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Single-sex schools are failing in their legal duties to accommodate transgender pupils, according to leading charities that specialise in supporting transgender children.
Susie Green, CEO of Mermaids UK, told The Independent a growing number of same-sex schools are refusing to admit transgender pupils, despite this being discriminatory under the Equality Act 2010.
Campaigners are now calling for greater education on trans issues both as part of teacher training and the national curriculum.
More than 40 schools have sought exemptions in the past 18 months from the legal requirement to provide a daily act of Christian worship, with many choosing "non-faith" or "multi-faith" alternatives for the first time.
A total of 46 schools since 2015 have asked to opt out from a daily act of worship that is "wholly or mainly" of a Christian character, a rule that has been in place since 1944.
The rate at which schools are bowing out from the requirement, often criticised by secularists, appears consistent with previous years.
I am thankful for the Dispatches from the Front documentary series, as Tim Keesee takes us to various parts of the world to visit with missionaries who are laboring to introduce people to Christ.
Here's a description of the newly released episode 10 (running time: 67 minutes) where we go into the Middle East to observe the advance of the gospel:
"He is risen!"—three words that change everything. This wonderfully good news that was first announced to the women at the Empty Tomb is still being declared boldly in the Middle East by the Risen King's messengers!
Look around the country and there is a battle raging over free speech and the right to hold and articulate particular views.
Jewish students, who merely support the right of Israel to exist, have been attacked by a small but vocal minority who denounce them as Zionists. Some MPs have even backed using anti-terror laws against Christian teachers who publicly affirm their belief in the traditional definition of marriage.
Increasingly, we see the creation of "safe spaces" with traditional, challenging and controversial views barred from discussion. Who exactly defines what is and is not acceptable in these Stalinesque spaces seems anyone guess. Even feminists Julie Bindel and Germaine Geer have fallen foul of them.
Sunday's bombings of two Coptic churches in separate cities claimed by the Islamic State group are the latest attacks on Egypt's embattled Christian minority, increasingly targeted by IS and affiliated militants.
The Copts have long been a favored target of extremists — they were struck with a similar church bombing just weeks before the country's 2011 Arab Spring uprising, and Islamic militants gave them a particular focus during a crackdown on them in the 1990s — but the past five months been particularly bloody.
U.S.-based think tank the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy said the attacks brought the total number of sectarian incidents against Copts to 26 in 2017, with a total of 88 killed including those at a major church bombing in December.
Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 44 people, officials say.
An explosion at St George's Coptic church in Tanta killed 27 people. Hours later, a blast outside St Mark's Coptic church in Alexandria left 17 dead.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the explosions, the latest in a series of attacks targeting the Christian minority in the country.
Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 44 people, officials say.
An explosion at St George's Coptic church in Tanta killed 27 people. Hours later, a blast outside St Mark's Coptic church in Alexandria left 17 dead.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the explosions, the latest in a series of attacks targeting the Christian minority in the country.
A controversial street preacher has pocketed a £3,000 pay out from Humberside Police following the conclusion of a long-running legal drama.
The police paid the sizeable cheque to a force-area street preacher, who had upset local residents.
Michael Jones, 66, was due to face trial for religious harassment over claims he preached about abortion and homosexuality, but he had the charges against him dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.
Imagine if correspondents in late 1944 had reported the Battle of the Bulge, but without explaining that it was a turning point in the second world war. Or what if finance reporters had told the story of the AIG meltdown in 2008 without adding that it raised questions about derivatives and sub-prime mortgages that could augur a vast financial implosion?
Most people would say that journalists had failed to provide the proper context to understand the news. Yet that's routinely what media outlets do when it comes to outbreaks of anti-Christian persecution around the world, which is why the global war on Christians remains the greatest story never told of the early 21st century.
An African diocese has stripped a high profile English priest of his title of canon, declaring the Rev. Jeremy Pemberton's same-sex marriage and his agitation for change in the Church of England's teachings on human sexuality renders him unqualified to hold the honorary title in the Congolese church.
In a letter dated 25 March 2017 to the Archbishop of Canterbury's advisor for Anglican affairs, the Rt. Rev. Anthony Poggo, the Bishop of Boga in the Anglican Province of the Congo stated the Rev. Jeremy Pemberton is "no longer recognized" as a canon of Boga Diocese.