Articles
Do kids know the true meaning of Christmas?
28 Dec 2014
Roger Bolton writing in the Radio Times asks the question: ‘Do British schoolchildren know what Christmas is?’ In some schools in this country, little is taught about the true meaning of Christmas, possibly because secular staff…
As annual school nativity play season gets under way, survey shows baby Jesus being edged out to make room for Elvis, spacemen, footballers and Lord Sugar. Christianity is being banished from school nativity plays as the…
Intelligence experts and organised crime specialists will join forces to tackle child abuse images on the ‘dark net’, David Cameron has said. The prime minister said a joint GCHQ and National Crime Agency unit would hunt…
Pakistan: Peshawar school massacre
28 Dec 2014
145 families have lost precious members after six gunmen walked from classroom to classroom in a school killing-spree. It’s Pakistani Taliban’s deadliest attack to date. They shot at random until army commandos arrived at the scene.…
Ghana: Economic woes and Christianity
28 Dec 2014
Twenty-five years ago the Christian message in Ghana was, ‘Repent and accept Jesus and you will be saved.’ Today, in many places, salvation is presented as an experience with Jesus Christ that will give Ghanaians the…
Lebanon: No more Syrian refugees
28 Dec 2014
Lebanon has announced it will not accept any more Syrian refugees. Lebanon has over a million officially-registered Syrian refugees (25% of the population) with an untold number of unregistered refugees living under overpasses, renting tent space…