Christian Concern

Quite a range of speakers.

We'll be having David Passmore, we'll be having Tia Son, we'll be having Nathan Rees, and we'll be having a speaker from Christian Concern.

One of the most important things in understanding prophecy is that persecution of Christians will increase, and persecution is certainly increasing, and it's certainly increasing in Great Britain.

So we will be having a speaker from Christian Concern, the Christian Rights Organization, will be joining us.

I myself will be focusing more on prophecy.

I will be looking at something we've never actually done before.

We see it in the United States, Colorado.

in California, and we see it certainly in Europe and in Great Britain.

Hello, I'm Mona Siddiqui and welcome to Beyond Belief.

That was Barrister and CEO of Christian Concern, Andrea Williams.

In today's programme, we're going to be exploring the connections between how religion informs and influences lawmaking in the UK.

Martin Luther King said the church should be neither master nor servant of the state, but its conscience.

So certain external manifestations may well collide with a wider public interest in terms of headwear that you have, external symbols and the like, and so on and so forth.

But I do agree that law is... not really cut out to deal with matters of conscience per se.

Here we have Andrea Williams again of Christian Concern.

The case of Nadia Awida was the British Airways check-in clerk who had worn for many years her cross on her uniform and British Airways asked for her to hide her cross and she said that she couldn't hide her cross because that for her would be detrimental to her faith.

The Gospel and Prophecy.

We will have someone joining us from Christian Concern, the legal defense organization that is defending all of these Christian street preachers who are being arrested by the British police.

They'll be speaking to us.

We will have a number of speakers who are experts on religions and cults.

And this is getting quite serious in Britain.

We're going to have a speaker from Christian Concern, the Christian legal rights organization that campaigns on behalf of Christians being persecuted by the British police and government.

This is quite serious and it's getting worse.

And it's not only happening in Britain.

It's happening to a degree in the United States, Canada, Australia, but it's certainly taking place in Great Britain.

So we will be having a report from Christian Concern, and then I will be speaking on prophetic issues.

I hope you're able to join us, The Gospel and Prophecy.

The Gospel and Prophecy, that'll be in England.

Everybody has just managed the fallout.

And Tim Diep of Christian Concern put his finger on exactly what's missing, that there's no actual apology here.

And he's right.

A statement that manages a story is not the same thing as a statement that owns it.

as it is unlikely that the MPs will give any further time to debate the contentious topic.

Christian Concern, along with many other Christian groups, disability groups and medical groups, worked tirelessly to oppose these attempts to introduce assisted suicide.

Communications Manager Paul Huxley, whose wife Adele is tube-fed and suffers from chronic pain, said, We give God great thanks for showing mercy to Britain today.

And one person's choice to die means coercion and pressure for many thousands more.

It's, it's the right thing to do."

And we should also point out that you're being supported by Christian Concern and their legal center.

That's right.

Yeah.

The Christian Legal Center, um, Christian Concern, who have been wonderful to me-

Mm-hmm

... um, both in terms of the legal support, which they provided pro bono, uh, but also the sort of the pastoral side of it and looking after me-

Yeah