The Church Law Campaign

Newsletter from ReportCOGICAbuse 31st March 2010

Help us raise awareness and stay aware

April is national sexual assault awareness month, and in conjunction with that we are declaring April to be Clergy sexual abuse awareness month. In keeping with our efforts towards victims acknowledgement and support, ReportCOGICAbuse has launched a new Facebook support grou...

The Department for Communities and Local Government had now agreed to give our campaign some attention.

The Head of Ministerial Correspondence had requested that we contact him again if we do not have a response within a reasonable deadline. We are currently awaiting response from other MPs and the Tory Party. Supporters of CLC should contact their local MPs regarding our campaign.

Instead of focusing on only churches, Church Law Campaign (CLC) is now aski...

Hello, I would like to comment on your proposed legislation that the government license all ministers in England and Wales.  I do not believe it is biblical for the government to be involved with church business.  It is for this particular reason that many people immigrated to the American Colonies, so that they would be free to worship as they felt they should.  The government should have no part in the licensing or appointing of pastors to any specific church.  If t...

Picking up where I left off in April 2009, for the comming weeks I will try to engage parliament in a discussion on the licencing of religious leaders in England and Wales.

I will be running forums asking questions as to whether people believe the licencing of religious ministers in England and Wales will lead to greater regulation and accountability in our churches, whether licencing them will help to protect church goers from abuse of power and  from ...

Make your views known as to whether you believe there need to be new legislations and a separate court to regulate churches.

Please see http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/churchlawlegis/clergydiscipline/ & http://www.cofe.anglican.org/lifeevents/ministry/profcond.pdf . I am hoping to achieve a similar legislation for which all churches and their ministers will be subjected to and a Tribunal setup for dealing with such matters. Only churches and ministers who have someth...