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| Type | Daily Christian newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Online |
| Owner(s) | Christian Today Limited |
| Publisher | Andrew Clark |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | London, England |
| Website | christiantoday christiantoday |
Christian Today is a non-denominational Christian [1] news company with its international headquarters in London, England. [2]
The website was established in 2000 to report on news in the global church and current affairs from a Christian perspective. A Braille version under the title of the Christian Today Digest is produced for the blind in partnership with Torch Trust.
The newspaper was awarded Best Christian News and Reviews Site in 2007 and 2008 at the Premier Christian's Blog and Web Awards held in London, UK. [3]
In addition to providing regular news updates to the Christian community, Christian Today has provided press and IT support to Christian initiatives and organizations, including Micah Challenge UK, the Global Day of Prayer, and the World Evangelical Alliance.
The publication regularly contributes as a media commentator and analyst on local, national, and international levels, including BBC Television, BBC Radio, Channel 4, and Sky News.
Christian Today is edited by Xia-Maria Mackay.
BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the BBC Global News Limited division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. According to its corporate PR, the combined seven channels of the Global News operations have the largest audience market share among all of its rivals, with an estimated 99 million viewers weekly in 2016/2017, part of the estimated 121 million weekly audience of all its operations.
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the British Government through the Foreign Secretary's office. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays. In 2015, the World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week. In November 2016, the BBC announced that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s.
Richard Keith Herring is an English stand-up comedian and writer, whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring. He is described by The British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy".
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Swami is a British Indian electronic music/ bhangra/ world music act from Birmingham, England. "Swami" is also the pseudonym of the DJ producer Diamond Duggal. Swami currently performs as a hybrid electronic DJ act with special world music guests and collaborations including Deep Forest and PunjabTronix.
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