Newsletter 4th October 2019

October 4, 2019 in Newsletters

New digital surveillance feeds risk of persecution
THE number of Christians facing extreme or high persecution has risen sharply in the past year, as the use of new digital methods to monitor worshippers has increased. The latest World Wide Watch List, compiled by the charity Open Doors, which mon...
County-lines exploitation children ‘are victims, not criminals’
THE Government should define child criminal exploitation in law and introduce a national strategy, backed up by funding, in the fight against “county lines” drug-trafficking, the Children’s Society has said. In a response to a government report on...
Lichfield Diocese creates environmental post
THE diocese of Lichfield has created the new post of Evangelism Enabler, with an environmental focus, “to respond to the challenge of the environment crisis and the Good News of a creator God”. The first holder of the post will be the Revd Steve H...
‘As a survivor, I believe that by talking out, I may be able to help others’
THE powerful testimonies of survivors were at the heart of the BBC2 programme about the disgraced former bishop Peter Ball. The two-part documentary Exposed: The Church’s darkest secret, centred on the accounts of his victims, shining a light on t...