Month: October 2018

We would like to express our delight that the Pakistan Supreme Court has quashed the conviction for blasphemy of Christian woman Aasia Bibi, who has been on death row for eight years. Speaking in Islamabad on Wednesday, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said, “This appeal is allowed. The judgements of the High Court as well as

We would like to extend our condolences and our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the 11 people who were killed in Saturday morning’s gun attack on three Jewish congregations meeting in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and to the Jewish community there. Saturday’s deadly gun attack on the synagogue was

In a guest post, evangelical Christian and author Chris Flux offers his view on the unhappy alliance between Christianity and nationalism, and why this alliance should be of grave concern to Christians. Recently I went to see BlacKkKlansman at the cinema and despite it not being a Christian film, it prompted me to think about

The BBC recently reported that five members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses had been detained in Russia on “extremism” charges. The religious sect was effectively banned from Russia last year by its Supreme Court. Although the Jehovah’s Witnesses are not an orthodox Christian group (they do not believe in the full divinity of Christ), Russia’s moves

A week after the UK Supreme Court delivered its verdict in favour of Ashers bakery in the so-called ‘gay cake’ case, we consider the media responses to this verdict. The Supreme Court decision, delivered on 10 October, overturned earlier verdicts which ruled against Ashers bakery, by the court in Belfast and then in the court

The Barnabas Fund, a Christian aid charity which supports freedom of religion around the world, has called for the Scottish police to withdraw “hate crime” posters by One Scotland which appear to incite prejudice against Christians, Jews and Muslims. https://barnabasfund.org/en/news/barnabas-calls-for-withdrawal-of-scotlands-hate-crime-posters-that-promote-anti-christian The Barnabas Fund calls these posters “state-sponsored prejudice.” Although One Scotland isn’t the Scottish government

Grace Dalton offers some thoughts on Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s recent speech to TUC, and how it was received in the media. It’s not often that the Archbishop of Canterbury garners attention across the news media. But he made headlines recently for speaking at the TUC (Trades Union Congress). What can we learn from

We would like to express our delight that the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege, campaigners against rape in warfare, as well as the media profile that this award has received. Dr. Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist who, along with his colleagues, has treated tens of thousands of

If you’ve read certain bestselling conspiracy novels, you may be forgiven for thinking that the earliest centuries of Christianity are shrouded in mystery, rather like the Dark Ages, and we really can’t know what the earliest Christians believed. “History is always written by the winners,” as the character Sir Leigh Teabing scurrilously claims in one