NEWS UPDATE!
Family Planning from a Faith-Based Perspective
On January 26, 2010 CCIH and the Faith and Global Health Caucus of the Global Health Council sponsored a Congressional Briefing in Washington, DC with the theme of Family Planning from a Faith-Based Perspective. Over one hundred people, including Congressional staff and representatives from national and international organizations and US government agencies, attended and heard the message that faith-based organizations (FBOs) are favorable to the concept of family planning, particularly within the context of comprehensive health services where it can enable voluntary and informed decisions regarding the healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies while not including induced abortion. Read more about the briefing here.
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Prayer Requests
Realizing the power of prayer, CCIH would like you to keep the following items in your prayers:
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Responding to the Haiti Earthquake
CCIH Members and Affiliates are responding to the Haiti earthquake with personnel, food, medicine and other supplies. Click here for a list of organizations working in Haiti and information about how you can support them.
Join the Haiti Listserv - CCIH has reactivated its Haiti Listserv in response to the earthquake that occurred near Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, January12. Our hope is that this listserv will serve as a forum for sharing information about relief, health and development activities in Haiti, particularly those of Christian and other faith-based individuals and organizations.
You may join the Haiti listserv by sending a blank email to haiti-join@ccih.org. If you have information that you think should be posted on the CCIH Haiti Listserv, please send a message to haiti@ccih.org or ccih@ccih.org.
You may view the messages that have already been sent out through the Haiti Listserv by following this link: http://ccih.org/pipermail/haiti_ccih.org.
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CCIH 24th Annual Conference
June 11-13, 2010
Bishop Claggett Center, Buckeystown, MD
The Faith Community and the Millennium Development Goals: Accountability to God and the World
As the world sharpens its focus on achieving health and development targets such as the Millennium Development Goals, discussions revolve around numbers and percentages used to measure progress. The faith community also needs to be concerned about these quantitative measurements, but is this the only way to determine the impact of faith-based organizations and institutions striving to address basic health and development challenges? Is our accountability limited to reaching an agreed upon number or, as people of faith, are there other factors to consider? To whom are we accountable? Join us as we discuss these issues!
Learn more about the Annual CCIH Conference here.
Get information about the Pre-Conference Skills-Building Workshops planned for Friday June 11, 8:30an-12:30pm. Click here.
Confirmed speakers for the CCIH 2010 Annual Conference include:
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Prof. Miriam K. Were - Co-founder and Director of Uzima Foundation; 2008 recipient of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize; Member MAP International Board of Directors; former Chair of the Kenya National AIDS Control Council; and former Chair of the Board for the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
- Dr. Samuel Mwenda, General Secretary, Christian Health Association of Kenya
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Prof. Henry Mosley - Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health; internationally respected expert on population and family and reproductive health; and long-time supporter and former director of CCIH;
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Katherine Marshall - Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Executive Director of World Faiths Development Dialogue
- Dr. Jono Quick, President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health
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Tom Davis - Director of Health Programs for Food for the Hungry and Chair of the Board of The CORE Group
Come and Join us !!
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Upcoming Conferences/Events of Interest
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