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  • Guardian: Councils failing to protect at-risk children, says Ofsted
    June 28th, 2016

    Too many vulnerable children face "clear and present risk of harm" because of serious failings in council child protection departments, Ofsted has said.

    More than a quarter of councils were judged "inadequate" by inspectors, with three-quarters in total rated as less than "good", according to the latest annual Ofsted social care report.

    The head of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, described the findings as unacceptable. The child protection system was permeated by "widespread levels of mediocre provision", he said. "Too many children are not receiving the services they deserve."

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  • Premier: Human rights in China worst since Tiananmen, warns Christian MP's report
    June 28th, 2016

    The level of respect for human rights in China has reached its worst state since the deaths in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, a new report led by a Christian MP has concluded.

    Chairwoman of the Conservative Human Rights Commission, Fiona Bruce also says the UK can do "much more" in helping bring about positive change in China, regarding civil liberties.

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  • Anglican Mainstream: A silent counter-revolution, and lessons for the church by Andrew Symes
    June 28th, 2016

    In the early morning of Friday 24th June we learned that the UK had voted to leave the European Union. There has been an avalanche of comment from both sides in the debate, some of it strong but reasoned (see our digest of articles which is regularly updated.)

    Ugly and angry reaction is in evidence as well. Social and broadsheet media appears to be awash with accusations and recriminations from both sides. For example, some extremists from Remain are demanding that Parliament ignore or re-run the democratic vote; some Brexiteers are launching into intemperate attacks on the EU when we will soon have to work out new ways of doing business with this institution of which we will no longer be a part!

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  • Free Thinking Ministries: An Open Letter To My Gay Brother In Christ
    June 28th, 2016

    Dear Issac,

    Thank you for your open letter to me published in The Huffington Post. The first thing I want to make clear is that I really do love you, brother! Although you disagree with some of my thoughts and beliefs, I truly do feel loved by you. My prayer is that you know you are loved in return, even though I do not agree with all of your thoughts and beliefs. After all, isn’t that what tolerance is about?

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  • BBC: Pakistan's transgender community cautiously welcomes marriage fatwa
    June 28th, 2016

    A religious decree declaring transgender marriage to be legal has been cautiously welcomed in Pakistan, but activists say attitudes still need to change.

    The decree, or fatwa, was passed on Sunday by a group of clerics.

    It said that according to Islam transgender people with "visible signs" of being male or female may marry someone of the opposite sex.

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  • The Atlantic: The Jihad Will Be Televised by Simon Cottee
    June 28th, 2016

    In Memoirs of an Italian Terrorist, the author, who purports to have been a member of a left-wing militant group, vividly conveys the excitement and pressures of living underground as a secret operative. There are questions about the book’s authenticity — the author, who identifies himself only by the pseudonym Giorgio, declares that "what I write here can't be true, it can only be truthful" — but there’s a telling detail in his description of mission preparation. "I would never set out to undertake a proletarian expropriation" — a communist-inflected euphemism for a robbery — "if I didn’t feel that I was dressed right."

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  • Desiring God: LGBT Basics by Douglas Wilson
    June 28th, 2016

    I recently returned from a large Christian conference, over a thousand in attendance, held in a prestigious hotel. Over us all, hanging high in the atrium, was a large rainbow flag, far out of reach, as much as to say that there was not a thing we could do about it. This is LGBT Pride month, and there does not appear to be anything much we can do about that either.

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  • BBC iWonder: Would the world be more peaceful without religion?
    June 28th, 2016

    1. A tangled history

    Religion and war: the two have often been intertwined throughout history.

    From the Crusades in 1095 right up to the present day, we’ve seen conflict waged in the name of religion. And while many believe conflicts would still happen without religion and that faith is actually a great promoter of peace, for others the two simply cannot be separated.

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  • Reuters: Divided Supreme Court rejects family pharmacy's religious claim
    June 28th, 2016

    A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an appeal by a family-owned pharmacy that cited Christian beliefs in objecting to providing emergency contraceptives to women under a Washington state rule, prompting a searing dissent by conservative Justice Samuel Alito.

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  • Telegraph: Women 'can choose holiday or car, but get little choice in childbirth'
    June 28th, 2016

    Women can choose their holiday and type of car - but get little choice of how to give birth, the head of a recent NHS national maternity review has said.

    Baroness Julia Cumberledge said it was “not acceptable” that one in three mothers-to-be are being denied a choice of where and how they have their child.

    The maternity expert led a review which has recommended that all pregnant women are offered more control over childbirth, with options such as choose homebirth, waterbirths and complementary therapies such as self-hypnosis.

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