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Latest issue: 12 June 2009  Feeding a needIsabel de BertodanoAs the recession deepens, food banks offer emergency supplies, stepping into the breach when other services fail. The Trussell Trust, the charity that oversees them, is galvanising Churches and politicians to address one of the greatest problems exacerbated by the economic crisis: hunger
Church in the WorldNew powers for bishops to 'sack' priests |
BrazilCardoso threatens colleague with legal action | Czech RepublicCommunists' continued power deplored |
EgyptMixed reaction to Obama's speech | GreeceOrthodox clergy hit out at other Churches |
LebanonChristians secure win for ruling alliance | PeruChurch shelters indigenous |
SwedenOpposition grows to lesbian bishop | United StatesMurder prompts calls for rethink by pro-lifers |
Not if but when for BrownNot if but when for Brown
The signal from 10 Downing Street is that it is business as usual, with the new Cabinet having met for the first time this week. But Labour's disastrous showing in the recent elections and the departure of several key ministers mean that Gordon Brown's leadership remains on a knife-edge...
A pastoral heart
Ten years ago Cardinal Basil Hume died, mourned not only by Catholics but by the whole nation. Here, in an exclusive extract from a new memoir of him, his former secretary recalls the man, monk and cardinal she knew: prayerful, fun, compassionate, on occasion melancholic, and ready to die...
Discoverers of the dreamDiscoverers of the dream
Next Friday the Pope will inaugurate the Year for Priests with a vespers at St Peter's Basilica in Rome. In the first of a new series on priesthood, a seminary rector examines the central relationship between priest and people...
New votes for old
As apathy about politics grows, Gordon Brown has signalled that he is willing to consider electoral reform should there be support for changing the first-past-the-post system. Here a professor of law argues that reform would encourage a new interest in democratic government...
Africa's tarnished gold rushAfrica's tarnished gold rush
The price of gold has soared in the global economic crisis as investors seek a safe haven for their money. But the increase has brought little benefit to Congo's miners, who work in primitive conditions in the hope of one day striking lucky...
Across the decades, across the dividesAcross the decades, across the divides
Born 80 years ago this week, Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who chronicled her hopes and fears as she hid with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam, is helping to bring together Christians and Muslims in one of Britain's most multicultural towns...
Share in divinity
This Sunday's prayer is one of the few addressed directly to Christ, says Daniel McCarthy, and stands between two moments of ritual exchange. The faithful draw near to receive his body and blood in Communion and, like him, come to offer themselves in service to the world...
