Church schools give Welsh children a better start in life, according to a report released this morning.
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September 17th, 2009
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September 17th, 2009
Services that enable pharmacists to provide the contraceptive pill to patients without a prescription are gathering momentum across the UK.
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September 17th, 2009
'Clarification means that I get to live longer and be with my husband, who I love, and that?s an amazing thing, says Debbie Purdy.
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September 17th, 2009
An Islamic community must find a new place of worship after a controversial mosque was shown the red card.
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September 17th, 2009
The sex industry has 'infiltrated' the workplace due to the prevalence of lap dancing clubs to entertain clients, a leading women's rights group has said.
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September 16th, 2009
A Friday outbreak of anti-Christian violence in Pakistan, which included the burning of a church, was reportedly sparked by a Muslim woman who was furious that her daughter had become romantically linked with a Christian man. The mother allegedly tore pages from a Koran and framed the young man for the deed.
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September 16th, 2009
Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said he feared that the City was returning to business as usual with no 'repentance' for the excesses which led to the economic collapse.
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September 16th, 2009
A Christian campaign group has been banned from pinning up notices about its meetings in libraries or community centres.
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September 16th, 2009
French politics might live uneasily with Islam--battling over burkas, sparring over veils--but French economists are keen to make Islamic finance a crisis buster in Paris. Finance minister Christine Lagarde is trying to attract Islamic banking, which has grown 10 to 15 percent a year since 2003 to become a global industry totaling more than $700 billion today.
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September 16th, 2009
Arrested March 5, 2009, because of their Christian faith, two newly converted young Iranian women, Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amairizadeh Esmaeilabad (photos left), remain in limbo in the detention wing of Tehran?s notorious Evin prison.