Tag Archives: religious persecution

The Impossible Becomes Real: Sermon Preached on 30th July 2023 (8th Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on July 30, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

If you told most people thousands of Iranians were becoming Christians, they’d tell you you were mad. Continue reading →

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Loving One’s Enemies: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 26th December 2021 (St Stephen’s Day)

Posted on December 26, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – Acts 7: 51–60 , Matthew 10: 17–22 Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them.’ Some of you will have heard the news that Archbishop Desmond Tutu … Continue reading →

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Sexual and Religious Freedoms: the First Casualties of Russian Crimea?

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Gerry Lynch

The excellent Forum 18 organisation, which supports freedom of religious belief and disbelief in Europe and Asia, reports a recent wave of harrasment of and raids on premises owned by Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses in what is now Russian-controlled Crimea. … Continue reading →