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| omosexuality should not be a matter of discussion in the Church, maintained the Coptic Orthodox, Pope Shenouda, in an address to Coptic Orthodox priests in England. "Homosexuality is against the good name of Christianity, he argued expressing shock that the subject had become a matter of controversy in the wider Church in England. |
| The Church of England Newspaper - Thursday August 21 2003 |
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| The official Church House figures show a steady rise in the amount given by Electoral Roll members per week from under £2 per week in the late 1980's to £7 a week now. |
| The Church of England Newspaper - Thursday August 21 2003 |
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| According to the International Baby Milk Action Network (IBFAN), Nestle's unethical marketing strategies may contribute to the 4,000 infants that die every day because they are not breastfed'. |
| The Catholic News - September 2003 |
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| In 1999 the G8 promised to provide $100 billion of debt relief to 42 of the world's poorest countries. However, only $36 billion of this has been cancelled, with only 8 countries having received substantial debt relief so far. |
| Scottish Catholic Observer - Friday August 22 2003 |
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| 85,865 people applied for asylum in the UK in 2002 (BBC) and more than 50% of asylum seekers are given permission to stay in the UK (Refugee Council). Globally one person in every 300 is a refugee or displaced person. |
| Christian Herald - 16 August 2003 |
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| Organisers of a campaign to "break international silence over the Lord's resistance army in Northern Uganda" said 800,000 people - 75% of the population of Northern Uganda - now face starvation in so-called "protected camps". |
| Christian Herald - 16 August 2003 |
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| The head of a UK Aids charity has warned that Christian Churches are failing in their duty to people with HIV/Aids. According to Irene Bibby, director of He Intends Victory UK, many church-going parents in Britain are afraid to admit they have Aids victims in their families, for fear of condemnation. |
| Baptist Times - July 10 2003 |
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| A Methodist Church leader has expressed 'shame' that Christians may have voted for the far-right British National Party (BNP). The Revd Stephen Poxon, Chairman of the North Lancashire Methodist District, said that after recent electoral success for the BNP, he had held concerned meetings with fellow church leaders. |
| Baptist Times - July 10 2003 |
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| More than 700,000 people in the UK suffer from dementia and one in five of those over the age of 80 will have it to some degree. |
| Baptist Times - July 10 2003 |
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| According to the European Values Survey, headed by Yves Lambert of the French research institute CNRS, the number of people who believe in a 'personal God' has grown in the past 20 years. In 1981, 30% of Europeans believed in a personal God; the number grew to 38% in 1999. The survey shows that Denmark is one of Europe's most spiritually open nations, where 62% of Danes believed in a personal God in 1999, and some 38% said "Christianity means a lot to me" |
| Joy - July 2003 |
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| 54 countries saw average income decline in the 1990's and 21 countries went backwards in terms of human development - a measure of income, life expectancy and literacy. |
| The Guardian - July 9 2003 |
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| 30,000 children die daily of preventable illness. 500,000 women a year, one for each minute, die in pregnancy or childbirth. 13m children were killed by diarrhoea in the 1990's - more than all the people lost to armed conflict since the second world war. 33.1 years is the life expectancy in Zimbabwe, against 56 in the early 70's. In the UK, it rose from 72 to 78.2. 363 children in every 1,000 in Sierra Leone do not reach their fifth birthday. In Norway, only four children in 1,000 do not survive. |
| The Guardian - July 9 2003 |
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| In common with most other denominations, Methodism has lost members. As the largest Free Church denomination, however, its decline is particularly noticeable - from a membership of 841,000 in 1910, to 331,560 in 2000. By 2005 membership is expected to number only 289,000. Over a similar period, Baptist churches in membership with the Baptist Union of Great Britain have declined, from 266,000 in 1910, to a projected 142,600 in 2005. |
| Baptist Times - June 26 2003, orginally from UK Christian Handbook Religious Trends 3 |
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| Dr Vijaya Corea, a former director general of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and is one of south Asia's top broadcasters was diagnosed with cancer in 1984. He was "in London for 40 days and nights - but in 20 of those days, I experienced God's power in my life and was totally healed of that cancer. I had no chemotherapy, no radiotherapy, and I haven't had a tablet for it - and it's all medically documented!" |
| Christian Herald - 5 July 2003 |
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| According to the most recent Census, 70% of people said that they believed in God. Yet, only 7.5% of us attend church on a Sunday. |
| Baptist Times - July 3 2003 |
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