请输入您要查询的百科知识：

　

词条 Christian Action Research and Education
释义

  1. Founding and programmes

  2. Charity registration

  3. Leadership

  4. Finance

  5. Impact

     Opposition to homosexuality, abortion and prostitution  Other campaigns 

  6. References

  7. External links

{{Infobox Organization
|name = Christian Action Research and Education
|image =
|size =
|motto =
|formation =
|headquarters = 53 Romney Street
Westminster
London SW1P 3RF
United Kingdom
|predecessor = Nationwide Festival of Light
|type = Christian lobby group
|leader_title = Executive Chairman
|leader_name = Lyndon Bowring[1]
|leader_title2 = Chief Executive
|leader_name2 = Nola Leach
|key_people =
|website = {{URL|http://www.care.org.uk}}
}}

Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) is a social policy charity based in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Founding and programmes

CARE began in 1971 as the Nationwide Festival of Light, but was renamed in 1983 to reflect a substantial shift in emphasis. Over the following decades it established the following departments, in the belief that Christians should show active care as well as campaigning for moral standards in society:[2]

  • Care for the Family, now independent of CARE as the UK sister ministry of Focus on the Family[3][3]
  • Care Confidential, which runs pregnancy counselling centres, and became independent in July 2011[4]
  • Caring Services (defunct)
  • Care for Education (defunct)
  • Fostering, long term and remand care (defunct)
  • Evaluate, CARE's sex and relationships education programme[5]

CARE also runs the "Leadership Programme", an internship programme securing placements for graduates. Some work as researchers for MPs, mostly in the Conservative party, and MSPs while others work in Christian NGOs.[2] The funding of political research assistants by a "right-wing Christian" lobby group has attracted controversy, although CARE claims that there is a clear separation between the internships and its lobbying side.[6][7] Unlike journalists, researchers have virtually unrestricted access to parliamentary documents and in 2008 Paul Burstow MP was questioned after failing to include a research assistant's CARE sponsorship on the main register -though he said he didn't believe they had behaved improperly.[8]

Charity registration

Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) Trust (registered charity number 288485, registered 12 January 1984) ceased to exist on 30 September 2008. CARE (Christian Action Research and Education) (registered charity number 1066963, registered 18 December 1997) is still operational.[9]

Leadership

Lyndon Bowring is the Executive Chairman of the organization. He is a former minister at Kensington Temple, in London, and currently is on the staff of Regents Theological College.[10]

Finance

CARE's annual income to March 2011 was over £2 million, mostly from voluntary donations.[11]

The cost of the intern programme is around £70,000 p.a.[8]

It is supported by 40,000 donors.[15]

Impact

CARE has been described as "an evangelical charity that promotes traditional family values";[12] the organisation has actively campaigned against LGBT rights, abortion, stem cell research and assisted dying bills. Its work has been dismissed in the House of Lords as "propaganda".[8]

Opposition to homosexuality, abortion and prostitution

Labour Party insiders credited CARE with significant influence in support of Section 28 regarding education and homosexuality.[8][13] CARE has received media criticism for its stance on abortion and homosexuality and was accused in 2000 by MP Ben Bradshaw of being "a bunch of homophobic bigots".[14][15] CARE has also been criticised for their opposition to abortion and gay rights by Kate Smurthwaite in The Guardian who reported that the organisation sponsored a conference claiming homosexuality could be cured.[16]

In 2009, CARE sponsored what they described as a "Judaeo-Christian" event[17] about homosexuality and promoting "'gay cure' therapy", which CARE billed as "mentoring the sexually broken". The conference also included a keynote speech from National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) founder Joseph Nicolosi,[18] alongside Arthur Goldberg, co-founder of Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality.[19]

CARE have funded the network of CareConfidential crisis pregnancy centres in the UK, some of which came under criticism in an investigation by The Daily Telegraph when counsellors were filmed undercover claiming abortions would increase chances of breast cancer and could predispose women to becoming child sexual abusers.[20]

CARE are listed in the UK Parliament's register of all-party groups as the secretariat of the All-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade, a pressure group to encourage 'government action to tackle individuals who create demand for sexual services'.[21]

In 2015, CARE backed a private member's bill to prohibit the advertising of prostitution,[22] the Advertising of Prostitution (Prohibition) Bill 2015-16, which was introduced by Lord McColl of Dulwich in the House of Lords.[23]

Other campaigns

CARE's 2010 report on taxation claimed that the tax burden had moved from single people with no dependants into families with two adults but only a single earner in them.[24]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Annual Report 2010|url=http://www.care.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/CARE-2009-10-Annual-Report.pdf|publisher=CARE|accessdate=15 December 2011|date=23 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514182724/http://www.care.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/CARE-2009-10-Annual-Report.pdf#|archive-date=2012-05-14|dead-url=yes|df=}}
2. ^1 Our Story, CARE. Retrieved 15 December 2011. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111218214344/http://www.care.org.uk/about/our-story# |date=2011-12-18 }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.focusonthefamily.com/about/historical-timeline|title=Historical Timeline|website=Focus on the Family|accessdate =17 August 2017}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/28/christain-activists-grab-moral-agenda |title=Christian activists poised to win concessions on abortion after 40 years |newspaper =The Guardian |date=28 August 2011 |accessdate=15 December 2011 |location=London |first=Ben |last=Quinn}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.evaluate.org.uk/ |title=Evaluate Informing Choice |publisher=Evaluate.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-03-18}}
6. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1975933/Christian-fundamentalists-fighting-spiritual-battle-in-Parliament.html|title=Christian fundamentalists fighting spiritual battle in Parliament|last=Modell|first=David|date=17 May 2008|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=15 December 2011|location=London}}
7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/god_on_their_side_1_1373136 |title=Anger at minister's Christian intern | newspaper =Times Educational Supplement |date=21 December 2001 | author= Warwick Mansell |author2=Jon Slater |accessdate=15 December 2011 }}
8. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last=Merrick|first=Jane|title=Right-wing Christian group pays for Commons researchers|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-rightwing-christian-group-pays-for-commons-researchers-802607.html|accessdate=22 March 2012|newspaper=Independent|date=30 March 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124091518/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-rightwing-christian-group-pays-for-commons-researchers-802607.html|archivedate=2009-11-24|quote=CARE connections (list of MPs)|location=London}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/ |title=Find charities |publisher=Charity Commission |date= |accessdate=2014-03-18}}
10. ^Residential teaching staff {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320232601/http://www.regents-tc.ac.uk/Groups/210709/Residential_Teaching_Staff.aspx |date=2014-03-20 }}, Regents Theological College. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
11. ^1066963 - CARE (Christian Action Research and Education), summary on the website of the Charity Commission. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
12. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DAUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c9MEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1258%2C2250277 "In bad taste?"]. (4 October 1988). The News-Journal. p.2A.
13. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/god_on_their_side_1_1373136 |title=God on their side? |newspaper =The Scotsman|date= 12 May 2002 |accessdate=15 December 2011 }}
14. ^{{cite news|author=Kamal Ahmed |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/30/religion.uk?mobile-redirect=false |title=Onward Christian lobbyists | World news | The Observer |publisher=Guardian |date=2000-07-30 |accessdate=2014-03-18 |location=London}}
15. ^{{cite web| author= Tris Reid-Smith |url=http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/uk-mp-cuts-ties-christian-gay-%E2%80%98cure%E2%80%99-charity160312 |title=UK MP cuts ties to Christian gay ‘cure’ charity |publisher=Gay Star News |date=2012-03-16 |accessdate=2014-03-18}}
16. ^{{cite news|last=Smurthwaite|first=Kate|title=Anti-abortion CARE and campaigns to MPs|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/19/extreme-anti-abortion-groups-infiltrate|accessdate=20 May 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 April 2012|location=London}}
17. ^"100 protest outside London 'gay cure' conference". PinkNews.
18. ^{{cite web|last1=Booth|first1=Robert|last2=Ball|first2=James|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/13/gay-cure-christian-charity-mps-interns |title='Gay cure' Christian charity funded 20 MPs' interns]|website=The Guardian|date=13 April 2012}}
19. ^Joseph Patrick McCormick. "MP who took interns from 'gay cure' event sponsor, appointed as Welsh Secretary". PinkNews. 14 July 2014, 11:16 PM.
20. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/10622815/Abortion-scandal-women-told-terminations-increase-chance-of-child-abuse.html |title= Abortion scandal: women told terminations increase chance of child abuse |date=10 February 2014 |newspaper = Daily Telegraph |accessdate=11 February 2014 |location=London}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/prostitution-and-the-global-sex-trade.htm |title=House of Commons - Register Of All-Party Groups as at 28 February 2014: Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade |publisher=Publications.parliament.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-03-18}}
22. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.care.org.uk/news/latest-news/time-ban-prostitution-adverts |title=Time to ban prostitution adverts |last1=Mildred |first1=James |last2= |first2= |date=5 Jun 2015 |website=care.org.uk |publisher=Christian Action Research and Education |access-date=8 November 2015 |quote=Leading Christian charity CARE (Christian Action Research & Education) is backing an historic attempt by a senior Peer to ban prostitution adverts from newspapers and online sites across England and Wales.}}
23. ^{{cite web |url=http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/advertisingofprostitutionprohibition.html |title=Advertising of Prostitution (Prohibition) Bill [HL] 2015-16 |author= |website=parliament.uk |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=5 June 2015 |quote=A Bill to prohibit the advertising of prostitution; and for connected purposes.}}
24. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.economicvoice.com/christian-charity-care-claims-single-earner-families-worst-off-in-uk/50017150 |title=Christian charity claims single earner families worst off in UK |date=7 March 2011 |first=Jeff |last=Taylor |newspaper=Economic Voice |accessdate=15 February 2012 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65TbblZlx?url=http://www.economicvoice.com/christian-charity-care-claims-single-earner-families-worst-off-in-uk/50017150 |archivedate=15 February 2012 |deadurl=yes |df= }}

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.care.org.uk}}

7 : Organizations established in 1971|Anti-abortion organisations in the United Kingdom|Organizations that oppose LGBT rights|Christian organisations based in the United Kingdom|Evangelical parachurch organizations|Christian political organizations|Lobbying organisations in the United Kingdom
随便看

　

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

　

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间：2024/11/11 23:31:46