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A Scottish evangelist has been cleared of all charges after he was arrested on the streets of Irvine. Gordon Larmour was charged with behaving in a "threatening or abusive manner aggravated by prejudice relating to sexual orientation" and "assault", after he answered questions from some young men in the street about the Christian view on homosexual practice.

The Policing and Crime Bill proposes to raise the penalty for a 'racially or religiously aggravated offence' from seven years to 14 years. The bill was debated in the House of Lords this week.

A 23-year-old Christian campaigner has said she will continue her fight to protect baby girls from 'gender-abortion' in the UK, despite facing punitive costs.

An Employment Tribunal Judge has described the case of Richard Page as "crying out to be heard" at a preliminary hearing today (12 January). In August 2016 an NHS panel unanimously decided that it was "not in the interests of the health service" for Mr Page to continue as a non-executive director because of his view that it was in the best interests of a child to be raised by a married mother and father.

Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern and a member of the Church of England’s General Synod, has issued the following statement in response to the Archbishop Justin Welby’s Presidential Address to the General Synod on Monday (15 February): The Archbishop of Canterbury’s presidential address at Synod addressed the aftermath of the recent Primates’ gathering ...