Suchet, star of ITV\'s "Poirot" told Woman\'s Weekly magazine that a charity he worked for had been recently turned down for government funding \"because it was a Christian charity, even though it had been funded by the Government for several years.\"
According to the survey of more than 18,000 people, 57 percent agreed that \"people should be allowed to publicly criticize religion because people should have freedom of speech\".
A Christian peace worker has returned to Iraq for the first time since he was freed from captivity four years ago.
The Evangelical Alliance in the United Kingdom says it agrees with the message of a new humanist advertising campaign proclaiming that children should make up their own mind about their beliefs.
More than 20,000 letters are to be handed to the Indian High Commission later in the month in a show of solidarity with Christians in India's Orissa state.