The Government News Network has announced the formation of a "Faith and Social Cohesion Unit" as a new initiative of the Charities Commission. (
Charity Regulator reaches out to faith-based charities). The press release says:
The new Faith and Social Cohesion Unit will lead the Commission's work with faith-based charities, building on the findings of a two year programme of workshops with representatives from over 800 faith-based organisations across 11 different faiths. Events were held with Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu and Buddhist communities as well as special meetings with the UK's smaller faiths such as Baha'i and Zoroastrianism, and a special multi-faith event for women only.
As the
Lawyers' Christian Fellowship have observed:
It is of great concern to note that over the last 2 years no specific mention at all is made of any consultations with Christian organisations or faith groups apart from in the development of a model governing document for independent evangelical churches in 2004.
The
Faith and Social Cohesion Unit website reports on feedback from the events held with Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist and Hindu charities.
3 comments:
Dear Fr. Tim
Although we should be used to this kind of bias by now, it is still startling to see such a blatant example.
I have contacted the Charities Commission to ask if their failure to mention Christianity on the website of their "Faith and Social Cohesion" unit is an oversight or a policy.
Thank you for drawing attention to this, as to so many things.
Yours in the Lord
Fr. Andrew Pinsent
"multi-faith event for women only"
Sounds a lot like some modern Catholic Churches to me...
Fr. Tim,
This deliberate and specific ignoring of Christ and Christianity is now a very serious problem, and it’s getting worse all the time. I find it especially noticeable in the Christmas period.
Here in Canada, under the guise of multiculturalism and on the pretext of “not offending” people of non-Western backgrounds, all public mention of Christmas is slowly but surely being abolished. My company’s office Christmas party and Christmas lunch are now, officially, the “Winterfest” and the “Holiday Lunch.” We had the latter today. Our CEO (of English ancestry) made a short speech in which he was straining to find every single non-religious synonym or euphemism for CHRISTMAS. He couldn’t even bring himself to utter the word, and he concluded his address by wishing everyone “Happy holidays.”
I know for a fact that my immediate colleagues who are Jewish or Muslim aren’t the least bit offended by the notion of CHRISTMAS. The only people who take offence are those with a militant secularist agenda.
We all know what it feels like to be blanked or deliberately ignored by someone—it’s highly insulting and offensive. So we can guess how Christ feels at this trend towards ousting him completely from the feast of his Nativity. You realize that Western “civilization” is living on borrowed time when it defies God and squanders its spiritual heritage in this totally brazen fashion.
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