Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland plan to legalise its recreational use soon. Italy will hold a public referendum, while Spanish and Portuguese political parties are deciding their positions.
The Spanish Social Democrat party drives the abolition of prostitution. Evangelicals hope such a law will move forward, but demand a deeper social change.
Several Swiss evangelical organisations that are members of the Swiss Climate Alliance, have recently launched the Declaration for Christian action on climate change.
The declaration “is a clear affirmation of the climate emergency that all humanity has entered, and of the
spiritual, ethical, civic and environmental
responsibility that Christian churches and communities and their members have
to act
The text “aims to
They hope that the declaration will become “a
tool to raise awareness of the danger of a serious climate crisis that is almost certain to occur, but which we can alleviate if we act quickly”.
The declaration starts with a preamble that summarises the text and its scope. Then, it explains the
TVE, has shown the work of some of those groups.
“We could not close the doors.
We had 500 families without resources. We already had soup kitchens open, but with the pandemic we had to change our way of doing things. We couldn t feed them at the tables but we gave them hot food in cartons, so that they could take it home”, tells Mari Carmen Jimenez, a representative of the evangelical NGO Remar.
Pablo Lopez, a leader of the social work of the evangelical Christian community Eben-Ezer in Madrid, recalls that “
at first we were bewildered, because the government said that nothing was happening here, but then everything was closed, so
Jubilee Centre David McIlroy
Debt and taxes: the United Kingdom Chancellor’s dilemma
The idea of jubilee articulated in the Old Testament points to an entirely different economic model from the one fuelled by debt and interest which financialised capitalism depends on. 03 MARCH 2021 · 11:08 CET Rishi Sunark, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK. / Photo: HM Treasury CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The success of the UK’s vaccination programme, the Prime Minister’s announcement of a provisional timetable for a return to normal life, and the impending Budget announcement on Wednesday have all turned attention to the question of debt after Covid.
Debt was a chronic issue in our society; the measures taken to combat Covid-19 have made it acute. In his budget on Wednesday, the Chancellor has a tough job, but now is an opportune time to turn around on the pa