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  • Times (£): Sharia police face jail for trying to prevent drinking
    November 10th, 2016

    Seven Islamists who set themselves up as a Sharia police force went on trial in Germany yesterday under laws banning groups from wearing political uniforms.

    The men, all aged between 25 and 30, donned fluorescent orange jackets bearing the slogan “Shariah police” on the back and patrolled streets near bars in the western German city of Wuppertal in 2014. They allegedly ordered people not to drink, gamble or visit nightclubs, leading to an outcry amid growing fears in Germany that Islamic hardliners were testing the national rule of law.

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  • BBC: Italian court allows mother to give child her name
    November 9th, 2016

    Italy's constitutional court has ruled against legislation that automatically gives children of married couples the father's surname.

    Lawyers argued that preventing families from giving children their mother's surname discriminated against women.

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had earlier condemned the legislation - which dates from Roman times - and ordered Italy to change it.

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  • LifeNews: Colorado Approves Ballot Measure Making It 5th State to Legalize Assisted Suicide
    November 8th, 2016

    Colorado voters approved a measure on the November ballot today that will make Colorado the next state to legalize assisted suicide targeting the disabled and elderly. The ballot proposal comes after the state legislature defeated bills to legalize assisted suicide.

    Leading pro-life, disability rights, religious and medical groups publicly opposed the ballot measure. California, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are the only four states to have legalized assisted suicide.

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  • Guardian: Lords defeat government over child protection proposals
    November 8th, 2016

    The government has suffered a defeat in the House of Lords over plans to allow councils to opt out of legal obligations to vulnerable children.

    The crossbencher Lord Ramsbotham successfully moved an amendment to delete a prominent clause of the children and social work bill designed to give ministers extensive powers to sidestep children’s legal rights built up over decades.

    The government argued that council social services departments were over-regulated and that proposed powers in clause 29 of the bill would free them to drive “innovation” in social work practice and make services more efficient.

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  • Conservative Woman: Objective truth should hold sway in parent-child trans disputes by Rob Slane
    November 8th, 2016

    Since we have decided to complicate an already complex world even further by claiming that a person can become a gender that is opposite to their biological sex, it is no surprise that we are being rewarded for our endeavours with increasingly complex situations. Two cases have recently emerged that pretty neatly exemplify the complexities that arise because we are choosing to tread on this path.

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  • Guardian: Ofsted wrong to penalise Islamic school over gender segregation, court rules
    November 8th, 2016

    A high court judge has ruled that Ofsted inspectors were wrong to penalise an Islamic faith school because of their “erroneous” view that segregation of boys and girls amounted to unlawful discrimination.

    But Mr Justice Jay allowed Ofsted, the body that regulates schools in England, to publish the rest of its inspection report placing the school into special measures, after inspectors found books in the school library that gave tacit approval to domestic violence.

    Ofsted’s original inspection report was withheld after the Birmingham school – which cannot be named – won an injunction arguing that publication would cause it “widespread and irreparable damage”.

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  • BBC: Manx heterosexual civil partnerships not recognised in UK
    November 8th, 2016

    Heterosexual couples who enter a civil partnership on the Isle of Man will not have their union recognised in the UK, a member of the House of Lords said.

    The Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man is the only part of the British Isles in which both gay and straight couples can enter civil partnerships.

    In 2004 the UK's Civil Partnership Act was created for same sex-couples only.

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  • BBC: Gay men set for NI pardon after justice minister announcement
    November 8th, 2016

    Gay and bisexual men convicted of abolished sex offences in Northern Ireland look set to be pardoned.

    Justice Minister Claire Sugden confirmed a motion will go before the assembly for approval.

    The move will bring Northern Ireland in line with England and Wales, where plans for automatic pardons were announced last month.

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  • PinkNews: Education Secretary 'considering' statutory sex education
    November 8th, 2016

    The government is again reviewing whether to make inclusive sex and relationship education statutory in all schools, a minister has confirmed.

    Former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan previously supported calls to make inclusive sex and relationship education (SRE) a statutory requirement in all schools, but failed to bring about reform, with rumours at the time that figures inside the Cabinet had intervened to block progress.

    As Justine Greening took over as Education Secretary following the change in Prime Minister, she hinted that the issue was near the top of her “in tray”.

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  • Christian Today: Over 200 Iranians, Afghans Baptised as Iranian Church Sees 'Spectacular' Growth
    November 8th, 2016

    Silently but effectively, Jesus Christ is doing wonders in Iran, drawing more and more people to follow Him.

    Just recently, more than 200 Iranians and Afghans were baptised in a location just outside Iran, the Elam Ministries reported. The service was attended by people from eight different Persian-speaking churches, the group said.

    During the event, the newly baptised Christians shared testimonies on how Jesus has changed their lives. One man said he had been suicidal, but Jesus intervened and brought him new hope.

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