British Isles
Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:21
North Korea and human rights
300 human rights organisations, including several Christian charities, sent a joint letter to North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un, urging him to make lasting improvements to his country’s dire human rights situation. The charities welcome increased dialogue with…
Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:20
Brexit: Government challenges
Over a two-day debate MPs reversed or partially reversed 14 defeats on the EU withdrawal bill in the House of Lords. However, Teresa May only averted defeat on an amendment to give the Commons a ‘meaningful…
Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:16
Free speech or hate speech
(From a Prophecy Today blog) Today, if speech does not conform to secular social mores of ‘tolerance’, ‘diversity’ and ‘equality’, then it becomes ‘hate speech’. In today’s politically correct environment, what we can and can’t say…
Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:14
A UK Barnabas Church?
The executive leader of the Church Mission Society, Canon Philip Mounstephen, after a recent visit to in Nepal, ponders what difference it would make to the Church in the West if it was as filled with…
Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:12
Church leaders endorse Season of Creation
Every year, from 1 September to 4 October, members of the Christian family set aside time to deepen their relationship with the Creator, each other, and all of creation. This is the Season of Creation, which…
Thursday, 07 June 2018 23:37
Moving youth away from anti-social behaviour
As knife crime rises, the many youth workers and organisations working with young people need our support and prayers. One of these is Ignite, a local grassroots charity working with 13- to 25-year-olds in Harrow to…