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  • Telegraph: Sex and relationship classes set to be taught in secondary schools after 23 Tory MPs back law change
    February 10th, 2017

    Compulsory sex and relationship education looks set to be taught in all secondary schools after Tory MPs - including five former ministers - backed a change to the law, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

    The ministers are among a group of 23 Conservative MPs who are backing a law change to force secondary schools to make Relationship Education compulsory in the National Curriculum.

    The change would see teenagers being what consent means in sexual relationships and how to protect themselves from sexting and online exploitation in compulsory classes.

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  • Telegraph: Now the Archbishop sees the toll of child abuse claims - true or not by Charles Moore
    February 10th, 2017

    In recent years, there have been so many child abuse accusations that this column has developed a resistance to them. I never believed the lurid claims made against Field Marshal Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan, Sir Edward Heath and Harvey Proctor. I am also convinced that the Church of England was wrong to state that the late Bishop George Bell abused a young girl in Chichester nearly 70 years ago. The process by which Bell was posthumously condemned without proper evidence is now, I am glad to say, being reviewed. 

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  • Coalition for Marriage: Dame Louise Casey Eats Humble Pie
    February 10th, 2017

    Dear marriage supporter,

    The Government’s integration tsar, Dame Louise Casey, said last month that Roman Catholic schools must support same-sex marriage. Her comments caused deep alarm to many people.

    But there is good news. It looks like Dame Louise has been having second thoughts. 

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  • Gatestone Institute: The Muslim Council of Britain's Little Problem by Douglas Murray
    February 10th, 2017

    When considering the roles that various people worldwide play in advancing various causes, a lot of attention is paid to the people who blow themselves up. A fair amount of time is spent on the victims of such people. But relatively little time is spent focusing on the people whose role is clearly to tire everyone to death.

    In this regard, it is worth introducing to a wider audience the existence of a man called Miqdaad Versi. This man works for the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), an organisation which enjoyed a certain amount of access to the British government after the Satanic Verses affair, 9/11, 7/7 and other atrocities. During those years, they presented themselves in the manner of debt collectors: standing beside a big bruiser stressing how sorry they were to have to demand this payment, but that they were only just holding back their big, angry friend.

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  • C-Fam: European Parliament Abortion Campaign Seeks to Indoctrinate Children
    February 10th, 2017

    The European Parliament has launched a campaign to promote abortion among the continent's adolescents.

    At a recent interactive conference, "My Body, My Rights", a campaign entitled "#AllofUs" sought to indoctrinate future European leaders. The Socialist and Democrats' Progressive Alliance Group and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats organized the event for Europe Group (ALDE), the Greens and European United Left (GUE).

    The campaign's explicit mission is to "mobilize support for the right to access modern contraception and safe & legal abortion" under the auspices of "sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights" (SRHR). This event was described as "addressing the challenges related to young adolescents' sexual and reproductive health."

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  • Christian Today: Church Teaching On Sexuality Is Driving Mental Health Problems In Gay People, Says Oasis
    February 10th, 2017

    Church teaching is fuelling social discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual people and driving mental health problems in their community, according to a new report from the Oasis Foundation.

    The report, In the Name of Love: The Church, exclusion and LGB mental health issues, says homosexual and bisexual people are up to 12 times more likely to experience mental health difficulties as heterosexual people. It argues this is caused by discrimination against them based on the belief, driven by Christian teaching, that heterosexuality is superior to homosexuality. 

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  • Australian Christian Lobby: Increasing Down syndrome screening of the unborn will cost in more ways than one
    February 10th, 2017

    Should we screen out people before they are born? If so, where is the line drawn? This question is passionately answered by people with down syndrome in campaigns such as the 'Don’t screen us out' in the UK but what is the situation in Australia.

    Here, the federal government is presently considering whether or not to fund a controversial new prenatal test which will lead to a greater number of Down Syndrome babies being aborted each and every year.

    The procedure, marketed as 'Harmony' Non-invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), can identify Down Syndrome, Edwards Syndrome and Patau Syndrome (trisomies 21, 18, and 13 respectively) in preborn children. Testing has shown some advantages over amniocentesis, the traditional procedure used to detect chromosomal abnormalities during pregnancy, because it is less invasive and more accurate.

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  • Barnabus Fund: Editorial: Why are Christian organisations campaigning against helping Christians flee the Middle East genocide?
    February 9th, 2017

    In the USA a terrible tragedy is happening. A nation that was founded by Christians fleeing religious persecution is tearing itself apart over its new president ordering the US refugee system to prioritise religious minorities fleeing persecution. Yet perhaps the greatest tragedy faces Christian refugees fleeing genocide in the Middle East. They now face the painful discovery that many they might have assumed would support them in their hour of need - their fellow Christians - are in fact those most vehemently opposed to this policy. Can you imagine how they feel?

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  • Christian Today: Lib-Con Coalition to block Church's stance on gay marriage
    February 9th, 2017

    Conservative Anglicans are preparing to join liberals to defeat Church leaders in a row over teaching on gay marriage.

    The document, the result of more than two years of private talks at all levels of the Church's hierarchy, could be thrown out of the CofE's parliament, general synod, when it is asked to 'take note' of it next week.

    The report by the Church of England's bishops refused to change the teaching that marriage is between one man and one woman – a core belief for conservative Christians. Although it did not suggest any change to doctrine, it promised 'maximum freedom' for gay couples within current laws and called for 'a fresh tone and culture of welcome and support' for LGBT people.

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  • Christian Today: 80% of Chinese students who convert to Christianity abroad give up faith once they're back home
    February 9th, 2017

    Christians abroad, non-Christians at home.

    That is the case for an increasing number of Chinese students who converted to Christianity while studying overseas but who give up their faith once they're back home in China, Foreign Policy reported.

    The news outlet blamed this on Chinese authorities' hostile treatment of Christians.

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