Key Quotes for 2011

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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Faith is a “civilising force”, the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said. While launching his faith foundation in the Ukraine, Blair told an audition of 400 students in Kiev about the value of improving relations between different faiths. Echoing Gandhi, Blair said: “in the end things can change but not unless there are people committed to doing it. It is your generation who will make the difference. If you don’t think the world you live in is perfect get involved and make it better.”
What famous people sayChurch Of England June 10, 2011
 
The BBC conducted a survey as part of its Diversity Strategy. Its conclusion: “In terms of religion, there were many who perceived the BBC to be anti-Christian and … misrepresenting Christianity.” The BBC’s reaction to its own consultation? “The BBC does not have an anti-Christian bias. We have strict editorial guidelines on impartiality, including religious perspectives.”
MediaThe Universe June 12, 2011
 
Pope Benedict urged young Catholics not to live together before marriage during a strong defence of the family he made during his visit to Croatia. “Be courageous,” the Pope said. “Do not give in to that secularised mentality which proposes living together as a preparation or even a substitute for marriage. Show by the witness of your lives that it is possible like Christ, to love without reserve, and do not be afraid to make a commitment to another person,” He also urged them to support the irreplaceable value of the family founded upon matrimony.
FamilyThe Universe June 12, 2011
 
A US style National Crime Agency will have the power to step in to directly task and coordinate police forces in a bid to tackle organised crime, the home secretary said.
Theresa May, said too many of the 6,000 organised crime gangs in the UK were escaping justice and a tough new approach was needed.”
CrimeThe Sentinel June 9, 2011
 
Church leaders have denounced the government’s decision to spend £3 billion on a Nuclear weapons system. The government has delayed a final vote on buying a replacement for the Trident weapons system until 2016, but Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, has announced his approval of the initial £3 billion phase of production.
Disasters/WarKeeping The Faith Issue 66
 
The BBC will apologise to fashion chain Primark after an investigation found an award-winning Panorama programme about the firm “more likely than not” included faked footage of child labour. It states the activity being carried out by the boys “did not appear to the committee to be genuine”.
MediaThe Sentinel June 17, 2011
 
According to Tearfund’s statistics, 28% of our neighbours are people who have left church and now want nothing more to do with it. 32% are anti-church, having never been part of a church and never want to. However, 3% were identified as willing to come along to church if they were asked.
ChurchChristianity July 2011
 
A Christian doctor with a 27-year career faces being struck off the medical register for sharing his faith with a patient, even after he obtained permission to do so. Dr Richard Scott said he has shared his faith with thousands of people over the years and many had been greatly helped by this, particularly those with addictions. He said he had received very few complaints.
Social IssuesChristianity July 2011
 
Pilgrims are flowing back to the traditional site of Jesus’ baptism on the Jordan river as Israel removes 40-year-old land mines and improves the area, but barbed wire and armed soldiers testify to the area’s tense past. Jewish tradition holds this also is where the ancient Israelites crossed into the Promised Land following their flight from Egypt.
Visitors have tripled since 2004, reaching almost 60,000 in 2010 and some 44,000 during the first four months of 2011 said manager Saar Kfir, who works in the Civil Administration.
Travel/TourismLife And Work July 2011
 
A campaign to get Religious Education included in the new school system has now gained more than 130,000 signatures, which may prompt a House of Commons debate. The coalition government’s proposals for the new Baccalaureate did not include RE but the RE:ACT campaign, organised by Premier Christian Media, is pushing to get it included. Prime Minister David Cameron had previously promised that petitions with more than 100,000 signatures would get a House of Commons debate.
PoliticsChristianity July 2011
 
Iranian news agency Mohabat News reported a Muslim cleric, Ayotallah Sobhani, as saying that about 600 people have converted to Christianity in the city of Neyshabour.
Open Doors International which provides training and support for Muslim converts in Iran, credits the conversions to Christian satellite TV stations and the Internet. ‘One burglar stumbled upon a sermon in the Farsi language while trying out his stolen satellite dish,’ states a report from the charity. ‘After giving his life to Christ, he told his friends, who also worked in the world of crime, and today they form a house church of 12’.
Religion/SpiritualityChristianity July 2011
 
Thieves are targeting churches in Gloucester, Wiltshire and Bristol for their Cotswold stone roof tiles, says specialist church insurance company Ecclesiastical.
CrimeThe War Cry June 2011
 
Algerian Christians have appealed for urgent prayer after the police ordered the closure of churches across the country. The head of the Algerian Protestant Church Association – to which the majority of Algerian churches belong – received a notice, dated May 22, from a High Police Commissioner informing him that a decision had been made to close down all Christian places of worship in the country that are not designated for religious purposes.
Religious PersecutionLife And Work July 2011
 
A film about Kimani Ng’ang’a Maruge, an 84-year-old man who enrolled in primary school in 2003 so he could learn to read the Bible was released in New York and Los Angeles in May. Directed by Justin Chadwick and written by Ann Peacock, “The First Grader” is set in a remote primary school in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province. According to a statement on the National Geographic Entertainment website, Capella University will make a $0.50 donation – up to a total of $50,000 – to three charitable organisations each time the movie’s trailer is viewed on YouTube.
MediaLife And Work July 2011
 
The Church of Scotland General Trustees have warned of an alarming rise in lead and copper thefts from church roofs. The chairman of the General Trustees, the Rev Jim Jack, told May’s General assembly that they were hearing of thefts ‘on a weekly basis’. The amounts taken range from small pieces of flashing to several tonnes of lead.
CrimeLife And Work July 2011
 
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