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  • Premier: Christian psychologist: we're making gender issues worse
    December 13th, 2016

    A Christian psychologist has said we're making people struggling with gender identity even worse by the way we're treating them.

    Louise Kadayer's comments come after the NSPCC said the number of counselling sessions it was giving to children, who were unhappy or confused about their gender, had doubled in the past three years to a record number.

    Last year the NSPCC held 2,796 counselling sessions in 2015/16 - an average of eight per day - with children who felt their biological sex was wrong.

    That's more than twice the amount in 2012/13, when 1,102 sessions were held.

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  • LifeNews: Conservative Party Leadership Hopefuls Say Canada Must Address Problem of Sex-Selection Abortions
    December 13th, 2016

    Hopeful Conservative Party leaders in Canada say they want that to change.

    “I believe it is wrong to end a pregnancy based solely on the belief that a baby girl is worth less than a baby boy,” Pierre Lemieux, candidate for prime minister in Canada, told the Canadian Free Press. “As a father of four daughters, this issue is particularly close to my heart and I stand with those Canadians who have serious concerns about gender-selective abortion…”

    Canada has some of the most permissive abortion laws in the world. In 1969, Canadian mothers could only consider abortion if carrying the baby proved to directly threaten her health or safety, according to Canada’s National Abortion Foundation. However, these abortion laws were deemed unconstitutional in 1988, resulting in Canada having virtually no federal or provincial regulations on abortion. Abortion is not only completely legal but also funded by the taxpayers, with the exception of Nova Scotia.

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  • Guardian: Childline receives eight calls a day about gender identity issues
    December 13th, 2016

    Childline has been receiving an average of eight calls a day from children and adolescents about gender dysphoria and transgender issues, more than double the number received the year before.

    Record numbers of children sought counselling about gender identity from the NSPCC’s helpline during 2015-16, with 2,796 calls being made compared with 1,299 calls in the previous 12 months.

    Childline received calls from children as young as 11 who said their biological sex did not match their gender identity. The calls ranged from anxiety about telling parents, experience of transphobic bullying and mental distress caused by long delays in receiving medical treatment.

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  • Times (£): Parents call in lawyers over soaring care costs
    December 13th, 2016

    Ageing parents are drawing up legal documents to make clear that they would rather die than allow excessive care home fees to eat into their child’s inheritance.

    The rising cost of elderly care is leading the middle-aged to create powers of attorney enshrining their desire to refuse treatment should they become incapacitated, a leading law firm said.

    The number of older people registering powers of attorney has doubled to half a million in the past two years as they become more fearful of developing dementia. Councils will fund care for the elderly only once their assets and savings have fallen below £23,500.

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  • Christian Today: Christian Nurse Sues For Unfair Dismissal After Talking About Jesus At Work
    December 12th, 2016

    A Christian nurse is suing for unfair dismissal after she was sacked by a hospital trust for offering to pray with patients before operations.

    Patients complained about Sarah Kuteh, who has 15 years of nursing experience, to the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

    She was dismissed for breaching guidelines about discussing religion at work.

    In a video about her case posted on the Facebook page of Christian Concern, she asks: "How could telling anyone about Jesus Christ really be harmful to any patient?"

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  • Premier: Phillip Schofield grills Christian nurse for offering to pray with patients
    December 12th, 2016

    This Morning presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby have grilled a Christian nurse who was sacked for offering to pray for patients.

    On live TV the pair quizzed Sarah Kuteh after she was dismissed from her job at Darent Valley hospital in Dartford for breaching hospital guidelines about religious discussion.

    She is now being supported by the Christian Legal Centre as she takes the hospital to an employment tribunal.

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  • Guardian: Why is it wrong for a nurse to offer prayers? by Chibundu Onuzo
    December 12th, 2016

    A few years ago I came upon a woman weeping on a train platform. Through tears and halting words, she told me her boyfriend had broken up with her. It was the latest in a string of failed relationships and she felt her life was worthless.

    As we got on the train I gave her some tissues and then asked if I could pray with her. When she agreed, I mumbled some words about God loving her and her life being precious to him and asked that she be blessed and made whole. Then it was my stop. I got off the train and never saw her again.

    I have often asked strangers if I can pray with them: at the homeless shelter in which I volunteer; on public transport; in the prison I visit once a month with my church. Prayer is the first thing I do when I have a problem or when I’m in distress. It is therefore the most sincere thing I offer when I meet people who are in difficult situations themselves.

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  • The Wee Flea: Abortion - Should the Law be Changed in Scotland? by David Robertson
    December 12th, 2016

    The following article appeared in The Sunday Herald yesterday. Actually, as is typical of the Herald there was another article which was very pro-abortion and then these two opinion pieces. It was good to be able to have a few words in defence of the unborn. Right now the Scottish football world is rightfully in a state about child abuse. Is there any greater abuse than the deliberate taking of a childs life in the womb. It is a sign of the sickness of our culture that so many ‘progressives’ regard it as a basic human right, that the mother should be free to take her own childs life. Note Cat Boyd’s call for abortion on demand up to nine months!

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  • Guardian: Women's groups urge Scotland to scrap two doctors abortion rule
    December 12th, 2016

    The Scottish government should scrap the legal requirement for two doctors to approve a termination, effectively decriminalising the procedure, and consider regulating abortion drugs for use by women in their own homes, according to a report by a coalition of women’s rights organisations.

    With abortion law devolved to Holyrood as part of the Scotland Act 2016, the report argues that the SNP government must now “be bold in creating a distinctive approach” by removing it from criminal statute and regulating it like any other healthcare procedure. 

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  • Christian Today: Archbishop Of Canterbury: Churches Are Changing Lives Through Debt Counselling
    December 12th, 2016

    Lives are being transformed through debt charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP), the Archbishop of Canterbury said today, as a new report revealed the overwhelming majority of clients were still debt free years after being helped.

    In total, 93 per cent of people who had used CAP's church-based centres were still living debt free up to five years later.

    More than eight in 10 still lived by a budget and almost half (46 per cent) now had savings. 

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