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Thursday, April 23, 2026
Worship Yes BUT Growing Cultural Pressure.
Christians in UK feel free to worship but sense growing cultural pressure - report.
(Photo: Getty/iStock)Christians in the UK can largely practise their faith openly and without legal restriction, but many are increasingly concerned about a cultural shift affecting these freedoms, according to a new report by the Evangelical Alliance.
The study titled, Confident Faith, Contested Culture, is based on a survey of 884 evangelical Christians across the UK conducted in late 2025, alongside additional polling of nearly 1,500 respondents.
It paints a nuanced picture of religious life in modern Britain, noting that Christians continue to worship, pray, read scripture and share their faith openly in churches, schools, workplaces, universities, homes and online, with freedoms described as “real, meaningful and worthy of gratitude".
The report highlights that while rights remain enshrined, many Christians feel the cultural climate is shifting.
As the report states: “This tension – between objective freedoms and subjective experience – sits at the heart of this report.”
Survey data shows that more than 88% of evangelicals believe they can openly practise their faith in the UK. Yet nearly half (48%) report that expressing those beliefs in public has become more difficult over the past five years. This perceived difficulty is not primarily linked to legal changes, but to cultural shifts.
Respondents pointed to increasing sensitivity around social issues such as sexuality and gender, increasing social polarisation, and the amplifying effect of social media.
The findings suggest a gap between formal rights and "perceptions of pressure, marginalisation and misunderstanding are increasing".
While most Christians acknowledge their freedoms, many (41%) approach public expressions of faith more cautiously.
Over three quarters (79%) said they felt able to speak out publicly on issues in line with their faith, but a notable minority said they feel unable to do so, often citing worries about being misunderstood, harming relationships, or not knowing how to voice their views without being perceived negatively.
The report frames this as a discipleship issue, finding that many Christians want to speak but feel “ill-equipped to navigate complex cultural conversations”.
The report also explores how Christians experience public life and employment.
Almost half of respondents believe there are greater difficulties for Christians in visible roles such as politics, education and media, where scrutiny of beliefs - particularly around marriage and sexuality - can be intense.
Simultaneously, 16% of respondents saw visibility as bringing greater opportunities to speak about faith, with the report noting that “visibility increases both opportunity and vulnerability.”
Some respondents pointed to disadvantages, including “negative stereotypes and media portrayals,” while others highlighted the continued influence of Christianity on UK institutions and culture as a source of “familiarity and legitimacy".
In the workplace, a majority – 60% - report that they are comfortable being open about their faith, often describing it as shaping qualities such as “integrity, compassion, patience and perseverance".
However, a significant minority (24%) report hesitation, with some experiencing criticism or social exclusion.
Although fewer than 5% reported hate crime, around 35% said they had encountered non-criminal hostility, including verbal abuse, social pressure and negative assumptions about their beliefs.
The report emphasises that hostility is usually “relational, cultural and reputational”, not legal.
At the same time, the report suggests there are strong relational opportunities for sharing faith.
Many respondents said they feel equipped to speak about their beliefs, particularly with atheists, agnostics, Muslims and Jews, and the majority anticipate a favourable response from friends (80%) and family, though workplace reactions are seen as more uncertain (30%).
Many respondents described positive relationships and a general openness to conversations about faith.
The study also highlights concern among evangelicals about the rise of Christian nationalism.
Awareness is high, with 92% familiar with the concept, and more than 64% expressing concern about its influence in the UK.
While many affirmed Christianity’s historic role in shaping the nation - with around 85% recognising its influence on political culture - the report notes “significant caution about merging national identity too closely with religious identity".
Evangelical political engagement remains varied, with voting patterns described as “politically diverse and volatile".
Almost half of respondents said they had changed their voting preference since the 2024 general election.
In its conclusion, the report states: “For many evangelical Christians, the challenge is less about what the law says and more about how their conviction is perceived and received in an increasingly contested cultural landscape.”
This environment, the report suggests, can lead some believers to “self-censor or withdraw” from public conversations out of concern for relationships or professional consequences.
Despite these pressures, the report points to ongoing opportunities, highlighting openness, curiosity and spiritual searching among the public.
It ultimately calls for a shift away from simply defending religious freedom towards building confidence - “confidence to live faithfully, to speak respectfully and to contribute constructively to a diverse and democratic society.”
CT.
Nearly Half of All Violent Crime Suspects in Germany are Foreign Nationals. Kurt Zindulka. Breitbart.
Will it be a great deal different here, I wonder?
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2 Peter 3 - WARNING!
10) But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
Racism of The Left.
Shabana Mahmood has exposed the racism of the Left.
Ethnic minorities who stray from progressive narratives on immigration face swift and punitive responses from supposed allies
The Home Secretary has hit back at white liberals who try to put her ‘in a box’ Credit: Anadolu
Shabana Mahmood has said the quiet part out loud. For months the Home Secretary has endured the insinuation she is betraying the Left-wing cause, not simply by calling for some control over our dysfunctional and widely abused immigration system but for doing so as a member of an ethnic minority.
Heckled this week for apparently attempting to “out-Reform Reform”, the Home Secretary finally snapped back. “I do think there is that element of [this criticism] which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’”
Mahmood’s predecessor but three, Suella Braverman, recently told me that when she famously warned of an “invasion of the southern coast”, her Tory colleagues responded in Westminster’s usual fashion – by averting eyes and pretending not to hear. What Mahmood faces, as a Labour politician, might well be worse. In modern progressive politics there are approved positions, and approved people to hold them. Step outside your lane and the reaction will be both swift and unforgiving.
We’ve seen this dynamic before. When minorities stray from the prescribed narrative of oppression and disadvantage the response is rarely measured; it is immediate, and almost always punitive.
Sir Trevor Phillips, former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a veteran voice for reason in racial matters, raised concerns about integration and community cohesion, only to be suspended from the Labour Party. As chair of the Race and Ethnic Disparities Commission, the courageous Lord Sewell oversaw a report that concluded Britain was not structurally racist and was met with accusations ranging from naivety to something very like treason.
I spoke to Tony Sewell earlier this month. Unfazed, he made a point that would propel some of the progressive commentariat into orbit: that many British Muslims would probably have voted for Margaret Thatcher. Family, aspiration, community, responsibility – these are not values held dear by white Britons alone. Yet parts of the Left still behave as though ethnic minorities must, by default, belong on “their side”.
Implicit in this is the patronising assumption that minorities are defined by disadvantage – and an intellectual laziness that reduces individuals to an often unwished-for group identity. The same shoddy group-think is now trying to impose the term “global majority”, lumping together Chinese, Bangladeshis, West Africans, Latin Americans and other wildly disparate individuals defined only by being non-white, and therefore having some form of victimhood in common.
But here’s the thing. If the country is no longer institutionally racist – though racism and racial disparities plainly still persist – what happens to the politics built around exposing it? Parts of the Left appear trapped in a kind of nostalgia, living in some romantic fantasy of structural oppression – a playground of goodies and baddies which bears little resemblance to the complexity of contemporary Britain.
The result is distortion and caricature. Hence we’re warned that astrophysics is racist, along with the countryside and even niceness (“Black academics told being ‘nice’ perpetuates ‘white supremacy’”, read one recent headline).
This isn’t the only consequence. Judging by the number of times he’s labelled me a “fascist”, Zack Polanski appears to believe anyone who thinks annual net migration of 906,000 might be a tad high holds “extreme” views. The Left does this to silence dissent, yet remain curiously silent when genuinely offensive, conspiratorial opinions are expressed.
One Green Party candidate called David Lammy a “coconut”; another claimed that 9/11 “was done by the Zionists with Dick Cheney as their executing authority”. A third once posted on Instagram a picture of the Earth entangled in a giant, fang-toothed serpent with the Star of David printed on its skin. The caption? “It’s time to cut the head off this snake.”
Worryingly, this re-racialisation of public life, and the slow erosion of our meritocracy, is being reframed as “progress”. Those who object are met with accusations of extremism, or the familiar charge of “out-Faraging Farage”. Yet such labels carry diminishing force in a political landscape where Reform consistently leads the polls. Britain’s “debates” about race and identity seem to be drifting ever further from reality.
DT.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Yes and Please Pray Too For Sudan.
Christians call on British government to help end Sudan war.
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Sudan has been in a state of civil war for most of its post-independence history.
The End of The Road For Socialist Governments in Spain?
A survey in Spain found some 80.5 percent of individuals aged 17 – 25 reject the socialist government’s mass amnesty plans for half a million illegal migrants, the digital newspaper El Español reported on Sunday.
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The survey was conducted by the polling and research firm SocioMétrica for El Español between April 15 and 18 — the same week that the socialist government led by Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez began its mass amnesty process to benefit 500,000 illegal migrants in Spain with legal residence and work permits.
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The Spanish government launched the highly criticized amnesty process despite a fierce rejection from the nation’s population and parliament.
Demoralised But NOT Apathetic.
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Can Anybody Possibly Be Surprised?
Green Party Supporters Least Tolerant of Other People’s Opinions, Research Finds.
Green Party voters and the highly educated are those most likely to say they feel intolerant of other people’s opinions, research in Germany shows.
Be Aware.
SongBird Survival.
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