Advice UK Cuts Ties With Christian Charity For Offering Prayer To Clients

ICC Note

“This is a very sad development and further highlights how intolerant our society has become to the Christian faith. There is increasingly a chilling notion prevailing that there is something wrong, something sinister, about being motivated by faith.”

09/05/2011 UK (Christian Concern)-Advice UK, the largest support network for free advice centres in the UK, has pushed out a Christian debt counselling charity from its membership for offering to pray with clients suffering from debt problems.

Despite being an active member of Advice UK for six years, Christians Against Poverty (“CAP”) was forced to leave Advice UK as they were told that its prayer offer was “incompatible” with the organisation’s membership criteria.

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Andrea Williams, director of the Christian Legal Centre, said:

“This is a very sad development and further highlights how intolerant our society has become to the Christian faith. There is increasingly a chilling notion prevailing that there is something wrong, something sinister, about being motivated by faith.

“It should come as no surprise that an organisation with the term “Christian” in its name may have a Christian ethos and may offer prayer alongside its primary services.”

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