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FAITH GROUPS are joining survivors in marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, considered the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. The hurricane, which struck the U.S. coast on 29 August 2005, caused US$81 million damage and killed 1836 persons. It destroyed large sections of the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region of several ...

Government and society must find “new resolve to protect the sanctity of life,” Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), said in a statement recognizing the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “The Bible urges us to ‘choose life’ so that all may live” Tveit said in ...

A global Christian body representing 80 million Protestants is seeking to step up cooperation with the United Nations to develop a new international financial and economic order. "The need for democratic, accountable and just global financial and economic structures and institutions remains pressing in the face of spiralling world poverty," said a report presented to the 18-28 June founding meeting ...