Lord Harries calls for national plan for Religious Education to bring radical improvement

Jan 19, 2024 by

from Religion Media Centre: The former Bishop of Oxford, Lord Richard Harries, has called for a national plan to bring about radical improvement in Religious Education. He told a Lords Grand Committee that local SACREs, standing...

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China is failing to persuade women to have more children. Or any children

Jan 18, 2024 by

by Michael Cook, Mercator: China’s population has declined for the second year in a row, despite desperate government incentives to persuade women to have children. In 2023, the number of people fell by 2.08 million to 1.410 billion. The...

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Roger Bolton warns of “dramatic collapse” in TV religious programming

Jan 12, 2024 by

from Religion Media Centre: Broadcaster and journalist Roger Bolton says there has been a dramatic collapse in the number of religious programmes shown by public service broadcasters in the last decade. He told Premier Christian News that...

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Get religion or get lost

Jan 9, 2024 by

by David Landrum, Artillery Row: In the early 20th century, the numbers of Christians in the Middle-East were reduced greatly by the “unremembered” Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides. At that time, roughly 10 per cent of people living...

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The myth of religious neutrality in education

Jan 6, 2024 by

from Christian Concern: It is often claimed that education should be neutral about the existence of God, religion and moral values. Atheist humanists frequently campaign against ‘faith schools’, complaining if they teach children to...

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Bulwarks of Unbelief: How modernity creates atheists

Jan 2, 2024 by

by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead: Growing up regularly attending church and attending a Christian school, I never questioned whether God exists or whether Christianity was true. I assumed these things and assumed that those who did...

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