German family takes home-schooling battle to top European court

The four Wunderlich children today, after being reunited with their parents

A German Christian couple whose children were taken away by the state is taking the fight for home schooling to the top human rights court of Europe.

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Time to go back to the Bible

After we featured the story of a man whose mother groomed him from childhood as a medium (click here), he was flooded with emails. Now a pastor, Greg Hibbins didn’t mind taking up to two hours a day to help readers, but alarm bells rang about the lack of in-depth Bible teaching available to them. What follows is by Greg Hibbins. Read More

Powerful prayer on the day Britain should have left the EU

National day of prayer, hosted by Issachar Ministries, Emmanuel Centre, 29 March

“There’s more prayer going on in this nation than at any time I can remember in 85 years,” David Hathaway told a crowd of around 700 who had gathered expectantly, undeterred by the Brexit delay, for another national day of prayer, hosted this time by Clifford and Monica Hill of Issachar Ministries. Read More

Marriage supporters celebrate teachers’ guidance U-turn

Last year the government sought to amend its guidance to prevent teachers in independent schools, including Christian faith schools, from defending traditional marriage. That guidance has now been changed, due largely to pressure from true marriage supporters.

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New Baptist Union President appointed

The Rev Yinka Oyekan has been elected President of the Baptist Union for 2020-21.  He is the senior pastor of The Gate, a Baptist church in Reading, and has spearheaded the evangelistic street mission The Turning, which introduces passers-by to … Read More

Churchgoers are getting off the pews and onto the streets

Chaplains bring light to the high street
The cheery faces of Littlehampton’s town chaplains have recently become a familiar sight on Littlehampton’s high street. Read More

Imran Khan’t believe Jesus existed

Extremists are increasingly putting pressure on Pakistan’s political parties, leading to an ‘open season’ on Christians, according to campaigner Wilson Chowdhry of the BPCA.

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Dahl or no Dahl

The Royal Mint have confirmed that they rejected plans to produce a commemorative coin for Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday celebrations because of Dahl’s anti-Semitic views.

The decision to reject the coin was made in 2014 and were in preparation for … Read More

PA textbook incitement

A European Parliament committee has voted to freeze over 15 million euros earmarked for the Palestinian Authority if they do not remove incitement from their textbooks, which contain numerous examples of hate speech and glorification of jihad (holy war) and … Read More

Short overview of Asia Bibi ‘blasphemy’ case

Roman Catholic Asia Bibi, a farm labourer from Punjab, was harvesting berries with other women in June 2009 when she picked up a cup to drink some water.

Some of her Muslim co-workers accused her of polluting the cup, simply … Read More