'I was stunned and upset': Retired chaplain, 77, was banned from wearing a half-inch Christian cross while volunteering at a hospice
- Derek Timms 'never received a single complaint' in five years as a chaplain
- The 73-year-old was told it might 'create a barrier' between him and the patients
- Mr Timms was told he was not allowed to work there until he removed the cross
A chaplain has won an apology after charity chiefs banned him from wearing a Christian cross at the hospice where he volunteered.
Retired businessman Derek Timms spent five years comforting terminally ill patients and their families at the Solihull Marie Curie hospice in Birmingham, wearing a tiny half-inch pin on his jumper as a symbol of his faith.
The devout 73-year-old says he never received a single complaint, but in September a new Methodist minister in charge of the chaplaincy told him he was not allowed to wear it as it might 'create a barrier' between him and the patients.
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