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The Salvation Army offered more than 10,000 people modern-slavery victim support  last year, under its government contract. It was the highest since the arrangement began, and included more than 3,000 new referrals. It is now 12 years since the Government contracted the Salvation Army to provide specialist support for adult victims of modern slavery in...

Attacks against Christians in India have been rising, fuelled by right-wing nationalism, while growing numbers of Christians are being arrested under anti-conversion laws. India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, heads the list of states most hostile towards Christians. Others include Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. And in Manipur, the Telegraph India reported 254 churches were damaged in...

The World Food Programme is warning that in Zimbabwe, about 24% of the children aged five years old and under are chronically malnourished. This leaves them weak, often diseased, low on energy and concentration, and therefore unable to do their best in school. And so Barnabas Fund continues to appeal for help in delivering ePap...

Ukraine needs the support of ‘Christian solidarity’ Emergency appeal for Libya flood victims Appeal for victims of earthquake in Morocco Silent prayer is not a crime What children worry about Ten years on – minister reflects on terror attack that killed his mother Concern over the provision of RE in schools Cathedrals in the UK...

The Primate of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, Major Archbishop Svetoslav Shevchuk, has said that: “Ukraine will not be able to withstand this war without broad international help. Universal Catholic and Christian solidarity is a necessary condition for the stability and survival of our Church and people – a condition for Ukraine’s victory in...

The development charity, Christian Aid, has launched an emergency appeal to help people impacted by the devastating flooding that struck Libya in recent days. More than 11,000 people have died and at least 10,000 are missing after a catastrophic storm burst two dams and flooded the eastern port city of Derna. Christian Aid is working...

More than 3,000 people have been killed by Morocco’s recent devastating earthquake. There have been dozens of aftershocks already since the 6.8 magnitude quake. The Christian community in Morocco is small, but determined to help. Believers have rushed to donate blood to help the injured. The Barnabas Fund’s Christian project partners in Morocco want to...

The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has recently written to every police force in the country to say that silent prayer near abortion facilities is not a crime. In the letter she writes that “silent prayer, within itself, is not unlawful.”  And that “holding lawful opinions, even if those opinions may offend others, is not a...

A minister whose mother and 19 relatives were murdered by terrorists a decade ago has told how he has resisted feelings of revenge and hatred. The Revd Aftab Gohar said he found peace through the teachings of Jesus Christ, following a double suicide bomber attack at All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan on 22nd September,...

A group of cross-party peers, MPs and religious educators has criticised the lack of funding for the teaching of religious education (RE).  It has called on the Government to address the crisis in teaching and recruitment. There were 30 signatories to a letter to the Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan. They described the...

Millions of children, some as young as ten, are worried that they will not have enough money for their future. So reports the annual Good Childhood Report from the Children’s Society. The recently published report found that more than one third of ten-to-17-year-olds said that they were either ‘very’ or ‘quite’ worried about having enough...

Since 2000 the Church of England (C of E) has been collecting and publishing details about its Cathedrals. The attendance figures are vivid reminders of the effects of Covid-19. In the seven years from 2013 to 2019, the average total annual regular attendance in the C of E Cathedrals was 511,000 people. Three years later, in...