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  • Gatestone Institute: Report: Homegrown Terrorism is Top Threat to UK
    March 7th, 2017

    Homegrown terrorism inspired by the Islamic State poses the dominant threat to the national security of the United Kingdom, according to a comprehensive new report on violent Islamism in Britain.

    The 1,000-page report — "Islamist Terrorism: Analysis of Offenses and Attacks in the UK (1998–2015)" — was published on March 5 by the Henry Jackson Society, a foreign policy think tank based in London.

    The report, authored by terrorism researcher Hanna Stuart, identifies, profiles and analyzes all 269 Islamism-inspired terrorism convictions and suicide attacks in the United Kingdom between 1998 and 2015.

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  • Mail: Marie Stopes in the dock for 'abortions on demand'
    March 7th, 2017

    Scandal-hit Marie Stopes abortion clinics are under fresh investigation after the Daily Mail revealed that doctors are approving terminations for women they have never met.

    Inspectors were sent to the charity’s headquarters last week to review how it is run.

    The probe is now being expanded after reporters discovered women are being signed off for abortions after only a brief phone conversation with a call centre worker.

    These discussions can be as short as 22 seconds.

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  • TES: Government finds half a billion for free schools - and kickstarts the grammar revolution
    March 7th, 2017

    The government is providing more than £500 million for free schools and building maintenance, the Treasury has announced.

    Writing in today's Daily Telegraph the prime minister Theresa May says at least some of the money will be spent on building a new generation of grammar schools.

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  • Irish Examiner: Pro Life campaign dismiss UN Committee 'abortion' condemnations as 'bordering on the ridiculous'
    March 6th, 2017

    The United Nation’s latest condemnation of Ireland’s abortion laws are "bordering on the ridiculous" according to the Pro Life Campaign.

    In a statement tonight the group said it is "bordering on ridiculous the way some UN bodies are issuing what appear like twice monthly condemnations of Ireland’s pro-life Eighth Amendment."

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  • Telegraph: No more separate boys' and girls' toilets at primary schools in Glasgow to help pupils who are 'confused about their gender'
    March 6th, 2017

    New primary schools in Glasgow will no longer have boys' and girls' bathrooms and will instead label them 'unisex' to help children struggling with gender identity issues, the council has announced

    The initiative, which is to be introduced in three schools currently under construction, has led to protests from parents concerned that the genderless bathrooms intrudes on their children’s privacy.

    However, Glasgow City council claims that the policy will help combat bullying, anti-social behaviour, and provide a less intimidating experience for LGBT students.

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  • LifeNews: 26 Babies Saved Already From Abortion in Latest 40 Days for Life Prayer Campaign
    March 6th, 2017

    Through the first few days of this 40 Days for Life campaign, our local leaders report 26 babies (and their moms) spared from abortion – that we know of!

    Praise God!

    There's more to rejoice about as well, as I’ve just returned from a visit to New Mexico, where volunteers are celebrating the closure of an abortion center in Las Cruces where five prayerful 40 Days for Life vigils were held.

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  • Christian Institute: 'Extremism definition still undecided', admits Home Secretary
    March 6th, 2017

    The Government still has not decided on a clear legal definition of extremism, the Home Secretary has admitted.

    Amber Rudd made the admission after being asked by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) to provide an update on the Government’s long-awaited counter-extremism Bill.

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  • BBC: India abortion: Police find 19 female foetuses
    March 6th, 2017

    Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have found 19 aborted female foetuses near a hospital.

    Senior police officials in Sangli district said the remains were "buried with the intention of disposing them".

    The police told the BBC that they found the foetuses while they were investigating the death of a woman who had undergone an illegal abortion.

    Activists say the incident proves yet again that female foeticide is rampant in India despite awareness campaigns.

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  • Christian Medical Comment: Increasing survival of extremely premature babies again raises questions about upper abortion limits by Peter Saunders
    March 6th, 2017

    The increasing survival of extremely premature babies is again raising serious questions about the 24 week upper limit for social abortion.

    Tonight, 6 March, Inside Out on BBC One in the East Midlands related how new treatments - including some trialled in Nottingham and Leicester - are helping to limit disabilities and boost life expectancy in premature babies weighing as little as one pound (450g).

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  • Doug Wilson: Virgins and Volcanoes
    March 6th, 2017

    There are only two "ways," two fundamental religions in the world. One of them feeds people, and the other one eats people. We see this contrast in vivid relief in the juxtaposition that Mark gives to the death of John the Baptist. That sad but typical episode is followed immediately by the feeding of the five thousand.

    "And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother" (Mark 6:28).

    "He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat." (Mark 6:37).

    At the banquet of the first king, the head of a preeminent saint was brought to him on a platter, on a serving dish. "Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord" (Psalm 14:4). And in the next scene, at a banquet hosted by a completely different kind of king, all the people were invited to sit on the grass, and they were there fed by the prayer and power of that king, and the hands of his disciples.

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