British Isles
As One! - Scotland’s prayer shield
08 Apr 2016
A national prayer call, promoted by Pray for Scotland (PfS) and Parliamentary Prayer Scotland (PPS), started on 27 March and will finish on 5 May, with a focus on Scotland’s elections. They are encouraging the Church…
UK tolerating secret tax havens
08 Apr 2016
The ‘Panama Papers’, documents leaked to the investigative journalists, show that the British Virgin Islands is the most popular location for banks and law firms to facilitate corrupt and criminal business. The UK is second only…
A call for better-quality early learning
08 Apr 2016
Last October Channel 4 aired a documentary on ‘The Secret Life of Four Year Olds’; four is the age most crucial in a child’s development as they cross the threshold from family life into school. The…
A British father was banned from taking his son to church after the boy's Muslim mother won a court order at Derby Crown Court preventing the boy from attending. The father, a non-practising Muslim, has close…
Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) will monitor the case of a British father held in Ethiopia, among other cases, amid concerns that the government has lessened its commitment to ending human rights abuses abroad. The FAC…
Kingdom values
26 Mar 2016
In AD 849 King Alfred the Great wrote, ‘There is only one way to build my kingdom and that is on the sure and certain foundation of faith in Jesus Christ crucified.’ Although Alfred was never…