Lib Dems have always taken the lead in environmental issues - from local recycling, to the role of industry and green taxes. Other areas of society and organisations (even the other parties!) are starting to wake up to the issue too.

As Christians, we believe God has entrusted us as stewards of his creation - whether you believe in a literal creation or some other way. In recognition of this, Christian Aid has recently launched a Climate Change campaign of its own.

Sarah Spinney from Christian Aid gave a presentation on the campaign at LDCF's fringe event at the Spring 2007 Conference. The campaign encourages Christians (and all people) to take action on climate change:

1. Get the facts - to educate yourself and others. When people know the size of the issue and the simplicity of the solutions, then they can start to act.

2. Take action - contact the Government and big businesses to alert them to your concerns

3. Switch to electricity companies which produce energy from renewable sources.

4. Cut the carbon

5. Be resourceful

More detail about the campaign can be found on the Christian Aid website.

STOP PRESS: Tearfund have also launched a Climate Change campaign, challenging churches to do their part - more detail can be found at their website.

200 years ago, William Wilberforce and a few of his friends fought long and hard to abolish slavery. However, as Steve Chalke, Chair of Stop The Traffik says: "There are more slaves alive today than there were trafficked in the 450 years of the slave trade. It is the fastest growing global crime-only the illegal arms trade is bigger."

The Stop The Traffik campaign is a global coalition of organisations working together to fight against people trafficking. The four key areas that Stop The Traffik is focused on, are; advocacy, education, fundraising and freedom day.

One of Stop The Traffik's key campaigns at the moment concerns chocolate.  Nearly half the world's chocolate is made from cocoa grown in the Cote D'Ivoire, in Africa, where many of the workers are children trafficked in to work on the cocoa farms. This is a huge, and generally unknown problem of which Stop The Traffik is trying to raise awareness.

To find out more, visit the Stop The Traffik website.

Welcome to Liberal Democrat Christian Forum's new website.

If you are an existing LDCF member, please register -- it will take us a couple of days to process this, but once done it will give you access to discussion groups, links with other members, and extra content.

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Everyone - please feel free to browse the site. There is much more here than there has ever been before, and it will be updated fairly regularly. If you would like to request new features on the site, please go to 'Contact us' in the top menu.