The Home Office has repeatedly failed to give sanctuary in Britain to a fair proportion of Christians, Yazidis and Druze, according to figures obtained under freedom of information laws by Barnabas Fund, which helps persecuted Christians overseas.
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January 21st, 2019
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January 16th, 2019
So it was that on Monday (14 January 2019), the Royal College of Physicians of London issued a press release which announced that they were to poll their 35,000 members and fellows in February to ask whether they supported a change to the law on ‘assisted dying’ (or more accurately, euthanasia and assisted suicide).
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January 16th, 2019
Conservative MP Crispin Blunt is calling for the practice of saying prayers at the beginning of parliamentary business in the House of Commons and House of Lords to be abolished.
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January 16th, 2019
The Isle of Man has become the first place in the British Isles to decriminalise abortion.
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January 15th, 2019
Doctors will be asked if they would help a terminally ill patient to die and whether the law should be changed, as the controversial debate surrounding assisted dying continues.
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January 15th, 2019
Europe is split by striking differences in its attitude to God and the role religion plays in national identity. Overall, Central and Eastern Europeans are much more religious than Western Europeans.
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January 14th, 2019
A leading evangelical bishop who oversaw the production of controversial Church of England guidance about gender transitioning has apologised – and confirmed that he now doesn't back it.
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January 14th, 2019
A row has erupted within the Church of England as senior Anglicans are calling on the Archbishop of Canterbury to force his ambassador to the Vatican to resign because he does not believe Jesus rose from the dead.
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January 14th, 2019
Children as young as 10 are having their gender switched by deed poll as record numbers of British youngsters identify as transgender.
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January 11th, 2019
When the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) debuted its treatise on gender and sexuality at a Southern Baptist conference in 2017, the mayor of Nashville condemned its affirmation of traditional marriage and biological sex as well as its use of her city’s name.