Articles
The personal cost of Christian freedoms
09 Oct 2015
The Christian Concern organisation have a number of important legal cases to be heard in the courts over the next few months. These cases include a personal cost for those involved. It’s a spiritual battle and…
Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference David Cameron announced plans to force all religious schools to register and be inspected. ‘If an institution is teaching children intensively then, whatever its religion, we will, like any other…
Watchman Intercessors – a word in season
09 Oct 2015
Steve Botham, Director at the World Prayer Centre writes, ‘This is a time of many warnings - of danger from terrorists, of severe economic collapse, of God’s judgement on nations and situations. We can become very…
Migrant crisis will reveal Europe’s true colours
09 Oct 2015
As hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war, repression and poverty cross Europe’s borders, the continent is struggling to cope. There is growing consensus that the EU’s legal framework and individual member states are poorly equipped…
Thursday’s meeting to strengthen diplomatic progress between Angela Merkel and Benjamin Netanyahu has been postponed due to a surge in Palestinian terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank. (see this week’s Prayer-Alert world article) Prayer…
Witness of Christian workers in Syria
09 Oct 2015
The sorrow of the ministry team leader who lost 11 workers and one of their children last month has been deep, but he takes heart that their faithfulness could help change the hearts of persecutors. ‘They…