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Tuesday 12 March 2024

Exclusion!

Source: 'X' (formerly Twitter)

From OneBodyOneFaith - 'Empowering LGBT+ Christians; advocating for change':

"With the Bishops in the Church in Wales, we are organising the second national memorial service to remember and commemorate all LGBT+ people who have lost their lives to suicide or experienced harm following exclusion from Christian faith communities."

Suicide is a tragedy not confined to LGBT+ people. Nor is exclusion.

When will the Church in Wales do something for the many faithful Anglicans who are excluded for keeping the faith? 

Thursday 7 March 2024

Budget shock

"This ‘great altar stone’ as Lutyens’ referred to it, would stand as a memorial feature in the
Commission cemeteries and could be used by those of all faiths and none and act as a symbol of common sacrifice." CWGC

I was not the only person who was surprise by the Chancellor's opening statement in yesterday's budget speech as reported in the Daily Mail

"Jeremy Hunt has announced £1million plans for Muslims who died in the First and Second World Wars in his Budget. The chancellor said it would honour those Muslims lost 'in the service of freedom and democracy'."

Some responses here, herehere and here, all neatly summed up by Nigel Farage here.

Need one say more!

Friday 1 March 2024

Remembering the persecuted during Lent


 


More:

Remembering the persecuted during Lent

Burkina Faso, attack in a Catholic church during Mass, at least 15 dead

The Genocide of 'The Sunday People': 365000000 Christians Persecuted Worldwide

Why is Christian persecution often met with indifference?

Please don’t forget about Palestinian Christians like me

Why is Christian persecution often met with indifference?

Behind a Media Wall of Silence

Muslims are killing Christians in Nigeria. The media couldn’t care less

Christian Communities Facing Increased Persecution in 2024

700 percent rise in church attacks, closures noted in 2024 World Watch List

One in seven Christians worldwide face persecution and discrimination for their faith

The 50 countries where it is hardest to follow Jesus in 2024


Postscripts 

[03.03.2024]

Islamic extremists targeting women, teens for radicalization, Indonesia counter-terrorism group warns

[04.03.2024]

Reported on X (formerly Twitter):

Anger directed at Palestinians who have damaged aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile in Great Britain: "Millions of brave servicemen have fought for our freedom under the British flag. Now, those same men are being cautioned by the police for holding up that flag." https://twitter.com/SamanthaTaghoy/status/1764209088626373101

The bravery of the few is to be admired: 
The old European patriot has had enough and explains it to them clearly.

[05.03.2024]

More reported on X (formerly Twitter):

"Militant islamists are forcibly converting Christians in Amhara, Ethiopia. Those that don't convert are raped or murdered, or both." https://twitter.com/alfred_cabonena/status/1764894275181973741

‘It’s estimated 50-60% of mosques in the UK have been covertly funded by Saudi to preach extreme [ideology]’

There is not a SINGLE church in Saudi Arabia. Christianity is banned.
Meanwhile, there are over 1,500 mosques in Britain. 
https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1764957864446066822

[06.03.2024]

Dozens of displaced people are feared to have been abducted by Boko Haram jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria  

[07.03.2024]

Kuriga kidnap: More than 100 Nigerian pupils abducted

[08.03.2024]

Adviser warns London a 'no-go zone for Jews every weekend'

[09.03.2024]

From X (formerly Twitter) yesterday:

Rights of non Muslims : When Islam gets into power. Taught in UK and Ireland Mosques

Muslim Imam in UK: "We must unite and create a political system within the nations through Islam."

Manchester. A powerhouse town of the industrial revolution. Now resembles a Taliban caliphate.

Bradford. Is this what our war heroes fought for?

Berlin Lisbon Italy Pakistan

Italian diocese urges Catholics to join Muslims for prayers and meals in Ramadan

[10.03.2024]

More from 'X'

In Sadiq Khan's London there are around 500 mosques, why do they pray in the streets? What message do they want to communicate?

Nigel Farage: "We are surrendering the streets."

Police arrest ANTI HAMAS demonstrator!!

Happy International Women’s Day from London

Nigeria: Fulani Islamic militants opened fire and killed several Christians

[11.03.2024]

Latest from 'X'

When did this become acceptable in our country

Metropolitan police officers shove and harass a Jewish man holding a ‘For Israel Against Antisemitism’ sign. 

"There is only one solution - intifada revolution" - being chanted on the streets of London today.

But vote fishing continues - Prime Minister:
"Ramadan Mubarak to everyone observing the holy month of #Ramadan"

And this from the Archbishop of Canterbury who appears to care not one jot for the Great Commission or for the fate of infidels refusing to pay the jizya in Muslim dominated countries:

God help us all!

[12.03.2024]

While the Prime Minister continues fishing for Muslim votes with a £117 MILLION MUSLIM PROTECTION FUND, in the north of Nigeria even more Christians have been slaughtered by Boko Haram Muslims

Saturday 24 February 2024

Altar reverence

Source: Church Times

Church Times (£):
"THE consistory court of the diocese of Leicester has refused to grant a faculty for the introduction of a new altar frontal at St Nicholas’s, Leicester, displaying the Progress Pride flag and incorporating a cross in the design.

"The Progress Pride flag was 'not a Christian emblem', the Chancellor Naomi Gyane said. While it was 'a sign of welcome for people from the LGBTQIA+ community, and although not itself political,' it was, she said, 'a secular contemporary emblem used for many causes and contemporary discourse'."

From the same article:
"He [Dr Ian Paul. one of the objectors] stated that the purpose of the table at which holy communion was celebrated was to focus the congregation on remembering the death of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, and not to focus on contemporary and political issues; and that the presence of the Progress Pride flag introduced a tension with the teachings of Jesus and the scriptures as a whole into the centre of the rite of communion."

Exactly! Take note the Church in Wales. See here and here.

 Church in Wales, St Augustine's Rumney                                                                   Source: Twitter

Wednesday 14 February 2024

Gender equality!

"Evan, who stopped his hormone treatments before trying to get pregnant, chest-feeds his
 newborn son in their Massachusetts home."             Source: TIME

The National Catholic Register reports that a recent meeting of the Vatican's Council of Cardinals (C9) discussed the role of women in the Church. The Cardinals were addressed at the meeting by female Anglican bishop, Jo Bailey Wells, currently deputy secretary general of the Anglican Communion.

Bishop Wells was one of the first generation of women to have been ordained in the Church of England and who has campaigned for 'gender equality'. After the meeting she said, "Many have suggested this was an historic moment. Certainly, I was honoured to be invited to describe the Anglican journey in regard to the ordination of women, both in the Church of England and across the Communion. There was deep engagement and some good discussion."

Pope Francis is quoted as being 'very much in favour' of a female diaconate but that there was 'no reflection on the presbyteral ordination of women in the Catholic Church'.

The 'Anglican journey' as Wells put it has been a disaster leading to confusion and disarray, not least for 'gender equality' which has been used to trump common sense.  

In addition to the gender nonsense which is used to deny biological facts, parity is demanded, often with dire results as evidenced following the appointment of many women bishops, particularly in the Church in Wales.

Duplicity abounds resulting in many faithful Anglicans being denied the sacraments and pastoral care.

Pope Francis is on record as declaring that women cannot receive holy orders or be ordained as priests. thus upholding the traditional doctrine of the Catholic Church, yet it is reported that Pope Francis is 'very much in favour' of a female diaconate!

Were that to be achieved, as in Anglicanism, it would be claimed that woman deacons must be allowed to become priests, then bishops along with all the rest of the liberal agenda leading to same sex marriage.

The Pope has already approved same-sex blessings.

The writing is on the wall.

Postscript [17.02.2024]

Wednesday 7 February 2024

Environment Agency drops ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from policies

Source: GOV UK

 

From Coalition for Marriage:

Dear marriage supporter,

The Environment Agency has removed the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from its staff policies.

The quango said it has instead started using “primary carer” in its maternity, paternity and shared parental leave policies to make them ‘gender-neutral’.

The revelations come in the agency’s 2020 application to LGBT lobby group Stonewall to be included in its list of “top 100 employers”, recently seen by the Times (£).

The agency also said it had told workers they can request “more than one passcard... in order to be able to express different identities on different days”.

A staff survey was also said to have asked employees to confirm whether their gender identity matched the “gender I was assigned at birth”.

The public sector agency added that it brought these ideas to bear on procurement, stating that for all relevant contracts, “we ask potential suppliers to submit details of their EDI [equality, diversity and inclusion] policy as part of their submission”. It is a fair bet the agency will be looking for similar transgender-friendly policies from its contractors and suppliers as it has introduced internally. If so, it is using public funds as leverage to spread contentious gender ideology among private companies.

The latest revelations add to a picture of the crucial differences between men and women being erased as gender ideology spreads unchecked through public and private institutions. What kind of twisted ideology is it that sees mother and father as problematic concepts to be expunged?

Taxpayer-funded institutions like the Environment Agency should not be wasting public money on trying to erase basic facts about human biology or spreading nonsense about people changing sex, perhaps depending on the day of the week!

Much more needs to be done to stop this absurd ideology from doing any more harm than it already has. At C4M, we continue to fight against anything which undermines real marriage.

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Yours faithfully,

(Signed) Colin Hart

Chairman

Coalition for Marriage (C4M)


See also

 Environment Agency goes woke for Stonewall from The Christian Institute.

and 

'Stonewall still receiving £1.2m in taxpayer subsidies' {16 January 2023}

Diversity, equity and inclusion gone mad.