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public issues calendar 2008/2009
Public Issues CalendarEach year, the Joint Public Issues Team (Baptist Union of Great Britain, Methodist Church and United Reformed Church) publishes details of dates on which churches might focus on particular issues. Below is the 2009 calendar of Sundays/Weeks for which organisations involved in some way with social justice, offer worship and other resources via a web-link.
We suggest that congregations select subjects that will interest and challenge, and perhaps where there is expertise available to plan a Sunday service or some other event. We hope people will be able to make a connection with their faith, and prayerfully support particular local or national projects. Some will feel able to make a practical commitment; they will need the church’s prayerful support
The list is not exhaustive; please let us know if you think others should be included by e-mailing
16 November International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians 16-22 November Prisons Week
1 December World Aids Day 18 - 25 January Week of Prayer for Christian Unity www.ctbi.org.uk
18 January World Religion Day www.worldreligionday.org
25 January World Leprosy Day www.leprosymission.org.uk
27 January Holocaust Memorial Day www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk
1 - 8 February Poverty and Homelessness Action Week www.homelessness-Sunday.org.uk ; www.church-poverty.org.uk
8 February Education Sunday www.educationsunday.org
23 February - 8 March Fair Trade Fortnight www.fairtrade.org.uk
1 March Tear Fund Sunday www.tearfund.org
6 March Women’s World Day of Prayer www.wwdp-natcomm.org
9 April Deir Yasin Day www.sabeel.org
10 - 16 May Christian Aid Week www.christianaid.org.uk
17 May Not for Sale Sunday (Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe) www.chaste.org.uk
7 June Environment Sunday www.arocha.org.uk
15 - 21 June Refugee Week www.refugeeweek.org.uk
26 June International Day in Support of Victims of Torture www.fiacat.org/en/spip.php?rubrique21
12 July Sea Sunday www.biss.org.uk
23 August Slavery Memorial Day (International Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition)
13 September Racial Justice Sunday www.ctbi.org.uk
21 September International Day of Prayer for Peace www.overcomingviolence.org
4 October Disability Sunday www.throughtheroof.org/sunday/disabilitysunday.html
18 October Healthcare Sunday www.healthcaresunday.org.uk
18 October Micah Sunday www.micahchallenge.org.uk
18 - 25 October One World Week www.oneworldweek.org
8 November Remembrance Sunday www.britishlegion.org.uk/content/Remembrance-Sunday-508933.shtml
15 November International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians www.csw.org.uk
15 - 21 November Prisons Week www.prisonsweek.org
1 December World Aids Day www.worldaidsday.org
10 December Human Rights Day www.un.org/events/humanrights
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