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'Parents feel such pressure to be friends with their children and to just go along with them. Actually it's healthy to discipline them for things they do wrong - they appreciate it. They need clear boundaries of right and wrong.'

Three schools in Scotland are officially recognising 'species dysphoria' in children who identify as wolves and other animals. Tim Dieppe was on Premier Christian Radio with youth pastor Sarah Williams and host Esther Higham to discuss godly ways in which parents should respond to schools and point their children to God's design - in his image, male and female.

Steve Beegoo was in conversation with former Labour MP Stephen Pound and Esther Higham about the overlooked problems in Labour's proposed tax on private schools, and how it would disproportionally penalise faith-based, special needs and small private schools.

Christian schools, parents and pupils, being supported by Christian Legal Centre, say they will pursue a judicial review as opposition to Labour’s policy grows:

https://christianconcern.com/news/labours-vat-policy-to-face-judicial-review/

30 September

Premier Christian Radio

"We don't legalise to kill in this country. It would be devastating not just for those who are saying they want it, but for those who are in difficult situations and need to be told: You are beautiful, you are dignified, there is hope."

Ahead of the first reading of Kim Leadbeater's bill to legalise assisted suicide on Wednesday 16 October, our Chief Executive Andrea Williams speaks with LBC about the far-reaching consequences of a change in law, seen in countries where it has been legalised.

She speaks of the truly compassionate alternative - help and community which bring hope and beauty to those in despair.

Residents have been told that being on private property is no bar to prosecution under the new abortion law in Scotland. A letter sent to residents in an Edinburgh “safe access zone,” seen by The Telegraph, warned they could face criminal prosecution if they do “anything” that “would cause harassment, alarm, or distress” to staff and women seeking abortions.

Andrea Williams tells Premier Christian Radio why we have always opposed the implementation of buffer zones around abortion facilities, and shares about countless arrests that have been made for praying silently or holding a sign within the area.

Christian schools, parents and pupils, being supported by Christian Legal Centre, say they will pursue a Judicial Review as opposition to Labour’s policy grows. Caroline Santer, Headteacher at The King’s School in Hampshire, was on Times Radio Breakfast this morning to discuss with Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell.

Find out more on our website: https://christianconcern.com/news/labours-vat-policy-to-face-judicial-review/

Read the article on The Times: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/private-christian-schools-to-sue-government-over-vat-plans-tk7lls3vb

Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre speaks to Martin Stanford live on LBC outside the Court of Appeal as Kristie Higgs prepares to enter for a precedent-setting challenge for the expression of Christian belief and free speech at large.

The Court will determine whether it is lawful for an employer to punish employees for private social media posts expressing beliefs on religious, political and moral issues.

The case will have significant ramifications for Christian freedom in the workplace and the freedom of any employee to express biblical principles on sexuality, marriage and family, without the fear of losing their livelihoods.

The hearing is the culmination of a five-year legal battle.

Find out more:

https://christianconcern.com/comment/kristie-higgs-why-her-case-matters-for-christian-freedoms/

Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre have supported Kristie’s case for five years. We need your help to keep supporting Kristie and other Christians like her.

Could you help by making a donation today?

https://mailchi.mp/christianconcern/stand-with-kristie-for-freedom

"There are people who are alive today because volunteers kindly offered an alternative to women who were desperate and saw abortion as the only option.

"Why should it be a criminal offence in anywhere in the UK to pray about anything you like in your mind?"

Censorship zones around abortion facilities will come into force at the end of October 2024. Tim Dieppe was on LBC with Nick Ferrari to talk about why we have opposed this legislation since its introduction under the previous Conservative government.

Our head of public policy Tim Dieppe was on BBC Radio 4 with Edward Stourton, commenting on the use of cathedrals and places of worship for God's glory alone.

Rev. Dr Bernard Randall spoke with Lembit Öpik about the Church of England's safeguarding case blacklisting and barring him from ministry for almost five years now, which a legal advisor described as "egregious and the error gross”.

Sign this petition calling on Archbishop Justin Welby to publicly apologise and give Bernard his life back: https://citizengo.org/en-gb/fr/13759-apologise-to-wrongly-blacklisted-chaplain-and-give-bernard-his-life-back

In 2019/20 Dr Randall was sacked for a sermon he gave on the Church of England's teaching on marriage in a Church of England chapel in a school with a Church of England ethos. Dr Randall had given the sermon following discredited and extreme gender identity group, Educate and Celebrate, being invited into the school to, in their words, ‘smash heteronormativity.’ He has been legally prevented from giving a sermon since losing his job at the school.

'They saved my daughter's life. If a buffer zone was in place I would not have my best friend today,' said 'Sarah'. In 2017 she came across pro-life campaigners while visiting an abortion facility and accepted their offer of accommodation and financial support in order to keep her baby.

“The implementation of buffer zones around the country is a step backwards for freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to pray,” our chief executive, Andrea Williams told the BBC. “We can’t criminalise the mere presence of people.”