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P14 TheChurch of England Newspaper 19 February, 2021 £1.50 Established in 1828 No:6564 Government boosttocampus free speech‘welcomed’ Christian campaigners have including visiting speakers. agenda,“ he added. welcomed government plans to In addition, anew legal Under the plans, the Education boostfree speech at universities. measure would enable individuals Secretarywould appoint anew Tougher legal measures to to seek compensation through Free Speech and Academic strengthen free speech and the courts if theysuffer loss as a Freedom Champion to investigate academic freedom at universities result of breach of the free speech potential infringements, such as in England were announced by duties –such as being expelled, no-platforming speakers or the Education Secretaryon dismissed or demoted. dismissal of academics, and Tuesday, to stamp out unlawful Education Secretary, Gavin higher education providers would ‘silencing’oncampuses.Following Williamson, said he is “deeply be legally required to actively an increasing number of cases of worried about the chilling effect promote free speech. individuals being silenced, the on campuses of unacceptable Thenew Champion would be Education Secretaryhas warned silencing and censoring”. appointed to the board of the of a‘chilling effect’ where students Dr TimothyBradshaw, Office for Students and would be and staff feel theycannot express Regent’s Senior Tutor and able to investigate potential themselves freely. SecretaryofState,Gavin Tutorial Fellow in Christian infringements of the new Theproposed measures Williamson (left). Conservative Doctrine atRegent’s Park College, registration condition on freedom include anew free speech politician Jacob Rees-Mogg Oxford, told TheChurch of of speech and academic freedom confronted by protestors at condition placed on higher campus talk England Newspaper that‘it is in higher education. The education providers in order to be astonishing thatsuch legislation registration condition would registered in England and access is necessary’,but that‘it certainly work alongside strengthened public funding. Theregulator,the is’. legal duties on free speech and Office for Students, would have national life started out on “And manyChristian students “All universities will have in academic freedom and the the power to impose sanctions, universitycampuses. Instead of and academic staff can testifyto their statutes acommitment to Champion would also be able to including financial penalties, for promoting free speech, the difficultytheyface trying to freedom of speech and thought. recommend thatthe Office for breaches of the condition. Simon universities and student unions advance anyideas thatdon’t fit But the implementation of such Students imposes fines. Calvert, DeputyDirector for have spent years attacking it. We with the narrow,secularist, commitments is getting thinner “Modern legislation has been Public Affairs at TheChristian all know cases of Christian Unions socially liberal ideologythat and thinner,” said Bradshaw. grinding away againstfreedom of Institute, said today: “For too being disaffiliated from the dominates universitycampuses,” “A free speech champion is a speech. Achill factor has long universities have been at the Student Union -usually for added Calvert. specious trick. We are in aculture descended and the university heartofthe kind of stultifying holding orthodoxbeliefs about Thestrengthened legal duties war,the ‘Woke’ side is winning so administrators, in the words of ‘group think’ thatbanishes sexual ethics. We’veall heard would also extend to Students is happy with the balance of one critic, have been Christian ideas, and those who stories of Christian groups having Unions, which for the firsttime power,but others are being pusillanimous in upholding the think them, to the margins. their event bookings cancelled, or would have to takesteps to ensure cancelled and shunned, even keyright to freedom of reasoned, “The ‘cancel culture’wesee pro-life groups being effectively thatlawful free speech is secured dismissed from their jobs for non criminal, speech,”said Dr eating its waythrough our voted off campus. for their members and others, dissenting from the Woke Bradshaw. Anglican Communion FirstAfrican woman bishopdies Director for Gender Justice, Mandy Marshall, TheBishop of Swaziland, the Rt Rev Bishop Ellinah Ntfombi Wamukoya Ellinah Wamukoya, has died after was elected Bishop of Swaziland in 2012, described Bishop Ellinah contracting Covid-19. Herdeath becoming the firstfemale bishop in the as “an excellent advocate announced by Archbishop Thabo Anglican Church in Africa. forwomen.” Makgoba of Cape Town, Primate of the In her Diocese, the Province of Anglican Church of Southern Africa. Southern Africa and throughout the PRICE £1.50 /€2.00 /$2.50 Bishop Ellinah, was well-known around wider Anglican Communion, Bishop the world for her advocacyonEllinah was widely known for her environmental issues. The69-year-old advocacyofthe integrityofcreation. She was admitted to hospital late lastweek was the liaison bishop for the and put on oxygen therapy after environment in the Province of Southern contracting Covid-19. Africa. UTUBE.COM ThenextCEN will be published on 5Mar YO churchnewspaper.com [email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper 2 Friday19February, 2021 Diocese of Gloucester Diocese of Suffolk St Andrew’sCofE (VA) Primary Suffolk bishopsve ha launched majorityofpeople are subsistence School in Chedworth is setto their 2021 Lent Appeal farmers. TheChurch become one of the firstnet-zero supporting keyworkers in Churches are doing their best carbon schools in the country. Kagera, Tanzania. TheBishop of to supporttheir people and It has been awarded a St Edmundsburyand Ipswich, encourageprecautions such as £120,000 as partofthe Martin Seeley, and the Bishop of handwashing and reducing in England Government’s Public Sector Dunwish, Mike Harrison, have physical contacts. But churches Decarbonisation Scheme. The aimed their appeal at the task of themselves are struggling with moneyisbeing used to convertall supporting some of the keyroles much reduced incomes from lighting to LED units, install and responsibilities in Kagera their parishioners. motion sensors, insulation for focused on encouraging self- Thetheme of the appeal is ceilings, floors and walls, and sufficiency. supporting keyworkers in Kagera double-glazing for the windows. Bishop Harrison said: “These is concentrating on: Theschool also plans to add are testing times for manyofus Subsistence farmers, who make solar panels on the roof and and it is easy to become self- up the majorityofthe population replace an old oil-fired boiler with absorbed, preoccupied with our of Kagera, and those who are Diocese of Chelmsford Qampicha, joined the webinar to an air source heatpump (ASHP). own anxieties and difficulties and helping them develop better ways TheDioceseofChelmsford has speak about the ministryin Headteacher,Mrs Nikita prettyinsulated from others. But of making the mostoftheir launched the 2021 Bishop’s Marasabit diocese which covers Smith, said she had been inspired as Christians we are called to raise land so thattheycan continue to Annual Appeal. an area in northern Kenya the by the steps taken by the school. our sights upward and to look help their local communities and This year’s appeal will be size of England, with apopulation “Here at St Andrew’sChurch of outwards, in service, generosity encourageself-sufficiency. partnering with the Anglican half the size of Essex. England school we show children and prayer for those around us.” Doctors at the Diocesan hospital, Communion’s microfinance Funds raised will enable Five thatall can contribute towards TheCovid-19 pandemic is undertaking specialisttraining to charityFive Talents to raise funds Talents to settrain twelve groups change–and thatchangecan hitting our link Diocese of Kagera reduce patients’ need to travel for their work in the Diocese of across Marsabit in literacy, happen on their doorstep,”she hard. TheTanzanian government manyhours to find specialist Chelmsford’s link diocese of numeracyand basic business said. has not released figures about treatment. Priests leading their Marsabit in Kenya -building on skills. This will enable groups, “A lot of our curriculum infection rates or deaths since last communities, helping with the work thatbegan lastyear but predominantly of women, to content covers the climate crisis May, but reports from training and transportfor was stalled because of the create savings and loans and the damagetoour neighbouring countries makeit example £850 will buy a pandemic. cooperatives, which will help environment in the world, but clear thatthe disease is rife in the motorbikesoapriestcan spend Over the next year,the appeal them to become more financially our school’s effortmakes these region. And the economic impact less time walking and more time will be empowering women in independent, develop businesses topics accessible to everypupil. It is severe in Kagera, where the working. Marsabit as theycontinue to and ensure thattheir children can is vital thatweteach children that challengethe prevailing gender access education for themselves. whattheydomatters, whether norms by training and equipping Find out moreabout the 2021 this be in their actions towards local people in savings schemes, appeal and donate at