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Friendship
We were created to connect, crafted for community, designed with unity in mind. With God and with others. It is central to our understanding of the gospel, to the way we follow Jesus and has profound implications for our physical, emotional and spiritual health. And yet, we don’t seem to talk about…
NOW CLOSED: Respond to a consultation on defining extremism
This consultation closed on Thursday, 31 January 2019. We’re here to help you to have your say on these vital issues. Last year, the Government established a Commission for Countering Extremism which was tasked with defining ‘extremism’ and proposing responses to it. Now the Commission wants to…
Asia Bibi: free, free indeed
The court has today rebuffed a challenge to the ruling it made in October last year to lift the death sentence handed down to the Christian farm worker on the back of alleged claims she spoke against the founder of Islam, Muhammad. Bibi, who has been held at a secret location since her sentence was…
Naomi Osinnowo
Open Doors UK: World Watch List 2019
The World Watch List is created through year round research and on the ground intelligence in over 150 countries. As such it provides in depth insights into the scale and dynamics of the persecution of Christians around the world like no other resource.
Government’s anti-persecution inquiry launched
At yesterday’s launch event at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hunt said: “We wanted to do this not just because freedom of worship is a fundamental human right, but also because freedom of worship is the invisible line between open societies and closed societies. “Where freedom of worship is…
Danny Webster
Call to back the persecuted church in China this Chinese New Year
Last year, 20 million Christians in China experienced persecution. Open Doors estimates it is now 50 million – that’s half of all Christians in China. In fact, China has jumped dramatically on the Open Doors World Watch List – the ranking of the top 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a…
Erin James
Protest to be held in support of stalwart Nigerian Christian girl
Teenager Leah Sharibu was abducted along with 109 other female classmates by fighters from the Islamic State West African Province (also known as the al-Barnawi faction of Boko Haram) in February last year. While the Nigerian government managed to successfully negotiate the release of the then 14…
Naomi Osinnowo
Running with the ultimate pace-setter: Jesus
With the London Marathon taking place in April, this time of year is when many people are embarking on marathon training; two members of my family got a place in the ballot and started their training at the start of January. This means embracing early morning runs in the dark (a good head torch is…
Richard Powney
Bigots no more
Understandably, this left many of our members worried that they, as people of faith, were being accused of being hateful, rather than being protected from hate crime. We had a number of members approach us concerned that, as evangelical Christians, we are not welcome in Scotland. This was…
Deep Impact 2019 – the highlights
Amid the dreich, mid-January slush, 350 youth and children’s workers made their way to Aviemore for a weekend of encouragement, teaching, and worship at the annual Deep Impact gathering on from 18 to 20 January. Organised by a coalition of youth agencies and the Evangelical Alliance, Deep Impact is…
Ekklesia 2019: church leaders' conference
As the body of Christ in a country that is presently trying to break through a whole host of challenges, including those around uncertainty and division, Evangelical Alliance member Share Jesus International (SJI) has sensed that it’s the right time to hold the Ekklesia conference. It is SJI’s…
Naomi Osinnowo
Prayer amid political disagreement
Some would say that the road to unity is apathy; if our political, or indeed theological, differences are trivial, then working together is easy. But this is an unreal response to the real world: cheap unity like cheap grace. Significant political decisions have a real impact, particularly on the…
John Coleby
The Biebers, Valentines and returning to our first love
In a cover-shoot and interview for Vogue, which was released last week, the couple shared views that seem a world away from the values in Hollywood. Bieber, for example, said that his and Baldwin’s faith is at the heart of their commitment to each other, in what was a whirlwind romance and…
SENT: How one group got on with SENT
We started each evening with a meal, which made an excellent icebreaker for the group. We were made up of a wide range of ages, from some in their late twenties to others in their early seventies, and covering a variety of abilities and skills. We thought the material was very well produced. Each…
