British Isles
Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:52
Our beliefs risk being made ‘illegal’, says adoption agency
Scotland is ‘on the brink of declaring illegal the belief that every child where possible deserves a mother and father’, the chairman of a threatened Roman Catholic adoption agency has said. It follows the agency being…
Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:12
Trumpet call - Praying for our nations
Many are sensing the importance of the day of prayer and worship to be held in Birmingham on the 15th of this month. The British Isles are in increasing turmoil as we see and experience the…
Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:08
Freedom of religion
Over the past year we have been praying for Nadia Eweida, Shirley Chaplin, Lilian Ladele and Gary McFarlane as they took freedom of religion cases to the European Court of Human Rights. Last Tuesday three of…
Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:56
Leprosy Mission says levy on charities 'unfair'
The Leprosy Mission has hit out at suggestions that the Treasury might take a share of Gift Aid or impose a levy on charities. The call came from the Charity Commission, which has warned that it…
Monday, 03 June 2013 10:36
Legal aid cuts 'put a generation of children in danger'
A generation of children risks being traumatised by the Government's swingeing legal aid cuts, and youngsters caught in violent homes are already being placed in acute danger, family law experts have revealed. Two months after free…
Monday, 03 June 2013 10:32
Charities want parliamentary inquiry into UK food poverty
Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam have called for a parliamentary inquiry into the rise of food poverty in the UK. The two charities say that more than half a million people in the UK are…