United Kingdom

'You cannot and should not extract these Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes.' 

Bishops and MPs last night attacked a landmark ruling banning local councils from saying prayers during meetings as an assault on Britain’s Christian heritage.

George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, has warned there are 'deep forces at work in Western society' that are degrading the values of Christianity after a High Court ruling banned public prayers from council meetings.

‘It’s a shame the courts have taken sides with those whose goal is to undermine our Christian heritage. It is high time Parliament put a stop to this assault upon our national heritage.’

Christian couple lost their appeal against a decision to fine them for not letting same-sex couple stay at their guesthouse.The Christian couple said their decision not to rent for the gay couple emanates from their religious convictions. Christian human right activists fear that such decisions threaten religious freedom.

UK's advertising watchdog (ASA) told the Christian group not to advertise about prayers healing the sick. The Christian group has appealed the decision of the watchdog.

Peter Tatchell,a well-known homosexual activist, offers to defend a Christian employee who was demoted from his work for commenting on civil partnership for homosexual. Tatchell defends the right of the Christian man to express his opinion on homosexuality.

Religious groups are boycotting Tesco after a senior executive at the supermarket giant described Christians as “evil” for opposing gay marriage.

“I’m also campaigning against evil Christians (that’s not all Christians, just bad ones) who think that gay people should not lead happy lives and get married to their same-sex partners.”

There has been several cases in which the UK courts failed to protect the rights of Christians to practice their faith. Some of those cases are now going before the European Court of Human Rights. The UK gov't said it won't back the rights of the Christians before the European court.

“The real danger is the possibility of churches being sued under the Equality Act for refusing to host civil partnerships."

There has been sveral cases of marginalization of Christians in UK. A Parliamentary Inquiry is investigating the margnalization.

The report from Premier Christian Media attributes feelings of marginalisation to growing secularism and sensationalist media coverage of equality cases involving Christians.

Christian groups say that UK's Christians are facing "biggest challenge in the last 400 years" as they face discrimination. UK's parliamentary inquiry is looking into the rising persecution that UK Christians face.

“Gay rights campaigners have made astonishing progress in recent years — to the point when we need to remind ourselves that other people have rights too, and that we campaign against bullying, not for it.”