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Parents have reacted angrily to a family fun day held to raise money to help rehabilitate paedophiles.
Advertised as a fun day with bouncy castles and face paints, dozens of families attended the event without realising where the proceeds were going.
The Safer Living Foundation, which aims to help people rehabilitate sex offenders, held the event on Saturday at Keyworth United's football ground in Nottinghamshire.
Pharmacy regulators have removed a 'conscience clause' from their standards code meaning Christians and other religious people could be forced to ensure that contraceptives and other medicines are handed out against their beliefs.
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GphC) said allowing personal religious beliefs and values to dictate dispensing practice was 'not compatible' with a 'person-centred care' they wanted to offer.
The regulatory body that sets standards across British pharmacists said they wanted to ensure patient care is 'not compromised by religious belief'.
A new primary school in Glasgow with unisex toilets to stop transgender pupils from being bullied has been given the go-ahead despite a backlash from parents.
Council bosses say the toilets will cut bullying and prevent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pupils from having to worry about using the 'wrong' ones.
Several parents wrote letters of objection to the local authority after it emerged boys and girls will share lavatories at the new Blairdardie Primary.
The Church of England's representative in Parliament has suggested Brexit could resolve the 'inconsistencies' in the recent European Court ruling on religious symbols.
Speaking in Parliament this morning (Thursday), during the monthly session where MPs can ask questions relevant to the Church, the Conservative MP for Meriden said the Church of England was very concerned by the judgment of the European Court of Justice.
Spellman said the ban: "Conflicts with the pre-existing rulings of the Court of Human Rights."
ere at Christ and Pop Culture we've had a running dialogue on transhumanism — the growing philosophical movement that seeks to improve humanity through the merger of human biology with advanced technologies (think Cyborg meets Transcendence). Last year, we devoted an entire issue of our magazine to this topic. And as in any good dialogue, there are differences of opinion.
For instance, while I don't think transhumanism, in its most general sense, is necessarily incompatible with Christianity, I do think there is a prominent thread of transhumanist thought that has more in common with Gnosticism than with Christian orthodoxy.
Two Anglican bishops are among two dozen UK faith leaders who have signed an open letter calling for unity and understanding after several terror attacks recently.
Bishop of Southwark Rt Rev Christopher Chessun (pictured above) and Bishop of Stepney Rt Rev Adrian Newman have joined the call for all faiths to be "calm and resolute" in the face of recent attacks in locations including Westminster and St Petersburg.
The letter reads: "Recent attacks, such as those in Westminster, St Petersburg, Stockholm and Egypt, are an affront to faith and each one of us condemns them in the strongest possible terms - as barbaric acts of senseless violence."
Persecution. Our Lord promised it … and at some of the 40 Days for Life vigils that just ended, our culture delivered more of it than ever before.
And it wasn't random. Some of it was organized by the abortion industry as the defund Planned Parenthood debate heated up.
This is one of the things we will address in the FORWARD webcast next Tuesday, April 25 at 9 pm Eastern / 6 pm Pacific.
Educationalists and equalities experts will examine how schools can tackle homophobic bullying more effectively and improve the education experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans pupils in Scotland, the government has announced.
The setting up of a working group – chaired by the Association of Directors of Education (ADES) – was announced by the minister for higher and further education, Shirley-Anne Somerville, last night.
The announcement – which follows the passing of a motion at the SNP spring conference calling for such a group to be established – came during a Scottish parliament debate where it was highlighted that 90 per cent of LGBT people experienced prejudice at school.
Perhaps you’ve already seen the new Dove soap commercial featuring a transgender "mom" (see above). Such displays are ubiquitous in pop culture these days, but this one caught my eye. This one stood out because it is not only redefining male and female, but it is also redefining mom and dad.
My question for those who accept transgender identities is this: Are there any limits on who can "identify" as a mom? If being a mom really comes down to how one self-identifies, what is the limiting principle here? Here's what I mean.
A new map has revealed Britain's gay capitals - with rural Devon and Cambridgeshire nearly as popular as London, Brighton and Manchester.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published its research on the number of people who are gay, lesbian and bisexual in the UK.
Its findings are broken down by county and local authority using data from 2013 to 2015.