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Religion, resistance & questions of faith

• The Bangkok Declaration and Call
• Call for international Christian solidarity to overcome caste-based discrimination
• Solidarity with Oppressed Groups A Christian Responsibility
• World’s churches wrestle with the ancient system of caste-based discrimination
• Religion and Identity in a Globalising World
• Religion as Protest: Religion in Power
• ‘Religion in Our Time’ in the Context of Asia
• New book: Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity and Justice
• WCC United States Conference letter to President Obama
• Compassion in Islam – Theology and History
• The Christ child, the vulnerable and human rights
• Critique of Radical Islamism: Interview with Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
• 2008 Faith in Human Rights Statement
• Islam and Compassion: A scriptural, historical and contemporary perspective
• Ideology of Hindutva is Sheer Fascism: Swami Agnivesh
• Revitalization of the Ecumenical Movement
• Islamophobia in the West: How Muslims Should Respond
• Seoul Statement: International Consultation on Revitalizing Ecumenical Movement
• The Concept of Jihad in Islam

Palestine, Iraq & the Middle East

• The Ultimate Earmark: U.S. Military Aid to Israel
• WAR ON GAZA (27 Dec 2008 - 19 Jan 2009)
  • WCC Statement on The Gaza War
  • Report on the Humanitarian Situation, 22-23 January 2009
  • Statement by Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann
  • How the system of occupation and control leads to extreme exposure to violence
  • Call for creation of United Nations War Crimes Commission
  • The Gaza Massacre in Perspective
  • Statement by Richard Falk
• Mahatma Gandhi on the Palestine Question
• A Code of Conduct for Tourism in the Holy Land
• IPO Statement on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
• Restoring the Palestinian Vineyard with Its Fullness for All
• PALESTINE UPDATE

People’s struggles for peace & justice

• Statement on Peace, Security and Development in South Asia
• The Underside of Human Rights

AFRICA

• AACC Statement on Zimbabwe
• Beyond Horror in Rwanda and DRC: The Second Voksenaasen Statement 2008
• Urgent Call: Protect the Right to Life, Dignity and Democracy in Zimbabwe!

COLOMBIA

• Colombia: Growing International Support for Peace
• Christian Peacemaker Teams chart humanitarian law violations in Colombia
• Humanity versus hatred in Colombia
• Awá Massacre Indicative of Lack of Protection for Colombia’s Indigenous
• The Colombian people want and deserve peace, say Living Letters
• Brussels Declaration Concerning Human Rights Violations in Colombia

INDIA

• Rethinking counterterrorism after Mumbai
• Jaipur public tribunal on terror in the name of countering terror
• Tackling Terrorism: A Call to Hindu and Muslim Religious Leaders
• Terrorist Attack on Mumbai – What Should Be Done

PHILIPPINES

• US churches seek Congress human rights action on the Philippines
• Episcopal Church challenges extra-judicial killings in the Philippines
• Situation of indigenous peoples in the Philippines: Urgent Appeal to the UN
• The Collapse of Peace in Mindanao
• Honouring The Memory of Bishop Alberto Ramento

SRI LANKA

• SRI LANKA: A HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE – links to news, information and resources on the rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, brought on by the Sri Lankan government intensified military campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
• WCC Demands Release of Sri Lankan Ecumenical Official
• Day of Reckoning in Sri Lanka
• A slaughter of Tamils
• Sri Lanka, a “humanitarian crisis exceeding all imaginable proportions”
• The silent horror of the war in Sri Lanka
• Prayers for Sri Lanka
• Religious leaders ask Secretary Clinton to assert U.S. influence in Sri Lanka
• Global Ministries and GMP Urge Obama Administration to End Violence in Sri Lanka
• PUCL Statement: Humanitarian Crisis in northern Sri Lanka
• The Mixed Message of the Military Solution

Gender perspectives on war & hegemonies

• Dehumanising the Muslim woman
• Churches Called to Recognize Image of God in Dalit Women
• Rights of Women in Islam (Third Edition) by Dr. Ali Asghar Engineer
• Exploring the Reality and Theological Challenges of Ecology, Economy and Empire from Feminist Perspectives

Militarisation, militarism & US bases

• Regional and Global Nuclear Disarmament: Going Beyond the NPT
• Press Release on Obama’s Call for a “world without nuclear weapons”
• Move towards a nuclear-weapon-free world, churches tell NATO
• Letter to President-elect Barack Obama
• Anti-Bases Coalition Pushes U.S. Military Base out of Ecuador
• US troops leave Ecuador, When will they leave Honduras?
• Statement on the 17th anniversary of the rejection of the RP-US Military Bases Treaty

Life’s resources & the global economy

• Global finances can and must change - here’s how
• “Move towards Life-Giving Oikos”
• People’s Statement on the Global Crisis
• Faith and Feasibility – Responsibly searching for a “new heaven and a new earth”
• Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside (a report on the ECOT-PfL Consultation)
• The Uppsala Interfaith Climate Manifesto 2008
• The Time for Justice is Now: Statement on the Doha Outcome Document
• Counter-Memorandum to reject the memorandum on entrepreneurial action of the EKD on biblical, theological and economic grounds
• Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside
• A Moral Economy of Tourism
• State and Trends of Global Tourism: Setting the Context
• WCC general secretary’s statement on the global food crisis
• World Tourism Day 2008: A South Perspective
• African Church Leaders’ Statement on climate change and water
• Food and Faith: A call to churches on the global food crisis

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