With regard to the registration of civil Partnerships in religious premises, William Fittall, Secretary General of the Archbishops Council and General Synod, warned that religious groups must continue to enjoy religious liberty.
Christians who wear crosses at work or discuss their beliefs with colleagues must have legal protection from persecution, demanded the Church of England.
Courts should have done more to protect Christians affected by equality laws, stated the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission in July. The Commission announced that it will intervene – for the benefit of religious people and others – in four religious liberty cases pending at the European Court of Human Rights. In August 2011 however, the Equality Commission posted a document on its website which suggested that they were not that sure any more. The Commission announced to launch a public consultation on the arguments it should make and therefore has abandoned for now the plan to call for a new “reasonable accommodation” principle to be introduced, arguing that “this idea needs more careful consideration”. Read the full story on: http://barnabasfund.org/UK/Act/Campaign/Operation-Nehemiah/Campaign-updates/UK-Equalities-watchdog-drops-plan-to-protect-Christians.html Read also: http://www.christian.org.uk/news/equality-commissioner-well-backtrack-on-religious-liberty/?e050811 Related: http://www.epolitix.com/1832-blog/blog-post/newsarticle/lib-dems-back-down-over-christian-rights/ For the initial news in July, please visit: www.christian.org.uk/news/equality-body-courts-have-failed-christians/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14116964 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013712/At-equality-police-decide-Christians-DO-right-follow-beliefs.html?printingPage=true
Jean-Pierre Denis, editor in chief of 'La Vie', says: "Christianity isn’t being violently rejected from the public sphere, but quietly banned from all areas of the collective memory, of all our cultural unconscious references. We are living through a denial process which is lead in a peaceful way, insidiously, and with politically correct manners."
"The quality of social and civil life and the quality of democracy depend in large measure on this 'critical' point - conscience, on the way it is understood and the way it is informed," he said to representatives of key sectors of Croatian society and the Diplomatic Corps during his two-day visit to Croatia.
A sociologist representing a European security organization says that the number of Christians killed each year for their faith is so high that it calculates to one martyr's life being taken every five minutes.
Spain is currently experiencing a "crisis of religious freedom by the development of an aggressive form of secularism which seeks to condemn Christians to a marginalization in public life." Spain is also a place of "a hostile attitude towards Christianity as shown by the desecrations... the contempt attitude displayed by officials... the development of a culture, through some media, through education and through legislations which aims to bring religion in Spain to a marginalized situation."
The Duchess of Cornwall said: “in our right to speak freely, please let us not become too politically correct, because surely political correctness is as severe a form of censorship as any”.
David Cameron believes Britain is a Christian country and says he cannot understand why there is any debate over Christian political involvement. Addressing church leaders at a Downing Street reception, the Prime Minister said that because “so many political questions are moral questions”, Christianity is already involved in politics.