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One-third of Christians say they face media discrimination

A survey has revealed that a third of Christians in the UK think that the way they are portrayed in the media amounts to discrimination. And 25 per cent of Christians said they thought that people who shared their faith experienced discrimination from colleagues in the workplace.

A representative sample of 604 people who described themselves as Christians were interviewed in the poll carried out for BBC1’s Heaven and Earth programme, to be broadcast at 10 am on 18 March.

- 33% said they thought Christians experienced discrimination through their portrayal in the media;

- A quarter said they thought Christians experienced discrimination in the workplace from colleagues;

- 22% said they thought Christians faced discrimination in their local community.

A BBC researcher on the Heaven and Earth team spoke to five Christian charities which claimed that their funding was threatened.

A spokesman for one charity in London said it was told to ‘de-Christianise’ if it had any chance of getting funding. Another was told it needed to take all mention of Christianity off its website, otherwise it was at risk of not receiving any money.

Full story at Inspire Magazine.