Global Peace Festival and Convention 2010 Announced in Nairobi, Kenya

Kenya has won the bid to host the 2010 Global Peace Festival and Convention, to be held in Nairobi on November 17-20. International peacemakers including religious, NGO, youth, business, governmental, and other civil society leaders will participate in the Convention on the foundation of regional Global Peace Festivals (GPF) to be convened in Asia, the [...]

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New Urban “Gardening in a Sack” Provides Food for Nairobi’s Poor

Other news from Kenya: Enterprising “self-help” female farmers in Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera slum are growing food for their families and selling the surplus to their neighbors through an innovative approach to urban agriculture. The International Committee of the Red Cross recognized the technique as a solution to food security in urban areas during the 2007 [...]

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Influential Evangelicals Call for Cancellation of Haiti’s Debt

Prominent US Christians are calling on governments and international lending bodies to cancel the Haitian government’s foreign debt. In a statement released by the recently formed New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, more than 60 prominent Christian leaders called upon “all nations and institutions that have made loans to the Haitian government to quickly [...]

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You can find the latest updates on the Service For Peace response to the Haiti Earthquake here.

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