Police arrested the senior pastor of one of the largest unregistered churches in Beijing on Saturday and have put many congregants under house arrest for trying to hold Sunday service outdoors, said a rights group focused on religious freedom in China.
In the News
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April 18th, 2011
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April 18th, 2011The Department of Health is making a High Court challenge today to stop figures being published on the number of late abortions on "less than perfect" foetuses with physical abnormalities, including cleft palate and club foot.
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April 18th, 2011It became clearer this morning in Africa’s most populous nation that the agenda of some to install Islamist Buhari or no Nigeria - required a different sort of intervention after last Saturday witnessed an unusually peaceful landmark election.
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April 18th, 2011
An electrician facing the sack for displaying a small cross in his company van was backed last night by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey.
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April 17th, 2011Last week I blogged on the recently published ‘Third Demography Report’, which demonstrates that that low fertility rates and an ageing population will present Europe with a big economic challenge.
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April 17th, 2011The smiley slogan of our vast public sector is ‘Equality and Diversity’. At first sight, it seems hard to object to such aims. Who would favour inequality and intolerance?
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April 17th, 2011
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April 17th, 2011Ovarian stimulation for in vitro fertilization was linked to an increased risk of ovarian cancer 15 years later in a large cohort study that followed thousands of women in the Netherlands.
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April 17th, 2011Britons are travelling in record numbers to kill themselves at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland, figures revealed yesterday.
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April 17th, 2011Pro-life groups are rallying behind a woman who says her termination was not her choice as she launches legal action against the clinic