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CWS Newsroom Archive 2005
December 22 New Report on Displaced Burmese Increases Pressure on Burma to Reform
December 22 Church World Service Says WTO Meeting a Lost Opportunity
December 20 Lou Rawls Featured in New Church World Service Public Service Announcements
December 19 CWS Leadership Development Forum provides "home base" for WCC Scholars
December 14 Church World Service Says Concerns of Poor Nations "Pushed Aside" by WTO: No Agreement Better Than a Bad One
December 5 Emergency Needs Continue in Pakistan Quake Zone
December 5 In One Village, Facing the Future with Patience, Determination
December 5 A Year Later, Tsunami-battered Aceh Searches for Security and Hope
December 2 Bush Signs Water Bill -- Church World Service Says U.S. Getting Serious about Safe Water for All
December 2 Church World Service Applauds Senate Passage of Water Bill
November 17 Church World Service Members Call for 'Sacrificial Giving' During 2005 Holidays
November 17 Cause for Thanksgiving: CWS helps Gulf hurricane survivors get a fresh start
November 16 CWS Update: Fall 2005 Tornadoes
November 15 Emergency Update: Southern Asia Earthquake
November 15 Church World Service and Partners Unveil Africa Peacebuilding Program
November 11 Tools and Blankets for Families of Disasters are Perfect Alternative Gifts, Says Church World Service
November 10 Church World Service Appoints Donna Derr to Director of Emergency Response Program
November 7 Emergency Update: Gulf Hurricanes Recovery
November 7 Situation Report: Indiana Tornado
November 3 Church World Service Pakistan Earthquake Village Now Has Mosque and Water Supply
October 28 Many Unaccompanied Children Arriving at New Tent Village for Quake Survivors, Reports CWS
October 27 Church World Service Expanded Tent Village will Shelter 2,500 Pakistan Quake Survivors
October 24 CWS Co-Hosts Oct. 26 Meeting on Burma Crisis, Policy Responses
October 24 Trinidad-Tobago Gives Church World Service $500,000 for Katrina Recovery
October 23 CWS Still in Gulf Coast for Katrina and Rita Recovery, Readies Response for Hurricane Wilma
October 21 Liberian Council of Churches Plays Key Role in Elections
October 20 In Pakistan, Church World Service Develops Psychosocial And Protection Programs
October 18 Badly Needed Shelter Material on its Way to Pakistan; The Injured Cry Out for Medical Attention
October 17 Church World Service Expands Relief Efforts in Spite of Weather
October 14 Pakistan Update: Church World Service Re-Opens Damaged Clinic to Serve Survivors, Expedites Aid
October 13 Church World Service Celebrates World Food Day with a Focus on the "Dear Sudan" Campaign
October 12 Church World Service Expedites Blankets, Kits to Central America
October 11 In Pakistan "It's a Horror Story that Doesn't End."
October 8 South Asia Earthquake: CWS Responds
October 7 Colombia's Ricardo Esquivia wins Peacemaking Award
October 6 CROP WALKS Help End Hunger Locally and Globally
October 4 CWS Chief Joins Fast for Darfur Victims
September 28 CWS Hurricane Rita Appeal
September 26 Harvest of Hope Event to Benefit Children in Colorado and Kenya
September 23 Still Responding to Katrina, CWS Provides Emergency Aid Shipments for Rita Needs
September 23 CWS Hurricane Katrina Response -- Part II: Reaching Out -- New Friends/Partners in Mississippi
September 23 CWS Hurricane Katrina Response -- Part I: Touching Lives -- Assisting Faith-Community in Texas
September 19 More Than 200,000 Iraqi Children Benefit From "All Our Children" Consortium
September 13 Can’t Ignore Poverty and Class in Slow Katrina Response -- or in Meaningful Recovery, Says Church World Service Head
September 9 Church World Service to Distribute UNICEF Materials in Mississippi
September 9 Church World Service Raises Appeal to $9.5 Million
September 7 Hurricane Katrina Response - Emergency Appeal Update and Expansion
September 6 CWS on Response to Katrina: "This is About Human Integrity"
September 3 Louisiana Churches: Pummeled, Yet Prayerful
September 2 Emergency Appeal Update: Hurricane Katrina Response
September 1 CWS Head Surveys Damage and Initial Response, Meets with Faith Leaders to Plan for Long-term Recovery
September 1 Interfaith Cooperation is Key to Responding Effectively to Katrina, Says CWS Head
August 30 For Katrina and Other Emergencies, Cash Donations Counseled
August 16 Rebuilding lives in Cuba's Granma province after Hurricane Dennis
August 15 Church World Service, Lutheran World Relief Scale up Assistance in Niger
August 11 STAR NYC Commemorates 9/11 in Sept. 10 Remembrance
August 5 Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan Responds to Floods
August 5 Church World Service Assists in Niger
August 1 An Open Letter of Condolence to the People of Sudan on the Death of Vice-President John Garang
July 27 Washington prayer breakfast opposes CAFTA
July 19 Church World Service to Give National Support to Growing Grassroots 'Dear Sudan' Campaign
July 16 Church World Service "Africa Forum" Urges U.S., G-8: Add More African Countries to Debt Forgiveness
July 4 Independence: A Chance to Make Poverty History
June 30 Church World Service Prepares Amity Teachers of English for Service in China
June 24 6 Months after Tsunami, Recovery Underway but Needs Continue, Reports Church World Service
June 16 Church World Service, Affiliates, Congregations Plan World Refugee Day Events 6/17-22
June 9 Church World Service Receives $1 Million Grant from United Way of America for Hurricane Rebuilding
June 6 June 7 Conference on Haitian Crisis, U.S. Policy; Washington, DC
June 1 Angolan Women Promoting Literacy, Gender Rights to Embattled Population
May 20 Sudanese Activist Released
May 13 CWS Urges Intercession on Behalf of International Award Nominee and Colleague
May 10 CWS Launches Urgent Protest in Sudanese Government’s Arrest of Humanitarian Award Nominee
May 10 CWS Plans World Refugee Day Events, Offers Churches Resources
May 6 In Haiti, Education Key to Better Life and Future
May 5 In Time of Drought Women Key to Family Livelihood in Haiti
May 5 CWS Supports Local Community Cooperatives in Haiti
April 21 In Chicago, Interfaith Delegation from Middle East Promotes "Society of Equality and Plurality"
April 14 Church World Service Releases Curriculum on "Just Eating"
April 13 Church World Service, Advocate Health Care Address "Just Eating" in April 16 Conference
April 8 Interfaith Coalition, Including CWS, to Release Report Opposing REAL ID Act
April 4 CWS Joins in Week of Action on Trade
April 4 On the passing of Pope John Paul II
March 29 Church World Service Expedites Emergency Supplies to Nias
March 28 Quake off Sumatra, Assessment Begins at Dawn
March 18 Church World Service Launches Initiative with Indigenous People in Chaco Region of South America
March 18 Church World Service Promoting "Water for All" at International Level
March 1 U.S. Churches Send Ecumenical Representatives to Israel, Palestine
February 28 Tightened Government Security Hampering But Not Stopping Tsunami Aid Delivery in Aceh Province, Says CWS
February 18 CWS Continues Tsunami Recovery Efforts—Plans for Long-term Rehabilitation
February 17 Continuing Violence in Darfur Deters Humanitarian Missions
February 2 Agency Head Urges World to Keep Focus on Tsunami Survivors, Long-Term Recovery
February 2 J Richard Butler, 74, Executive Director of Church World Service in 1980s, Dies
January 20 Church World Service Delivers Trauma Care in Aceh, Will Establish Community-Based Counseling
January 20 CWS Brings Water Purification Equipment For Thousands in Sumatra's Tsunami-Torn Meulobah
January 19 William Wildey of Church World Service to Receive the Forrest L. Knapp Award
January 13 Church World Service Assists Sri Lankan Tsunami Survivors
January 12 Church World Service Will Provide Psychological Support For Traumatized Banda Aceh Survivors
January 3 CWS Tsunami Aid Arrives in Sri Lanka -- CWS Raises Tsunami Appeal to $5 Million