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Win for street preacher as ‘misgendering’ conviction overturned

A judge has overturned the conviction of a Christian street preacher who was arrested and reported to Prevent for ‘misgendering’ a member of the public. Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Dave McConnell, 42, from Wakefield, was appealing a conviction today at Leeds Crown Court after he was arrested under section 4A of the Public ...

9 March 2023   Articles

Street preacher appeals conviction for ‘misgendering’

A Christian lettings agent who became the first street preacher to be prosecuted and reported to counter-terrorism for alleged ‘misgendering’, is set to appeal his conviction this week at Leeds Crown Court. Dave McConnell, 42, from Wakefield, was reported by the Probation Service to the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog, Prevent, after he was arrested under section 4A Public ...

7 March 2023   Articles

First street preacher arrested and reported to counter-terrorism for ‘misgendering’ to appeal conviction

A Christian lettings agent who became the first street preacher to be prosecuted and reported to counter-terrorism for alleged ‘misgendering’, is set to appeal his conviction this week at Leeds Crown Court.

7 March 2023   Press Office

Maya Forstater to give expert evidence in teacher ‘misgendering’ case

Maya Forstater, who won a landmark legal case over the freedom to say that individuals cannot change their biological sex, is set to give expert evidence at a hearing involving a teacher who faces losing their career for allegedly ‘misgendering.’ 

25 February 2023   Press Office

Maya Forstater to give expert evidence in teacher ‘misgendering’ case

Maya Forstater, who won a landmark legal case over the freedom to say that individuals cannot change their biological sex, is set to give expert evidence at a hearing involving a teacher who faces losing their career for allegedly ‘misgendering.’ In January, Joshua Sutcliffe, 32, who is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, faced ...

25 February 2023   Articles

Synod member reported by bishop for ‘hate crime’

A member of the Church of England’s General Synod was reported by his bishop to the police for allegedly causing ‘offence’ over promoting a Biblical view of sex and gender. The Bishop of Coventry capitulated to pressure from LGBT campaigners by reporting lay member of Synod, Sam Margrave, to the police for an alleged ‘hate ...

1 February 2023   Articles

Synod member reported to police for ‘hate crime’ for campaigning against Queer Theory and sexualisation of children

The Bishop of Coventry has capitulated to pressure from LGBT campaigners by reporting a lay member of the Church of England’s general synod to the police for an alleged ‘hate crime.’

1 February 2023   Press Office

Christian teacher could lose career for alleged ‘misgendering’

This week, the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) is seeking to remove a high-performing Christian teacher from the profession for allegedly ‘misgendering’ a pupil who self-identified as a ‘boy’. Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Joshua Sutcliffe, 32, from London, faces a series of allegations before the TRA’s professional conduct panel in Coventry from 9 to 13 ...

11 January 2023   Articles

Christian teacher faces losing career for alleged ‘misgendering’ and critiquing Islam on YouTube

This week, the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) is seeking to remove a high-performing Christian teacher from the profession for allegedly ‘misgendering’ a pupil who self-identified as a ‘boy’.

11 January 2023   Press Office

Diwali, dechristianisation, and the nation

Joe Boot writes on the spiritual significance and practicalities of having a Hindu Prime Minister of a constitutionally Christian nation. This article was originally published by the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. It has been a chaotic and unsettling year in the United Kingdom socially and politically. Several Chancellors and Prime Ministers have slunk in ...

2 December 2022   Articles

Britain’s first Hindu Prime Minister

Tim Dieppe, our Head of Public Policy, assesses what it means for Britain to have its first Hindu Prime Minister. The appointment of Britain’s first Hindu Prime Minister is a historic moment in the history of Great Britain. Is this something to celebrate or lament? A Christian country? There can be no doubt that the ...

26 October 2022   Articles

Scots ‘conversion practices’ ban proposals worst so far

Policy Researcher Dr Carys Moseley comments on the new proposals in Scotland to ban ‘conversion practices’. Proposals for ending ‘LGBT conversion practices’ in Scotland were published last Tuesday by an Expert Panel advising the Scottish government. The report assumes a radical misinterpretation of children’s rights and denies that its recommendations infringe religious freedom and freedom ...

7 October 2022   Articles

Rallying evangelical teachers

Our education system appears to be expelling Jesus from our schools, all the while embracing a ‘gospel’ that is further and further away from truth and love. If you are a Christian teacher, then you’re invited to join us online with PGNET to discuss: the present spiritual state of our schools; the current anti-God curriculum; ...

15 August 2022   Events

Prayer guide for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

At her Coronation on 2 June 1952, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was asked: “Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will ...

2 June 2022   Articles

Professing Christians should stop sacralising the trans cult

Christian Concern’s policy researcher Carys Moseley comments on the recent letter from senior church leaders which stated that being transgender is “to enter a sacred journey.” Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury has followed the lead of Steve Chalke in demanding that the government bans ‘trans conversion therapy’. Steve Chalke originally organised a letter ...

8 April 2022   Articles

The sin of syncretism: why we repeat the mistakes of the Biblical kings

Wilberforce Academy Director Joe Boot challenges the Church to rid itself of the secular worldview that it has accepted into its teaching of the gospel. I read an article this week reflecting on an incident so thick with irony it was almost impossible to believe: the University of Northampton has placed a content warning on ...

2 February 2022   Articles

Victory for Christian nurse sacked for wearing cross

The Employment Tribunal has today released a landmark judgment ruling that an NHS Trust harassed and directly discriminated against a Christian nurse for wearing a cross at work. Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Mary Onuoha, was told by the tribunal that she had been victimised by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust following the grievance ...

5 January 2022   Articles

Christian nurse sacked for wearing cross necklace wins legal case

In a landmark ruling, an Employment Tribunal has ruled that an NHS Trust harassed and directly discriminated against a Christian nurse for wearing a cross necklace at work.

5 January 2022   Press Office

The limits of civil obedience: the meaning of Romans 13

Our Wilberforce Academy Director Rev. Dr Joe Boot explores the meaning of Romans 13 in the context of Covid restrictions. “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of ...

15 December 2021   Articles

Of terrorists and Islamophobes: a Christian terrorist?

Christian Concern’s Head of Public Policy, Tim Dieppe, comments on the news that the Liverpool suicide bomber was a Christian convert. Following the release of the name of the suicide bomber in Liverpool, the headlines of several major newspapers blasted out that he was a Christian convert. This is quite a novelty – a Christian ...

17 November 2021   Articles

The religious experience of Covid and the limitless power of the state

Wilberforce Academy Director Rev. Dr Joe Boot explains what lies at the heart of the state’s response to the pandemic. By any reckoning, the events of 2020 and 2021 have been at once tragic, deeply disturbing, and far-reaching in scope and implication. A kind of paradigm shift has taken place while millions of us were ...

5 November 2021   Articles

Nigel and Sally Rowe: ‘True love warns – it speaks the truth’

Communications Officer Rebekah Moffett sits down with Nigel and Sally Rowe to find out more about their case, their hopes and expectations, and to find out what they’ve been up to in the four years since first bringing their case to the media’s attention. Not for the first time, I’m sat down with Nigel and ...

15 October 2021   Articles

Government ‘treats UK Christians differently to Christians abroad’

Christian nurse Mary Onuoha is challenging a London NHS Trust after facing repeated pressure to remove or cover up her cross and being ‘treated like a criminal’. The Christian Legal Centre’s Roger Kiska speaks to Revelation TV about her case and the general increase in discrimination against Christians in the UK. He comments: “Over the ...

12 October 2021   Articles

Children at risk if Welsh Government bans ‘conversion therapy’ 

The Welsh Government is consulting on its LGBTQ+ Action Plan, which includes a commitment to ban ‘conversion therapy’. Children would be included in this ban, and it is proposed that it would apply everywhere including in religious settings, i.e. churches. Parental rights and responsibilities are ignored completely in the relevant documentation.   We are monitoring the situation and will ...

24 September 2021   Articles
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