Delegates at the National Union of Teachers' conference in Harrogate have warned that ‘homophobic bullying in schools is “endemic" and likely to rise with the impending growth in the number of faith schools’ and, in a motion overwhelmingly backed by delegates, have called on their union ‘to conduct an investigation into discrimination in faith schools’.
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April 26th, 2011
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April 26th, 2011London was the global headquarters of Islamic terrorism in the years before and after 9/11. This fact wasn’t exactly a closely guarded secret, but the WikiLeaks Guantánamo Bay files shed interesting new light on the American perspective.
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April 26th, 2011Deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians in the north of Nigeria following the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan has brought the death toll to over 500, according to a local civic group.
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April 26th, 2011Britain's mosques became an international haven for extremists who enjoyed state benefits while being trained for terrorism, leaked documents show.
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April 26th, 2011EL PASO, Texas, April 26, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police in El Paso, Texas say they will not investigate an abortion clinic after the dismembered remains of an aborted baby were found were in the clinic’s parking lot.
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April 25th, 2011THE leader of Scotland’s Catholics has denounced the “marginalisation” of Christians for their refusal to endorse lifestyles including homosexuality.
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April 25th, 2011Read some newspapers, and you’d imagine that the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton will be marked by an outpouring of public emotion not seen since the collective insanity of the days after Diana, Princess of Wales’s death.
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April 25th, 2011More than 60 churches were burned and thousands of Christian-owned homes destroyed in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north after the recent election of incumbent Christian president Goodluck Jonathan, according to the Christian persecution watchdog group Open Doors.
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April 25th, 2011London, Apr. 25 : British Prime Minister David Cameron wants Muslim clerics to sit beside bishops in the House of Lords.
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April 25th, 2011Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has delivered an early wedding card to Buckingham Palace calling on Prince William and Kate Middleton to "express their support" for same-sex marriages.