Faith Action, a network of faith-based organisations that seek to have their views heard in politics, have launched a manifesto calling on the future government The Desiring Decency manifesto outline...
The government is being urged to do more to prevent violence against children around the world. A report by World Vision UK found the government spends only 2.5 per cent (£35m) of its annual humanit...
The Government has outlined its opposition to a decision by cinemas not to screen an advert from the Church of England which featured the Lord's Prayer. Speaking in the House of Lords the Parliamenta...
A Christian disability advisor has told Premier that the Prime Minister's new plans to get a million more disabled people into work in ten years is nothing more Rev Zoe Heming, who is the enabling ch...
A Christian housing charity has told Premier it does not have complete confidence in new government plans to speed up housebuilding in England. Housing Justice said the proposals, which include makin...
The founder of the Oasis Trust has told Premier the new living wage is not enough and employers should be paying a much higher rate. Unions welcomed the £7.20 hourly rate for adults - increasing by ...
A Christian environmental group has launched a furious attack on the government, over its proposals to relax planning laws on brownfield sites in England, to sp A Rocha UK has branded the reforms as ...
Faith leaders have called the government's two-child limit on child benefits "fundamentally anti-family" and warned it could lead to more abortions. A coalition of UK's biggest churches and Jewish gr...
The Department for Education has launched an open consultation to write a draft code of practise on safeguarding in out-of-school settings. These include uniformed youth organisations such as the S...
Rory Stewart MP has been speaking of how Christian hope can provide a fundamental backbone to helping prisoners. Over 500 people gathered at HTB church in Kensington in London on Monday to hear from ...
A month on from the devastating floods in Cumbria, a church leader there is warning that money promised by the Government to help victims is nowhere near enough Jonny Gios from Sandylands Methodist C...
A Christian human rights organisation has urged the general public to join in efforts to abolish modern-day slavery. David Westlake, chief executive of International Justice Mission made the plea fol...
The government's special envoy for freedom of religion and belief, Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, has said both Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt have shown evidence of pe Last week, an independent review was r...
Rehman Chishti MP has met with the Bishop Philip Mounstephen and asked the Prime Minister whether he is going to prioritise religious liberty. The Conservative MP for Gillingham and Rainham and new s...
A government department has defended one of its advisors who reportedly expressed support for a radical cleric who later defended the execution of a Christian w The Communities Department said Qari A...
A new study has found that GPs are feeling they have become the "new clergy" with a growing number of patients looking to them to "heal their souls". Alistair Appleby, a GP who carried out the report...
Doctors in the UK are requesting more in-house chaplains to provide a growing number of patients with spiritual care. Patients struggling with conditions that cannot be treated solely through medical...
GPs in England are going to be paid £55 every time they diagnose a patient with dementia. Health officials hope this will address the low rate of identifying sufferers early on.Some patients' grou...
It has emerged young Guides members are not being invited to thank God during grace, under guidance being issued to leaders in a bid boost inclusivity. While acknowledging that it "may be traditional...
Graffiti painted on the wall of a top Glasgow Christian school is being treated as a hate crime. Workers at St Aloysius' Catholic College in Garnethill discovered the damage late on Sunday night.Spra...
