Archive

Archive of Progressio's news stories:

Zimbabwe: British Church leaders in joint call to SADC (20 Jun 2008 )
The Rt Revd Crispian Hollis, Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth is among 12 British church leaders calling on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to "redouble" its efforts to ensure fair elections in Zimbabwe.

Progressio welcomes Zambian Bishops' statement on Zimbabwe situation (19 Jun 2008 )
Zambian Catholic bishops have urged leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to take “much stronger action” to quell the escalating unrest in Zimbabwe as the country edges closer to an election re-run later this month.

Progressio condemns targeting of church organisation in Zimbabwe Raid (13 Jun 2008 )
Staff at the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA), were this week arrested following a raid on their offices in Harare by Zimbabwe police.

Terminator technology: Poor farmers at risk warns Progressio (23 May 2008 )
As the world faces up to the impact of global food shortages, the livelihoods of 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest farmers are at risk from ‘terminator’ technology, Sol Oyuela, Progressio’s Environmental Officer, warned in the Guardian newspaper.

Zimbabwe Election Update (17 Apr 2008 )
Nearly three weeks have passed since Zimbabwe's March 29 elections and full results are still pending. Despite our combined efforts to ensure that South Africa, which currently holds the presidency of the UN Security Council, take a lead in mediating in the crisis, few concrete steps have been made to halt the current and escalating unrest in Zimbabwe. At an extraordinary meeting of the South African Development Community (SADC) in Zambian capital Lusaka on Saturday, South African President, Thabo Mbeki, opted for "quiet diplomacy". He now looks unlikely to lead a SADC response to the situation.

Remembering Romero (25 Mar 2008 )
At this time of year we celebrate the resurrection, the power of life over death and of hope over despair. We also remember the single biggest protest in El Salvador’s history.

Catholics have begun to rise to the challenge of HIV and AIDS in Haiti (15 Feb 2008 )
AIDS is the leading cause of death among Haitian women aged between 15 and 49 according to UN and World Health Organisation figures, writes Lizzette Robleto, Progressio’s regional advocacy coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean.

True picture of HIV and AIDS in Haiti shows poverty and injustice biggest hurdle (29 Jan 2008 )
Progressio's latest briefing, HIV and AIDS in Haiti, examines how years of political chaos in Haiti has allowed HIV and AIDS to flourish, leaving it with the highest incidence of HIV in the world outside sub-Saharan Africa at 3.8 per cent and with AIDS as the leading cause of death in Haitian women aged between 15 and 49.

Valentine to European commissioner to fight ‘Zombie seeds’ (28 Jan 2008 )
International development agency Progressio is calling on its supporters to send a Valentine's message to the European Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, to 'love people and the planet' on 14 February.

Spreading the word of Populorum Progressio in Ecuador: 40 years on (24 Jan 2008 )
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the encyclical Populorum Progressio (from which Progressio gets its name), one of our partner organisations in Ecuador, Fondo Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressio (FEPP), organised a conference in Quito last year to spread the social teaching in the encyclical and analyse its relevance today, writes Michelle Lowe.