Press releases

Press releases

This month's news and media releases.

Bishop Tom goes out with Jazz and Jam!

29 July 2010 - Rt Rev Tom Wright hosted his last event as Bishop of Durham at Auckland Castle on Sunday 25 July, before retiring on 31 August 2010 to take up a new appointment.

Calling all cyclists looking for a challenge this autumn

23 July 2010 - Christian Aid is encouraging cycling enthusiasts across the UK to sign up to its newest cycling event, the London-Luxembourg challenge, by the end of August 2010.

Christian Aid joins Bono and Soros in welcoming landmark law on business transparency

21 July 2010 - Christian Aid today welcomes a new US law which will challenge corruption in poor countries and boost the pressure for global reforms to combat tax dodging and bribery.

14 year old's scrumptious recipe book backed by Archbishop of York

July 14 - The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, is backing a schoolgirl from Scalby, near Scarborough, who has compiled a cookery book to raise money for Christian Aid by supplying a recipe for one of his favourite dishes.

Haiti - six months after earthquake, conditions remain 'extremely harsh'

July 9 2010 - Six months on from the earthquake which devastated Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding towns and villages, conditions for many of the country’s inhabitants remain extremely harsh.

MBE for helping Burmese refugees in Thailand

July 9 2010 - Sally Thompson, Deputy Director of the Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), a Christian Aid partner organisation, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for her work with displaced people from Burma.

Aid agencies call for a 'surge' in aid effort to help 10 million facing hunger in West Africa

July 8 2010 - Ten leading aid agencies today called for a 'surge' in the humanitarian effort to help 10 million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. The centre of the crisis is Niger, where seven million people, almost half the population do not have enough food. A further two million people in Chad, and hundreds of thousands more in Mali, Mauritania, parts of Burkina Faso and the extreme north of Nigeria are also suffering as a result of the crisis.