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Ted Hui: “The more you persecute people, the more people will treasure that identity”

Ted Hui Chi-fung was (or is) a Democrat Party politician in Hong Kong, vocal on environmental issues, education, human rights and democracy. He is currently living in exile in Australia, after fleeing to Denmark in 2020 and then seeking political…

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Welby: “Why is it so much agony to remove a memorial to slavery?”

February 14, 2022
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This was the question posed by the Archbishop of Canterbury last week, in the context of the campaign to remove the memorial plaque to 17th-century courtier and philanthropist Tobias Rustat…

Environmental apocalypse: the religious drama of COP26

November 2, 2021
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"Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion," warned Primo Levi in his 1947 work If This Is…

Lord Pearson condemned as Islamophobic – for discussing the fear of Islam

August 23, 2021
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"New: The @MuslimCouncil have criticised Lord Pearson's remarks during the debate on Afghanistan in the House of Lords yesterday, saying he has consistently used his privileged position to 'promote divisive…

Uyghur women thank China for liberating them and making them happier

January 10, 2021
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A letter has arrived at Cranmer's Tower: Dear Archbishop Cranmer, My name is Nur. It was Ayshe, but that name was forbidden by Xinjiang Communist Party, so I changed…

Nobody claps for Jesus

April 8, 2020
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This is the 12th contribution to His Grace’s emergency team ministry during the coronavirus pestilence. It comes from Mike Stallard, who has been in education all his life, and is…

Sovereignty: why is it good for Kashmir and Hong Kong, but bad for the UK?

August 12, 2019
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News from Hong Kong and Kashmir has continued to dominate the news, and then the Labour Shadow Chancellor and Deputy Leader John McDonnell sowed a degree of discontent in the…

A ‘climate emergency’ demands a Green manifesto more useful that Joanna Southcott’s box

May 1, 2019
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Former US President George W Bush revealed in his book Decision Points that he often broke the conversational ice with visiting heads of state by asking the question: 'What keeps…

The weird cult of Greta Thunberg: she’s not the Green Messiah

April 24, 2019
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The activities of those following the latest fashion in political activism have been disrupting the nation’s capital, and yesterday its unlikely spokesperson and poster child, Greta Thunberg, went to Westminster…

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Hunt pledges UK power and influence to stem global persecution of Christians

January 31, 2019
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As promised in December, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched his independent review into the persecution of Christians across the globe. Flanked by the Rt Rev'd Philip Mountstephen, Bishop of…

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National Secular Society equates Anglicans with Islamists baying for blood

November 12, 2018
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While the Church of England was preparing to lead the nation in a corporate commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day 1918, the National Secular Society issued a tweet.…

Why do we celebrate our inspirational Paralympians, but abort the disabled in the womb?

September 20, 2016
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"Finally, there are some famous words you can find stamped on the bottom of a product," said Lord Coe, in his speech at the closing ceremony of the London 2012…

Same-sex marriage/blessing confronts Church of England with "a structural flaw of fatal proportions"

August 30, 2016
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We have reached Chapter 5 in the great Anglican sexuality saga: 'Church of England parishes consider first step to break away over sexuality'. It isn't clear what the dénouement…

Welby: witness gently for Jesus, and wait until you're asked (most of the time)

May 22, 2016
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There's always a danger when you pick up a comment piece from a newspaper that you glance at a headline and form an opinion from a crass summary of…

Stephen Crabb has no need to be ashamed of his Christian faith

December 19, 2015
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Who could have imagined just 15 years ago at the turn of the century that we would now be living in such unpredictable times? What seems like a permanent…

Marsha Levine – the Cambridge academic who refused to answer Israeli child's question, citing BDS

December 2, 2015
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Dr Marsha Levine was a fellow and senior research associate in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University, which "serves as an interdisciplinary hub aiming to provide…

Helen Mirren: "I love Israel – I think it's a great, great country"

October 30, 2015
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In 1967, shortly after the Six-Day War, Helen Mirren worked on a the HaOn kibbutz on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. She hitch-hiked throughout Israel, and slept…

Chair of EHRC admits "terrible muddle" over freedom of religion

October 24, 2015
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Theos is a Christian think tank that plays crucial role delving into the sometimes murky relationship between religion and society in this country. It also happens to be an…

The Queen hosts President Xi Jinping, and the Catholic Herald sneers at her hypocrisy

October 21, 2015
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"As the Catholic Herald has constantly stressed, China continues to persecute Christians, and there is evidence that this persecution is getting worse. How ironic, then, that the Supreme Governor…

China abolishes the cross of Christ

August 13, 2015
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China's stock-market has plunged: its GDP has crashed, the yuan has been devalued and economic confidence is in free fall. Another boom-and-bust bubble has burst: Mammon threatens another tidal…