Uniting Church rejects Daily Telegraph criticism

Posted on December 2, 2016 
Filed under Other denominations

jesus-wiped“Today’s Daily Telegraph has run a series of inaccurate and vexatious news items about the Uniting Church and our Uniting community services agency in NSW and the ACT. The accusation on the front page of the newspaper that the Church is removing Christ and religious symbols is totally incorrect. …”

– Statement from Stuart McMillan President of the Uniting Church in Australia.

Related: Why parts of the Uniting Church are abandoning its logo. – news.com.au

“According to the Daily Telegraph, the church’s services and advocacy arm, Uniting, had decided to do away with “overt” faith-based language and images of the cross in its logo.…”