How do current priorities of Church growth and evangelism relate to, and intersect with, the place of interfaith relations?
Religious Freedom in the World Report 2018
Aid to the Church in Need has published its latest global Religious Freedom in the World Report. This seeks to highlight areas of the world where religious persecution limits the rights of individuals to practice their faith and shows the improvement or decline of religious freedom in each country. Evidence of significant religious freedom violations […]
Churches call for end to ‘hostile environment’
Four churches represented by the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) are calling for an end to the ‘hostile environment’ – UK government policies designed to make life so difficult for people who cannot prove they have the right to live in the UK that they will choose to leave. The hostile environment ‘deliberately inflicts destitution, encourages […]
CTBI visit to those helping refugees in Italy
Christine Elliott, Director of International Programmes for CTBI, and Bala Gnanapragasam, the Vice President Designate of the Methodist Church in Britain, visited churches and organisations in Italy that help refugees, during April 2018. Those visited included the Federation of Protestant Churches of Italy (FCEI), the Community of Sant’Egidio and Mediterranean Hope, which together work on […]
CCME refugee report: Safe Passage
This report from the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) aims to summarise some of the current concerns of European churches on EU asylum and migration policy – a policy which also heavily influences asylum and migration policies in countries outside the EU. The publication describes the problematic reality of EU policies, explains some […]
Free refugee law book for Refugee Week
During Refugee Week a guide to refugee law in the UK is available free from the Free Movement blog from Colin Yeo, a barrister, writer, campaigner and consultant specialising in immigration law. The book looks at: What is the legal definition of a refugee? What level of danger or suffering is necessary before a person […]
Report: CTBI visit to China
A CTBI-organised visit to China last year was designed to look at the history of mission in China by visiting two historic centres; Shimenkan in the South West province of Guizhou and Shenyang in the North West province of Liaoning. The China Forum of CTBI has had to review its way of working in recent […]
Report: 30th Anniversary of the Inter Faith Network
A report looking at the Inter Faith Network’s past, present and future including extremism, hatred and interfaith engagement; education and dialogue; communicating in the digital world; and cooperating for the common good, has been published by IFN. It details the talks from the 30th anniversary national meeting of IFN held in July 2017 at the […]
Christianity and Mental Health – Theos report
A new report from Theos, Christianity and Mental Health: Theology, Activities, Potential, addresses the reality of mental health in the UK today with almost ten million British adults being diagnosed with at least one mental health problem each year and around one in four having been diagnosed with at least one mental health problem over […]
Desperate Journeys – UNHCR report
Refugees are taking more dangerous and diversified journeys, often relying on smugglers, because of the lack of accessible legal ways to Europe, according to a new report from the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR. The report states that the Central Mediterranean route from North Africa to Italy has become the primary entry point to Europe following increased […]
