Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...

In November, Türkiye and Australia will host this year's UN Climate Talks (COP31). For two weeks, they'll steer the negotiations that decide how fast and how fairly the world moves off coal, oil and g...

I carried them in my womb, nurtured them with my milk, watched them grow and multiply and learn from me. -- No words we exchanged, no punishment did I mete and yet they listened and joyfully reaped my goodness. -- Swiftly they learned to kill, and my face was bloodied, and they trampled each other; trashed my goodness. Delving deep within me…

🫰The Clacton by-election cost us £250,000. 🏥This petition calls on Reform to donate that amount to the NHS. Add your name now if you agree👇

Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire ...

Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...

There it lay;                   cupped by my hand, warming my skin, so many times before, a thousand times and more, I warmed to his sacrifice, yet this moment, came, now: a scrap of flour and water, spoke his name, His prescience, burned with holiness and divinity, left his sacrificial body heat, invisible, holy, the Body and Blood of Christ; the Holy one of God.

King Charles shows his support for the Afghan women's cricket team, who are no longer allowed to play official games.

Hey! 👋 Survivors of the Windrush scandal have been given apologies and memorials, but the reality is that many are still being denied fair compensation. 😔 The Government promised to overhaul this brok...

Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. Sign this petition to stop the steal.

The war in the Middle East is taking hundreds of lives while also causing oil and gas prices to surge – and fossil fuel companies are cashing in, while families struggle with rising bills. The richest...

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action!

The Government is planning to scale back NHS recruitment and replace vital healthcare roles with AI technology to cut costs. This could leave patients facing fewer trained staff, unsafe care, and long...

Greater Manchester mayor and potential Labour leadership challenger vows overhaul of electoral system to transform British democracy if he gets into No 10

I just signed this! The real cost of "cheap" products shouldn't be paid by the people making them or by the environment. Let's demand businesses take responsibility for their supply chains. Add your n...

Governments must guarantee affordable, safe, and clean energy for all. Fossil fuels don’t just heat the planet, they make life more expensive. Add your name and demand governments create a fair, affor...

The wood echoed with the laughter of a woodpecker, finely tuned wrens and a black cap called high above my head, light refracted on the unfurling leaves, around me a sea of blue. Silently, softly treading as if in a church, Feeling the power of love enfolding my heart, I sank into the beauty as it overwhelmed the sadness, the fear of you.

The birds are vanishing. Near Microsoft and Amazon AI data centers, the living world is falling silent. Where birdsong once filled the air, a constant mechanical roar never stops. Thousands of server

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It’s every parent’s worst nightmare, but for tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, it’s just business as usual.Leaked internal documents from a massive new trial have just exposed the

It pressed into his skull, tearing his skin, wild thorns shocking Him. A man with a lash, watched him tremble but played his part in the injustice til He was almost dead. Did he remember They were both made through Him and for Him? Did he regret speaking creation into being? As the light was dawning, they were forming at a time, long ago.

Mary speaks part 2 I cannot go on. My heart is dead, a blackness entered my soul and his battered body is ever before my face. I am empty, any pride in him is gone. Was any of it true? Oh I need Joseph he would remind me of the words of angels, God sent around his birth. He is not here either.

Part One - Mary speaks:- I cannot do this, I cannot be this. He is my baby. I feel as though a sword has pierced my soul. -- I cling to Mary Magdalene as she clings to me. What sense is this? His work is not finished. What can he do when dead? -- My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,

I’ve just signed this petition to get a full public inquiry into the violence at our border. I was shocked when I read about the horrible violence kids and even babies are living through there - and w...

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Bombs come slow, Dropping, Mercilessly, Its vitality sucking life from our beloved earth. -- No one stands and stares - anymore. -- The nightmare thickens. Who began it? T’is lost in the annals of scared leaders usurping authority using ordinance like hail. We cry out into a vacuum of love, and our voices are lost in the clanging cymbals of the corridors of power.

God looked and saw them eyeing each other’s eyes, Testing each other, judging. - God sighed, angels cried. --- God sighed, angels cried. The son had been there, judged. - He called them to Him charged them to see each other through His eyes, His love and to be set free.

The government is planning new powers that could seriously restrict your right to protest. Under these proposals, police could limit or block protests based on the so-called “cumulative impact” of pas...

Anna, she’d seen them come and go, power greedy, denying the poor. She’d wept for men and women alike, abused, oppressed and separated out. Daily she exchanges her prayer filled cell, for the temple, glorious in its abundant splendour. Simeon, faithful in prayer and living, seeking daily the face of God, turns to God’s Holiest word and the Spirit inspiring&hellip;

Blood dripped on the floor as he plaited, The Cruel Crown. To inflict pain always causes pain. No one knew the cost of those long, deep piercing nail like thorns. No one asked. Who picked the branches wove them and who forced them on Christ’s head? Did he look Jesus in the eye? Was it placed from behind Doubling the shock? Did his own thorn pierced hands mingle his blood with Jesus’ then?

Survivors of Typhoon Odette are taking Shell to court over its contribution to the climate crisis and the devastation of the super typhoon. Stand with them!

British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...

The heights were cold in the old bones, the lowland warm the desert hot in the day and freezing by night. Still they came, a parade seeking God, who had called them with a star. Many a night huddled for warmth they sought other signs but only a star in the cold bright sky answered them with mystery. Many months passed and many sights seen,

Ukrainian president will meet US president at his Mar-a-Lago home later today for their first in person meeting since October Ukraine’s National Police has accused Russian forces of launching attacks (guided aircraft and drones) on settlements in Kharkiv, Bogodukhov, Chuguiv and Kupiansk districts over the past day. The police said three civilians in the Kharkiv region were injured and said they are documenting the “consequences of war crimes” by Russia. The police said: On December 27, the Russian army struck the city of Chuguiv. The strike hit a residential high-rise building. A 66-year-old woman with an acute stress reaction sought medical help. The Russians used drones to strike the territory of the Zolochiv community. The strikes occurred in the village of Baranivka. Private houses, outbuildings, and power grids were damaged. Continue reading...

Linked to cancer, fertility issues, and birth defects -- forever chemicals (PFAS) are now found in our food, drinking water, and even our blood. When we reach 100k signatures, 38 Degrees will submit o...

Europe’s wild bees are in a death spiral – and the EU is about to make it much worse. The European Commission is proposing changes that would allow unlimited approvals for ALL pesticides – with no man

The British government has decided to withdraw its $1.15 billion backing for the TotalEnergies-led Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas project, it said on Monday.

<article data-history-node-id="431289" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-hands-over-bodies-15-palestinian-prisoners-part-exchange-deal" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-hands-over-bodies-15-palestinian-prisoners-part-exchange-deal" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel hands over bodies of 15 Palestinian prisoners as part of exchange deal</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel on Monday handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinian prisoners as part of the exchange deal, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The report said that Palestinian families were identifying the bodies of their kin through remaining distinctive marks on their bodies or clothes they were wearing before they went missing.</p> <p>The absence of testing equipment due to the Israeli blockade and the destruction of laboratories in Gaza has made the identification process difficult.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

This report findings confirm that agricultural activity and expansion in the Amazon is driving an air pollution crisis alongside deforestation.

Over the dying countrysidethere the grace of God glows,As death reachesfor the green foliage,so, the creator reachesFor a palette. A rainbow of colours,exotic in array.Covenanted to returninexuberant joyAs the faithful SpringtimeReveals her plenty. Shall we dance thenin the joy of Autumnand rise in the gloryof our Spring?