NUS welcomes Ekklesia report
More on a report on current conflicts between Christian Unions and Students’ Unions. NUS is absolutely committed to helping SUs and CUs to work together to resolve this issue and to continue to promote inter faith dialogue on campus- an area in which the relationship between most CUs and SUs is harmonious and in which they excel together.
Gemma Tumelty, the president of the National Union of Students, said: "NUS welcomes Ekklesia's report as a timely analysis of what has become a very inflamed dialogue between UCCF and students' unions.
"This report very clearly set out the context of the current dispute explaining that only a handful of Christian unions and not the entire corpus of hundreds of other Christian groups, societies and Christian unions, have been challenged by their parent SU and only when they have actively contradicted the SUs constitution and/or equal opportunities policy.
"The NUS is absolutely committed to helping SUs and CUs to work together to resolve this issue and to continue to promote inter-faith dialogue on campus - an area in which the relationship between most CUs and SUs is harmonious and in which they excel together."
Ms Tumelty added: "If implemented, Ekklesia's suggestion of internal mediation (via university chaplaincies for instance) is sure to be a productive way of reconciling some CUs fears that their right to operate, rather than the way they operate in line with equal opportunities and the need to run their CUs in an open and democratic way, is being challenged."
The full Ekklesia report is available to download at http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/united_we_stand_report.pdf
You can also read our press release commenting on Ekklesia's report.
Return to this campaign's homepage or view all articles in this campaign.