Christian persecution

Cameron's desire to bomb ISIS in Syria is moral, but not the solution

November 18, 2015
Gillan Scott
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‘Cameron ready to bomb Syria’ announces the Telegraph on its front page today. As headlines go it’s not exactly a major revelation. The PM has been keen to intervene in Syria for over two years now and made it…

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…

Bradford ex-Muslim Christian converts "have given up on the Church of England"

October 3, 2015
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"Muslim family are driven from their home... after they converted to Christianity." "Neighbours vandalise car and call them 'blasphemers'"; "windows are constantly smashed"; "family attacked in the street"; "Bradford…

As 40% of adults think Jesus is a myth, has Religious Education failed?

September 25, 2015
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Richard Dawkins and the other prophets of atheism love to tell us that in the fabricated battle between religious belief and rationalism, there can be only one winner, and…

Ukip MEP bashes Archbishop for offering sanctuary to refugees

September 22, 2015
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What do you think? There was an archbishop who loved to read The Guardian and watch the BBC. He saw that thousands upon thousands of Christians were suffering throughout…

Welby breathes new life into the crumbling Anglican Communion

September 16, 2015
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Anglicanism: the final frontier. These are the prophetic voyages of Justin Welby. His continuing mission: to explore strange new reconciliations; to seek out new wine and new creations; to…

Migrants, refugees, dead babies and 'virtue signalling': WWJD?

September 7, 2015
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This is a guest post by the Rev’d Stephen Heard – Assistant Priest at St Mark’s Church, Enfield. He is a former civil servant with a background in political and…

Archbishops clash over crushing ISIS and right-to-die compassion

September 6, 2015
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The Church of England is all over the place today. Indeed, one headline seems almost purposely designed to degrade the other. In the red corner we have Archbishop Justin…

ISIS destroys the the ancient Monastery of Mar Elian

August 22, 2015
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"The Monastery of St. Elian was a Christian monastery near the town of Al-Qaryatayn in the Homs Governorate," says Wikipedia. "Was"? Yes, the tense is accurate. It had stood…

Was Jesus wrong about the timing of his Second Coming?

August 19, 2015
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The imminence of the long-prophesied kingdom of God and the end of time has occupied Christians and Jews more than any other subject of theological conjecture. Certainly, at the…

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…

It is time to arm Iraq's anti-ISIS Christian militia

July 26, 2015
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While HM Government faffs around arguing over whether we should be calling the Islamic State 'ISIS', 'ISIL' or 'Daesh' because, according to David Cameron, the Islamic State is neither…

Daily Mail terror porn – your daily dose of Islamic State propaganda

June 26, 2015
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"WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT", screeches the Daily Mail – virtually every day – as it displays the heinous horrors being visited upon Christians, Yazidis and apostate Muslims by ISIS /…

Queen's Birthday Honours: Bishop Anba Angaelos honoured for services to religious freedom

June 13, 2015
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Congratulations to His Grace Bishop Anba Angaelos on being appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015. As General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, he…

If Labour wins, Islamophobia will become a crime and truth stifled

May 6, 2015
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This is a guest post by the Rev'd Canon Dr Gavin Ashenden – author, theologian and Chaplain to the Queen (one of c35) ___________________ I had never heard of the…

Cameron: "As God's children, we are all one big family"

April 19, 2015
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David Cameron did a lot of God yesterday. If you judge by the Daily Mail photo splash, it was mainly about Sikhs, gurdwaras and Vaisakhi. But he also addressed…

BBC 'Kill the Christians' – at last, thank God, but please don't leave it there

April 18, 2015
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As regular readers of His Grace’s blog will be fully aware, the plight of Christians around the world is a subject that is discussed frequently on these pages. I…

Without Douglas Alexander, who in Labour will stand up for the persecuted church?

April 14, 2015
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With yesterday's release of the Labour Party's Manifesto, the run-up to the General Election is truly underway. Finally the parties are laying out their stalls in the light of…

Nigeria unites in the war against Boko Haram

April 8, 2015
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This is a guest post by Katie Harrison – Tearfund‘s Head of Communications. Katie tweets at @KatieHarrisonTF _______________________ Last year, I was working in Zambia, on a trip which involved long road…

No Easter greeting to Christians on No10 website

April 6, 2015
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There was an official Easter message from the Office of the Prime Minister in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, and they were published for the whole world to see…