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| An open letter signed by senior Church of England bishops including former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, warning that gay rights laws put homosexual rights over those of others. Their warning came ahead of a High Court hearing of a case by a Christian couple who were barred from being foster parents of their views on homosexuality. At the High Court Eunice and Owen Johns argued that their rights are being trumped by those of homosexuals under equality legislation. The Bishops, including the Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt and Michael Nazir-Ali, backed their claims that Labour’s equality laws marginalized Christianity. | |
| Religious Persecution | Church of England November 5, 2010 |
| A CMS (Church Mission Society) school in Indian-occupied Kashmir was burnt to the ground during anti-US protests on Monday. The protests began after an Iranian TV broadcast reported that a copy of the Qur’an has been set alight in the USA. The school had warned the authorities about the threat before but no support was given. By early Monday morning a mob had built up around the school chanting anti-US and pro-Islam slogans, according to reports. At 8am, the protestors forced their way into the school and by 10.30am it was on fire. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| An 800-member strong Catholic community in an Indian village is facing a social boycott for refusing to follow traditions aimed at appeasing Hindu gods. “We are Christians and we are not bound to follow Hindu religious practices,” said Fr Philip Rock, parish priest at St Sebastian Parish in the village of Mangalawada. The refusal of the Catholic families to follow the directives has angered the village’s Hindu majority, whose leaders called a meeting and declared a “social boycott” against the Christians in late August. Fr Rock said Hindus were told to have nothing to do with the Christians and that they would be fined if caught doing so. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Universe, Sunday September 12, 2010 |
| Ten members of a Christian medical charity working in Afghanistan have been murdered by the Taliban. On Aug 6, the bodies of 10 members of the International Assistance Mission (IAM) were found in Badakhshan north of Kabul. The 10: six Americans, two Afghans, one German, and a Briton, Dr Karen Woo, a general surgeon from London, were murdered as they were returning from a medical mission to Nuristan in the Hindu Kush. One member of their team, an Afghan driver, survived after convincing the killers he was a Muslim. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killings, saying the 10 were spies and Christian missionaries, seeking to proselytize Afghans. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church Of England Newspaper - August 13th 2010 |
| In the first week of July, a Christian foster carer, who was struck off because she allowed a Muslim girl to convert to Christianity, won her legal action. The lady, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been banned from fostering by Gateshead council in November 2008 for failing to prevent the teenager from getting baptised. The council admitted that it had acted unlawfully. | |
| Religious Persecution | ‘Evangelicals Now’ (The Christian Institute) – August, 2010 |
| The Lord Mayor of Leicester in June banned Christian prayers before council meetings, and branded the process ‘outdated, unnecessary and intrusive’. Colin Hall also refused to take part in a service held at Leicester Cathedral on June 20 to welcome him to the role of Lord Mayor. | |
| Religious Persecution | ‘Evangelicals Now’ (The Christian Institute) – August, 2010 |
| It is not just Vuvuzela horns that FIFA could ban, now expressions of faith in God are under threat. FIFA, under its director Sepp Blatter, is alleged to have said that celebrations – either a goal or a win- should remain ‘human’ rather than divine. Several World Cup players regularly display their faith on the pitch, most famously the Brazilian player Kaka who often wears an undershirt exclaiming “I belong to Jesus”. He credits his goal scoring success to his evangelical faith in God and believes God saved him from permanent injury after a swimming accident when he was 18. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church Of England Newspaper – June 25th 2010 |
| Two councils in separate parts of England are under fire for holding prayers as part of their meetings. Both the town of Bideford in North Devon and Wellington in Shropshire have been criticised for conducting prayers. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| A runaway teenage girl who converted from Islam to Christianity has reached a court settlement that allows her to live away from her Muslim parents. Rifqa Bary, 17, will stay in a foster home under state custody in Columbus, America, until she turns 18 in August. Bary ran away in July, saying she feared her father Mohamed would harm or kill her for leaving Islam. She fled to the Florida home of married pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz, whom she had contacted on Facebook. After staying with them for two weeks, she was eventually moved into foster care. | |
| Religious Persecution | Precious Seed International, May 2010 |
| Christian B&B owners Mike and Suzanne Wilkinson, who wouldn’t give a double bed to a homosexual couple in March, have been deluged with hate mail, including a threat to burn down their home. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now, May 2010 |
| Writing in the Daily Mail after nurse Shirley Chapman was banned from wearing her crucifix at work, Dr Taj Hargey, Imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation, argued: ‘I am Muslim. But even as a non-Christian, I can see all too clearly the shameful way in which Britain’s national faith is being eroded … With a typically bureaucratic mix of arrogance and authoritarianism, the Devon and Exeter Trust has claimed that the ban is not an attack on Christianity because wearing a crucifix is not an essential requirement of the faith. But who appointed these quangocrats to pronounce on matters of religious doctrine?’ | |
| Religious Persecution | The War Cry, 17 April 2010 |
| A Christian nurse who was moved to a desk job after refusing to remove her crucifix has lost a claim for discrimination. Shirley Chaplin, aged 54, took the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust Hospital to an employment tribunal, claiming that taking off a necklace bearing a crucifix would “violate her faith”. The trust said the rule was designed to prevent patients grabbing necklaces. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Sentinel, Wednesday April 7, 2010 |
| A Christian nurse who was moved to a desk job after refusing to remove her crucifix has lost a claim for discrimination. Shirley Chaplin, aged 54, took the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust Hospital to an employment tribunal, claiming that taking off a necklace bearing a crucifix would “violate her faith”. The trust said the rule was designed to prevent patients grabbing necklaces. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Sentinel – April 7th 2010 |
| A Christian Union in a London-based university had its mission week cancelled this month by the Student’s Union. Royal Holloway’s Student’s Union (SU) received a complaint that a visiting speaker to the Christian Union (CU) said that the recent disaster in Haiti was because of its own sin, prompting the dramatic action. After several attempts by the CU to contact the SU a meeting was finally arranged. Here it was clarified that the speaker had been misquoted. The SU then admitted that it had acted ‘hastily’ and should have contacted the CU about the allegations. The CU was informed it could hold such meetings in the future. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church Of England Newspaper - March 12th 2010 |
| An amendment to the Civil Partnerships Act may have left churches open to being sued if they refuse to marry gay couples. Previously, civil partnerships could only take place in register offices and secular venues such as hotels and stately homes. An amendment made to the Act by the Lords in March lifted the ban on partnerships taking place in religious premises. | |
| Religious Persecution | Christianity, April 2010 |
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