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A hardcore of proselytising Islamic jihadis inside prisons in England and Wales are so dangerous they need to be isolated in special units in maximum security prisons, an official review into prison extremism has said.
The justice secretary, Michael Gove, told MPs on Wednesday that he was "extremely sympathetic" to the plan for the high-security “incapacitation” units, which will need the backing of the new home secretary before it can be implemented.
With the recent vote to officially endorse same-sex marriage, the Anglican Church of Canada has at last demonstrated its faithless and apostate leadership. True Christians must get out.
Married couples now make up fewer than half the population, according to an official report on family living yesterday.
In a turning point in the fall of the traditional family, it said that only 48.1 per cent of people aged over 16 were married and living as a couple last year, and that many of those who would once have been married now live together as cohabitees.
The estimates that mean married couples are now a minority also showed that nearly one in 10 people who have shunned marriage now live together as cohabitees.
As David Cameron bows out — citing same-sex marriage as one of his proudest achievements — the Church of England has made space within its General Synod this week for discussions between groups with radically divergent views on same-sex relationships.
The Church of England has been accused of attempting to “bury bad news” after publishing a damning report into abuse at a children’s home on the same day the new Prime Minister was appointed.
An independent review into activities in Kendall House in Gravesend, Kent described how vulnerable girls were regularly drugged, raped and physically abused for almost 20-years between 1967 and 1986.
I am not a member of General Synod, and so have not been included in the Shared Conversations taking place in York the past two days. Some members with orthodox views have declined to take part, believing that the process is flawed from the start, as it is deliberately designed not to bring resolution on what the Church should be teaching and permitting in the area of same sex relationships, but simply to allow people with different views to listen to each other as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. This assumes a form of ‘pluralism’ where the orthodox and revisionist views are seen to be equally valid, and also places individual experience over historically agreed interpretations of Scripture. [More critiques of the Shared Conversations process can be found here]. I look forward to hearing more from those committed to the historic teaching of the Christian faith on sex and marriage, both those who took part in the Conversations and those who did not.
A Frenchwoman sacked for refusing to remove her headscarf at work was discriminated against, the European Court of Justice has been advised.
After her dismissal, Asma Bougnaoui took her case to the French courts and it was eventually referred to the ECJ.
She was "professionally competent" as a design engineer and sacked solely for refusing to remove her headscarf, its advocate general has advised.
A final ruling will be made by judges, who usually follow legal advice.
The Story: Under the guise of implementing “anti-terrorism” measures, Russia has adopted new laws that restrict religious freedom and criminalize missionary activities.
Through a mixture of rain and shine, cool breezes and muggy stillness, General Synod spent three days engaged in ‘Shared Conversations’ about the Church and sexuality, the final event in a two-year process of conversations involving representatives from dioceses meeting to do the same around the country. Feedback from previous events had been somewhat mixed, and for me (and I think a good number of others) this also proved to be like the proverbial curate’s egg.
Women over 40 are having more babies than the under 20s for the first time in nearly 70 years, official figures for England and Wales show.
The Office for National Statistics data showed there were 697,852 live births in 2015.
There were 15.2 births per 1,000 women aged over 40, compared with just 14.5 per 1,000 women in their teens.