New contactless donations points have been set up in shops, cafés and public buildings in the city centre to benefit Leicester’s Homelessness Charter.

The diocese of Leicester set up the charter last year, uniting agencies, council, business and faith groups all with a goal to tackle homelessness.

Leicester Homelessness Charter Chair, Canon Pastor at Leicester Cathedral, Rev Canon Alison Adams, commented: “I am delighted that two core Charter members, BID Leicester and Leicester City Council, have together given the public a really practical way of supporting initiatives to reduce homelessness.

“Many people are concerned but unsure about how to respond. In raising awareness, Give Leicester and the online directory we are also launching will begin to address this.”

The ‘Give Leicester’ donation points are small, contactless terminals, which will enable people to make a £3 donation simply by tapping their card.

Donations collected over the first six months of the scheme will go towards the One Roof Night Shelter operated by local charity One Roof Leicester. The shelter provides additional emergency accommodation and food for those in need.

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The organisation said that amounts to 3,969 languages that are yet to reach the Bible.

James Poole, executive director of Wycliffe, said this shows there’s still much work to do.

“That’s why Wycliffe continues to work with urgency to translate God’s word into all these languages.”

Despite this, Wycliffe’s annual figures show a lot of progress.

Among the highlights are that 698 languages now have the complete Bible (up from 683 in 2018), and that 1,548 languages have a complete New Testament (up from 1,534).

A further 1,138 have some translated portions of the Bible (up from 1,133).

Peter Brassington, who compiles the statistics said: “These are encouraging figures, and represent the tremendous work that translation teams are doing across the world.

“Changes year to year don’t always look dramatic on the surface, but Bible translation requires dedicated, long-term effort, and the translations finished now often started many years ago. I joined Wycliffe in 1996: the number of languages in which there is a complete Bible has doubled in that time.”

Wycliffe said there is also active translation or preparatory work going on in 2,617 languages in 161 countries.

Poole said every time a translation is competed is momentous occasion.

“Yet again, we have seen that when people get their New Testament or Bible in their language, it makes such a difference,” he said.

“Seeing the…

The rapper has long been linked with an appearance on The Late Late Show’s popular Carpool Karaoke, with Corden previously revealing West had cancelled three times.

He finally made an appearance of sorts during Monday’s episode.

However, in a twist befitting an artist with the grandiose pretensions of West, he and Corden ditched the usual 4×4 and instead took to the skies in a jet packed with the musician’s Sunday Service choir.

During the flight West, who has just released his latest studio album, Jesus Is King, opened up on family, religion and his struggles with mental health.

Prepare for takeoff.

James and @kanyewest take Carpool Karaoke to a whole new level TONIGHT on CBS pic.twitter.com/H5DRBZKuH2

— The Late Late Show with James Gore-den (@latelateshow) October 28, 2019

Speaking about his five-year marriage to reality TV star Kim Kardashian, West explained: “Marriage years are different than human years.

“Like you know how dog years are like seven years? Every marriage year is like 100 years.”

West joked it felt as though he had been married for “500 years”. West, a father of four, said during his darkest moments his loved ones struggled to help him.

“People in my family were praying for me, but they couldn’t call me and scream at me. I’m a grown man,” he said.

“But it was God that came and put this thing on my heart and asked if I was ready to be in service to him.”

West added: “I have no regret and no shame.”

West, 42, was joined by his choir…

In a tweet posted on Monday afternoon she said sarcastically: “It’s super cute when journalists/interviewers for magazines leave out the massive part where I give God the glory for the success/ achievements in my life.

Haha I still love you and God will still be praised.”

It’s super cute when journalists/interviewers for magazines leave out the massive part where I give God the glory for the success/ achievements in my life.

Haha I still love you and God will still be praised

— Letitia Wright (@letitiawright) October 28, 2019

By Tuesday morning the tweet garnered almost 11,000 likes and almost 2,000 retweets supporting her statement and encouraging her to still be open about her faith.

LOVE THIS SO MUCH! I notice that with a lot of interviews where people give the glory to God – Some TV interviews do it too, by either cutting the interview abruptly or glossing over it to move on quickly. But like you said, regardless He will STILL receive the glory

— adenike adenitire (@Adenike1) October 28, 2019

Say that again for everybody in the back one time!! Jesus will be glorified no matter when or where! pic.twitter.com/MNfop3prWZ

— Connor (@Cdub510Connor) October 28, 2019

I don’t understand why are magazines doing this. They may not believe in God but you do and you know God helped you through thick and thin. Its your belief and they shouldn’t cut it out just…

OCOFOR, which stands for Our Children Our Faith Our Rights, held a demonstration at Parliament Square on Saturday to demand that the government allow parents to opt their children out of the LGBT portion of relationships education. 

Following the passing of the Children and Social Work Act (2017), as of September 2020 all secondary schools in England will be required to teach Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and primary schools to teach relationships education.

Tom Akinola, who took part in the protest, told Premier as a Christian parent of four children he’s concerned about the curriculum.

“A large chunk of it just goes against our Christian faith. It’s normalising LGBTQ relationships and it’s being enforced on faith groups,” he said. 

“It’s gone from being tolerant to now a forceful acceptance which goes against our Christian faith.”

Akinola said he was encouraged by other faith groups who have been speaking out against the curriculum and urged Christians to take an active approach to the issue.

“We see Muslims coming out, we Jewish communities coming out, but as Christians we would rather just sit in the armchair, sign a petition off, and pray in our closet, and hope that does the job. But we’re increasingly seeing petitions don’t do anything,” he said.

“We’ve constantly seen the Christian faith is being persecuted in this country…and…

In an article he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, Lord Carey said as violent conflict has erupted again in Syria he doubts that Syrian Christians will have much help from the UK government because they are of the “wrong faith”.

He referenced how refugees of other faith groups were supposedly favoured over Christians.

“Of the refugees who came here in 2015 under the Vulnerable Persons Scheme, only 1.6 per cent were Christians,” he said.

“That’s despite this group being 10 per cent of the Syrian population.The situation for Christians seeking asylum has worsened.

“In 2016 only 0.4 per cent were Christians. In 2017, 0.2 per cent. And in the early part of last year none of the 1,112 refugees we took in were Christians. The Yazidi and Druze minorities have been treated just as unfairly.”

He added that the government states that their selection of refugees who are allowed to settle in the UK is dependent on their suffering. However, Lord Carey highlighted what deems is an issue in the selection process.

“In their supposed blindness to religion they allowed the process of choosing refugees to be dominated by workers for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in refugee camps,” he said.

“Sunni Muslims – 74 per cent of Syria’s population – have made up 99 per cent of the refugees we admit.

“UK officials eventually conceded the obvious: Christian refugees are…