What is The Salvation Army?
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The Salvation Army is a Christian church and registered charity providing services in the community, particularly to those who are vulnerable and marginalised. Motivated by our Christian faith, we offer practical support and services in more than 700 centres throughout the UK to all who need them, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation. To find your nearest centre visit salvationarmy.org.uk/find-a-church
From the editor’s desk ‘CLIMATE crisis: Melting glaciers reveal five new islands in Russian Arctic’ ran the headline in the Independent last week. The online paper reported that the Russian navy had spotted the islands during an expedition. Announcing the discovery, the expedition leader said that ‘temperature changes’ in the region were partly responsible for the islands’ emergence. Temperatures and Arctic sea ice have become hot topics. Recently, Pascal Peduzzi, of the UN Environment Programme, said: ‘Under the influence of global heating caused by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, we have seen a sharp decrease in the extent of Arctic sea ice since 1979.’ While islands may be emerging, the UN has also highlighted how some small islands are at risk of the effects of climate change. In its report The Heat is On, it commented on the work being carried out by the Marshall Islands. The Pacific country is increasing coastal defences and cutting its use of fossil fuels. According to the report, ‘the government says the nation accounts for a miniscule 0.00001 per cent of global emissions but wants to show leadership since it is so exposed to storms, “king tides” and rising sea levels’. In an interview in this week’s War Cry, a member of Christian Climate Action explains why she took part in October’s Extinction Rebellion protests in London. Holly-Anna Petersen says that the Christian protesters care ‘about God’s planet and what happens to the most vulnerable people around the world’. She recalls meeting people already being affected by climate change in Kenya. Describing their struggle to grow food as heartbreaking, she says: ‘Climate change has always been painted as this distant, far-off issue which we need to address some day. The immediacy of climate change … needs to be told.’ The policies and lifestyles of people around the world are having an effect on others thousands of miles away. The 21st century seems a good time to remember the truth that has survived since poet and priest John Donne wrote it in 1624: ‘No man is an island.’
What is the War Cry? The Salvation Army first published a newspaper called the War Cry in London in December 1879, and we have continued to appear every week since then. Our name refers to our battle for people’s hearts and souls as we promote the positive impact of the Christian faith and The Salvation Army’s fight for greater social justice.
SINCE 1879
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OF THE WAR CRY Issue No 7447
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Browsing the Bible
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