Thinking Anglicans

Churches and the General Election

on Friday, 12 March 2010 at 8.17 am by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as Church in Wales, Church of England, News, Scottish Episcopal Church

The Mission and Public Affairs Division of the Church of England has updated its guidance note on “Countering far right political parties, extremist groups and racist politics”. You can read the January 2010 version here: Countering Racist Politics. (PDF also available)

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland has very comprehensive information at general election churches getting ready including two resource documents:

• Faith in Politics: Preparing Churches for the General Election 2010
  Document covering a range of the most important policy issues, such as children and young people, criminal justice, the economy, education, environment, health, migration, poverty, and others.

• Planning a Hustings Meeting
  Guidelines for local churches, Churches Together groups or Christian organisations thinking of organising a hustings meeting. This is also available in Welsh.

These can both be downloaded from here.

And there is a Find a Hustings page.

CCFON has announced that the former Bishop of Rochester, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is to host a series of General Election Hustings across England in order to help local Christians question candidates for Westminster seats.

• Read the full press release here, and see the video over here.

• There is information here about Christians and Candidates 2010 and there will be a website here.