Tags: Public services
Welsh Lib Dems call for hospital chaplains to be paid by charitable trust
At their conference in Brecon on 13th October, Welsh Liberal Democrat delegates voted in favour of a motion calling... Read More »
Plans to tax church property in Italy thrown out
Italy's Council of State rejected a decree this week aimed at ending an historic tax exemption for the Catholic Church,... Read More »
Charitable status of thousands of religious groups could be challenged
The Charity Commission is seeking to clarify the law on what constitutes a public benefit for charitable purposes... Read More »
Woking council to proceed with discriminatory 'free parking for faith groups' policy
Councillors in Woking have officially adopted a controversial new policy statement which gives free parking concessions... Read More »
Funding for school chaplains ruled illegal in Australia
A father of four from Toowoomba in Australia has won a High Court action challenging the Australian government's funding... Read More »
Evangelising GP disciplined by medical watchdog
A Margate GP who was accused of distressing one of his patients by inappropriately trying to evangelise him has received... Read More »
Compromise over cross at crematorium
As part of its recent £140,000 refurbishment of Haycombe Crematorium, Bath and North East Somerset Council removed... Read More »
Woking Council determined to keep free parking for “faith groups” only
Woking Borough Council in Surrey is to consider extending its policy of offering free parking to churchgoers to include... Read More »
Probation mentors lose ‘faith’!
Members of the Nottingham Secular Society became alarmed, early in March of this year, when the Nottinghamshire Probation... Read More »
We will pick up your VAT bill, Chancellor tells the Church
Places of worship have been singled out for preferential treatment following the removal of the zero VAT rating concession... Read More »
Who does the multi-faith prayer room belong to?
A religious conflict has arisen at a Dorset hospital over plans to convert its Christian chapel into a "multi-faith... Read More »
Protest as Gideons’ attempt to get Scottish police forces to hand out Bibles
Gideons International has offered commemorative editions of the New Testament and Psalms to the Scottish police forces... Read More »
Irish Government powerless to stop funding school chaplains
As Ireland sinks once more back into recession, the Department of Education has been told that it cannot legally cut... Read More »
You can trust us to run welfare services, say religious groups — but for how long?
New academic research released this week claims that welfare services provided by religious groups do not, on the... Read More »
Christians told: you don’t own the local crematorium
Christians are outraged that a window at a crematorium in Bath that is etched with a cross is to be removed and replaced... Read More »
Bishops lie about NSS chaplaincy campaign at the General Synod
The National Secular Society's campaign to get the church to pay the salary of their clergymen who are working in... Read More »
Parking privileges for churches challenged in Nottingham
Last year, Nottingham City Council decided to introduce charges for on-street parking on Sundays and evenings in the... Read More »
CofE takeover of schools progresses rapidly
A new secondary free school with a "Christian character" is being proposed in Hove,Sussex. It is apparently being... Read More »
8% of Australian schools opt for secular school support workers
About 200 schools around Australia are planning to stop employing religious chaplains, hiring secular welfare workers... Read More »
MoD spends £22 million a year on Christian chaplains
A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) by the NSS has revealed the Armed Forces spend £22... Read More »
