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  • TIME: Your Birth Control Pill Might Raise Your Depression Risk
    October 4th, 2016

    If you’ve ever thought that your birth control might be messing with your mood, you may be right: The pill and other types of hormonal contraception may increase the risk of depression, suggests a Danish study of more than 1 million women and teenage girls.

    To date, the research on contraception and depression has been mixed—despite the fact that mood swings are a well-known reason some women stop using birth control. In fact, as the authors state in their paper in JAMA Psychiatry, that may be a reason why science has underestimated its effects on emotional health: If women feel depressed and take themselves off of birth control, they’re less likely to be included in studies that could show a link.

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  • Economist (£): More states are considering laws granting the terminally ill the right to die
    October 4th, 2016

    ON OCTOBER 5th the health committee of Washington, DC’s state council will vote on a Dignity in Dying Act brought forward by one of its Democratic members, Mary Cheh.

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  • Guardian: Michael Fallon launches army cadets scheme at 'Trojan horse' school
    October 4th, 2016

    Michael Fallon has announced 150 new army cadet units for state schools, with the first launched on Tuesday at the Birmingham school at the centre of the “Trojan horse” row over alleged attempts to introduce a hardline Islamist ethos.

    Speaking to the Conservative party conference, Fallon said the Ministry of Defence would create the cadet units for state schools, with 25 launching this week, a scheme he said gave young cadets “the skills and confidence they need to thrive”. The policy was first championed under the previous government.

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  • LBC: Muslim school changes curriculum after Sky News investigation
    October 4th, 2016

    A private Muslim school has been forced to change its curriculum, overhaul teaching standards and improve child safety following a Sky News investigation.

    Education watchdog Ofsted served a statutory notice on the Institute of Islamic Education in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, after its strict Sharia code for pupils was made public, including the threat of expulsion for mixing with outsiders.

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  • Mail: Young Muslims who quit the faith 'live in fear of violent revenge'
    October 4th, 2016

    Young Muslims who abandon their faith face violent retaliation and abuse from their families, a support group said yesterday.

    The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain said those born into the religion are often frightened of speaking out – and those that do are in danger of attack.

    It said one former Muslim said she was warned by her mother that she would be killed if she said she no longer believed in Allah.

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  • Marilyn Stowe Blog: The arguments against no-fault divorce simply don’t add up by Johnn Bolch
    October 3rd, 2016

    I have written here on many occasions of my wish that our outdated fault-based divorce system be replaced with a modern no-fault system – at least for couples who have not been separated for two years. I am hardly alone amongst family lawyers in seeing this as an essential reform: the President of the Family Division is in favour while Resolution, the association of family lawyers, has long been calling for it. In fact, I know of very few family lawyers who are against it.

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  • NY Times: Man says he had ‘no choice’ but to shoot his sister to death after she married a Christian
    October 3rd, 2016

    The Associated Press has released a positively chilling video interview with a Pakistani man who killed his teenage sister in cold blood because she had defied his orders and married a Christian man. In the interview, conducted in a jailhouse in Lahore, Pakistan, Mubeen Rajhu, his hands in shackles, talks about the motive behind his crime. In August, he walked into the kitchen of his family’s home carrying a pistol and, with his mother and another sister looking on, raised the gun and fired a single shot into his sister Tasleem’s head, killing her. She was 18.

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  • World Watch Monitor: Azerbaijan registers Bible Society after 20 years, but will it be able to print Bibles?
    October 3rd, 2016

    The recent registration of a Bible Society in Azerbaijan, after a 20-year fight, has brought fresh optimism to the country’s minority Christians, but there remains some confusion about the types of books it will be allowed to print, with even Bibles potentially falling foul of the country’s strict regulations.

    Terje Hartberg from United Bible Societies called it “a great development, which will start a new chapter in Bible ministry for all Christians in Azerbaijan”.

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  • Church of England: ChurchLive hailed a success in bringing worship to the smartphone generation
    October 3rd, 2016

    A year-long project allowing people to access live streamed Church of England services on mobile phones has attracted more than 40,000 viewers.

    ChurchLive will make its final broadcast on Sunday at The Point Church in Sussex, one year on after the scheme was launched by the Church of England in partnership with Twitter UK.

    The project has broadcast a range of church services via Twitter's Periscope app - from traditional carols to a blessing of the surf at Hove Beach in Sussex and a service in a tent at Glastonbury Festival.

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  • Chronicle Live: Gateshead Jewish school criticised over lack of 'tolerance of those with different faiths'
    October 3rd, 2016

    A Jewish school has been criticised for not doing enough to encourage tolerance between people of different faiths, cultures and sexual orientations.

    In an Ofsted report Gateshead Mechina was rated ‘inadequate’. Inspectors reported that they were concerned that pupils were lagging behind in secular academic subjects.

    The school had been classed as ‘good’ at its last inspection, in 2009. It caters for 130 boys, aged between 10 and 16, all from the Orthodox Jewish community.

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