Category: Persecution

I felt I was being picked on and bullied on a daily basis and that there was no respect whatsoever for my religious beliefs.

May 20, 2008

With all the column inches and TV coverage given to the abortion debate in the Commons this week, this nearly slipped me by. Lillian Ladele, 47, a marriage registrar for Islington Council, was threatened with the sack after refusing to preside over gay marriages on the grounds of her Christian faith. “I am a Christian … More I felt I was being picked on and bullied on a daily basis and that there was no respect whatsoever for my religious beliefs.

‘They become identified with that instrument of shame and death which they have found to be life-giving…’

May 9, 2006

I’ve just been reading through an edition of ‘barnabas aid’, the magazine of barnabas fund, an organization focused on ‘hope and aid for the persecuted Church’. A friend was handing out backdated editions that had been gathering dust on his bookshelf in the hope of raising awareness as to what some of our brothers and … More ‘They become identified with that instrument of shame and death which they have found to be life-giving…’