{"id":313,"date":"2014-08-27T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/08\/27\/militant-secularisation-threat-to-religion\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T10:40:15","slug":"militant-secularisation-threat-to-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/militant-secularisation-threat-to-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Militant Secularisation Threat to Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"color: #696969;\"><strong><a href=\"..\/sites\/default\/files\/The%20Houses%20of%20Parliament%20in%20London_0.jpg\"><\/a>14 February 2012 London, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/span> [BBC News] Britain is under threat from a rising tide of &#8220;militant secularisation&#8221;, Baroness Warsi and a conservative cabinet minister wrote in an article for the Daily Telegraph. Religion is being &#8220;sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere&#8230; Europe needed to become &#8216;more confident and more comfortable in its Christianity&#8221;. She will also highlight the issue in a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday. &#8220;I will be arguing that to create a more just society, people need to feel stronger in their religious identities and more confident in their creeds,&#8221; she wrote in the Telegraph. &#8220;In practice this means individuals not diluting their faiths and nations not denying their religious heritages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Baroness Warsi, who is Britain&#8217;s first female Muslim cabinet minister, went on to write: &#8220;You cannot and should not extract these Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes.&#8221;<br \/> To read the full article please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-17021831\">click here<\/a>. [<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Miroslav Pujic, director; Deana Stojkovic, editor<br \/> 119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/> E-mail: tednews@ted-adventist.org<br \/> Website: www.ted-adventist.org<\/p>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division.<br \/> You are free to re-print any portion of the bulletin without need for special permission. However, we kindly request that you identify <em>ted<\/em>NEWS whenever you publish these materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"color: #696969;\"><strong><a href=\"..\/sites\/default\/files\/The%20Houses%20of%20Parliament%20in%20London_0.jpg\"><\/a>14 February 2012 London, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/span> [BBC News] Britain is under threat from a rising tide of &#8220;militant secularisation&#8221;, Baroness Warsi and a conservative cabinet minister wrote in an article for the Daily Telegraph. Religion is being &#8220;sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere&#8230; Europe needed to become &#8216;more confident and more comfortable in its Christianity&#8221;. She will also highlight the issue in a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday. &#8220;I will be arguing that to create a more just society, people need to feel stronger in their religious identities and more confident in their creeds,&#8221; she wrote in the Telegraph. &#8220;In practice this means individuals not diluting their faiths and nations not denying their religious heritages.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1588,7,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-united-kingdom","category-news","category-organisational-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}