Christians are being marginalised in UK: Cherie Blair

Her comments were made as part of the Channel 4 series Christianity,in which she analyses the future of the religion in the UK.

She spoke of her disappointment at the apparent “terminal decline” of Christianity. “Everywhere you look today churches are being closed,Christians are often being marginalised and faith is something few people like to discuss openly,” she was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

According to the report in the British daily,Cherie lamented that women were “virtually invisible” in the public face of Christianity and that its failure to recover from the social changes of the 1960s was one of its “fundamental weaknesses”.

“Until the traditional churches fully resolve their relationship with the female half of the population,how can they expect Christianity to have a future in the modern world?” she asked.