At the time of Toronto Joel Edwards drew up a list of principles.

Londons Blackfriars Crown Court heard of plans to set up a secret Islamist state in Scotland for those who felt oppressed.

Among the spate of recent church roof lead robberies perhaps the most remarkable was the gang caught red handed on the roof of St Helens Parish Church Treeton Rotherham having removed nearly all of the valuable material.

A ministry outreach initiative of London City Mission and Open Air Campaigners is taking the Gospel to some of the capitals major tourist hotspots.

Sightseers at Londons tourist attractions this summer are witnessing a new outreach initiative of London City Mission and Open Air Campaigners.

Sitting on a Time Bomb a statement by the Maranatha Community to political social and religious leaders warns of a huge national crisis in the UK presented by the 1 1\4 million young people between 16 and 24 without education employment and training.

Of children in the Western world children in England Wales and Scotland are among the most likely to have drunk alcohol used cannabis and had sex according to a report from the World Health Organisation.

The Big Issue founder John Bird helped out with the launch of a new Christian civic centre in London that will support young people who have been excluded from school.

A group once renowned as the tea making arm of the church is reaching out across the world to promote family life.

There are no plans for traditionalists to split from the Anglican Communion but to work for reform from within according to reports from Jerusalem this week.

Hundreds of people from both Protestant and Catholic communities of Belfast Northern Ireland are expected to attend a special event to hear the member of a famous Boy Band give his testimony.

In 2005 Jane Hansen Hoyt president and CEO of Aglow International began to look at Christianity in Europe with increasing concern.

Religious leaders on official business in part of north London will soon be able to park for free using special permits.

The Reverend Canon Andrew White affectionately known as The Vicar of Baghdad says the situation for Christians in Iraq is clearly worse than under the Saddam Hussein regime toppled by US and Coalition forces in 2003.

Since the elections in Zimbabawe on March 29 2008 more than 80 people have been murdered including opposition Movement for Democratic Change MDC leaders and other supporters, by Mugabes ZANU PF.

A leading Anglican bishop has called on British Christians to speak up about their faith in Jesus Christ.

Religious freedom that is conditional on being a member of the State religion is clearly not religious freedom.

Hundreds of Gospel music entertainers and artists recently performed during the Festival of Hope a massive free Gospel Music and Arts festival weekend along Hope Street in Liverpool Englands cultural quarter.

Children born to lesbian couples by IVF will no longer have the right to grow up knowing their father. MPs have voted for changes, which could see two women listed as parents on a child's birth certificate.

AntiChristian extremists are routinely attacking church and ministry related building projects throughout India.

The climate for evangelism in Germany has improved.

A school bus driver and amateur artist from the Chicago suburb of Zion has legally changed his name to In God We Trust.

Thousands of Christians will travel to the NEC Arena in Birmingham for the seventh annual prayer event Trumpet Call VII on Saturday June 21.

A ceremony to mark the beginning of the construction of Englands first Hindu state school has been held in London the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC reported on its website.

Parents could soon face penalties if their children persistently flout underage drinking laws according to press reports.

The House of Commons has voted to lower the age of consent in Northern Ireland from 17 to 16 in spite of opposition from a majority of local politicians and the public.

Scientists have taken another significant step away from using embryos in stem cell research as a new and safer alternative is discovered.

Almost nine in ten Conservative candidates for the next election support a reduction in the upper time limit for abortion a new survey claims.

A child with three genetic parents could be born within the next three years scientists have predicted.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission will investigate allegations that a police officer in Birmingham told two Christian church workers you cant preach here this is a Muslim area.

New ground was broken on Facebook this week with the launch of an area to promote networking and understanding across different faiths.

Boris Johnson the new London Mayor has praised the groups of volunteer Christian street pastors who now offer support to late night revellers in 70 areas of the country.

The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu, has accused the current Labour government of curtailing individual liberties overemphasising rights at the expense of responsibility and encouraging selfishness and greed.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced plans for an unprecedented mass walk of approximately 600 bishops archbishops and other UK faith leaders through central London during the forthcoming Lambeth Conference to demonstrate the Anglican Communions determination to help end extreme poverty.

On Thursday Gordon Brown and police and legal chiefs discussed plans to extend the presumption of prosecution in knife cases to include anyone of 16 or over.

Latest government figures show that nationally four out of ten teachers teach subjects for which theyre untrained.

More than a million children die annually from malaria.

The Archbishop of York leapt from 12500ft amid billowing orange smoke on Friday June 6th 2008 in a parachute jump for a military charity.

The British Government favors Islam and other minority religions while paying only lip service to Christianity according to a new Church of England report.

The Lords Prayer will be read in Aramaic at a special Mass celebrated by Cardinal Cormac Murphy OConnor at Westminster Cathedral next week in support of Iraqi Christians.

Fifty five leaders from 49 organizations met last week to ignite a global movement of visual story for the sake of Christs kingdom.

The Church of England is divided over a proposed motion urging it to proclaim Christianity as the only way to salvation and offer strategies on how to evangelize Muslims.

Two of the most senior figures in the Anglican Church have issued a powerful challenge to UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon to intervene in Zimbabwe.

A British based Christian charity organization Prospects dedicated to aiding those with learning disabilities lost the right to control its own hiring practices after The Employment Tribunal of Abergele.

Seventeen members of a closed monastic order have found unlikely fame at the top of the music charts.

Lebanon has celebrated the formation of a new cabinet of national unity and the selection of a new president.

Religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st century as political ideology was to the 20th century Tony Blair will say today.

Automatic excommunication will face women candidates and any Roman Catholic bishop who ordains them as priests the Vatican has announced.

Fathers are being airbrushed out of society warns a former leader of the Conservative Party.

The Manchester Velodrome plays host to a national prayer event next Tuesday where an expected 5K will gather to pray for our Nation.

The Bishop of Rochester the Rt Rev Michael Nazir Ali claims church leaders have failed to resist the steep decline in Christianitys influence over society.

Evangelical Alliance leader Joel Edwards has written an open letter to Channel 4 expressing disappointment with its recent Dispatches programme In God's Name and its claims that a growing band of Christian fundamentalists depicted by Stephen Green is trying to impose their will on society.

At the opening of the International Conference in Dublin on the use of cluster munitions the Irish Catholic Bishops Commission for Justice and Social Affairs and Trócaire the overseas development agency of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland called for a total ban on cluster bombs.

Thousands of Christians will meet with police officers politicians and VIPs at the Veladrome Manchester on Tuesday June 3 to pray for community transformation around the UK.

More than 80000 are said to be dead or missing after the earthquake in southern China.

Too few women occupy positions of power and influence in the church according to Keep the Faith an interdenominational magazine for Britains black majority churches.

Among cohabiting couples eight in ten want to marry but nearly a third say they cant afford it an Ipsos MORI poll indicates.

As over a million children sit their GCSE and A levels this month the Church of England has come to their aid with a suite of prayers.

Campaigners have vowed to continue their struggle on a string of issues relating to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill despite defeats on four central issues in the House of Commons.

Three in four abortions after 17 weeks of pregnancy are carried out privately because NHS doctors are increasingly reluctant to perform them.

A Christian registrar Lillian Ladele is presenting her case to an employment tribunal after her Council employers refused to grant her a conscience exemption from registering same sex unions.

The rector of one of Oxfords largest Anglican churches has called plans to broadcast a Muslim call to prayer from the citys main mosque unEnglish.

The Childrens Commissioner in Scotland Kathleen Marshall has faced criticism for backing Scottish Law Commission proposals to legalise sex between 13 to 15 year olds.

Former Conservative Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke has criticised the Government for only allowing limited free votes on certain issues in its flagship embryos Bill.

Seven in ten women think the abortion time limit should be decreased given survival rates of babies born before 24 weeks a new poll shows.

A London based hedge fund has invested 30 million in the online Christian video and social networking site GodTube.

In an echo of the first Pentecost thousands of Christians took to the streets of London last weekend in a celebration of the dynamic colour and diversity of the Christian faith.

The growing number of employers who allow workers to pray in the workplace are increasing staff loyalty according to an employment law specialist.

A letter sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Anglican Communions 800+ bishops reveals concerted efforts to avoid an acrimonious meltdown at Julys Lambeth Conference.

Muslims are converting to Christ in considerable numbers.

A Hamas TV programme claimed that the Holocaust was planned by the Jews themselves to make Jews seem persecuted so they could benefit from international sympathy, and to eliminate ‘disabled and handicapped’ Jews so they would not be a burden on the future state of Israel.

A new law in Britain making it an offence to incite hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation did not have a freedom of speech clause and there were fears it could be used to silence Christians expressing biblical views on homosexuality.

Prison officers unions claimed that because of overcrowding the prisons system was snowballing out of control.