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October 21, 2020
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham) (Con) introduced the debate, which is transcribed in full here
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You are invited to #RedWednesday 2020 – our digital event
On the day of #RedWednesday, join us for the launch of our Set your Captives Free report which explores four particular cases of Christians who have been unjustly detained for their faith, along with a wider look at the growing issue of religious persecution.
The launch of this report will be a part of our digital Red Wednesday event, coming live to your from the Houses of Parliament. This report discusses vital issues and is truly ground-breaking. You are able to order your free copy after watching the event.
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Archbishop Kaigama of Abuja, Nigeria
Maira Shahbaz, Pakistan
Rob Flello, Former MP
The event will be streamable from our webpage > https://acnuk.org/event/redwednesday-digital-event/
Although this is a digital event, please do book your place on here.
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2:00 p.m., Saturday 31 October, 2020 UK time (GMT)
For the first time in the 24 year history of Barnabas Fund’s annual event for the suffering Church, we will be bringing Suffering Church Action and Awareness Week right into your homes with our livestream SCAAW event.
With this brand new format for SCAAW, we hope that more people than ever will use this opportunity to learn about, empathise with, pray for and speak out about suffering and persecuted Christians around the world.
2020 has been a hard year for all of us, none more so than our poor and persecuted family, many suffering from locusts, natural disaster and now coronavirus on top of the discrimination they already faced.
But in this suffering there is also hope. The persecuted Church is resilient, courageous and, most importantly, faithful to God. Through our suffering family, be inspired to find strength for today in the face of pressures and struggles, as we look to the bright hope Jesus promises us for tomorrow.
Join with Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Fund, and Caroline Kerslake, International Director of Projects, as well as many other special guests, as we stand alongside our suffering brothers and sisters in every corner of the globe, demonstrating Christ’s love for each one of them, whatever they are facing.
There will be an opportunity to join Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director, the following Saturday, 7 November, for a livestream questions and answers session at 2:00 p.m.
Please register for these events using the link below
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For the first time, the focus of this year’s International Day of Prayer for the persecuted church (IDOP) will be an exciting social media event. Don’t miss out!
Join us for a special online prayer event to mark this year’s International Day of Prayer for the persecuted church.
This year the Evangelical Alliance will be hosting for an evening with CSW, Release International and Open Doors of prayer and worship, featuring the latest news and prayer requests from China, India and Nigeria. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to unite together in prayer for our persecuted family.
This special online event will feature testimony from China, India and Nigeria, so save the date and tell your friends.
Click here to register FREE on Eventbrite.
Registered supporters will be prompted with a reminder email to watch the event.
Around the world, Christians are being seized and unjustly detained. Leah, Patriarch Antonios, Bishop James and Maira, need our help. To put a spotlight on their cases, please will you:
Register to attend online the virtual Parliamentary Launch of ACNs ‘Set Your Captives Free’ Report detailing their plight. It takes place on Red Wednesday 25th November 2020, at 4.30pm. Book your place on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/set-your-captives-free-redwednesday-tickets-116404191069
#Red Wednesday
PLEASE ACT NOW AND HELP CHANGE LIVES
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Barnabas Fund’s new website, Barnabas Today, launches on Saturday 5 September.
With God’s help, barnabastoday.com will be a platform from which Christians can freely watch, read, listen or download Bible studies, sermons, discipleship and devotional materials, news, hymns and songs, written by Christians from the midst of the fiery furnace. Whether it is sickness, bereavement, isolation, rejection, poverty, financial worries, relationships or persecution for Christ’s sake, we all experience suffering. Barnabas Today will be a platform for resources written from and for situations of suffering, to bring hope and encouragement.
It is our prayer that these resources, available in various languages, will be a blessing to Christians all around the world, wherever they live.
Join us for our all-day livestream event launch of the Barnabas Today website anytime on Saturday 5 September.
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Premier Christian News reports:
A new Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) Forum has been set up following a landmark report into global Christian persecution by the Bishop of Truro last year.
Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of Truro will chair the new initiative after the government accepted his findings and recommendation that the UK must become “the global leader in championing freedom of religion and belief [FoRB]”.
In an announcement, the government said it was commissioning the UK FoRB Forum “to ensure that the UK plays a leading role in global efforts to advance religious freedom or belief around the world”. The Forum is due to be launched in September and will work to raise awareness of religious intolerance and discrimination across the globe.
Bishop Philip said on Thursday: “In one of his first speeches to the House of Commons on the slave trade, William Wilberforce said this: ‘You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know.’ My hope is that the UK Freedom of Religion or Belief Forum will enable us all to look steadily at this egregious problem of our time, not to let it be overlooked, and together to face it down.”
The group, which will comprise of representation from civil-society organisations, NGOs, academic organisations, and the Government, will seek to inform the government on policy-making in relation to the protection of religious expression and belief make recommendations for action. It will also liaise closely with the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on FoRB, Rehman Chishti MP, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on FoRB in order to hold the government to account for the implementation of Bishop Mountstephen’s recommendations.
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8 July 2020
Lord Alton’s opening remarks:
Closing remarks:
The links to the other contributions made during the Symposiuum, which was attended by several hundred people – on line – will be made available later in the week here
Foreign Office video on Freedom of Religious Belief:
What would you do if your church was raided by police and Bibles made illegal? Despite facing hostility and risk, Churches are growing in nations hostile to the Gospel . During this webinar we will look at the church in Iraq, Iran and China.
Join us as we pray and discover ways we can stand with Christians across unsafe borders.
This remote event is an opportunity to hear directly from Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, Founder and International Director of Barnabas Fund, and Caroline Kerslake, International Director of Projects.
Patrick will address the effect of Covid-19 on the Church and Christian mission, in the light of the growing persecution which is taking place as well as the multiple natural disasters befalling the Church. He will seek to point a way ahead from which Barnabas Fund can develop into the future, as it re-structures and re-prioritises its efforts, under God, in order that the Church can be sustained, strengthened and advanced in post-Covid times. He will also reflect on how, through the tremendous assistance of Barnabas supporters, the Fund has been able to feed more than half a million Christians in the last three months.
Caroline will address not only what God has done to help Covid-affected and other hungry Christians over the last three months but also new projects that we hope, with the Lord’s help, to be developing to meet the needs of the post-Covid persecuted Church.
To register your interest for this remote event please enter your details here.