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  • Telegraph: It's time for the Church of England to lay down the law on marriage
    February 16th, 2017

    Wednesday's vote in Synod was not a victory for the LGBT lobby. In whatever way that vote in synod is spun, the real issue is not about same-sex marriage but about the authority of the Bible in the Church of England.

    The effect of the vote is that there is no change in doctrine or practice. Marriage remains, as it has for all Christendom, a lifelong union between a man and a woman.

    This moment presents a great opportunity for the House of Bishops to embrace that truth and to act to uphold it firmly within the Church, disciplining those who would seek to abandon the authority of the Bible, and whose actions will eventually bring down the Church by actively denying that truth.

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  • Life News: France passes law to put operators of pro life web sites in prison for two years
    February 16th, 2017

    France is becoming an increasingly hostile environment for people who think babies in the womb deserve a right to life.

    On Thursday, the French legislature passed a new law that could jail people who operate pro-life websites that they claim give women "misleading" information to discourage them from having an abortion.

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  • Church of England: Letter from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York following General Synod
    February 16th, 2017

    The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have written to members of the General Synod setting out the next steps following the vote on General Synod not to take note of the paper on Marriage and Same Sex Relationships after the Shared Conversations.

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  • Breitbart: Muslims warned they will go to hell if they don't vote Labour
    February 16th, 2017

    A Labour activist has said UKIP are "enemies of Islam", warning Muslim voters they will go to hell if they fail to vote Labour at the upcoming Stoke by-election.
    Navid Hussain said that voting for any party other than Labour would result in the electing of "an anti-Muslim and anti-Islam MP", in a text message sent to Muslims in Stoke-on-Trent Central.

    "Will you be able to answer for this in the Grave and on the Final Day??? ‘I helped the Enemies of Islam because…", he wrote in the message, which was circulated via SMS and WhatsApp among the constituency’s Muslim community.

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  • The Gospel Coalition: Meet the gateway people to the Muslim world
    February 16th, 2017

    A few years ago at a conference, I held a large banner that read: "Azerbaijanis: God’s gateway people to the Muslim world." One quizzical individual pondered a few minutes before asking me whether this was a real place.

    Azerbaijanis get that a lot.

    They are one of the few peoples that span numerous countries with different linguistic and cultural contexts. The Republic of Azerbaijan is home to 9 million Azerbaijanis, but its low profile on the world stage leads many to underestimate its significance. While the exact number of Azerbaijanis worldwide is unknown, it ranges from 30 million to 50 million. Their largest concentration is found in Iran, where estimates range from 18 million to 30 million.

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  • Guardian: New law to stop adults sexting children not being enforced
    February 16th, 2017

    Tough new laws that make it a criminal offence for an adult to send sexually explicit messages to a child under 16 are still not being enforced almost two years after they were passed by parliament, child protection campaigners have said.

    The offence, which updated existing laws to include sexting and other online communications, was made a criminal act under section 67 of the Serious Crime Act in March 2015.

    However, the NSPCC, which campaigned for the law, said no start date has been set to bring the new law into force, meaning police cannot charge anyone with the offence.

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  • Telegraph: Church takes step towards gay marriage after vote rejects controversial report
    February 16th, 2017

    Church of England clergy have appeared to signal support for gay marriage after they rejected a bishops' report which said that only a man and woman could marry in church.

    The report recommended that the bar on same-sex church marriages continue but that a more welcoming attitude towards homosexuals should be shown by congregations.

    However, the motion was rejected by clergy at the General Synod who voted 100 to 93 against. Sources said they believed the recommendation had been rejected by the more liberal members of the clergy who thought the Church should ultimately drop its opposition to gay marriage.

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  • BBC: Church of England's rejection of gay marriage report welcomed
    February 16th, 2017

    Gay rights campaigners have welcomed the rejection by the Church of England's Synod of a call for continued opposition to same-sex marriage.

    The House of Bishops's report maintained church marriages should be between men and women, and same-sex relationships cannot be blessed - but the House of Clergy dismissed it.

    Campaigner Peter Tatchell said it was a "victory for love and equality".

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  • BBC: 'Keep sex abuse dad's name off my wedding certificate'
    February 16th, 2017

    If Jenny ever gets married, there will be no dad walking her down the aisle and, if she gets her way, no mention of him on her marriage certificate either.

    This is because, according to the twenty-something professional, the man who sexually abused her for 18 months from the age of seven "lost any right to be called my father".

    Despite his horrific betrayal of the relationship between father and daughter, under current law it is only his name and occupation that can be recorded on her future marriage certificate - not that of her mother "who has been mum and dad all wrapped up in one".

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  • Life News: Head of abortion business claims abortions are "safer than aspirin"
    February 15th, 2017

    Ann Furedi, CEO of BPAS claimed on BBC television this morning that women should be able to buy abortion pills online, because the drugs are safer than over the counter medication.

    She made the comments on the Victoria Derbyshire show, which has obtained statistics showing that the number of abortion pills being bought online is increasing. The figures, from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) – which regulates medicines in the UK – show there were 375 pills seized last year, up from 270 in 2015 and 180 in 2014.

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