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If Scotland votes "Yes", it will be John Major's fault

September 10, 2014
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"More than 20 years ago, I opposed devolution," writes Sir John Major in today's Times. "I did so not because I thought Scotland could not govern itself. Plainly it can. I did so because I believed devolution would be a…

Church Times bars Tory cricket umpire because his great-great grandfather was a bishop

September 8, 2014
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Michael Claughton is a dedicated member (and, indeed, the current President) of Bethersden Cricket Club, near Ashford in Kent. He is, by all accounts, a fair, professional and gentlemanly umpire…

Eric Pickles: Jihad will be defeated by the "guiding principles of the English Reformation"

September 5, 2014
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Since Sayeeda Warsi left the Government, the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP has assumed direct responsibility for matters of faith. They were, of course, always under the aegis as Secretary…

The flaw in the Fatwa on the so-called Islamic State

September 2, 2014
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This really is quite magnificent. To those who insist Muslims cannot or will not integrate with or conform to British values, customs and traditions, this fatwa (= religious opinion; not…

“I have forgiven the Islamic militants, because they did not know what they are doing”

August 31, 2014
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Some images are just too awful to publish. It would be easy to scour the internet to find pictures of headless Christian children in Nigeria, summarily slaughtered by Boko Haram…

The difficulties of dialoguing with Islam

August 26, 2014
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"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" asked Tertullian in his Prescription against Heretics (VII), as he sought to defend the purity of the gospel of faith from the faithless…

The Islamic State presents us with a wholly abnormal situation of national emergency

August 22, 2014
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Say we catch the barbarous "Jihadi John" or "John the Beatle" or "John the Jailer" or whatever he's called. And say we then gather the evidence against him and bring…

As long as Obama spouts the fallacy that the Islamic State "speaks for no religion", we will never kill the root

August 21, 2014
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It would appear that the barbaric Islamist who decapitated US journalist James Foley was a dude named John, probably from East London, who took a brief sojourn in Syria with…

Archbishop of Mosul: "Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here"

August 19, 2014
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The translated words of Emil Nona, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, now exiled in Erbil (via Rorate Caeli): "Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western…

Bishop of Leeds accuses Cameron of turning his back Iraqi Christians

August 17, 2014
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It hasn't been for the want of trying. Numerous blog posts have been written, emails and DMs exchanged, and meeting with senior ministers held. This blog has been at the…

Why can bishops organise to condemn foodbanks but not genocide?

August 12, 2014
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After the Holocaust, the whole of civilisation united behind two simple words: "Never Again". If the free world is not prepared to eradicate the Islamist evil spreading over the…

None dare call it evil – except Archbishop Justin Welby

August 9, 2014
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Our politicians are at last speaking about the terror, torture, mass murder and genocide being meted out upon Christians and other minorities by the Islamic State in Iraq. Their assessment…