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Boris Johnson pledges to defend and help persecuted Christians

December 24, 2019
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The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged in his first Christmas greeting to defend and help persecuted Christians around the world: "Today of all days, I want us to remember those Christians around the world who are facing persecution," he…

Mounstephen calls for sanctions on countries which persecute Christians

July 8, 2019
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The Bishop of Truro Philip Mounstephen has finally published his independent report on persecuted Christians across the world, and it doesn't disappoint. The review was commissioned by Foreign Secretary Jeremy…

‘If the Cross of Christ is anything to the mind, it is surely everything’

April 19, 2019
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"If the Cross of Christ is anything to the mind, it is surely everything – the most profound reality and the sublimest mystery", wrote John Stott in his book The…

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The Holocaust should not be syncretised: it was a unique glimpse of hell

January 27, 2019
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"I am sure that Members across the House will wish to join me in marking Holocaust Memorial Day this Sunday," proclaimed the Prime Minister in PMQs on Wednesday. "It is…

Charles, Defender of the Faithful persecuted for Jesus’ sake

December 5, 2018
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Yesterday, from the pulpit of Westminster Abbey, the Prince of Wales made a plea for peace; and not only peace, but for reconciliation. And not only did he make a…

Asia Bibi is free! Now she must be granted safe passage and asylum

October 31, 2018
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There are few mornings when one wakes up to such glorious news. Asia Bibi, the young Christian woman who was imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged in Pakistan eight years…

What kind of person sets a dog on fire?

September 3, 2018
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Bruce is a dog; a bull-lurcher from Little Orton near Carlisle. He has been badly beaten with a stick with nails sticking out of it, his skull fractured, his jaw…

Men rip off Muslim girl’s hijab and cut cross into her skin

July 8, 2018
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This is just what Jesus would do, isn't it? "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword so…

What if Alfie Evans had been named Ahmed Edris, and the flight were to Mecca, not Rome?

April 26, 2018
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An awful lot has been written about the tragic case of Alfie Evans; so much, in fact, that there is absolutely no desire at all to add to the mountain…

Does ‘Dignity in Dying’ really give people a dignified death?

February 21, 2018
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Theos have produced a new report: Dignity at the End of Life: What’s Beneath the Assisted Dying debate? This is a guest post by its author, Andrew Grey. _______ Assisted…

Pope Francis wants to change the Lord’s Prayer (but doesn’t apparently understand it)

December 8, 2017
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It is reported (all over the place) that Pope Francis wants to change the wording of a line in the Lord's Prayer because it is potentially misleading. The troublesome phrase…

Murderous Mugabe has fallen – now prosecute him for crimes against humanity

November 22, 2017
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WARNING: DO NOT SCROLL DOWN IF YOU MAY BE OFFENDED BY OR ARE SENSITIVE TO PICTURES OF EXTREME HUMAN SUFFERING Robert Mugabe has finally gone. A tyrannical rule of 37…

The Apocalypse of Donald: “Fire and fury like the world has never seen”

August 9, 2017
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"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," warned President Trump. "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen," he…

Grenfell Tower tragedy becomes an anti-Tory hate-fest

June 16, 2017
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Perhaps only those who have lost everything can even begin to understand the trauma of the Grenfell Tower inferno. And even then, the loss that comes with abandonment or flood…

‘Dear Patrick…’ Words of comfort for clergy who feel forsaken by mutual flourishing

May 5, 2017
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Returning to the Church of England's gender wars and sexuality skirmishes (which never really went away), the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, who advocates righteous discrimination against traditionalists who discriminate…

Despair at the Church of England’s General Election prayer

April 20, 2017
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Who writes these things? Honestly, since when was it a sin to despair? Don't the brokenhearted, poor and homeless despair? What about the starving and dying? Or the persecuted or…

Good Friday: the death of the Messiah

April 14, 2017
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'Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ' (Acts 2:36). 'Jesus died the death…

You will hear of wars, assassinations and terrorist atrocities… Joy to the world

December 20, 2016
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Christmas carnage in Berlin as Islamic State manage to get someone to plough a 27-ton HGV into a market, killing 12 and injuring 50. Weeping and wailing; mulled wine all…

The liberation of Aleppo? Pouring a sea of grey into buckets of black and white

December 13, 2016
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Parliament debates the liberation of Aleppo today. Marvellous. That'll sort it all out. Or perhaps MPs won't quite debate the liberation of Aleppo, for Aleppo hasn't actually been liberated from…

Persecuted Middle East bishops banned from visiting UK

December 4, 2016
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Why are suffering Syrian and Iraqi bishops banned from visiting the UK? They only wanted to attend the consecration of the country's first Syriac Orthodox cathedral, dedicated to St Thomas.…