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It was: 150 years ago, on 17th Feb 1870 that the Elementary Education Act (commonly known as Forster’s Education Act) was introduced in England and Wales.  It provided a framework for the education of all children aged between five and 12.  Many people objected to it, including the upper classes who wanted to keep educational...

Saying Yes to Life – The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2020 Reflections for Lent 2020 The Heart Of It All – the Bible’s Big Picture You Are Mine:  Daily Bible readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day A Prayer A Day – From Lent To Easter Looking Shame in the Eye The Jesus Way...

Eight months since Asia Bibi fled Pakistan, blasphemy laws cause for concern Church ordered to replace name sign with political slogan Nigeria named as key Christian persecution hotspot in 2020 Church Action on Poverty Sunday – 23rd February Anxious and lonely?  Come to church! How do you feel about sharing your faith? New research highlights...

Anne Frank, the Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim, died 75 years ago, in February 1945, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15 – probably from typhus. She is known for writing The Diary of a Young Girl, an account of how she and seven others were hidden in a secret annex to...

Eric Liddell, the Scottish athlete who became a 400-metre Olympic gold medallist in 1924, died 75 years ago, on 21st February 1945, in a Japanese internment camp in China. He was 43 and had a brain tumour. Because of his Christian convictions he had withdrawn from the 100-metre heats in the 1924 Paris Olympics because...

New reports have highlighted continuing concern over Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, eight months after Asia Bibi was finally allowed to leave the country. The reports came from sources as diverse as the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCRIF) and Humanists International. The USCIRF reports there are still 80 people in Pakistan imprisoned on blasphemy charges....

Chinese authorities have forced a church in Jiangxi province to paint over its name and replace it with a communist slogan, “Follow the Party, Obey the Party, and Be Grateful to the Party,” amid increasing attempts by officials to ‘sinicise’ (make Chinese) Christianity. Late last year The True and Original Source of the Universe church...

By Ruth Valerio  £7.99  SPCK  Saying Yes to Life lifts our focus from natural, everyday concerns to issues that are having an impact on millions of lives around the world. As people made in the image of God, we are entrusted to look after what He has created: to share in God’s joy and ingenuity in...

Nelson Mandela, who led the movement to end South African apartheid, was released from prison 30 years ago this month, on 11th February 1990. He became President of South Africa in 1994. Mandela had been involved with the African National Congress since 1944, advocating non-violent resistance. But after the Sharpeville massacre of peaceful demonstrators in...

As late last year Islamic State released a video claiming to show the killing of 11 Christians in Nigeria, persecution watchdog Release International named Nigeria as a country of special concern for 2020. Other persecution hotspots are likely to include Iran, Iraq, China and India. A splinter group of Boko Haram produced the video claiming...

By Steven Croft, Christopher Herbert and John Pritchard, CHP, £4.99 Reflections for Lent is designed to enhance your spiritual journey through the forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (26 February – 11 April 2020). Covering Monday to Saturday each week, it offers reflections on readings from the Common Worship Lectionary, written by some...