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Nearly 3,000 so-called honour attacks were recorded by police in Britain last year, new research has revealed.
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LONDON -- Christians in the United Kingdom took to the streets this week to boldly proclaim they're not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The National Secular Society campaign to force Bideford town council to scrap prayers before meetings is not a case of the underdog fighting the dominant prejudice
Many people are breathing a restrained sigh of relief this morning after the cavalry, in the form of the US Federal Reserve, rode to the rescue of European financial institutions. Of course, it is uncertain whether this move will help solve Europe’s lending crisis or whether it merely postpones the day when the euro collapses – followed perhaps by the defeat of the European Project itself.
PRAYERS have been banned from full council meetings at Shire Hall – causing fury from Gloucester's Sheriff.
The group, led by the Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, have signed an Early Day Motion calling for the rule change to be scrapped before it comes into effect on Monday.
The events unfolding in front of St Paul’s Cathedral — and now within the walls of a once-empty Swiss bank building — are the epicentre of the UK Occupy movement. But the City of London and St Paul’s aren’t the only entities affected by the movement.
The High Court is to decide whether a town council in Devon should be allowed to say prayers before meetings, after a complaint from an atheist member of Bideford Town Council, who claimed that saying prayers was a breach of human rights legislation.
The National Secular Society's Keith Porteous Wood and Mike Judge from the Christian Institute discuss the implications of the case.
Secularists are challenging the saying of prayers in local council meetings at the High Court today.
The National Secular Society today takes Devon's Bideford Town Council to the High Court in London, in a bid to have the saying of Christian prayers banned at council meetings, in what could prove a test case for public worship.