This is a strange time and a strange situation. The sentiment is indisputably true, but only in some respects. In fact, in the most important respect it is false. Rather than living in an abnormal time we are living in a time where normality has been amplified to the point whereby we cannot easily escape […]
Last year Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman accused of blasphemy against Islam, arrived to make a new life in Canada with her family. After being convicted and sentenced to death, she had languished in jail for ten years. Her lawyers received death threats. But Asia Bibi is far from being the only Pakistani Christian […]
This Easter may have been a particularly strange and muted one for Christians, with church doors closed and digital media providing a poor substitute in its place, but the significance of the event remains the same: the Son of God rises from the dead in glory, giving us a chance to live with Him eternally.
When everything else in life is stripped bare, God is the one certainty that we can cling to.
The preacher asked if he was allowed to say “that homosexuality is wrong”. “It depends what you’re saying,” replied the policeman “but if I hear something and I don’t think it’s right I’ll act upon it.”
Christian persecution is all too real for the victims…
I had a quick look through Hansard and discovered that I first started speaking on this subject 20 years ago in a debate on the persecution of Christians in Egypt. Frankly, there was little interest from the Government then, but we see much more attention now, which I welcome. There is a special envoy for […]
“Make known the atrocities”, pleads the president of the Nigerian bishops’ conference as Christians continue to suffer at the hands of Boko Haram and Islamist Fulani tribesmen throughout the country.
Only a few years ago, the aggressive “New Atheist” movement was on the march, with rhetorical brawlers like Christopher Hitchens and renowned biologists like Richard Dawkins leading the charge against religion and the last vestiges of Christian faith in the West. Religion, Hitchens famously stated, “poisons everything,” and could only be considered, at best, humanity’s “first and […]
Mary McAleese’s criticism of the Catholic Church (‘Women the Vatican Couldn’t Silence’, Trinity College 2/11/2019) is largely about attacking ‘strawmen’ targets. She had strong words for ‘cowardly’ prelates. Yet, the two she mentioned, according to Patsy McGarry of the Irish Times, could hardly be described as ‘cowardly’. Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan took a bold step against […]
Kim Kardashian has said her husband, super star hip-hop artist and music entrepreneur Kanye West, has been ‘saved by Christ’. Kardashian told the U.S. TV show “The View” that her husband was “born again” and that making his new album was instrumental in West becoming a Christian. “Kanye started this to really heal himself and […]
Christian woman Fatemeh Bakhteri has started a one year prison sentence in Iran for alleged “propaganda” against the government after refusing to renounce her faith. Judges had encouraged her to renounce her Christian faith, as it was her activities as a Christian that led her to being convicted last year.