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  • 1 Dec 2010
    Claims about UK 'Christian persecution'
  • 1 Dec 2010
    Humanists and Christians criticise ‘Not Ashamed’ campaign

    A campaign launching today which says Christians have been marginalised in public life and are discriminated against has been criticised by humanists and Christians.

  • 1 Dec 2010
    Shameful claims and alternative Christian living

    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.

  • 2 Nov 2010
    Kirk calls for solidarity with Iraqi and other persecuted Christians

    The Moderator of the Church of Scotland has lamented the "incomprehensible" persecution of Christians in Iraq, and called for increased solidarity.

  • 21 Oct 2010
    Christians and ‘aggressive secularism’

    The problem for Christians today is not primarily 'aggressive secularism', but the confusion of Christianity with power, says Simon Barrow. That and the the distortion of public debate about religiosity and secularity into a false dichotomy between dominating belief or privatised belief. A better way is needed - based on living by example, not the lust for control.

  • 29 Aug 2010
    Indian state agencies accused of colluding in anti-Christian violence

    A 'people's tribunal' hearing testimonies from victims of anti-Christian violence in India's eastern Orissa state in 2008 has criticised state agencies.

  • 23 Jul 2010
    Pakistani Christians shocked at callous court murders

    Christians in Pakistan have been stunned by the killing of two young men, who were shot dead on court premises earlier this week.

  • 11 Jan 2010
    American Christians crying 'persecution'

    Some American Christians are claiming that they are persecuted by 'the secular left' and other 'self-described' Christians, writes Martin Marty. There are real issues about how particular faiths should relate in a crowded and tense world; but they will not be resolved by over-heated rhetoric, or by confusing disagreements in plural societies with the suffering and even death faced by minorities in other parts of the world.

  • 21 Aug 2009
    Anti-Christian violence poses problems for India's secular claims

    Attacks on the Christian minority in the remote Kandhamal area of India's Orissa state raises questions about the country's claim to be a secular state, says a new book.

  • 2 Mar 2009
    We need mediators not agitators

    Some Christians are crying 'persecution' when conflicts over belief arise in public life, says Jonathan Bartley. The way to halt this juggernaut of paranoia is to bring a lot more mediatory light, and far less antagonistic heat to the situations involved.