In a video released earlier this week, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that he doesn't believe faith should be separated from the marketplace, noting that Christian organizations have been an integral part of the humanitarian and social justice work done in Britain.

"I don't subscribe to the view that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life, that you can somehow ask people to leave their faith at the door when they enter a town hall or a Commons chamber," Brown said.

"Churches and the Christian charities have been Britain's conscience on causes from debt cancellation to child poverty, to the good environmental stewardship of the earth, and each of these great recent causes is rooted in the idea that we are each other's brother and sister's keeper."

Brown also noted that the country's recession had drawn him to texts in the New Testament, particularly the story of the Good Samaritan.

"The lessons of the Gospels need not be kept separate from political life," the prime minister said. "If Christians engage in politics then all of us together can build a society where wealth helps more than the wealthy, good fortune serves more than the fortunate, and riches enrich not just some of us but all."

Britain's economy has been a key issue in political debates between Brown and Conservative Party representative David Cameron, both of whom have been struggling to gain support before this year's General Elections, scheduled to be held before June.

Brown, who hasn't set a time for the elections yet, is currently trailing Cameron in the polls by 10 percent.