morepraxis

THE ISSUE
EGG ON YOUR FACE?
Many of the chocolate eggs on sale this Easter have been made with cocoa from plantations that use trafficked children to harvest the beans.
Children are being trafficked and forced to work on chocolate plantations in the Cote d’Ivoire, where a large proportion of the world’s cocoa is produced.
The large chocolate companies [...]

Funeral of Fr Tentorio
Fr Fausto Tentorio, a missionary in the Philippines was assassinated on 16 October 2011. He was gunned down by a single assailant shortly before 8 am at the garage inside the compound of the Mother of Perpetual Help Parish, while preparing to leave for a church meeting. He was shot 10 times, [...]

Fairness, Opportunity, Hope

UnitingCare and the Uniting Church are sleeping giants – so many people with so much passion and clear positions to advocate but not much capacity to aggregate collectively.
 
The capacity to deliver thousands of voices to our elected representatives on message on an issue will be a game changer.
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Get online and help Dr Alexis Montes, a lay leader in the health ministry of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) and his health Worker colleagues.
There have been illegal arrests, disappearances and detentions.

This is an awfull situation involving people being put in danger. There has been?llegal arrest and detention of 43 health [...]

“Rich” and “Mesop” have been getting fat indeed on paying Australian workers $14 per hour (well below the award wage), to make high fashion garments that are retailing for more than $700!

The developed world has created the problem but the developing countries will feel the heat of climate change the most!

So, this month we are taking action about the unfair conditions of workers around the world who produce our daily (or more!) cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate. Workers who produce for FAIRTRADE label products receive much better conditions and pay? but the majority of products for sale in the [...]

Rev Jameson Mabviko is a member of the Kasinthula Cane Growers (KCG) in Malawi, whose members are now benefiting from the FAIRTRADE movement. ?I want many things for my life ?? my son Onesama to learn how to drive so he can get a job, my daughter Hannah to learn how to use a computer.? [...]