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  • British Humanist Association: BHA and Young Humanists move to protect non-religious parents with guide on religion in schools
    April 20th, 2017

    The British Humanist Association (BHA) and Young Humanists have published today a comprehensive guide for non-religious parents and young people, offering support and advice on how to navigate an education system increasingly subject to undue religious influence. The guide comes in the week that parents all over England discovered at which primary school their children have been offered a place for the next school year.

    Religion in schools: a guide for non-religious parents and young people in England and Wales is free to download from the BHA's website and aims to ensure that non-religious people are fully aware of their rights and the law as it relates to 'faith' schools and religion in schools more generally. The advice covers a range of areas, including Religious Education, Collective Worship, school admissions, and the teaching of Science, all of which can pose particular problems for non-religious families.

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  • C-Fam: The World Health Organization Says Abortion is Family Planning
    April 20th, 2017

    Governments have long agreed that abortion cannot be a part of family planning. The World Health Organization has gone along with that consensus until now. Recent journal articles by WHO researchers demonstrate the powerful global agency now rejects that consensus.

    Women who want to "avoid pregnancy" following government guidelines in the wake of the Zika scare in Latin America "will need family planning services such as contraception and access to safe abortion," according to one article that goes on to propose “evaluations of the barriers to access, availability, utilization and readiness of contraception, abortion and post-abortion services.”

    The statement that abortion is a "family planning service" contradicts what the UN General Assembly has agreed for decades, namely, that "under no circumstance should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning."

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  • Mail: Greening says coming out was the best thing she's done
    April 20th, 2017

    Justine Greening has revealed that coming out as a lesbian is the 'best thing' she has done.

    The Education Secretary said she was persuaded to disclose her sexuality by her girlfriend, who insisted it could make life easier for other gay people.

    She posted about her sexuality on Twitter last summer – becoming the first openly lesbian Cabinet minister.

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  • Life Site: New study finds preborn babies may feel pain in the first trimester
    April 19th, 2017

    April 19, 2017 (LiveActionNews) -- Over the past several decades, medical advances have hit the abortion industry hard. Ultrasounds allowed mothers to see their preborn babies firsthand; increasing knowledge in the field of embryology has given people newfound understanding of the humanity of the preborn.

    Learning about fetal pain struck a huge blow to support for violent second-trimester, D&E abortions (which can be learned about in the video below, with former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino).

    The more science discovers about preborn children, the less willing people are to support abortion. And doctors and scientists still have so much more to learn.

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  • Citizen GO: We call on the National Union of Teachers to withdraw its motion promoting LGBT+ issues to toddlers
    April 19th, 2017

    We call on the National Union of Teachers unequivocally to withdraw its motion calling for the promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) issues to children, starting at nursery.

    The current campaign actively to promote LGBT+ issues starting at nursery is part of an ideological agenda to undermine and ultimately destroy the traditional values on which our society is based. While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults may see the cultural and social normalization of their sexual preferences as top priority, we maintain that to force such consciousness onto children, who by definition lack the emotional maturity to assimilate and process such behavioural 'norms', is a form of child abuse. It will inevitably encourage children to experiment with behaviours that wouldn’t normally occur at such early age, but which carry the potential for enormous and long-lasting harm, both physical and mental.

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  • Culture Watch: Sharia Creep Ever On the Rise
    April 19th, 2017

    The more creeping sharia takes place in the West, the more Western leaders and elites seem to be in denial about it all. It is as if massive dark fog has fallen over the media, our political leaders, and the intelligentsia. But it is not some external illness or virus, but internal, wilful denial of reality.

    These folks have decided ahead of time, against all the evidence, that the political ideology known as Islam really is the "religion of peace". That is the leftist narrative and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever change their minds.

    They refuse to face the facts, and the facts are these: Islam is an archaic, murderous, blood-thirsty death cult. It has been so from day one, and it has been responsible for millions of deaths over its 1400-year history. Every day that we open our newspapers or turn on our televisions we find more compelling proof of this fact.

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  • Irish Times: Police inquiry dropped after Belfast raid for abortion pills
    April 19th, 2017

    A police investigation into a women's rights campaigner in Belfast has been dropped after her workplace was raided for abortion pills last month.

    Helen Crickard's Belfast workshop was raided by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on March 8th with a search warrant for abortion pills and "instruments that could cause an abortion". Ms Crickard, who was in City Hall at the time of the raid for an International Women's Day event, said the search warrant included the seizure of all electronic devices with internet capability.

    "If I had been there they would have taken my phone and my laptop. I was totally taken aback when I heard about the search. They said they had intercepted abortion pills coming to my address in my name. But they didn't find anything and just left."

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  • Independent: Religious schools create 'parallel societies', report claims
    April 19th, 2017

    Religious schools in Austria help create "parallel societies", a new report has claimed.

    The Vienna University study found 10,000 children aged between two and six attend a Muslim preschool. However, lead author professor Ednan Aslan has claimed some preschools could be responsible for producing the homegrown terrorists of the future.

    Vienna has roughly 150 Muslim kindergartens and Mr Aslan believes at least a quarter have the backing of ultra-conservative groups.

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  • Herald Scotland: Ruth Davidson's church wedding hope after Kirk same-sex marriage report
    April 19th, 2017

    Traditionalists have warned they will challenge a Church of Scotland move towards the first same-sex church marriages.

    The move comes after a report prepared for the General Assembly paves the way towards greater acceptance of same-sex marriage in the church.

    As well as allowing same sex marriages there will be an apology to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people for a long history of discrimination by the Kirk.

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  • Notre Dame University: Majority of persecuted Christian communities build resilience through adaptive strategies, study finds
    April 19th, 2017

    A new report from the University of Notre Dame's Under Caesar's Sword — the first systematic and global investigation into how Christian communities respond to severe violations of religious freedom — finds that 43 percent of persecuted Christians respond primarily with strategies of survival, including nimble adaptation plans to sustain the life and practices of the community, while 38 percent place primary focus on building ties with others to strengthen resilience.

    Only 19 percent engage in direct confrontation with a repressing government or entity and, with very few exceptions, responses to religious persecution are nonviolent.

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