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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has welcomed President Obama's 'vital' call for cuts in US and Russian nuclear arsenals.

Prime Minister David Cameron has raised the case of Shaker Aamer with President Obama.

Every year Armenians the world over gather to commemorate the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians who perished during the First World War.

The Romanian authorities are betraying thousands of their citizens through broken promises and 'total disregard of their right to adequate housing', Amnesty International says in a new report published today on forced evictions in the country.

Politicians and Methodists will debate the question, 'Do we have faith in the future of politics?' during this year's annual Methodist Conference in London.

The Just Festival has launched its ambitious 2013 programme in Edinburgh, with a challenge to build bridges and break down barriers between communities, globally and locally.

The Lough Erne declaration on tax, agreed today at the G8 summit, is too easy to get round, a senior trade unionist has warned.

For two weeks the TUC's Austerity Uncovered bus will be visiting communities in towns and cities across England to reveal more about the true impact government economic policy is having upon ordinary people and their families.

Police in Turkey have been refusing to acknowledge that they have people in custody following mass detentions carried out during the previous night in Istanbul, Amnesty International said yesterday .

One of the most vibrant festivals in Edinburgh will relaunch itself in Scotland's capital tomorrow night , with a focus on building bridges between cultures and encouraging imaginative ways to foster justice and peace.

The anti-poverty charity War on Want has dismissed David Cameron's summit with Britain's overseas territories as "all show and no substance" and demanded legislation to abolish all the UK's tax havens.

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has said reports that GCHQ are gathering intelligence from phones and online sites should not concern people who have nothing to hide.

External lobbying is increasingly an irrelevance. In many major policy areas vested interests are right at the heart of government, in what amounts to a serious subversion of democracy.

But attention will now focus on the details, with a determination by campaigners to see that the promise od change is appropriately realised.

A critical modern issue affecting the global family is the rise of violent extremism and the roots and outlets of its ideologies.

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin must throw all their political weight into making the Geneva peace conference on Syria a success when they meet at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

It highlights for the first time the huge scale of foreign investment routed through the UK's tax havens to poor countries - and the potential for abuse this causes.

Muff, County Donegal, near Derry, Ireland - A gathering of returned missionaries at the Island of Saints and Scholars Centre recalled the long tradition of Irish people leaving families and friends and going overseas, for life, to bring the Gospel message of God's love and to build up the community of justice and faith.

Far from leading to a swift overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, US arming of rebel groups will "make the suffering and bloodshed worse".

As Ekklesia has reported recently , FARC and the government are moving ahead with peace talks in Colombia.