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Kemi Badenoch ‘understands  Christian values’

Kemi Badenoch ‘understands Christian values’

Emily Pollok
Emily Pollok

David Burrowes, former Tory MP and Co-Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, says new party leader Kemi Badenoch understands the importance of Christian values.

‘Kemi Badenoch has grown up in a Christian household and knows about the importance of Christian values as the foundation of family and community life,’ he said. ‘CCF looks forward to helping her renewal of Conservatism by listening to Britain’s faith communities about what the previous government got wrong and what we need to do to put it right.’

Swiss Christian political party oppose Eurovision in Basel

Swiss Christian political party oppose Eurovision in Basel

Emily Pollok
Emily Pollok

The Federal Democratic Union (EDU), a Swiss Christian-conservative political party, is opposing the use of taxpayer money to fund the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Basel next May.

Dubbed 'a propaganda show' by the EDU, the international singing competition has been criticised by the group as promoting blasphemy, Satanism, and antisemitism in recent years.

After COP 29: evangelical scientist claims ‘history on our side’

After COP 29: evangelical scientist claims ‘history on our side’

Emily Pollok
Emily Pollok

‘Gravity, history, and progress’ make the drive to clean and green energy unstoppable, says leading evangelical climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe as the COP 29 gathering concluded.

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference began on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan and ended on 22 November.

Only Christ truly transforms inmates, says prison governor as she steps down

Only Christ truly transforms inmates, says prison governor as she steps down

Emily Pollok
Emily Pollok

Coming to faith in Christ is the only thing that really transforms people in prison, says a Christian ex-jail governor.

Susie Richardson, Jersey’s prison governor for the past three years, stepped down from her post last month, closing the chapter on a 20-year career in the prison system.

Civil servants sued for saying sex is binary

Civil servants sued for saying sex is binary

Emily Pollok
Emily Pollok

Two civil servants for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are facing legal action over allegations of discrimination against transgender people.

A colleague of Andreas Meuller and Elspeth Drummer-Wrigley, who currently remains anonymous, thinks the pair should be reprimanded for their view that transgender people can’t change their sex, The Telegraph reported. Mueller and Drummer-Wrigley are co-chairs of the Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN), a department of Defra the claimant is now calling to be shut down.

'Trust God to work, no matter who is in office'

'Trust God to work, no matter who is in office'

Emily Pollok
Emily Pollok

In what was expected to be a narrowly won election, former US President Donald Trump declared victory Wednesday morning after securing crucial ground in the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.

Speaking from Florida, the 47th US president addressed supporters promising to deliver the golden age of America over his next term in office. 'Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason and that reason was to save our country and restore America to greatness, and now we are going to fulfil that mission together,' the President said.