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  • 17 Jan
    2007
    Church adopts 'three-tier' discrimination for school admissions

    The Church of England has adopted a 'three-tier' discimination policy, aimed at continuing to give preferential treatment in school admissions for those linked to churches.

  • 27 Oct
    2006
    Government U-turn on Faith Schools

    Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley: "The Government's u-turn over faith schools is a symptom of the 'New Deal' that has been struck between faith groups and government.

  • 27 Oct
    2006
    U-turn on faith schools a symptom of undesirable 'New Deal'

    The scrapping of plans to require new faith schools in England to raise intakes from other religions is a sign of an emerging, but undesirable and problematic 'New Deal' between faith groups and government, the think tank Ekklesia has today warned.

  • 29 Sep
    2006
    Boy banned from bus because he is not baptised

    A boy who suffers from asthma has been refused a place on a school bus and told that he must walk six miles home because he is not a Christian.

  • 29 Sep
    2006
    Joint call on DfES to rule out 'creationist' teaching

    The UK Christian think tank Ekklesia and the British Humanist Association have today written to Education Minister Alan Johnson asking him to ensure that their guidelines are explicit in requiring teachers to maintain a wholly scientific perspective on the matter of the origin of species by evolution.

  • 22 Sep
    2006
    Beyond belief by Alex Klaushofer - The Guardian, 22 September 2006
    Religious groups and secularists can make room for each other in public life, writes Alex Klaushofer.
  • 14 Jun
    2006
    Faith and Politics After Christendom

    This book examines the changing relationship between faith and politics. For the best part of 1700 years, the institutional church has enjoyed a hand-in-hand relationship with government. Indeed, the church has often been seen as the glue that has stopped political systems from disintegrating into anarchy. But in this post-Christendom era the relation of Church and State has weakened to the point where the church can no longer claim to play any significant part in Government. What does the future hold? Where is it all heading? What should be done in the face of radicalised religion?

    Jonathan Bartley
  • 14 Jun
    2006
    Churches should not force school worship

    The UK Christian-think tank Ekklesia has said that the latest call from the Church of England and other denominations for more emphasis on legally- enforced ‘collective worship' in English schools is misplaced.

  • 14 Jun
    2006
    Churches told collective school worship is not on

    You cannot make Christian or any other kind of worship mandatory in public institutions, and confusing worship with a collective assembly or with broad spiritual and moral development of school children is a mistake - that has been the response of both religious and non-religious groups to a statement this week from five denominations calling on the government to strengthen daily 'collective worship' in England's publicly-funded schools.

  • 12 Dec
    2005
    Humanists and Christians argue against faith schools

    The British Humanist Association (BHA) has added its voice to teachers' unions and some Christians warning against the possibility of segregation and sectarianism resulting from the UK government's new Schools White Paper.

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