French finance minister Emmanuel Macron has said that France could end UK border controls in Calais and allow migrants to cross the Channel if the UK leaves the EU. Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin said that propaganda was being produced by other European governments at the request of our Prime Minister ‘to try to scare people away from voting to leave’. He told BBC Radio 4 that the French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve had previously rejected claims by Mr Cameron that the border agreement with France would end if Britain voted to quit the EU. Mr Jenkin added, ‘We pay a great deal of money into the EU and it subsidises a great deal of French farming. They don't want us to leave the EU. But this is a choice for the British people not for the French government, and we're being asked to believe all sorts of ludicrous things.’

Like Street Pastors, the Schools Pastors initiative helps Christians to be relevant to and engaged with their communities. Teams are now operating in sixteen areas across the country, in secondary schools and in the post-16 sector, with more teams in the pipeline. Schools Pastors go on patrol at times and locations agreed with the school: listening, observing and looking out for young people that are vulnerable. They build links with students, parents, school-crossing patrols and other professionals. Most of all they aim to be prayerfully aware of God's direction in all that they do as they work with pupils experiencing difficulties in some area of their school life. They will build relationships with pupils who are disruptive in class, finding it difficult to participate/engage in classroom learning, regularly being excluded from class, or on final warnings for exclusion from school.

On Monday Baroness Cox asked the Government what assessment they had made of the continuing offensives by the government of Sudan against civilians in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. The Bishop of Leeds and the Bishop of Salisbury have particular links with Sudan and play a key role with its Anglican Episcopal Church as peacemakers, maintaining ministry and pastoral support on the ground in these areas. She asked the Government to put pressure on the Sudanese government regarding the illegal confiscation of church properties and oppression of Christians, especially in those two states. Pray for the important role that our faith communities play in other countries experiencing war. Pray for our Government to speak more boldly, alongside faith communities, in conversations with the Sudanese government. Pray that these conversations will succeed in enabling people to live freely and practise their faith freely.

An employment appeal tribunal has heard the case of Victoria Wasteney, a senior occupational therapist, disciplined for befriending a Muslim colleague. Judgment has been reserved for a later date. Victoria is supported by the Christian Legal Centre and won permission to appeal the ruling against her last October. Last April an employment tribunal ruled that East London NHS Foundation Trust acted reasonably in disciplining Miss Wasteney for praying with a colleague, handing her a Christian book and inviting her to church events. The NHS disciplined her for harassment. In October a judge advised an employment appeal tribunal to consider whether the original ruling had properly applied the European Convention on Human Rights' protection of freedom of religion and expression. Miss Wasteney’s treatment has raised serious concerns that NHS equality policies are stifling ordinary conversations about faith and damaging healthy working relationships.