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  Army wants Remembrance Day to be less Christian - report

  Staff writer | Mon 12 Feb 2024 12:09 GMT

  Ex-servicemen have written to Defence Secretary Grant Shapps to express concerns about an alleged Army policy stating that Remembrance Day should be "agnostic of religious elements".

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  A 'small number' of asylum seeker conversions might not be real, says bishop

  Staff writer | Mon 12 Feb 2024 7:57 GMT

  The Bishop of Chelmsford has said that it is "very difficult" to know if a conversion to Christianity is real, regardless of whether the person is from the UK or not.

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  General Medical Council won't take any action against pro-life doctor

  Staff writer | Sat 10 Feb 2024 11:52 GMT

  The General Medical Council (GMC) has ended a three-year investigation into a retired neurologist and Catholic priest with a decision to take no further action.

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  Conversion therapy ban should not lead to 'chill factor', says Church of England

  Staff writer | Sat 10 Feb 2024 10:33 GMT

  The document was commissioned as part of the Church of England's Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process.

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  Conversion therapy ban will criminalise Christians and parents, Parliament hears

  Staff writer | Sat 10 Feb 2024 8:58 GMT

  Members of Parliament have warned that both parents and pastors stand to be criminalised if legislation to ban so-called conversion therapy is passed into law.

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  'We are seeing genuine conversions,' says church leader

  Staff writer | Thu 8 Feb 2024 12:33 GMT

  Contrary to suggestions in the media, the leader of a UK evangelical church network has said there has not been any "significant influx" of asylum seekers turning to the Christian faith.

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  Baptists respond to claims about Clapham attacker's conversion

  Staff writer | Thu 8 Feb 2024 11:50 GMT

  Baptists Together said it could not comment on claims that Ezedi converted in a Baptist church because of the ongoing police investigation but said that its churches would continue to "welcome the stranger".

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  New Living in Love and Faith appointment after bishop's resignation

  Staff writer | Tue 6 Feb 2024 10:10 GMT

  A new interim theology adviser has been appointed to the House of Bishops following the recent resignation of the Bishop of Newcastle as co-lead of Living in Love and Faith (LLF) in the Church of England.

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  Bishop hits back at claims that Church is aiding fake asylum converts

  Staff writer | Tue 6 Feb 2024 7:48 GMT

  The Bishop of Chelmsford has denied that the Church of England has "aided and abetted" asylum seekers through the system by supporting fake conversions.

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  Christians praying for King Charles after cancer diagnosis

  Staff writer | Tue 6 Feb 2024 7:03 GMT

  Christians are praying for King Charles after Buckingham Palace announced that he has been diagnosed with cancer.

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  Chinese cockle pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay remembered 20 years on

  Rebecca Marlow | Mon 5 Feb 2024 12:42 GMT

  Some 23 Chinese men and women drowned when rising tides cut them off from the shore on the evening of 5 February 2004.

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  Christians reflect on conversion and asylum claims as Church continues to come under fire

  Staff writer | Mon 5 Feb 2024 11:47 GMT

  Christians have been weighing in on the question of whether churches are to blame for asylum seekers trying to game the system with claims of conversion and persecution.