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  • Ekklesia: Muslim Council of Britain calls for political leadership on Islamophobia
    December 29th, 2016

    The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has written to politicial leaders, urging them to stand in solidarity with Muslim communities following recent public attacks targeting Muslims.

    Writing to the leaders of all national political parties, the letter highlights three recent incidents:

    • In London, a knife-wielding man shouted “I want to kill a Muslim” before stabbing a Muslim in the head, twice in the chest and three times in the back
    • In London, a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf was pushed to the ground and dragged along the pavement in a “sickening” attack. She was left unassisted for almost 20 minutes before being able to dial 999
    • In Scotland, a mosque in Cumbernauld was sprayed with racist graffiti.

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  • Christian Today: Brutal Rise In Persecution Of Christians Around The World Forecast In New Report
    December 29th, 2016

    A shocking rise in violent persecution of Christians is forecast for next year by the charity Release International.

    The most dramatic increase is expected to be in the Islamic world, where Christians are finding themselves at ever greater risk of persecution from both the state and Islamic militants.

    Persecution of Christians is also on the rise in India, from militant Hindus, and China, where the pressure is continuing to grow on unregistered churches. 

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  • Bible Society: A third of all Brits believe in guardian angels
    December 29th, 2016

    Do you believe in angels? It turns out 1 in 3 people in the UK do according to a recent poll we commissioned. One in three people believe in angels and the same proportion feel they have a guardian angel watching over them.

    Although women are more likely to believe in angels than men, at 39% and 26% accordingly, the proportion who have seen or heard an angel is consistent at 11% for women and 8% for men. 

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  • Premier: 2017: year of the Church of England split?
    December 29th, 2016

    We're being told to finally expect to see a resolution in 2017 over the issue of sexuality within the Church of England.

    Over the past twelve months there have been many statements given and campaigns started by both sides of the divide and a series of shared conversations have been taking place across England as church leaders try to find a way forward on the issue.

    The two major dividing points are whether gay priests should be able to marry their same-sex partners and whether priests should be able to conduct weddings of people of the same sex.

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  • The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission: How euthanasia came to Europe by Joe Carter
    December 29th, 2016

    "I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel."

    For centuries, the Hippocratic Oath, which included this admonition against assisted suicide and euthanasia formed the core of Western medical ethics. Over the past few decades, though, the Hippocratic ideal has been eroding. Euthanasia—both voluntary and involuntary—and physician-assisted suicide have become increasingly common in Europe. 

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  • Times (£): Take religion out of the classroom
    December 29th, 2016

    A majority of Scots believe that rules should be changed to ensure that children are not made to take part in religious observance at school, a poll for The Times has revealed.

    The YouGov survey shows that 38 per cent of adults believe that there should not be a place for worship in the education system. 

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  • Christian Institute: Pro-abortion bias leads to official warning for Ireland's state broadcaster
    December 28th, 2016

    Ireland's publicly-funded broadcaster has been issued with an official warning by broadcasting authorities for repeated pro-abortion bias on one of its flagship radio shows.

    The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) issued the warning to RTÉ, which receives funding from TV licence fee payers in the country.

    Pro-life groups have welcomed the warning at a time when the Irish Government is under pressure to hold a referendum on removing constitutional protections for the unborn.

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  • Archbishop Cranmer: The establishment of the Church of England and the Christian Monarchy flourish together or fall together by Gavin Ashenden
    December 28th, 2016

    One of the many reasons I like twitter is for the jokes. "Why should anyone take any notice of the National Secular Society?" someone asked yesterday morning. "It's only two old blokes and laptop."

    In fact that's only half true. The National Secular Society won't disclose its membership. But it gets a disproportionate amount of time because it can rely on the BBC to give it airtime, with its clumsy editorial policy of 'balancing' opposite points of view-irrespective of their merits or numbers they represent.

    You can tell when the old secular blokes and the laptop are feeling unloved and unnoticed; that's the moment when they put out their latest call for the disestablishment of the Church of England.

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  • TIME: A Dutch Clinic May Have Fertilized the Eggs of 26 Women With the Wrong Sperm
    December 28th, 2016

    A medical lab in the Netherlands may have inadvertently fertilized 26 women's eggs with the wrong sperm, in a bizarre mix-up revealed after half of the women had already either become pregnant or given birth.

    The BBC reports that the University Medical Center in Utrecht admitted to a "procedural error" during in-vitro fertilizations between April 2015 and November 2016, and that an investigation has been launched. 

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  • Newsweek: How Scientists in Britain are deciding the future of humanity
    December 28th, 2016

    Layla Richards was a bouncy 7 pound, 10 ounce baby with downy dark hair and plump cheeks when she was born in a London hospital in June 2014. But 12 weeks later, Layla, who had been settling in at home in North London, suddenly stopped drinking milk and began to fuss and cry constantly. Because she had been a sunny, happy infant until then, her parents took her to see the doctor. He suspected a stomach bug, but just to be sure he took a blood test. The results that came a few days later were a shock: Layla had an acute, deadly form of leukemia that she couldn’t survive without immediate treatment. She was just 14 weeks old.

    When the diagnosis came in, an ambulance rushed the family from their home to intensive care at the Great Ormond Street (GOS) Hospital, the world-famous pediatric center in Bloomsbury. Her doctors described her cancer as "one of the most aggressive forms of the disease" they had ever seen. For the next few weeks, she endured several rounds of chemotherapy, followed by a full bone marrow transplant to replace her damaged blood cells. This sort of aggressive therapy can often be successful in babies, but none of Layla’s treatments, even the experimental ones, worked. Medically, she was out of options. Only one choice remained - admitting her to an end-of-life care facility to make her final weeks more comfortable.

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