King Charles III under fire after not issuing traditional Easter message
Christian leaders in Great Britain are reacting after King Charles III declined to issue a formal Easter message despite commemorating Ramadan earlier this year. The Christian heritage of the United Kingdom. is being “deliberately eroded” and faces growing hostility amid surging Islam, traditionalist Anglican Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar said.
“There isn’t a royal precedent for releasing a message, but since coming to the throne, Charles has chosen to do so every year,” he told “GB News,” according to “The Christian Post.” “Having just issued a Ramadan and Eid Mubarak message for the Islamic community, choosing not to give an Easter message is bitterly disappointing. It does not meet the expectations you would expect from the monarch. Christians will be heartbroken, having learned the defender of the faith has ignored them.”
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Godfrey Bloom, an English author and former member of the European Parliament, echoed concerns that Charles might be Muslim, accused him of betraying his constitutional role and urged him to abdicate. “You are of no use to this country whatsoever,” he said. “You have failed in every conceivable way in your relatively short period of time on the throne. In the name of God, go!”
Stephen Kuhrt, the Anglican vicar of Christ Church, New Malden, in England, said he believes the king’s lack of an Easter message was ill-advised but is being misinterpreted.
“If the king was going to make a speech about Islam in the current climate, perhaps he would have been well-advised to have done something Christian as well, but I genuinely don’t think that it was intended the way people have been interpreting it,” he said. “I can understand why people are upset in the current climate, but I don’t think that was the intention: to denigrate Christianity.”
Since formally assuming the throne in 2023, Charles has repeatedly prompted outrage for actions that many have characterized as an affront to the historic English Protestantism that he swore to uphold and defend in his coronation oath. Last Christmas, the king stoked backlash for his Christmas message that praised “the great diversity of our communities” while expressing his admiration for “all the great faiths.”
King Charles III is scheduled to make a state visit to the United States later this month and will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence from Great Britain.
–Lee Hartman | Metro Voice
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