Calls for a national conversation about anti-Christian prejudice and bullying

Posted on July 16, 2016 
Filed under Culture wars, Global

United Kingdom“This week saw one of the two candidates to become simultaneously leader of the UK’s Conservative Party and Prime Minister drop out, leaving her rival to claim the crown without any further voting.

The reason Andrea Leadsom withdrew was a sustained media campaign against her that by Friday last week was being described by seasoned political commentators as “feral” and based on prejudice towards her Christian faith. It was being claimed that her support for traditional marriage and family values, rather than wholeheartedly endorsing every aspect of the gay rights agenda, was morally wrong and that being a Christian in politics somehow made her suspect. …

… Barnabas Fund is calling for a national conversation in the UK and other western countries about the importance of freedom of religion as one of our most important historic national values and how we maintain it.

We are free to speak up for the persecuted church elsewhere because we have freedom of religion here. It is vital that we protect it.”

– from Barnabas Fund in the UK.

Related:

Freedom for Faith Conference at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney on Friday 12th August 2016.