E-petition defends collective worship in Welsh schools

In one week, an e-petition to protect collective worship in Welsh schools has collected three times as many signatures as a rival one to abolish it by the British Humanist Association has in six months.

The pro-collective worship initiative, launched by Jim Stewart from Evangelical Alliance Wales, came about through feeling a need to redress an imbalance.

He said he was moved to find out more about the British Humanist Association and the National Secular Society after the recent legal challenge against prayers being said at the meetings of Bideford Town Council, in Devon. Keep reading