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Originally published in The Christian Institute Government plans to define Islamophobia risk shutting down free speech, a Labour Peer has warned. In an interview with Politics Home, Lord Glasman urged the Prime Minister not to introduce an Islamophobia definition; a working group set up to agree suitable wording has already […]
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) attacked editorial independence when it suspended presenter Juliet Newell after an interview in which she challenged Dr Mamphela Ramphele, chair of the Archbishop Tutu IP Trust, who compared Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza to the Holocaust, says the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF), […]
Originally published in Worthy News The UK Supreme Court has delivered a final and resounding victory to Christian mother Kristie Higgs, refusing to hear an appeal from a secondary school that dismissed her over social media posts expressing concerns about LGBTQ+ materials taught to children. The ruling effectively ends a […]
Originally published in Christian Today In a “groundbreaking” judgment, the UK Court of Appeal has reversed a ruling that defended the sacking of a Christian school assistant over beliefs she expressed in private Facebook posts. Kristie Higgs was fired by Farmor’s Secondary School, in Gloucestershire, in 2019 after she shared […]
United Kingdom police last week paid R230 000 (10 000 British pounds) in damages and costs to a Christian preacher arrested, strip-searched and jailed for denouncing Islam in 2022 at a renowned public speech site in London. Police at Speakers’ Corner on June 26 2022,treated Hatun Tash, director of Defend […]
Originally published in Worthy News Finland’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a years-long case brought by the country’s prosecutor general against Dr Päivi Räsänen, a Christian member of parliament who was charged – and acquitted – of hate speech after publicly expressing her opposition to homosexuality, CBN News reports. […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A Christian artist has claimed that she was reported to the police for saying, while making a cup of tea with a council employee, that it is harmful for children to try and change their sex. It’s been announced that Victoria Culf will now challenge how Watford […]
North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom has partially lifted its controversial suspension of Shaun Christie, a final-year law student, for disrupting a LGBTQIA+ presentation to first year students at a university orientation event last Tuesday. NWU’s back-pedalling on its initial harsh response to Christie’s protest, which sparked a mass student walkout from […]
Shaun Christie, a final year law student at North-West Univeristy, Potchefstroom, has been suspended by university authoriries for disrupting a LGBTQIA+ presentation during an orientation session for first year students on Tuesday. In a video clip [see below] of Shaun speaking in front of the university he says he had responded […]
Originally published in Faithwire Close to a quarter of young British people said recently they would be open to banning the Bible if they believed its pages contained “hate speech”. Whitestone Insights, a polling group, surveyed 2 088 adults in the United Kingdom, asking them if they agreed with the […]