lanka war from local Buddhists (Ekklesia)</title><description>    Leaders of   Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority expressed divergent views on resolving the ethnic con...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:43:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=853</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka rejects latest Tiger truce offer (Reuters)</title><description>      Sri Lanka's government rejected the latest Tamil Tiger truce offer out of hand on Monday, agai...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:43:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=905</guid></item><item><title>Army says fall of Sri Lankan rebels' 'HQ' is imminent (BBC News)</title><description>The Sri Lankan army has said that the capture of the Tamil Tiger rebels' stronghold of Kilinochchi i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:43:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=961</guid></item><item><title>India appeals for protection of Sri Lankan civilians (BBC News)</title><description>The Indian government has appealed to Colombo to protect civilians trapped by the fighting in northe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:42:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1145</guid></item><item><title>The crisis the world isn't watching (Reuters)</title><description>Sri Lanka: One of the harsh realities of the humanitarian field is that some crises capture public a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:42:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1180</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: government will only accept rebels' unconditional surrender (BBC News)</title><description>The Sri Lankan government's Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stated that it would accept onl...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1244</guid></item><item><title>India ready to facilitate evacuation of Sri Lankan civilians (BBC News)</title><description>India has declared itself ready to help in the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians caught u...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1282</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: Displacement to worsen, aid agencies warn (Reuters)</title><description>"We had to think about our children. We had to flee," said a Tamil man, who, with his wife and two c...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1290</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka rebels mount suicide attack (AlertNet)</title><description>More than 600 civilians flee war zone in latest stage of Sri Lankan offensive, which included a fail...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1364</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka situation 'graver by the day' (Ekklesia)</title><description>Things just keep getting worse for civilians caught in Sri Lanka's desperate fighting </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1460</guid></item><item><title>Anglican priests wanted for war-torn Sri Lanka (ACNS)</title><description>CMS is  ahead of the game  here </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1475</guid></item><item><title>New risks for pregnant women in Sri Lanka conflict (IRIN)</title><description>Among the most pressing healthcare needs in the Sri Lanika crisis are those of thousands of pregnant...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1575</guid></item><item><title>What will end game of Sri Lanka's war mean for civilians? (Reuters)</title><description>Aid agencies are warning of possibly dire humanitarian consequences for tens of thousands of civilia...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:40:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1593</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka, Tigers trade blame over fighting in truce (Reuters)</title><description>Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tiger rebels traded blame on Tuesday over combat during a two-day holiday fi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:39:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1606</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka ceasefire 'too short' says UN (IRIN)</title><description>The 48-hour ceasefire on Monday and Tuesday has not given enough time to evacuate affected civilians...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:39:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1611</guid></item><item><title>'Thousands flee' Sri Lanka combat (BBC)</title><description>About 5,000 Sri Lankans have escaped from a Tamil Tiger-held area in the north of the country, the a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:39:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1617</guid></item><item><title>Tamil Tigers vow no surrender (AlertNet)</title><description>Despite the Sri Lankan army's devastating onward push, the LTTE have issued a statement saying "we w...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1620</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lankan war in endgame, 81,000 escape rebel zone (Reuters)</title><description>Thousands more civilians surged out of Sri Lanka's war zone on Wednesday, while soldiers and Tamil T...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1628</guid></item><item><title>DRC: Fears that demobbed child soldiers go straight to army (IRIN)</title><description>UN special representative Radhika Coomaraswamy (incidentally a keynote speaker at the CMS-sponsored ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1632</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka says ending combat operations (Reuters)</title><description>Combat operations will now be confined to using only small arms and rescuing civilians trapped in th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1638</guid></item><item><title>UK, French ministers press Sri Lanka ceasefire call (Reuters)</title><description>The foreign ministers of Britain and France urged Sri Lanka on Wednesday to implement a humanitarian...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1652</guid></item><item><title>Indian Christians rally against Sri Lankan 'genocide' (Christian Today)</title><description>An ecumenical protest in solidarity with Tamils in Sri Lanka has started in New Delhi </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1656</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka: 130,000 refugees 'severely traumatised' (CNA)</title><description>Catholic charities report on the situation facing vast numbers of civilians fleeing the conflict zon...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:36:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1659</guid></item><item><title>U.N. ready to support Sri Lanka war inquiry-Pillay (Reuters)</title><description>The United Nations stands ready to support an inquiry into abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war, U.N. Hig...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:35:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1785</guid></item><item><title>Helpful timeline for understanding Sri Lankan conflict (IRIN)</title><description>The UN news service has this timeline for those wanting to get a grip on the chronology of Sri Lanka...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:35:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1660</guid></item><item><title>Q+A - Plight of civilians at end of Sri Lanka's war (Reuters)</title><description>Military said on Monday troops had advanced a few hundred metres into the Tamil Tiger rebels' remain...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:35:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1673</guid></item><item><title>'Hundreds dead' on bloodiest day of Sri Lankan battle to destroy Tamil Tigers (The Guardian)</title><description>Hundreds of civilians are reported to have been killed when the Sri Lankan army launched a concerted...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:35:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1679</guid></item><item><title>Red Cross worker killed in Sri Lanka shelling (Reuters)</title><description>Shelling killed a Red Cross worker inside Sri Lanka's war zone on Wednesday, the aid agency said, wh...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:35:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1691</guid></item><item><title>Sri Lanka says thousands fleeing fighting (AlertNet)</title><description>With the final push expected today, thousands of civilians took to boats to cross a lagoon to safety...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:35:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1695</guid></item><item><title>Q+A: Deciphering the end of Sri Lanka's war (Reuters)</title><description>          

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</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:04:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=90</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan Militant Calls for Cease Fire (BBC)</title><description>Islamic militant, Baitullah Mehsud, has been released under the condition he renounces violence and ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:04:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=221</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan's lawyers march for justice (Al Jazeera)</title><description>Lawyers in Pakistan are demanding the return of the jjudges sacked by Musharraf in a 'long march' th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:04:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=380</guid></item><item><title>Taliban releases Christian hostages in Pakistan (Religious Intelligence)</title><description>Sixteen Christians kidnapped by the Taliban in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province have been rel...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:04:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=505</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani court rules conversion of kidnapped Christian girls is legal (ENI)</title><description>A Christian father in Pakistan has tried unsuccessfully to gain legal custody of his two pre-teen da...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:04:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=540</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani militants take 30 hostages (AlertNet)</title><description>Pro-Taliban militants have taken up to 30 people hostage in Swat Valley, Pakistan </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=559</guid></item><item><title>Western culture exacerbates interfaith difficulties (Anglican Communion)</title><description>Western culture often aggravates the difficulties that Christians face in societies where they are i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=562</guid></item><item><title>Hundreds try to flee Swat Valley violence (IRIN)</title><description>Death toll in militant-hit valley in northwest Pakistan reaches 71, people attempt  to flee </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=590</guid></item><item><title>Musharraf to step down? (Independent)</title><description>Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, is said to be involved in secret talks that will equip him t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=636</guid></item><item><title>Twelve dead in Pakistan bombings (BBC)</title><description>At least 12 people have been killed in twin suicide bombings outside a munitions factory in the Paki...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=657</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani Prime Minister survives assassination attempt (BBC)</title><description>Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani survived an assassination attempt by an unidentified gunman who fi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=699</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: 'Several killed' in US drone raid (BBC)</title><description>A pilotless American drone has fired missiles in a border area of Pakistan, killing at least four pe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=777</guid></item><item><title>Polio spreads in Pakistan (IRIN)</title><description>Why is this 'dead' disease resurgent in north-west Pakistan? </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=803</guid></item><item><title>'US missiles' hit Pakistan school (BBC)</title><description>Missiles thought to have been fired by the US have killed at least eight students of a religious sch...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:02:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=851</guid></item><item><title>Pakistani quake survivors beg for shelter from cold (Reuters)</title><description>Villagers in a southwest Pakistani region hit by a powerful earthquake demanded shelter on Sunday sa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:02:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=873</guid></item><item><title>New suicide attack in Pakistan (BBC)</title><description>The ongoing violence in north-west Pakistan shouldn't be forgotten. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=883</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Quetta residents fear more tremors (IRIN)</title><description>A thousand aftershocks have hit Quetta after last month's earthquake </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=914</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan al-Qaeda leaders 'dead' (BBC)</title><description>Al-Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan and another top aide are believed to have been killed, US so...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1060</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Government troops kill 60 'militants' in border clash (BBC News)</title><description>More than 60 'militants' were killed in fierce fighting with government troops in Mohmand district i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1088</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan admits link to attacks in Mumbai, India (BBC News)</title><description>A senior Pakistani official has admitted for the first time that last year's attacks in the Indian c...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1262</guid></item><item><title>Blasphemy law targets Pakistani Christians (CBN)</title><description>In Pakistan, the new federal minister of minorities predicts the country's blasphemy laws will be ab...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1288</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan opens first prison chapel (Christian Today)</title><description>A first for Pakistan in having an official chapel in a prison </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1340</guid></item><item><title>Islamic Sharia law expands in northwest Pakistan (The Los Angeles Times)</title><description>Pakistani officials agree to 17 steps as part of a peace deal with extremists in the Swat Valley, al...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1342</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: "NGOs should leave Swat" - insurgent leader (Reuters)</title><description>Insurgents in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley in North West Frontier Province who recently made a pe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1443</guid></item><item><title>UNHCR worker in Pakistan released (AlertNet)</title><description>After two months in captivity UNHCR's John Sloecki has been freed </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1534</guid></item><item><title>UN condemns flogging of girl in Pakistan (Reuters)</title><description>Footage emerged in Pakistan last week of a 17-year-old girl being beaten in the remote Swat valley, ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:59:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1585</guid></item><item><title>Christian journalist in hiding in Pakistan (Christian Today)</title><description>A Christian journalist has received death threats in reaction to columns he wrote </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1595</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Swat church deals with Taliban rule (Christianity Today)</title><description>Christians reluctant to attend church in Taliban-governed valley </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1608</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Sharia law does not bode well for believers (MNN)</title><description>It seems unlikely that the provision for the Taliban's control over the Swat valley will quench thei...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1614</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Taleban talks 'halted' (BBC)</title><description>The Taleban's talks with the government in north-west Pakistan have been suspended amid army operati...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1636</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: death for blasphemy now mandatory (The News)</title><description>After a technical ruling by Pakistan's supreme court, the option for life imprisonment as a sentence...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1643</guid></item><item><title>First hand blogs from Taliban-held Swat (Global Voices)</title><description>Local bloggers report on the current situation in Pakistan's Swat valley, where the Pakistani army i...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1681</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan crisis: massive displacement in north-west (UNHCR)</title><description>Up to half a million people are on the move following fighting between the Taliban and Pakistani gov...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1684</guid></item><item><title>Factbox: Hundreds of thousands flee fighting in Swat (AlertNet)</title><description>Crisis in northern Pakistan summed up in numbers </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1698</guid></item><item><title>Live coverage of Swat situation by Pakistanis (Swat Plea)</title><description>An interesting online experiment in following all Twitter and blog updates about the crisis in Swat,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:57:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1700</guid></item><item><title>Writing minorities out of textbooks in Pakistan (Guardian)</title><description>Experts say religious extremism is being fostered in the editing of school books </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:57:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1712</guid></item><item><title>Displaced women struggling in Pakistan (IRIN)</title><description>Some Pakistani women fleeing government-Taliban violence have found themselves outside their own fou...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:56:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1716</guid></item><item><title>Young Pakistanis try to change at least one thing (NY Times)</title><description>“Everybody keeps blaming the government, but no one actually does anything,” said Shoaib Ahmed, 21, ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:56:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1721</guid></item><item><title> Pakistanis in Swat "face catastrophe"; clashes spread  (Reuters)</title><description>		 
	 
		Hundreds of thousands of Pakistani
civilians trapped by an offensive against the Taliban...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:56:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1737</guid></item><item><title>Taliban claim responsibility for Lahore attack (AlertNet)</title><description>Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for a suicide gun and bomb attack in the city o...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:56:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1745</guid></item><item><title>Emotional scars of Swat's children (BBC)</title><description>Anna Ford of British aid agency Save the Children describes the challenge of dealing with thousands ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:55:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1756</guid></item><item><title>For Pakistan or for Islam (Guardian Unlimited)</title><description>		 
				 
						 For Pakistan to haul itself out of crisis, the ultimate goal must be for its peop...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:55:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1757</guid></item><item><title>UN probe Israeli actions in Gaza</title><description>United Nations human rights investigators began work in the Gaza Strip on Monday to try to determine...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:53:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1762</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: Violent times, vulnerable minorities (Dawn.com - photos)</title><description>Documenting Taliban attacks in Pakistan </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:52:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1767</guid></item><item><title>Wounded civilians dying as they flee Pakistan conflict - MSF (Reuters)</title><description>Civilians wounded in fighting between the army and Taliban insurgents in Pakistan's northwest are dy...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:51:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1770</guid></item><item><title>Pakistan: agony of separated IDP families (IRIN)</title><description>In the chaos of fleeing fighting between the Pakistani military and Taliban militants in North West ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:50:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1780</guid></item><item><title>ABC: pray now, act now on climate change (CofE)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury is urging churches to pray and campaign for action on climate change, a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:48:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1779</guid></item><item><title>Debate rages in Fiji over banned church conference (Global Voices)</title><description>A Methodist church conference has been banned byt the government in Fiji, who say it could cause ins...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:46:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1778</guid></item><item><title>Ex apartheid chief washes feet of those he wronged (Ekklesia)</title><description>Following an earlier gesture of washing the feet of some of his victims, an apartheid-era South Afri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:42:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1777</guid></item><item><title>Marilynne Robinson, God and Calvin (Guardian)</title><description>Andrew Brown on the genius Orange-prize winner - a strong Christian </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:40:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1776</guid></item><item><title>Following Banksy to Bethlehem</title><description>Even the elusive Banksy sought out the Palestinian artists who helped Frederica Venn to repaint a mu...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:42:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=885</guid></item><item><title>Gaza: Love and the Enemy</title><description>Tanas Alqassis, a Palestinian Christian, makes a heartfelt call for prayer in the spirit of the Prin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:41:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1052</guid></item><item><title>The Middle East needs prayer and prophets</title><description>In the midst of war, we must pray but also speak out against the misuse of power, says Salim Munayer...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:41:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1054</guid></item><item><title>The Middle East needs prayer and prophets - 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March 2009</title><description>Latest news for your prayers on three conflict-hit zones in eastern DRC - Goma, Dungu and Ituri </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:39:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1359</guid></item><item><title>Bishops finally make Gaza visit</title><description>Two bishops who were denied entry for a pastoral visit to Gaza have now been able to make the trip</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:38:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1438</guid></item><item><title>Under fire in Sri Lanka</title><description>Reports from church sources in northern Sri Lanka highlight the desperate situation as government cl...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:37:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1697</guid></item><item><title>Wholly unique Holy Land tour</title><description>A personal invitation to a unique study tour of the Holy Land in 2010 - go behind the headlines </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:01:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1723</guid></item><item><title>Turkey challenged on religious freedoms (RIN)</title><description>Turkey must fully accept the freedom of citizens to convert from one religion to another before it c...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:06:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1773</guid></item><item><title>Obama embarks on Mid-East mission (BBC)</title><description>US President Barack Obama is heading to the Middle East on a visit aimed at increasing US engagement...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:05:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1772</guid></item><item><title>Muslim villagers beat Evangelists in Bangladesh (Persecution Blog)</title><description>Nearly four months later, Christian worker still suffering nerve damage. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:05:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1771</guid></item><item><title>Bangladesh: water sources contaminated in cyclone zones (IRIN)</title><description>Areas hit by Cyclone Aila last week are facing acute water shortages </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:00:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1768</guid></item><item><title>Debate as abortion becomes illegal in East Timor (Global Voices)</title><description>A new penal code is coming into force in East Timor, which makes abortion illegal - including as a r...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:58:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1766</guid></item><item><title>Jubilee warns of new debt crisis (IRIN)</title><description>The still-existing needs for debt cancellation are being compounded by the global financial crisis </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:48:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1765</guid></item><item><title>Is Europe's future Christian? (Guardian)</title><description>All week the Guardian features different writers responding to the question </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:46:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1764</guid></item><item><title>Tutu apologises to Nigerians </title><description>Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, yesterday apologised on behalf of millions of his compatriots in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:06:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1761</guid></item><item><title>Tutu apologises to Nigerians </title><description>Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, yesterday apologised on behalf of millions of his compatriots in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:06:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1760</guid></item><item><title>Suirveying the wondrous cross (Christianity Today)</title><description>Philip Yancey looks at why the atonement has become a hot topic and sheds light on what it actually ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:58:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1759</guid></item><item><title>Egypt: a society of taboos (Guardian Unlimited)</title><description>Rather than encouraging people to make moral choices, religious groups in Egypt are imposing their v...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:54:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1758</guid></item><item><title>Bishop welcomes reforms following MPs’ expenses scandal (RIN)</title><description>The British Government’s proposed reforms to MPs’ expenses is a step in the right direction, the Bis...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:51:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1755</guid></item><item><title>Disease fears mount after cyclone Aila (Reuters)</title><description>Hundreds of thousands of people are stranded with no food, water and shelter four days after cyclone...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:50:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1754</guid></item><item><title>Abortion doctor shot, suspect in custody (The Wichita Eagle)</title><description>Late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was shot and killed as he entered his church Sunday morning ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:48:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1753</guid></item><item><title>Teacher sacked after 'making pupils kneel and pray to Allah' during RE lesson (Mail Online)</title><description>A teacher has been sacked after parents claimed that their children were forced to pray to Allah dur...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:47:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1752</guid></item><item><title>Swat: trapped civilians see little food, more missiles (IRIN)</title><description>Some 300,000 people are effectively trapped in Swat valley towns because of a 24-hour military curfe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:47:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1751</guid></item><item><title>Jesus Film turns sights on West (Christian Today)</title><description>The Jesus Film, 30 years old this year and a staple of evangelistic outreach around the world, will ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:44:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1750</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop spotted in his natural environment (Guardian)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury has been taking a breather from the travails of the worldwide Anglicani...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1748</guid></item><item><title>'Padre Oprah' becomes Anglican, marries girlfriend (NY Times)</title><description>An American Catholic priest famous for gving relationship advice on TV and radio has become Episcopa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:38:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1747</guid></item><item><title>Palau mission to Rwanda (Christian Today)</title><description>Coinciding with Rwanda's 100-day commemoration of 15 years since the genocide, Luis Palau's son will...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 11:03:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1744</guid></item><item><title>Grim picture of life in Gaza (IRIN)</title><description>Reoprts from NGOs in Gaza reveal desperate state of infrastructure with 3,500 homes destroyed beyond...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:57:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1743</guid></item><item><title>Cyclone plans save many lives in Bangladesh (IRIN)</title><description>Though Cyclone Aila killed more than 150, countless other lives were saved in Bangladesh by evacuati...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:21:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1742</guid></item><item><title>World's oldest pupil baptised in wheelchair (allAfrica)</title><description>"I commit my life to God, from now until the end," says 90-year-old who started primary school at ag...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:03:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1741</guid></item><item><title>Church Army</title><description>We're about sharing faith through words and action to transform lives by making Jesus famous. Our fo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:50:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1740</guid></item><item><title>South African churches still living with difficult legacy of apartheid (All Africa)</title><description>A South African church suspended in 1982 from the World Alliance of
Reformed Churches because of it...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:07:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1739</guid></item><item><title>Nigeria: Saro-Wiwa - Shell's Trial Begins</title><description>The trial of Anglo-Dutch super major, Shell, over its alleged
complicity in the death of Mr. Ken Sa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1738</guid></item><item><title>Q&amp;A: background the North Korea nuclear crisis</title><description>North Korea's nuclear test this week, and reports it has restarted a
plant that makes weapons-grade...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:00:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1736</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: 30,000 homeless after demolitions (IRIN)</title><description>The large-scale demolition of poor housing in the Southern capital, which has left thousands homeles...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 10:56:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1735</guid></item><item><title>WCC leader: North Korea test is reason to ban all nukes (Ekklesia)</title><description>Sam Kobia, Gen Sec of the World Council of Churches speaks out </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 09:12:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1734</guid></item><item><title>Agnosticism saved my faith (Guardian)</title><description>A Muslim writes of the journey of belief that affects "those who at some point realise that they do ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 11:16:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1727</guid></item><item><title>DRC: rape on the rise again (allAfrica)</title><description>Tragically, rape by various armed factions in South Kivu province has been on the rise since the beg...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 11:10:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1726</guid></item><item><title>Rwanda clergy healing conference (allAfrica)</title><description>Five-day "Healing the Land" conference kicks off in Kigali </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 10:53:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1725</guid></item><item><title>Rwanda: 45% of children malnourished (allAfrica)</title><description>New research says that nearly half of all Rwnadan children are malnourished </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 10:50:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1724</guid></item><item><title>Arab Christians: the forgotten faithful (National Geographic)</title><description>
		 Followers of Jesus for nearly 2,000 years, native Christians today are disappearing from the la...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:01:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1722</guid></item><item><title>Chinese urge prayers to mark 1989 crackdown (ENI)</title><description>The 20th anniversary of the Chinese government's crackdown on protesters in Tianenment Square is on ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:57:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1719</guid></item><item><title>Britains goes psychic (Guardian)</title><description>Are Britain's psychics moving from the sideshow to the mainstream? Why not pay £5.68 a minute on a p...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:49:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1718</guid></item><item><title>Indian election results bring hope in Orissa (Ekklesia)</title><description>Election disappointmenf for the BJP leads to positive outlook from Christian leaders </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 09:25:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1715</guid></item><item><title>Dan Brown's America (New York Times)</title><description>The Times looks at how Dan Brown taps into the religious psyche of modern America </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 09:20:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1714</guid></item><item><title>Call to prayer controversy in Guyana (Global Voices)</title><description>It seems opinions over amplified calls to prayer are not limited to Oxford or the UK</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 09:16:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1713</guid></item><item><title>U.N. presses Rwanda on rapprochement with Congo (Reuters)</title><description>
		 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				  
  
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 Pentecostalism has Islam and the Catholic Church on the run in many parts of the world, claim the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:23:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1707</guid></item><item><title>Southern Sudan fighting creates more IDPs (IRIN)</title><description>Inter-ethnic violence in Upper Nile state kills 66 and leaves 1,000 displaced </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 10:51:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1702</guid></item><item><title>Parents revolt over baby show links to arms trade (Ekklesia)</title><description>Parents who use a Johnson and Johnson website are upset that the company is exhibiting at a fair run...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 10:48:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1701</guid></item><item><title>'I spent 12 years in a cave' - Budddhist Brit (Guardian)</title><description>Extraordinary story of the lengths some will go to on a spiritual journey - including three years of...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 10:25:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1699</guid></item><item><title>Rwandans blamed for new Congo deaths (AlertNet)</title><description>Dozens were killed over the weekend in eastern Congo, showing the vulnerability of people to attack ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:50:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1696</guid></item><item><title>Did Darwin kill God? Westminster Abbey debate (Guardian)</title><description>Seems a shame that a debate is branded ultimately pointless becasue it does not feature the views of...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:46:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1694</guid></item><item><title>Pope's call for Palestinian homeland (Guardian)</title><description>Gaza blockade must be lifted too, says Benedict XVI </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:44:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1693</guid></item><item><title>Palestinian pastors: 'we are forgotten church' (Christian Today)</title><description>Just 5,000 evangelical Christians are left in the West Bank and Gaza. It seems a shame we still have...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:43:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1692</guid></item><item><title>Pope calls for Palestinian state (BBC)</title><description>Pope Benedict XVI has offered his support for the Palestinians' right to a homeland, as he continues...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:25:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1690</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop says summit ended in 'glorious failure' (RIN)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury has conceded that ACC-14 in Kingston, Jamaica was a “failure” that disa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:24:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1689</guid></item><item><title>Christians in Orissa relief camp attacked (The Christian Post)</title><description>Hindu radicals attacked Mondakia relief camp in Kandhamal, where 1,500 Christian refugees displaced ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:19:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1688</guid></item><item><title>Lord Carey condemns 'clawing greed' of MPs (Christian Today)</title><description>Writing in the News of the World, Lord Carey said, “The moral authority of Parliament is at its lowe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:18:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1687</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop of Canterbury's presidential address (ACNS)</title><description>You can listen to Rowan Williams's presidential address to the Anglican Consultative Council, which ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:30:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1683</guid></item><item><title>US army destroys Afghan bibles (Christian Today)</title><description>The US army in Afghanistan have chosen to destroy bibles in local languages rather than risks accusa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:27:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1682</guid></item><item><title>Muslim to head BBC religious affairs (Guardian)</title><description>A Muslim Channel 4 executive has been appointed as the chief of the new BBC religion department </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 08:03:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1680</guid></item><item><title>MPs say Britain is not secular (RIN)</title><description>Britain is not a secular society, argued MPs in a House of Commons debate which recognised the centr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 10:02:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1678</guid></item><item><title>'Hundreds dead' on bloodiest day of Sri Lankan battle to destroy Tamil Tigers (The Guardian)</title><description>Hundreds of civilians are reported to have been killed when the Sri Lankan army launched a concerted...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 10:01:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1677</guid></item><item><title>China: 18 Christians arrested, 16 still in prison (CNW)</title><description>A group of house church Christians and leaders from the house church group China Gospel Fellowship (...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:58:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1676</guid></item><item><title>Queen's medal pulled for being too Christian (Christian Today)</title><description>A medal created by Queen Elizabeth II has been replaced by a new award after having all references t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:56:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1675</guid></item><item><title>Nigeria added to list of offenders of religious freedom (RIN)</title><description>The Nigerian government’s blind eye toward the persecution of Christians has led to its being added ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:55:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1674</guid></item><item><title>Dr Patricia Nickson OBE</title><description>One of the foremost community health practitioners of her time died peacefully on Sunday</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:01:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1641</guid></item><item><title>BNP denies racism after Sentamu slur (Christian Today)</title><description>The British National Party has denied being racist after one of its senior figures called the Archbi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 08:12:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1672</guid></item><item><title>Egypt and Israel: 30 years of peace (CBN)</title><description>Although Israel recently celebrated its 61st birthday as a modern nation, it has not been an easy ri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 08:11:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1671</guid></item><item><title>Working for peace in Orissa (MCC)</title><description>In the wake of widespread violence against Christians in India's Orissa state, Mennonite Central Com...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 08:10:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1670</guid></item><item><title>Paintings of churches not allowed at London hospital (Christian Today)</title><description>A council in London has received complaints after artists were encouraged to contribute paintings fo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 08:09:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1669</guid></item><item><title>Hurry up with the politics, Archbishop tells Anglicans (Times)</title><description>Rowan WIlliams told worshippers at the beginning of the Anglican Consultative Council that it was ti...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 11:10:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1668</guid></item><item><title>Health care gaps in Darfur follow NGO expulsions (IRIN)</title><description>UN reports on decline in health care provision following Sudan's expulsion of foreign NGOs </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 11:07:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1667</guid></item><item><title>BNP's racist barbs against Sentamu (Daily Mail)</title><description>Giving the lie to the new 'moderate' BNP, the deputy leader has come out with some astonishing slurs...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:57:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1666</guid></item><item><title>Thousands back call for migrant amnesty (Ekklesia)</title><description>Bank Holiday Monday saw demonstrations and church services around the country supporting an amnesty ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:53:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1665</guid></item><item><title>Joe the Plumber talks to Christianity Today</title><description>The Republican Party cheerleader talks about his faith and conservatism to the US magazine </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:50:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1664</guid></item><item><title>Church of England publishes swine flu prayers</title><description>Resource from the Church of England website </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:41:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1663</guid></item><item><title>New Archbishop-elect of Kenya is a ‘spiritual reconciler’ (Church Times)</title><description>ONE of the six Kenyan bishops who attended the Lambeth Conference,
as well as the Global Anglican F...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1662</guid></item><item><title>Still listening for God's call</title><description>Former mission partner Pat Gilmer reflects on her CMS journey. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:22:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=980</guid></item><item><title>Burundi: rains displace returnees (IRIN)</title><description>In Burundi heavy rains have destroyed temporary townships where returnees and displaced people are l...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:17:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1658</guid></item><item><title>Uganda opinion: Church's unique contribution (allAfrica)</title><description>Ugandan chaplain reflects on whether the church really has anything to say to society </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:14:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1657</guid></item><item><title>Kenya elects new Anglican Archbishop (RIN)</title><description>The Anglican Church of Kenya has elected the Rt Rev Eliud Wabukala the new Archbishop of the second ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:03:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1653</guid></item><item><title>China could be Christian nation within ten years (MNN)</title><description>As China has become a powerful presence in international affairs, the Christian presence in the coun...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:02:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1651</guid></item><item><title>Waiting for war in eastern Congo (Reuters)</title><description>Every village I visit or every town I drive through, there are men with guns. On the roadside, livin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:01:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1650</guid></item><item><title>Irish cardinal recommends Twitter for prayer (Christian Today)</title><description>Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has suggested that believers e...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:59:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1649</guid></item><item><title>Jonny Baker: Dreaming of Europe</title><description>Jonny Baker highlights Gerard Kelly's vision for Europe and the Bless Network </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:42:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1623</guid></item><item><title>The prince, the pope and the women (Guardian)</title><description>Andrew Brown finds insights into the Catholic and Anglican churches from the visit of Prince Charles...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:32:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1647</guid></item><item><title>The miracle that is Abigail Witchalls (Telegraph)</title><description>The stab victim can now speak again - and speak of her healing </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:27:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1646</guid></item><item><title>Mobilisation to End Poverty begins in States (Christian Today)</title><description>A major event in Washington is initiating a faith-based coalition against poverty </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:23:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1645</guid></item><item><title>Survey monitors Americans' religious drift (LA Times)</title><description>Half of Americans change their religious affiliation at least once in their lives - a study looks fo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:20:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1644</guid></item><item><title>The plurality of health</title><description>A classic interview with Dr Pat Nickson, who died recently, from CMS's Yes magazine in 2000 </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:30:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1642</guid></item><item><title>Rediscovering the Great Commandment</title><description>Dennis Tongoi, executive director of CMS Africa, delves into our motivation for mission </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:32:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1635</guid></item><item><title>Rediscovering the Great Commandment - Rediscoverthe Great Commandment</title><description>				     Dennis Tongoi   (Photo: © CMS)  
				 Dennis Tongoi, executive director of CMS Africa, giv...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:32:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1635&amp;PageID=514</guid></item><item><title>Taliban executes 2 Christians (WND)</title><description>Believers were protesting demand they accept Islam. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:22:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1640</guid></item><item><title>Tanzania bishop calls for protection for albinos (RIN)</title><description>The Anglican Church of Tanzania has joined the battle against the discrimination and abuse of albino...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:21:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1639</guid></item><item><title>Christians pledge to live simply (Christian Today)</title><description>London: More than a hundred Christians have pledged to live simply, generously and thankfully over t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:19:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1637</guid></item><item><title>From our correspondents: Thailand crisis</title><description>CMS has received prayer requests from Thailand in the recent crisis - UPDATED 15 APRIL </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:38:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1601</guid></item><item><title>Rare Christian stadium event allowed in Vietnam (Compass Direct)</title><description>More than 15,000 people gathered in a stadium in Ho Chi Minh City for a post-Easter celebration - th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:50:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1633</guid></item><item><title>St George's Day, Bishop of Rochester and J John (TimesOnline)</title><description>A fascinating roundup of St George's Day opinions and backgrounders. Another bank holiday? Why not? </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:40:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1631</guid></item><item><title>Lichfield archdeacon drives away BNP (Christian Today)</title><description>The Archdeacon of Lichfield has chased off a BNP activist trying to use the cathedral as a backdrop ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:36:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1630</guid></item><item><title>Women bishops for all in Wales (Church in Wales)</title><description>The Archbishop of Wales has said there can be no alternative bishops for those opposed to women's or...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:30:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1629</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop of Wales says selifishness hurts children (Christian Today)</title><description>The Anglican Archbishop of Wales says children are suffering due to the culture of society which put...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:13:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1627</guid></item><item><title>Darfur fire causes $4 million in damage (RIN)</title><description>A fire broke out last night at the headquarters of the hybrid United Nations-African Union (AU) peac...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:11:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1626</guid></item><item><title>El Salvador:  Evangelicals discount portrayal as leftist voting bloc (Christianity Today)</title><description>Were El Salvador's evangelicals responsible for putting into power a party once considered a terrori...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:10:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1625</guid></item><item><title>Angola: Heavy flooding leaves thousands homeless (MNN)</title><description>About 25,000 people in Angola have been displaced, and the Red Cross estimates that in the Cunene pr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:08:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1624</guid></item><item><title>DRC: 18 armed groups agree to dissolve (IRIN)</title><description>Encouraging news from Congo, where 18 militias signed a declaration saying they had formally disband...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:30:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1622</guid></item><item><title>Northern Irish children 'more likely to pray' (Christian Today)</title><description>A CBBC survey has found that 57 per cent of Northern Irish children say they pray most days, more th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:27:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1621</guid></item><item><title>Burundi rebels begin demobilising (IRIN)</title><description>Thousands of fomrer armed rebels in Burundi have started turning in their weapons, marking a genuine...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:21:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1619</guid></item><item><title>Guerilla worship: Christians fight back (Guardian)</title><description>Theo Hobson is inspired by the Easter shopping centre worship of Dream network in Liverpool </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:37:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1618</guid></item><item><title>Gunmen kidnap foreign aid workers in Somalia (Reuters)</title><description>Gunmen kidnapped three aid workers, believed to include a Belgian and a Dutchman, in central Somalia...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:28:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1615</guid></item><item><title>Euro Churches call on Nato to give up nuclear arms (RIN)</title><description>The Conference of European Churches (CEC) has joined three international church groups to call upon ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:25:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1616</guid></item><item><title>India's Christians cast their votes amid tight security (Christian Today)</title><description>Over 3,000 Christians in Kandhamal relief camps were able to cast their votes peacefully in the firs...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:19:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1613</guid></item><item><title>Eritrea condemned over dentention record (AlertNet)</title><description>Human Rights Watch has accused the Eritrean government of turning the country into a giant prison fo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:16:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1610</guid></item><item><title>Egypt: church provides first conversion certificate (Christian Today)</title><description>A Muslim-background believer has been issued with a conversion certificate from the Coptic Church in...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:13:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1609</guid></item><item><title>Orissa: Christians react to BJP candidate's arrest (ENI)</title><description>Christian leaders say 11th hour arrest of BJP candidate in Orissa could do more harm than good </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:03:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1607</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: Converts from Islam struggle to survive (Persecution Blog)</title><description>“After watching the ‘Jesus Film,’ I felt I needed a change in my hopeless and meaningless life.” </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:41:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1602</guid></item><item><title>British charity worker suspended for talking about his faith (RIN)</title><description>A legal case is looming after an employee at a British charity for the homeless was suspended for ta...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:33:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1605</guid></item><item><title>Nappies and spaghetti: the challenges of getting aid into Gaza (Oxfam GB)</title><description>A truck load of nappies is driven into the Kerem Shalom crossing ahead of us. One consignment of 36 ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:30:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1604</guid></item><item><title>Hindu nationalist held for anti-Christian speech (AFP)</title><description>Indian police Tuesday arrested a Hindu nationalist politician for an alleged anti-Christian hate spe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:29:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1603</guid></item><item><title>Picture of Caribbean Easter traditions (Global Voices)</title><description>Bloggers' snapshots of Easter celebrations in the Carribbean captured by Global Voices </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:42:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1597</guid></item><item><title>Japan: listen to migrant workers' cries (ENI)</title><description>A Japanese Christian leader has urged churches there to pay more attention to the plight of temporar...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:41:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1599</guid></item><item><title>Germans attempt to Tweet Bible (ENI)</title><description>German Protestants are starting a record attempt to 'tweet' the entire BIble on the social networkin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:38:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1598</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop: proof of resurrection is lived not argued (ACNS)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury said in his Easter sermon that a life of faith is lived and practised n...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:29:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1596</guid></item><item><title>Nigerian Primate urges Anglicans to unite against militants (RIN)</title><description>The Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, has entered the dispute surrounding critical comme...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:47:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1594</guid></item><item><title>Is there proof of Christ's resurrection? (CBN)</title><description>Easter celebrates the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ - the resurrection that separates Christ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:44:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1592</guid></item><item><title>Italian rescue efforts continue in quake town (MNN)</title><description>Peppo Biscarini with Greater Europe Mission says they are more than 80 kilometers away from the epic...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:42:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1591</guid></item><item><title>Oxford artists reinterpret Christian Easter message (Oxford Mail)</title><description>Artists in Oxford have produced their own modern slant on the Stations of the Cross, in which Jesus ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:36:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1590</guid></item><item><title>New voice for mission in Africa this Easter</title><description>CMS and brand-new CMS Africa pledge to “take up cross together”</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:25:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1589</guid></item><item><title>Reasons to be 'planetwise'</title><description>Why the Bible drives us to care for creation, by CMS mission partner Dave Bookless (MP3 audio 23.8MB...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:49:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=743</guid></item><item><title>Theology in Black and White?</title><description>Can Jonny Baker, English postmodern dad, and Yemi Adedeji,
Nigerian Pentecostal, ever see eye to ey...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:49:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1000</guid></item><item><title>Lucy Winkett - From iPod to Evensong</title><description>Lucy Winkett – From iPod to Evensong: the mission of the church in music (Mission and the Arts) </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:47:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1031</guid></item><item><title>No painting please, we're evangelicals</title><description>Painter Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga reflects on his journey to embrace the power of art as an evangelica...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:45:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1465</guid></item><item><title>Who's suffering in the Congo now?</title><description>Congolese civilians are suffering while internal and external factions fight for power in the DRC.</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:38:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=869</guid></item><item><title>BBC set to choose Muslim or Sikh to head religious programming (CFON)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged the Director General of the BBC not to turn his back on ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:26:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1587</guid></item><item><title>Democratic Republic of Congo: Missionary recovers after gun attack (RIN)</title><description>A Roman Catholic missionary in the Democratic Republic of Congo is recovering after a gun attack in ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:25:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1586</guid></item><item><title>Christians attacked, killed in Iraq - believers facing 'ethno-religious cleansing' (WND)</title><description>The murder of four Christians across Iraq in just two days is raising concern among churches there t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:23:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1584</guid></item><item><title>N. Korea steps up crackdown on Christians (Christian Post)</title><description>No other religion is allowed under the totalitarian regime. Being found a Christian can result in pu...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:21:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1583</guid></item><item><title>150,000 Gazans still without tap water (IRIN)</title><description>Ten per cent of Gaza's population are still without tap water after the Israeli offensive in January...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:23:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1579</guid></item><item><title>Premier League 'insensitive' over Easter fixtures (Telegraph)</title><description>The Bishop of Birmingham, among others, speaks out against football fixtures on Easter Sunday </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:22:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1578</guid></item><item><title>Botswana lawyer blames death penalty for crucifixion (allAfrica)</title><description>"If we did not have the death penalty, Jesus would have lived much longer than the 33 years that he ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:20:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1577</guid></item><item><title>Zambia: church says losing job doesn't mean losing hope (allAfrica)</title><description>A church in Zambia has been giving out a powerful message of hope as the country is affected by the ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:13:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1576</guid></item><item><title>Jade Goody's funeral gospel sermon (Chelmsford Diocese)</title><description>At the most publicised funeral for quite some time, the Rev Corinne Brixton definitely preached Jesu...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:49:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1536</guid></item><item><title>Easter in the psyche (Guardian)</title><description>How the symbolism of Easter taps into the deepest human needs </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:46:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1535</guid></item><item><title>Uganda: Churches condemn ritual murder (allAfrica)</title><description>Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders in Uganda tell people to repent of leaning on witchcraft and eve...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:43:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1533</guid></item><item><title>Nazir-Ali call for rediscovery of Christian heritage (Christian Today)</title><description>Former general secretary of CMS claims there is "values vacuum" </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:41:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1532</guid></item><item><title>America's Lutherans launch ad campaign (Christian Today)</title><description>The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America is seeking to boost brand awareness to combat falling num...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:42:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1488</guid></item><item><title>Lira prays for LRA victims (allAfrica)</title><description>The Concerned Parents Asscociation of Lira in Uganda held special prayers and erected a memorial to ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:41:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1489</guid></item><item><title>Rwandan pastor arrested for murder (allAfrica)</title><description>An evangelical pastor was arrested in the middle of his Sunday sermon in connection with the assassi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:37:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1487</guid></item><item><title>Why should the world be fair? (Guardian)</title><description>Andrew Brown is inspired by an American blog to wonder from where exactly we get the idea that the w...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:35:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1486</guid></item><item><title>Country Life seeks unsung Christian heroes (CofE)</title><description>The Church of England and Country Life have launched a competition to find the unsung hereoes - of a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:32:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1485</guid></item><item><title>Uzbekistan: Cleric takes part in police raid on religious community (Forum 18)</title><description>Police in Uzbekistan "decided to invite" a Russian Orthodox priest to take part in a raid on a group...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:25:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1484</guid></item><item><title>Are short-term mission trips effective? (CBN)</title><description>Millions of Christians travel abroad each year on short-term missions. But are these trips effective...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:24:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1483</guid></item><item><title>Church fundraiser bucks recession to raise thousands for charity (Christian Today)</title><description>A fundraiser of a different kind has defied the economic downturn to raise more than £60,000 for fiv...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:23:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1482</guid></item><item><title>G20 must save lives as well as jobs: British Red Cross (Reuters)</title><description>In terms of the current economic crisis the humanitarian impact on the world's poorest countries wil...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:22:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1481</guid></item><item><title>Pressure on over Afghan women's law (Guardian)</title><description>UN criticises Afghan law which it says legalises rape within marriage and severely limits women's ri...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:20:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1480</guid></item><item><title>Ready to give an answer</title><description>Freda Carey in Pakistan</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:35:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1458</guid></item><item><title>Yes they can</title><description>Anita and Colin Smith in Nairobi, Kenya</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:28:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1457</guid></item><item><title>Relocation, Celebration</title><description>Dr Lalita Edwards at Santvana children’s home in Pune, India</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:24:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1456</guid></item><item><title>300 African migrants drowned off Libya (AlertNet)</title><description>Migrants headed for Italy suffered a capsize off Libya </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:39:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1479</guid></item><item><title>World Council of Churches writes to G20 leaders (ENI)</title><description>The world's biggest grouping of churches has written to G20 leaders urging total transformation of f...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:38:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1478</guid></item><item><title>Recession closes African-Caribbean Evangelical Alliance (Ekklesia)</title><description>"Operations suspended" at the Alliance due to lack of funds </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:32:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1477</guid></item><item><title>Political party for the Taliban? (Global Voices)</title><description>A response to the outgoing US Ambassador to Afghanistan's suggestion that the Taliban should have th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:28:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1476</guid></item><item><title>Anglican bishop resigns and announces plan to support harassed Christians (Ekklesia)</title><description>The controversial Anglican Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir Ali, has announced his intention to...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:31:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1474</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop Makgoba criticizes Madagascar “power grab” (RIN)</title><description>The Archbishop of Cape Town has issued a call to prayer to the people of the Anglican Church of Sout...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:30:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1473</guid></item><item><title>Sudan's Bashir to steal limelight at Arab summit (Reuters)</title><description>DOHA: The appearance of Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, flouting an international arrest wa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:29:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1472</guid></item><item><title>Religious leaders tell G20 not to forget promises to poor (Christian Today)</title><description>The call was made in a joint communiqué issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1471</guid></item><item><title>Muslim Morocco expels 5 Christian missionaries (USA Today)</title><description>Authorities have expelled five Christian missionaries from Morocco on the grounds that they were ill...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:28:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1470</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop Williams backs theology of environmental plan (CT)</title><description>Report of lecture by Dr Williams at York Minster</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:25:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1468</guid></item><item><title>Report tells of terrifying world of asylum seekers (CT)</title><description>Report by Bill Bowder, Church Times</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:20:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1467</guid></item><item><title>Truth is worth repeating (Christianity Today)</title><description>  The most obvious thing to be said about Christianity is that it rests on historic facts: the Creat...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:18:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1466</guid></item><item><title>Icons: Graham Kings gives an evangelical perspective (TimesOnline)</title><description>Graham Kings, vicar of Islington and long-time CMS member, reassesses icons for evangelicals </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:50:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1462</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: lost aid expertise hard to replace (IRIN)</title><description>UN warns that closure and expulsion of aid agencies will prolong plight of Darfuri refugees </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:49:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1463</guid></item><item><title>Jordan baptism centre opens as Blair looks on (Ekklesia)</title><description>Tony Blair has attended the opening of a new baptism centre by Jordanian baptists </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:42:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1461</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop says God can't save us from our stupidity (TimesOnline)</title><description>The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that God won't save humanity from its own mistreatment of th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:35:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1459</guid></item><item><title>Assessment finds gaps in Darfur aid delivery - UN (Reuters)</title><description>The Sudanese government has not done enough to fill gaps in humanitarian assistance caused by its re...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:29:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1455</guid></item><item><title>Orissa police confirm Maoist hand in killing of Hindu nationalists  (RIN)</title><description>New Delhi: A day after the killing of a Hindu nationalist leader in the eastern state of Orissa, the...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:27:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1454</guid></item><item><title>Assessment finds gaps in Darfur aid delivery - UN (Reuters)</title><description>The Sudanese government has not done enough to fill gaps in humanitarian assistance caused by its re...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:26:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1453</guid></item><item><title>Carlisle churchgoers want Fairtrade for British farmers (Christian Today)</title><description>Churchgoers in the Diocese of Carlisle have passed a ‘British Fairtrade’ resolution in a show of sup...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:24:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1452</guid></item><item><title>Please send missionaries… and lots of them… to the United States! (American Daily)</title><description>J. D. Longstreet believes that America has sunk so low morally and spiritually, that it is time to c...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:24:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1451</guid></item><item><title>Social network sites 'monitored' (BBC)</title><description>Social networking sites could be monitored by the UK government. Civil liberties campaigners have ca...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:22:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1450</guid></item><item><title>Faith instinct stronger in women (Guardian)</title><description>Mary Kenny argues that the faith instinct has always been stronger in women - and asks if Jade Goody...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:12:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1449</guid></item><item><title>Free speech under threat in Maldives (Global Voices)</title><description>Worries grow as websites and blogs, including a Christian and a Muslim one, are blocked in the Maldi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:08:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1448</guid></item><item><title>Muslim militiaman turned missionary (Christian Today)</title><description>A former Muslim Lebanese war veteran is now a missionary  </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:03:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1447</guid></item><item><title>Ugandan political priest suspended (CISA)</title><description>A Ugandan Catholic priest has been suspended from priestly duties after he entered politics </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:00:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1446</guid></item><item><title>Kenyan Church calls for fresh elections (Ekklesia)</title><description>Prime minister Raila Odinga has rejected calls by the national council of churches for new elections...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:59:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1445</guid></item><item><title>G20 prayer event with Micah Challenge</title><description>28 March - 3 April. Micah Challenge is calling Christians to join together in prayer right across th...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:08:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1358</guid></item><item><title>Church of Nigeria accepts North American Anglican province (Christian Today)</title><description>The Church of Nigeria, the largest province in the Anglican Communion, has become the first to forma...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:53:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1442</guid></item><item><title>Pope warns against witchcraft in Angola (AFP)</title><description>The issue has particular resonance in Angola, where traditional and home-grown faiths are flourishin...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:52:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1441</guid></item><item><title>Kazakhstan: Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre closed down (Forum 18)</title><description>Christian-run rehabilitation centre for alcoholics and drug-addicts hs been closed, and there are co...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:51:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1440</guid></item><item><title>As climate changes, is water the new oil?  (Reuters)</title><description>If water is now the kind of precious commodity that oil became in the 20th century, should delivery ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:50:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1439</guid></item><item><title>LRA kill more in northern Congo (AlertNet)</title><description>Another disastrous LRA attack in northern Congo with 40 kidnapped and 12 killed</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:14:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1437</guid></item><item><title>Maoists kill Hindu leader in Orissa (AlertNet)</title><description>Repeat incident of Maoists killing Hindu extremist leader in Orissa state - the first such event las...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:38:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1415</guid></item><item><title>Uganda to host World Islamic Economic Forum (allAfrica)</title><description>Uganda seeks to boost its business networking power with Islamic world</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:35:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1414</guid></item><item><title>Politicians must 'do God' says Blair (Guardian)</title><description>Tony Blair writes in the latest New Statesman, edited by Alistair Campbell, that it's impossible to ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:33:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1413</guid></item><item><title>Gospel for Asia missionaries beaten (Christian Today)</title><description>Gospel for Asia reports that two of its missionaries have been beaten up in India</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:31:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1412</guid></item><item><title>Philip Jenkins develops theology of church extinction (CT)</title><description>Interview with the author of The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the C...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:12:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1411</guid></item><item><title>The view from the road</title><description>It’s as you engage in mission that your spiritual life develops, says Dr Cathy Ross</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:35:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1373</guid></item><item><title>10 marks of mission spirituality</title><description>Where does the passion to re-engage with evangelism come from? Sue Hope offers some pointers</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:33:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1372</guid></item><item><title>As you were:</title><description>What we can learn about mission spirituality from children</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:30:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1374</guid></item><item><title>Unsung Heroes No.1 - Johann Krapf</title><description>He made only a few converts but an unlikely German missionary became a renowned explorer and true pi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:25:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1014</guid></item><item><title>Pope claims condoms could make African Aids crisis worse (Guardian)</title><description>The Pope today reignited the controversy over the Catholic church's stance on condom use as he made ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:58:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1370</guid></item><item><title>UN workers released in Somalia (RIN)</title><description>The four United Nations staff members who were abducted on Monday by unknown armed men in south cent...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:48:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1369</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop of Canterbury criticizes protectionism (RIN)</title><description>Protectionism in Britain’s financial system is a ‘sinister thing’ and goes against commonly held eth...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:47:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1368</guid></item><item><title>Egyptian lawyer files suit for rights of Christian converts (Christian Today)</title><description>An Egyptian lawyer has filed a lawsuit against the country’s Minister of the Interior, in a bid to g...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:45:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1367</guid></item><item><title>UZBEKISTAN: "Your dead will not be buried" (Forum 18)</title><description>Secret police, and a local imam have obstructed the burial of a Muslim, Zhumabai Smetullaev, because...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:44:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1366</guid></item><item><title>Congo: witnessing from a hard place</title><description>Just before current fighting in the DRC erupted, CMS’s Stephen Burgess visited Goma and found a chur...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:03:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=897</guid></item><item><title>Congo: witnessing from a hard place - Witnessing from a hard place</title><description>
		 
 
 
 
 
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“Our appeal...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:02:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=891&amp;PageID=201</guid></item><item><title>DR Congo: Country focus</title><description>Background and facts about Congo, its church and mission </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:56:38 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=870</guid></item><item><title>Backgrounder: history of conflict in eastern DRC</title><description>How the factions in eastern Congo came to still be fighting today </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:56:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1365</guid></item><item><title>Dying for resources</title><description>Over 5 million Congolese have died from preventable causes in the last 10 years.  As a BBC documenta...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:35:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=673</guid></item><item><title>Dying for resources - Backgrounder: Congo's health crises</title><description>
		 Dr Francesca Elloway talks about some of the other factors that add to DRC's high mortality rat...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:35:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=673&amp;PageID=360</guid></item><item><title>Nigerian banker sets up 'godly' radio station (Christian Today)</title><description>A Nigerian banker wants to boost the nation's moral fibre - Inspiration FM is his answer </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:54:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1363</guid></item><item><title>French physicist/philosopher wins prize, celebrates mystery (ENI)</title><description>A prize that celbrates the intersection of science and religion has been awarded to Bernard d'Espagn...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:52:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1362</guid></item><item><title>Egypt: neighbours can file for your divorce (Global Voices)</title><description>Astonishing new religious ruling in Egypt could give neighbours and extended family the right to fil...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:45:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1361</guid></item><item><title>Gazza gets God (TimesOnline)</title><description>Football legend Paul Gascoigne seems to be getting back on track at last - with a new-found faith he...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:35:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1360</guid></item><item><title>Pressure on Israel to release Hamas hostages (RIN)</title><description>Israelis are massing to put pressure on their Government to give into Hamas demands for 450 prisoner...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:02:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1357</guid></item><item><title>Explosions near Madagascar palace (BBC)</title><description>Two loud blasts have been heard near Madagascar's presidential palace, where head of state Marc Rava...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:00:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1356</guid></item><item><title>Sudan orders aid groups to stop distributing relief (Reuters)</title><description>Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Monday he had ordered that all international aid gro...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:57:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1355</guid></item><item><title>Evangelicals key to El Salvador elections (Christian Science Monitor)</title><description>"Pastors once taught us that poverty was natural," Pastor Rivas says. "But it's because of bad distr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:56:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1354</guid></item><item><title>UK: New immigration rules leave Christians confused (Christian Today)</title><description>New immigration rules mean that foreign Christian musicians and missionaries to the UK could be depo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:55:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1353</guid></item><item><title>Gaza fishing industry crisis affects nutrition (IRIN)</title><description>The effects of the recent fighting combined with fishing restrictions to wreck the Gazan fishing ind...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:05:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1351</guid></item><item><title>'God is not dead' - new book (Christian Today)</title><description>Christian philosopher publishes 'Sceptic's Guide to Atheism' </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:02:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1350</guid></item><item><title>Christians still attacked in Orissa, says Archbishop (Christian Today)</title><description>Catholic Archbishop says priests are not free to move about and people are threatened if they enter ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:58:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1349</guid></item><item><title>Congo update: waiting for militias to leave (IRIN)</title><description>Armed groups still intermingle with displaced people, and militias on the move cause new displacemen...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:54:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1347</guid></item><item><title>Nigerians see climate change as act of God (all Africa)</title><description>A BBC survey reveals many Nigerians see climate change as God's judgement </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:53:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1348</guid></item><item><title>U.N. says it is paralysed in Sudan without aid partners (Reuters)</title><description>The United Nations relies so heavily on outside groups to deliver aid in Darfur that Sudan's expulsi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:41:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1346</guid></item><item><title>Libya ‘tortures four Christian converts’ (RIN)</title><description>International Christian Concern is reporting that Libyan intelligence officials have detained and to...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:40:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1345</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop  of Armagh condemns killings (Christian Today)</title><description>The Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Rev Alan Harper, has asked the Church of Ireland to set Sunday as...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:39:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1344</guid></item><item><title>Orissa: Political power split may benefit India's believers (MNN)</title><description>Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal has ended the alliance with the Hindu extremist Bharatiya Janata Par...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:34:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1341</guid></item><item><title>Kenya riots against alleged police killing (AlertNet)</title><description>Thousands of students protested against alleged police killings in Kenya on Tuesday and the demonstr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:29:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1339</guid></item><item><title>Bishop backs reform of House of Lords (RIN)</title><description>The Bishop of Chelmsford has supported a Bill that would make further reforms to the House of Lords....</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:17:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1337</guid></item><item><title>Sudan's Bashir threatens more expulsions in Darfur (Reuters)</title><description>Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir threatened on Sunday to expel diplomats and more aid groups,...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:12:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1338</guid></item><item><title>Obama is to reverse stem cell ban (BBC)</title><description>US President Barack Obama is expected to lift restrictions on federal funding for research on new st...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:10:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1336</guid></item><item><title>Guatemala: Third attempt produces clean water for Los Bahiles (MNN)</title><description>Three years ago, LWI attempted to bring the village clean water. Hand-dug wells serving as a communi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:09:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1335</guid></item><item><title>People with faith less likely to panic under pressure (Telegraph)</title><description>Religious people are less likely to panic under pressure than non-believers, according to the result...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:08:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1334</guid></item><item><title>Are legacies taboo in church?</title><description>A consortium of Christian charities, including CMS, wants to find out why only one in 20 leave gifts...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:19:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1333</guid></item><item><title>African church leaders urge British to act on LRA violence (Ekklesia)</title><description>A letter from the Archbishops of Uganda and Sudan and Bishop Titre Ande of Aru in Congo has been sen...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:10:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1332</guid></item><item><title>South Sudan pledges to work with North (IRIN)</title><description>After the indictment of President Bashir by the International Criminal Court, Southern vice-presiden...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:32:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1329</guid></item><item><title>Give up texting for Lent? (Guardian)</title><description>The call from Italian priests for parishioners to give up for Lent some of the technology that crowd...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:28:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1328</guid></item><item><title>Indian women set up 'Fearless Karnataka' after attacks (UltraViolet)</title><description>In the wake of several attacks on Western-dressed women in Bangalore and other parts of Karnataka st...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:25:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1327</guid></item><item><title>Botswana: time for Christian beauty parade? (allAfrica)</title><description>One Christian woman's attempt to redeem the beauty pageant and give young girls a suitable role mode...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:22:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1326</guid></item><item><title>Blogging the Bible (Christianity Today)</title><description>A fascinating, fresh and fun take on the Bible (OT only) from a US Jewish journo who one day opened ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:20:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1325</guid></item><item><title>Sudan president tells court to "eat" expected warrant (Reuters)</title><description>Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was defiant towards the International Criminal Court on Tues...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:42:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1324</guid></item><item><title>Anglican heads take dim view of would-be rival North American church (The Christian Century)</title><description>Leaders of the Anglican Communion say that they, not dissident conservatives, will decide what role ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:41:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1323</guid></item><item><title>Garbage turns into gold in Bangladesh (Christian Science Monitor)</title><description>Waste Concern has reduced the amount of urban garbage produced in Bangladesh, created jobs and healt...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:39:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1322</guid></item><item><title>Missionaries in Panama wage war on drugs (CBN)</title><description>As traffickers become more creative in getting their product to market, the war on drugs gets toughe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:05:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1321</guid></item><item><title>Chechen women face strict rule of Islam (The Washington Times)</title><description>President approves of honour killings </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:04:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1320</guid></item><item><title>Ugandan HIV+ cleric wins peace prize </title><description>The Rev Gideon   Byamugisha, the first Ugandan priest to admit he was HIV-positive has been awarded ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:27:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1318</guid></item><item><title>Tutu and Boesak criticise South African power-hungry (ENI)</title><description>Two anti-apartheid icons say some current South African leaders have become "drunk with power" </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1317</guid></item><item><title>DRC war on rebels still not over despite troop withdrawal (IRIN)</title><description>Although Rwanda troops pulled out of DRC last week, there are still active rebel groups in the east ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:18:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1316</guid></item><item><title>We want a more British Islam (Guardian)</title><description>This article welcomes discussion on what is taught in mosques - how soon will we be discussing socie...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:14:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1315</guid></item><item><title>Leave God a message at Dutch answering service (Reuters)</title><description>Spirituality for telecomplatives in the eurozone </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:11:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1314</guid></item><item><title>Guinea-Bissau president shot dead (BBC)</title><description>Renegade soldiers have shot dead the president of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, officia...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:50:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1313</guid></item><item><title>Donors pledge over $3 bln to rebuild Gaza, shun Hamas (Reuters)</title><description>Gulf Arab states, the United States and the European Commission made significant pledges, while othe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:49:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1312</guid></item><item><title>Christians turn to God over state of the nation (Christian Today)</title><description>“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done” was the prayer of hundreds of Christians who gathered at a ce...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:48:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1311</guid></item><item><title>Starvation and strife menace torn Kenya (The New York Times)</title><description>Ten million people face starvation, partly because farmers in crucial food-producing areas who fled ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:47:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1310</guid></item><item><title>El Salvador 'holy ground' launches global initiative (Baptist Press)</title><description>In El Salvador, Southern Baptist pastors and leaders from the United States joined Salvadoran pastor...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:46:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1309</guid></item><item><title>UN condemns executions carried out by Kenyan police (The Guardian)</title><description>A brutal succession of hundreds of summary executions carried out with impunity by Kenyan security f...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:22:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1305</guid></item><item><title>Palestinian groups agree releases (BBC)</title><description>The agreement came ahead of unity 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sectarian violence in the northern Nigerian city of Bau...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:14:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1303</guid></item><item><title>Fairtrade branches into Palestinian olive oil (Reuters)</title><description>For many farmers, the benefits of the Fairtrade label and the principles of Fairtrade business have ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:12:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1302</guid></item><item><title>Britain: 'Nazi row' bishop returns to the UK (BBC News)</title><description>A British Roman Catholic bishop, embroiled in a row over Holocaust denial, has arrived in the UK aft...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:31:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1301</guid></item><item><title>Kenya: religious leaders castigate the President and Prime Minister (ENI)</title><description>Religious leaders have castigated President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, saying that...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:25:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1300</guid></item><item><title>Rwanda and the DRC will pursue rebels on all fronts (AllAfrica)</title><description>Rwanda and the DRC will continue to pursue the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:18:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1299</guid></item><item><title>Amnesty attacks Israel and Hamas for attacks on civilians (Ekklesia)</title><description>Amnesty International criticised both Israel and Hamas for using weapons supplied from abroad to car...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:15:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1298</guid></item><item><title>Archbishops make 'pray and fast' plea for Zimbabwe (BBC News)</title><description>The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are encouraging Anglicans to "pray, fast and give" to highlig...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:10:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1297</guid></item><item><title>Building foundations for hope</title><description>Helping communities to rebuild in southern Sudan, Garry Ion sees new hope take shape as well as infr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:22:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1285</guid></item><item><title>Politicians 'ignoring' polygamy (BBC)</title><description>Cultural sensitivity has prevented politicians from discussing the issue of polygamy in the UK, a le...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:33:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1291</guid></item><item><title>Madagascar: No end in sight to standoff (All Africa)</title><description>In the capital, Antananarivo, anti-government protestors marched on ministries for a third day in an...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:32:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1289</guid></item><item><title>Life far from normal for families in Gaza (MCC)</title><description>Deaths and injuries inflicted by the 22-day war in the Gaza Strip, along with destruction of homes, ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:30:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1287</guid></item><item><title>Charles Darwin: ‘I was wrong’</title><description>But not about what you think! How the great scientist’s opinions on missionaries and ‘savages’…evolv...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:22:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1284</guid></item><item><title>Afghanistan: the USA to deploy 17,000 more troops (BBC News)</title><description>President Barack Obama has authorised the deployment of up to 17,000 extra American troops to Afghan...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:21:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1283</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: UN experts are shown mass graves at Darfur (AllAfrica)</title><description>Local residents in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have shown United Nations experts, sent to the sce...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:01:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1281</guid></item><item><title>The USA: Take me in for the ball game (Christianity Today)</title><description>John Newland, the senior pastor at Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis, explains why the churc...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:52:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1280</guid></item><item><title>Iraq: Christians called to play role in its rebuilding and development (ENI)</title><description>Iraqi church leaders, meeting in Lebanon, reminded Iraqi Christians of their essential role in Iraqi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:07:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1278</guid></item><item><title>CMS-SAMS merger approved</title><description>Members of the Church Mission Society (CMS) have voted overwhelmingly
to integrate with the South A...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:31:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1277</guid></item><item><title>Islam film - freedom of speech or community cohesion?</title><description>In the debate over the Geert Wilders film on Islam, the choice is not that simple, argues Richard Su...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:28:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1276</guid></item><item><title>Israel: Hezbollah - has deterrence worked? (Christian Science Monitor)</title><description>As anniversary of Hezbollah commander Mughniyah's assassination looms, Israel tightens security. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:37:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1272</guid></item><item><title>On Darwin Day, myths are paraded as fact (CBN)</title><description>"It's almost like Christmas for atheists. They sing holiday songs, sometimes mocking Christmas songs...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:36:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1270</guid></item><item><title>US, France, UK oppose suspending Bashir indictment case (Reuters)</title><description>Diplomats told African Union and Arab League delegates on Thursday that they oppose suspending a war...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:34:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1274</guid></item><item><title>Archbishop of Canterbury: Britain is not religiously divided (Christian Today)</title><description>The Government is wrong to think that religion is deeply dividing Britain, says the Archbishop of Ca...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:45:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1273</guid></item><item><title>Global economy hits poorest hardest, Archbishop of York tells Synod (Ekklesia)</title><description>Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has told the General Synod of the Church of England, that the rea...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:42:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1271</guid></item><item><title>China Aid concerned at disappearance of Nobel nominee (Mission News Network)</title><description>Nobel nominee and Christian human rights lawyer Mr Gao Zhisheng was forcibly taken from his home las...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:03:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1264</guid></item><item><title>It's church, Jim, but not as we know it (Christian Today)</title><description>An assessment of some key players who host ‘web church’ sites and other experienced practitioners of...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:45:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1263</guid></item><item><title>The DRC: hundreds of Rwandans repatriated (AllAfrica)</title><description>The DRC/Rwandan military offensive against ex-Far/Interahamwe in eastern DRC has resulted in 90 deat...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:57:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1261</guid></item><item><title>Zimbabwe Christian Alliance wants rule of law established (ENI)</title><description>The Zimbabwe Christian Alliance hopes that Zimbabwe's proposed government of national unity will see...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:38:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1259</guid></item><item><title>Israel pressed over bishops' banned Gaza visit (Ekklesia)</title><description>Senior leaders of the Lutheran and Episcopal churches in the States have written to Israel's US amba...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:12:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1258</guid></item><item><title>Congo: Hoping for peace in Ituri (IRIN)</title><description>Surveying the situation in Ituri - which has not been in the recent spotlight on Congo - but still l...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:07:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1257</guid></item><item><title>Teacher quits over multi-faith assemblies (Guardian)</title><description>A Sheffield head teacher has resigned after an ongoing row over her introducing multi-faith assembli...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:00:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1256</guid></item><item><title>C of E divests from Caterpillar (Ekklesia)</title><description>The Church of England has finally sold up its stock in the controversial company, it was announced y...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:58:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1255</guid></item><item><title>Indian Chrisitians face 'apartheid' in Orissa (ENI)</title><description>Internally displaced people in Orissa are stuck in no-man's land as attempts are made to close refug...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:54:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1254</guid></item><item><title>Warning over 'surveillance state' (BBC) </title><description>Electronic surveillance and collection of personal data are "pervasive" in British society and threa...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:38:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1249</guid></item><item><title>No action over prayer-row nurse (BBC)</title><description>A Christian nurse who was suspended for offering to pray for a patient's recovery has been told she ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:28:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1252</guid></item><item><title>Tutsi bishop brings God's word to Hutus (The Washington Post)</title><description>John Kabango Rucyahana stood facing a crowd of killers in a prison yard at Gitarama, Rwanda... </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:25:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1251</guid></item><item><title>Orissa Gov't to boot Christians from refugee camps (The Christian Post)</title><description>Tens of thousands of Orissa Christians are now being told to leave government camps to return to hom...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:23:02 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1250</guid></item><item><title>On a lighter (and warmer) side... BBQ Mission (YouTube Video - Texas Country Reporter)</title><description>As Britain struggles with the worst winter weather in 18 years, take a break and enjoy some BBQ at a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:16:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1248</guid></item><item><title>China declares 'emergency' in its drought-hit regions (BBC News)</title><description>China has declared an emergency in northern and central drought-affected regions, where nearly four ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:29:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1247</guid></item><item><title>Burundi: deportations not xenophobically motivated, says government (AllAfrica) </title><description>Public Security Minister Alain Bunyoni maintains that the deportation of 400 foreign nationals from ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:13:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1246</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: Janjaweed supporters of al-Bashir fear indictment (AllAfrica)</title><description>The International Criminal Court's pending war crimes indictment of Omar al-Bashir has caused some j...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:00:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1243</guid></item><item><title>Anglican archbishops call on Robert Mugabe to resign (ENI)</title><description>Church leaders of the world-wide Anglican Communion, meeting in Egypt, called upon Robert Mugabe to ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:57:50 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1245</guid></item><item><title>UN un Congo gives LRA 'free rein' (BBC)</title><description>The UN's MONUC force in DRC has been criticised by Medecins Sans Frontieres for ignoring the havoc b...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:10:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1242</guid></item><item><title>Migration agency agrees to help LRA leader surrender (New Vision)</title><description>The International Organisation for Migration has said it will act as an official observer if the LRA...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:59:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1240</guid></item><item><title>Disbelief in Darwin shock (Guardian)</title><description>It turns about that at least half of the British public are not sure if evolution is true, at least ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:59:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1225</guid></item><item><title>New Russian Patriarch pledges to keep unity (ENI)</title><description>Will the new Russian Orthodox patriarch ring any changes - his first promise was to keep the Church ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:48:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1224</guid></item><item><title>Attacks on women by Indian Hindutva group (Global Voices)</title><description>Blog excerpts from victims and aggressors in the latest attack by a right wing Hindu group - this ti...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:43:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1222</guid></item><item><title>Obama makes friends on Arabic TV network (Washington Post)</title><description>President Obama has given his first TV interview since his inauguration to an Arabic staellite TV ne...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:43:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1223</guid></item><item><title>Sudan church's 10-year revival plan (allAfrica)</title><description>Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul announces an ambitious plan to reach every town in Sudan</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:23:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1221</guid></item><item><title>UN launches $613m appeal for Gaza (BBC)</title><description>The UN will launch an appeal for $613m to help people affected by Israel's military offensive in Gaz...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:34:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1181</guid></item><item><title>Muslim convert endures trial and is released on bail (MNN)</title><description>The trial of Egyptian convert Martha Samuel Makkar wasn't limited to a courtroom. In a continued att...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:32:34 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1179</guid></item><item><title>Sudan accuses Chad of supplying Darfur rebels (Reuters)</title><description>Sudan accused Chadian forces on Wednesday of entering its Darfur region to ferry supplies to rebels ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:31:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1178</guid></item><item><title>Anyone hear a trumpet? (Licc)</title><description>In the aftermath of the credit crunch, Mark Greene wonders whether Christians failed in their duty t...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:29:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1177</guid></item><item><title>UNICEF appeals for over US$1 billion to help the vulnerable (AllAfrica)</title><description>UNICEF is seeking just over $1 billion to help women and children in humanitarian emergencies in 36 ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:40:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1143</guid></item><item><title>The DRC/Rwanda: Hundreds of rebels surrender; four killed (AllAfrica)</title><description>As the ongoing Rwanda-DRC joint offensive against the Interahamwe intensified yesterday, four more r...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:06:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1147</guid></item><item><title>Zimbabwe: End 'genocide' and step down, bishops tell Mugabe (AllAfrica)</title><description>President Robert Mugabe, clinging illegitimately to power, is perpetrating genocide, says the Southe...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:41:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1144</guid></item><item><title>Sustainability is a question of sewage, says theologian (ENI)</title><description>The way society deals with its sewage is indicative of its commitment to sustainability, Steve de Gr...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:17:45 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1142</guid></item><item><title>Slumdog protests in India (NDTV)</title><description>Some slum dwellers are protesting over the use of the word 'dog' in the title of hit film Slumdog Mi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:32:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1141</guid></item><item><title>Indonesia bans yoga for Muslims (Times of India)</title><description>The Muslim scholars of Indonesia have issued a fatwa against yoga - saying it uses Hindu prayers. A ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:08:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1140</guid></item><item><title>Development 'unsexy' even for Ugandan press (Guardian)</title><description>Even in African countries like Uganda, it seems it is just as much of a struggle to choose to report...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:01:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1139</guid></item><item><title>CMS's Mark Berry on BBC News magazine</title><description>Mark Berry does his best to explain to the media that mission isn't all about bums on seats - keep a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:39:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1138</guid></item><item><title>Military campaign against LRA not helping - archbishop (ENI)</title><description>The Catholic Archbishop of Gulu, Jean Baptiste Odama, who is also leader of the Acholi Religious Lea...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:25:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1136</guid></item><item><title>LRA commits new atrocities in DRC (BBC)</title><description>Summary of recent attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army in north-east Congo, Central African Republi...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:06:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1134</guid></item><item><title>LRA rebels 'torch crowded church' (BBC)</title><description>Latest appalling reports of attacks by the LRA in north-east DRC </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:05:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1135</guid></item><item><title>Rebel leader arrested in DR Congo (BBC)</title><description>Gen Laurent Nkunda, leader of the largest rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has b...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:14:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1133</guid></item><item><title>UN Warns of humanitarian catastrophe if Darfur fighting continues (All Africa)</title><description>The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western Darfur region has expressed "grave concern" for the l...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:16:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1132</guid></item><item><title>Israel rules out opening Gaza border if Hamas gains (Reuters)</title><description>Israel has all but ruled out fully reopening border crossings with the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas r...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:14:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1131</guid></item><item><title>Obama signs order to close Guantanamo (CBN)</title><description>President Barack Obama on Thursday began redefining the way the U.S. treats and prosecutes its terro...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:09:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1130</guid></item><item><title>Tajikistan: "No rights to organise prayers" (Fourm 18)</title><description>Tajikistan is continuing to close down places of worship in the capital Dushanbe. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:07:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1129</guid></item><item><title>Peace deal in offing for the DRC and Rwanda? (BBC News)</title><description>Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have reportedly reached a peace agreement, which could p...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:15:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1092</guid></item><item><title>Candidate for new Russian Patriarch's election sparks heated debate (ENI)</title><description>There is passionate debate over the kind of leader believers would like to see as the new Patriarch ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:10:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1090</guid></item><item><title>Rebuilding Gaza will cost billions of dollars (BBC News)</title><description>Rebuilding the Gaza Strip after Israel's three-week offensive will cost billions of dollars, the UN ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:09:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1091</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: Church leaders support and fear ICC's indictment of Bashir (ENI)</title><description>Some Sudanese church leaders warn of serious consequences if the International Criminal Court presse...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:54:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1089</guid></item><item><title>Bangladesh: Christian Grandparents driven from home (Persecution Blog)</title><description>Villagers have forced two brothers to expel their parents from their home for converting to Christia...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:44:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1079</guid></item><item><title>Gaza pounded amid push for truce (BBC)</title><description>Israel's chief negotiator is to travel to Cairo to discuss an Egyptian ceasefire plan that could end...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:41:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1083</guid></item><item><title>Congo-Kinshasa: Tables turn as rebel faction declares support for army (All Africa)</title><description>A rebel splinter group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has said it is ready to back joint ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:40:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1082</guid></item><item><title>Christians seek God's intervention in North Korea (The Christian Post)</title><description>There are an estimated 200,000 Christians in the reclusive communist country. Open Doors is urging C...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:39:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1081</guid></item><item><title>Sudan: Building a peace beyond understanding (Christianity Today)</title><description>Amid ongoing violence, southern Sudan's Christians model a different kind of hope. </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:38:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1080</guid></item><item><title>Prison: restoring the redeemable?</title><description>Do we use prisons to incarcerate the incorrigible or as a vehicle for restoration and redemption? as...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:21:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1065</guid></item><item><title>Gaza crisis inspires web propaganda war (BBC News)</title><description>A propaganda war, including defacing websites, is being waged on the internet between supporters of ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:47:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1078</guid></item><item><title>Encounter Tanzania</title><description>20 April - 3 May 2009: Work alongside disabled young people at Neema Crafts - CLOSING DATE 31 JAN </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:06:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1077</guid></item><item><title>The DRC: Congolese combatants urged to release child soldiers (AllAfrica)</title><description>The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for the DRC, Alan Doss, has requested armed groups...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1076</guid></item><item><title>Zimbabwe: Cholera death toll exceeds 2,000, UN reports (AllAfrica)</title><description>The death toll in Zimbabwe's worst ever cholera outbreak has now topped 2,000, the United Nations Wo...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:53:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1075</guid></item><item><title>Church groups warn of Sudan peace pact's potential breakdown (ENI)</title><description>Church agencies and analysts have warned that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed to put an en...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:41:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1074</guid></item><item><title>Government admission about legal advice on Iraq invasion (The Guardian)</title><description>The British government has admitted that it cannot substantiate its claim that the former Attorney-G...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1073</guid></item><item><title>'Mercy ship' to arrive in Gaza today (Ekklesia)</title><description>Israeli army warns it will use any means necessary to prevent ship with European parliamentarians an...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:33:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1072</guid></item><item><title>Islam's selective outrage (Guardian)</title><description>Religion correspondent Riazat Butt says Muslims must not be selective in their protests about Gaza a...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:31:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1071</guid></item><item><title>Sudan worries over peace accord four years on (IRIN)</title><description>On the fourth anniversary of the peace agreement in Sudan, slow implementation means widespread fear...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:28:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1070</guid></item><item><title>Rwandan church leaders praised by PM (allAfrica)</title><description>Rwanda's prime minister Bernard Makuza has commended the church for its work but said it must still ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:24:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1069</guid></item><item><title>Fourteen more missionary bishops for Nigeria (allAfrica)</title><description>On Sunday Archbishop Peter Akinola consecrated 14 new bishops as part of his ambitious programme of ...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:21:22 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1068</guid></item><item><title>On not being left eyeless in Gaza (Ekklesia)</title><description>The Israel-Palestine conflict is definitely NOT a case of "eye for an eye", says Simon Barrow  </description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:33:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1066</guid></item><item><title>Bombs hit Gaza as UN urges truce (BBC)</title><description>Israeli aircraft continued to bomb Gaza overnight as the UN urged an immediate end to nearly two wee...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:29:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1064</guid></item><item><title>Gunmen kill WFP aid worker in Somalia (Reuters)</title><description>MOGADISHU: Gunmen killed a U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) worker on Thursday as his team distribute...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:29:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1063</guid></item><item><title>New Evangelical Alliance leader brings fresh hope (Christian Today)</title><description>The new General Director of the Evangelical Alliance has spoken of the “wonderful opportunities” for...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:28:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1062</guid></item><item><title>Row over religious oath for Obama's inauguration ceremony (Ekklesia)</title><description>Supporters of a strict interpretation of the separation of Church and State in the United States hav...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:27:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1061</guid></item><item><title>UN reaches LRA victims in NE Congo (allAfrica.com)</title><description>The United Nations refugee agency has witnessed the latest carnage left by the Lord's Resistance Arm...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:58:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ArticleType=ArticleView&amp;ArticleID=1059</guid></item><item><title>Peacemaking and the Armour of God</title><description>Tragically some Christians oppose the Annapolis talks on the Middle East. Salim Munayer of reconcili...</description><link>http://www.cms-uk.org/NewsandViews/Newsarticles/tabid/151/lan