British Isles
Thursday, 18 June 2015 01:00
Reports-of-child-abuse-rise-sharply
The number of recorded sexual offences against children in England and Wales has risen by a third, according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). There were 31,000 offences recorded in…
Thursday, 18 June 2015 01:00
Christians’ big worry is climate change
A new ComRes poll commissioned by Tearfund asked practising Christians in the UK to identify the main social and political issues they believe the world will have to face over the next ten years. They said…
Thursday, 11 June 2015 01:00
Trumpet Call on 4 July
Numbers 10:9 says, ‘When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy that is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the Lord your God and…
Thursday, 11 June 2015 01:00
David Cameron 'wrong' on Mediterranean migrants, says Amnesty
Amnesty International has said the Prime Minister David Cameron was ‘completely wrong' to say at Prime Minister’s Questions that ‘the vast majority of Mediterranean migrants are not asylum-seekers’, in answer to a question about the UK’s…
Thursday, 11 June 2015 01:00
The rise of the awkward half-grace - and why it needs to stop
There was a time when Christians felt self-confident enough to thank God in a public restaurant for the food, for the people who prepared it and for the establishment in which they were consuming it. We…
Thursday, 11 June 2015 01:00
Police crime figures 'dead in the water', says City of London police chief
Crime figures compiled by police are ‘dead in the water’, said the Commissioner of City of London police Adrian Leppard. ‘Police figures provided only a small prism of the harm to communities’. Victim-based surveys offer more…