Christians across the UK took a stand for their faith yesterday with the launch of the nationwide Not Ashamed campaign.
The campaign is being spearheaded by Christian Concern and has the support of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey.
Christian Concern said it wanted the campaign to spark a “robust”
national debate about the place of the Christian faith in modern
Britain.
Lord Carey has written a leaflet to support the campaign in which he
warns that Britain’s rich Christian legacy in many aspects of society,
from the legal system, to healthcare, education and culture, is “under
attack”.
He says that cases of teachers and council employees being suspended
for offering prayer and bans on wearing the cross in the workplace are
evidence that Christianity is being “stealthily and subtly brushed
aside” in Britain.
“This attempt to ‘air-brush’ the Christian faith out of the picture is especially obvious as Christmas approaches,” he writes.
“The cards that used to carry Christmas wishes now bear ‘Season’s
greetings’. The local school nativity play is watered down or
disappears altogether. The local council switches on ‘Winter lights’ in place of Christmas
decorations. Even Christmas has become something of which some are
ashamed. So, it appears that flowing from a combination of well-meaning
political correctness, multiculturalism and overt opposition to
Christianity, a new climate, hostile to our country’s tradition and
history, is developing.”
More than 15,000 Christians have signed the Not Ashamed Declaration
of Christian Hope, which calls on the government, employers and other
leaders to protect the freedom of Christians “to participate in public
life without compromising biblical values” and to promote Christian
values.
Other supporters of the campaign include the former Bishop of
Rochester the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the head of Barnabas Fund Dr
Patrick Sookhdeo, and the Bishop of Peterborough the Rt Rev Donald
Allister.
As part of the Not Ashamed, Christians will be contacting their MPs
and writing to their local newspapers to highlight the campaign and its
aims.
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