A new report highlights the sometimes extreme limitations on freedom of thought for the non-religious in over 60 countries across the world.

Church leaders and spokespeople have condemned the killing of Pakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti

Across the world today, countless millions of people are persecuted. But churchgoers in Britain are not among them, says Simon Barrow. Instead of developing a misplaced 'persecution complex', which dishonours those who truly suffer, Christians in the UK have the opportunity to develop an alternative vocation of multiplying hope, rather than spreading fear.