<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/8726805/shattered cross 350x219.jpg" alt="cross broken shattered" class="ImageFloatRight"/>China continues to demonstrate its desire to eliminate the Christian Church.</p>
Reverend Bernard Randall, the former school chaplain for private boarding school Trent College. (Christian Concern)
A chaplain at a private boarding school who told kids it was “perfectly proper” to say gay sex is “morally problematic” is claiming he was discriminated against.
Reverend Bernard Randall, 48, was working at the elite Trent College in Nottingham, in 2019, when he decided to give a sermon to the children on LGBT+ rights.
The school had recently adopted the LGBT+ inclusion programme Educate and Celebrate, which provides training for school staff.
Claiming he was responding to a question by a student – “How come we are told we have to accept all this LGBT+ stuff in a Christian school?” – Randall told students: “You do not have to accept the ideas and ideologies of LGBT+ activists.”
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05-11-2021
China s Communist Party continues to crack down on independent house churches throughout the country.
Some religious rights observers report the limited tolerance granted to some of the churches before the rise of President Xi Jinping is rapidly coming to an end.
The magazine Bitter Winter reports the house churches must join the government-controlled Three-Self Church or go to jail. House churches are labeled as xie jiao, heterodox teachings, by the Chinese government and their elders and pastors prosecuted under Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code, originally conceived to crack down on banned new religious movements.
Back in 2017, President Xi ordered that all religions must Sinicize to see that they are loyal to the officially atheistic party. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has severely cracked down on human rights, religious freedom, and freedom of expression. Christians are experiencing some of the worst persecution in decades.