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The 14-day time limit on growing human embryos in the laboratory will not be extended, the head of the fertility regulator has said.
Sally Cheshire, chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, dismissed an increasingly vocal campaign by some scientists for the freedom to carry out experiments on embryos at a stage when their bodies are beginning to form.
A gay clergyman who lost an employment tribunal against the church has had his appeal dismissed.
Canon Jeremy Pemberton had claimed the Church of England's stance on same-sex marriage breached equality laws.
But last year it was ruled he was not discriminated against when stopped from taking up a new post as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner.
Mr Pemberton said the Employment Appeal Tribunal has given him leave to go to the Court of Appeal.
A PATIENT who dies in hospital could soon have their healthy organs automatically removed for transplants.
The Scottish Government are considering the move to dramatically increase the number of organs
available for donation.
Currently, 531 people are awaiting a transplant but there were only 99 deceased donors in the last year.
Women are being "criminalised" in news stories about abortion because the media uses images of advanced pregnancy bumps to illustrate them, say campaigners.
Dr Christian Fiala, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Museum of Contraception and Abortion in Vienna, is spear-heading a campaign to find more "appropriate" imagery, in order to remove the stigma around abortion. He said that the images journalists use give the wrong impression about abortion, and associated it with murder.
Families immigrating to Britain are being urged by the Communities Secretary Sajid Javid to respect the country's Christian culture.
Speaking in Parliament after a government-commissioned review of social integration by Dame Louise Casey, he said reverence towards Christianity "sometimes is lacking".
Mr Javid said: "It's respect for all communities of each other including of immigrant communities, for example, of the dominant Christian culture in this country which sometimes is lacking."
We cannot understand human history apart from its conflicts, its revolts, its revolutions. This is true of world history, political history, social history, religious history, and undoubtedly any other kind of history. For good or for ill—and humanity’s long past has many examples of both—, we humans are revolutionaries, always primed for a conflict. But we are confused and inconsistent revolutionaries who sometimes revolt away from a great injustice and sometimes toward one. Today we are watching people all around us revolt away from justice, away from truth, away from common sense, away from the common good. The revolution rages around us and sometimes within us.
The Christian MSP Alex Johnstone has died at the age of 55 after a short battle with cancer.
Johnstone, a Conservative member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, had been an active member in his local parish and was a Church of Scotland elder.
He is survived by his wife Linda, two children and six grandchildren.
During his time in Holyrood he fought against same sex marriage and assisted dying legislation.
The marriage notice of South Korea’s first same-sex married couple has been once again blocked by a court.
The 5th civil division of Seoul Seobu District Court under judge Kim Yang-seop announced on Dec. 6 that it had “dismissed an appeal of a court’s dismissal of a case filed by Kim-Jho Kwang-soo, 51, and Kim Seung-hwan, 32, claiming a district office had acted unjustly in refusing to accept their marriage notice as a same-sex couple.” In their case, Kim-Jho and Kim filed an appeal of dissatisfaction with the matter’s handling by the government employee in charge of registrations for family relationships.
People who have “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” or who “support the so-called ‘gay culture’” cannot be priests in the Catholic church, the Vatican said in a new document on the priesthood.
The document said the church’s policy on gay priests has not changed since the last Vatican pronouncement on the subject in 2005. Some have been hoping for more openness toward gay priests ever since Pope Francis uttered perhaps the most famous sentence of his papacy — when he was asked in 2013 about the subject of priests who are gay — “Who am I to judge?”
A woman who recently fled the Islamic State in Mosul demonstrates its dress code, one that became increasingly restrictive, was meticulously monitored and harshly enforced.