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Many councils are not using faith-based organisations to provide vital services because they fear the cash will be used to evangelise, it's claimed.
Local authorities also worry that Christian groups would be biased to people of the same faith, according to the Labour MP Stephen Timms.
The politician, a Christian, is promoting the Faith Covenant which aims to encourage dialogue between councils and faith-based organisations.
Newly released this week, to muted publicity, was a comprehensive, reliable and rigorous Cochrane review of studies reviewing school-based interventions on sex education. This was a large review, combining peer-reviewed data from more than 55,000 young people from around the world.
Some of its conclusions were startling and probably for many, unexpected.
The studies in the Cochrane review were all randomised controlled trials from Europe, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Most were of high quality and had follow-ups at between 18 months and seven years. The sex education programmes they investigated included peer and teacher-led education and ‘innovative uses’ of drama and group work.
Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first-rate education for their children can only dream about. Founded in 2003, the school teaches the classical curriculum of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Students read the Aeneid, the Iliad, and Dante’s Inferno.
Nova’s website proclaims, “Parents are the primary educators of their children.” The school’s mission statement calls students to “a virtuous life of duty and ideals.” In 2016, U.S. News and World Report named Nova’s high school No. 1 in Minnesota, and the No. 4 charter high school in the nation.
A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 technique.
On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu delivered the modified cells into a patient with aggressive lung cancer as part of a clinical trial at the West China Hospital, also in Chengdu.
Earlier clinical trials using cells edited with a different technique have excited clinicians. The introduction of CRISPR, which is simpler and more efficient than other techniques, will probably accelerate the race to get gene-edited cells into the clinic across the world, says Carl June, who specializes in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and led one of the earlier studies.
Theresa May has said her Christian faith helps her make difficult decisions as she revealed her husband Philip picks her clothes and handbags when she goes shopping.
The Prime Minister said her belief in God means she has faith in her gut instincts as she defended her leadership style which has been criticised for shutting others out of the decision-making process.
Mrs May, a keen follower of fashion, also unmasked her stylist as her husband Philip, who is "good at accessories too, particularly good at choosing handbags and bracelets for presents and good at flowers".
German police raided 200 sites across 10 states on Tuesday as they searched for an Islamist group suspected of inciting hate.
The group called The True Religion (Die wahre Religion) has now also been banned by interior minister Thomas de Maiziere, said a ministry spokesman.
The sweeping raids in 10 states including North Rhine-Westphalia in the west, Hamburg in the north and Baden-Wuerttemberg in the south-west began at dawn.
Ashers Baking Company’s courageous stand for marriage has captured the public’s imagination, with record numbers seeing The Christian Institute’s social media posts on Facebook.
A video of Daniel McArthur giving glory to God led the way, helping to take Institute news and resources to more than 1.9 million people.
Hundreds of thousands of people received The Christian Institute’s posts across our social media channels, as believers reflected on a disappointing result but recognised that God remains sovereign.
The Crown Prosecution Service failed to secure what could have been the first conviction for sex-selective abortion after dropping a case amid fears of "political correctness", a government aide has revealed.
Mandy Sanghera, a human rights activist who advises the government on how to tackle honour-based violence, told the Daily Telegraph how prosecutors failed to pursue a case involving an Asian woman whose family forced her to have an abortion, for fear of being labelled racist.
As a young British-Pakistani woman, Lubna faced an agonising decision. She was brought up a devout Muslim in a prosperous middle-class family in the north of England, but her arranged marriage to the father of her two children was a disaster.
He was both sexually abusive and physically violent; he and members of his family regularly beat up Lubna.
When he suddenly disappeared to pursue a new life in America with a new woman, she was left to work night and day to support his elderly parents until they threw her out of their house.
The government will support new legislation to ban bogus crisis pregnancy agencies after an investigation by The Times.
Simon Harris, the health minister, backed down last night on plans to delay for six months a bill to crack down on misinformation given to women.
The bill, which would add crisis pregnancy counsellors to the list of regulated health professionals, will be debated on Thursday. It was introduced by Labour after this newspaper exposed a clinic run by a Catholic group claiming that abortions could cause breast cancer and turn women into child abusers.