Christian goes to court to stop work on Sundays

A Christian woman has asked the Court of Appeal for a landmark ruling that she has the legal right not to be forced by an employer to work on Sundays.

Children’s care worker Celestina Mba, from London, says she should be free to obey the Fourth Commandment in the Bible and rest and pray on the Sabbath.

Mba, 58, a Baptist Christian and mother of three, said as she came to court: “I have never worked Sunday in my life. Never. What I am hoping to achieve is to have my individual rights to worship recognised — remove my belief and there is no ‘me’.”