by Baptist Times Staff | Oct 2, 2013 | News
There is a need for urgent global action to avert global warning. That’s the view of a number of international development charities following the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The IPCC report says scientists are now...
by Baptist Times Staff | Sep 25, 2013 | News
Significant numbers of churches are now involved in the provision of a food bank, but can more be done to tackle the causes of food poverty? That’s the challenge posed in a new report from the Church Urban Fund, a Christian organization in England working to...
by Baptist Times Staff | Aug 11, 2013 | News
Representatives of the United Kingdom’s Christian denominations, including the Baptist Union of Great Britain, have sent a message of greetings and peace to their Muslim neighbors to mark the occasion of ‘Id ul-Fitr (Eid). Eid is an important religious...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jul 16, 2013 | Opinion
The “Link Visiting Scheme” is a befriending service, which aims to combat social isolation among older people. It was initiated in 1998 by Woodley Baptist Church in Berkshire in the United Kingdom and has had quite an impact in the borough of Wokingham....
by Baptist Times Staff | May 24, 2013 | News
The scandal of world hunger could soon end if the revenues that developing countries lose through tax dodging were available to them to invest in agricultural development, according to a new report from a relief and development agency in Great Britain. One in eight of...
