According to a new survey, 78% of parents in Ireland support the Church having a role in Catholic school ethos. The survey, entitled Articulating A New Positioning For Catholic Education In Ireland, included 500 parents. It was comissioned by the Catholic Primary School Management Association (CPSMA), the Catholic Education Partnership (CEP) and the Association of […]
A distinguished MP is accused of lèse-majesté against the LGBTQI+ lobby
NHS Trust “Hostile and intimidating”
Leave Christmas alone
Includes 5 children
Mother said pregnancy unwanted
“Many more people are being persecuted in the world today because of their religion than are being so persecuted because of their sexual orientation,” he said.
A Christan preacher says that she is “vindicated” after a hate-speech charge was thrown out – and is now set to sue the Metropolitan Police in London for dragging her through the courts in an 18-month legal battle. Hazel Lewis, who has been described as a street preacher, was falsely accused of threatening to stab […]
In his newest book, Charles Camosy, the award-winning author of Resisting Throwaway Culture, provides a timely and thoughtful release on the urgent need to defend human dignity. There is perhaps no more important value than fundamental human equality. And yet, despite large percentages of people affirming the value, the resources available to explain and defend the basis […]
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has upheld eight complaints against RTÉ over a sketch which portrayed God as a rapist during its New Year’s Eve countdown programme. Complainants said that the public broadcaster would not mock the Muslim or Jewish faiths in the way it did the Catholic faith. The sketch, described previously as being “deeply […]
Recently, I spent some time on the phone with Niall Ferguson, the Scottish historian and Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, for a review I was writing of his latest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In the first chapter, Ferguson refers several times to religion as “magical thinking,” and I asked him if he […]
District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has excellent facilities and trained staff. Its modern appearance made it all the more surprising that two Christian nurses have been […]