Tags: Public Money
Residents’ anger over council’s £3m gift to ‘homophobic’ church
Posted: Fri, 10 Nov 2017
A council plans to close and partially demolish a public hall in south-west London and build a new Pentecostal church on the site. Read More »
NSS calls for moratorium on Government funding of cathedrals
Posted: Tue, 16 May 2017
Following concerns raised by the National Secular Society, the UK spending watchdog has concluded that "improvements" were needed in the process the Government used to award vast sums of public money for cathedral repairs. Read More »
Government must not prop up the Church of England, says NSS
Posted: Fri, 27 Jan 2017
The National Secular Society has urged the Government to allow the Church of England to find its own level of sustainability, in a response to a Government-led review. Read More »
NSS calls for UK's public spending watchdog to investigate state handouts to churches
Posted: Thu, 17 Nov 2016
The National Audit Office has been asked to scrutinise the significant sums of public money that the Government has handed out to wealthy religious organisations. Read More »
Romania considers introducing church tax
Posted: Wed, 17 Apr 2013
New legislation, inspired by the German "church tax" model, will soon allow all Romanian citizens to direct a part of their income tax to the churches or other organisations of their choosing. Read More »
MPs support bid to restore ‘public good’ presumption of religion
Posted: Thu, 20 Dec 2012
MPs have backed a bid by Conservative MP Peter Bone to amend the Charities Act to restore the presumption that all religious groups are for the public benefit and therefore can be charities. Read More »
Christian debt advice expands as CAB contracts
Posted: Tue, 13 Nov 2012
A Christian debt counselling organisation that offers prayers with its advice is spreading rapidly throughout the country. Read More »
Charity Commission is “anti-religious”, claims Tory MP
Posted: Thu, 01 Nov 2012
Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has accused the Charity Commission of trying to suppress religion and predicted that the Plymouth Brethren case, where the organisation has been refused charity status, will be the first of many. Read More »
Plans to tax church property in Italy thrown out
Posted: Wed, 10 Oct 2012
Italy's Council of State rejected a decree this week aimed at ending an historic tax exemption for the Catholic Church, reigniting a heated debate which is being closely followed by EU watchdogs. Read More »
