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In this video, Revd David McCarthy, rector of St Thomas’s Edinburgh, laments the crisis which hit the Scottish Episcopal Church in June 2016 when the General Synod rejected the bible’s teaching by voting to change the church’s Canon on marriage.
However, reminded how in the recent past the Gafcon Primates came to the aid of Anglicans in North America, David and fellow orthodox Anglicans in Scotland are encouraged by support from within the wider communion and ask for our prayers.
Ahead of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2017, which starts tomorrow, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a joint statement on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Archbishop Justin Welby and Archbishop Dr John Sentamu said today:
"This year, churches around the world will be marking the great significance of the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation in Europe, dated from Martin Luther's 95 Theses protesting against the practice of indulgences, on 31 October 1517 at Wittenberg. The Church of England will be participating in various ways, including sharing in events with Protestant church partners from Continental Europe.
DPP Alison Saunders amended the prosecution policy for assisted suicide in October 2014.
Merv and Nikki Kenward, from Aston on Clun, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, said that the change in wording made it less likely that healthcare professionals would be prosecuted for assisting suicide.
Mrs Kenward was stricken by Guillain-Barre Syndrome in 1990 and left almost completely paralysed for five months, able only to blink her right eye.
Disability rights campaigners have failed in a bid to challenge the Director of Public Prosecution’s policy on assisted dying which they fear leaves vulnerable people "at risk from dodgy doctors".
The Court of Appeal today told Nikki and Merv Kenward it was "futile" to allow them permission to appeal against an earlier High Court ruling that Alison Saunders’s updated advice does not breach the Suicide Act.
The 1961 legislation makes assisting or encouraging suicide a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of 14 years’ imprisonment.
Disability rights campaigners have failed in their bid to appeal against a High Court decision rejecting their challenge to a change to the Director of Public Prosecution's (DPP) policy on cases of assisted dying.
DPP Alison Saunders amended the prosecution policy for assisted suicide in October 2014.
Merv and Nikki Kenward, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, said that the change in wording made it less likely that healthcare professionals would be prosecuted for assisting suicide.
Disability campaigners from Shropshire will bring a legal challenge against the Director of Public Prosecutions, over current assisted suicide laws.
The 1961 Suicide Act makes it a criminal offence to assist or encourage suicide. The DPP has a discretion on whether to prosecute.
In October 2014, Alison Saunders amended the policy, making the prosecution of healthcare professionals in assisted suicide cases less likely.
Disability rights campaigners are to ask the Court of Appeal to examine whether the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) acted lawfully in changing prosecution policy in cases of assisted dying.
Merv and Nikki Kenward, from Aston on Clun, Shropshire, are seeking permission to appeal against a High Court ruling handed down in December 2015.
Mrs Kenward was stricken by Guillain-Barre Syndrome in 1990 and left almost completely paralysed for five months, able only to blink her right eye.
Disability rights campaigners are to ask the Court of Appeal to examine whether the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) acted lawfully in changing prosecution policy in cases of assisted dying.
Merv and Nikki Kenward, from Aston on Clun, Shropshire, are seeking permission to appeal against a High Court ruling handed down in December 2015.
Mrs Kenward was stricken by Guillain-Barre Syndrome in 1990 and left almost completely paralysed for five months, able only to blink her right eye.
Prof Warwick, chief executive of the RCM, signed the country’s 30,000 midwives to a campaign to legalise abortion up to birth.
Cathy Warwick, the chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), will step down from the role and retire at the end of August 2017, it has been announced.
Prof Warwick is also Chairman of Trustees for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), and came under fire when she signed the RCM up to their "We Trust Women Campaign", which advocates for full decriminalisation of abortion on demand up to birth.
Faith to Faithless, a community support network for 'apostates' and the ex-religious founded by Aliyah Saleem and Imtiaz Shams in 2015, is now a part of the British Humanist Association (BHA), the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people in the United Kingdom.
BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, 'A brief look at the statistics — which show that two thirds of younger people in Britain are non-religious — can create the misleading impression that this new majority faces little hardship because of what they believe or don’t believe.
'But look a little further, and you’ll find many non-religious people are discriminated against. Many who are treated this way are overlooked "minorities within minorities" who face rejection, victimisation, and abuse when they leave behind the religion they were raised in. As the national charity supporting the non-religious to live free and full lives, we are happy to take on the challenge of supporting ex-religious people either in crisis or in search of community. I’m delighted that we’ll soon be ready to offer that support much more widely through Faith to Faithless.'