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Ireland's ban on most abortions subjects women to cruel, degrading and discriminatory treatment, and should be lifted in cases of fatal fetal abnormalities, a committee of United Nations human rights experts said on Thursday.
The committee found that Ireland had violated a pregnant woman’s human rights by forcing her to choose between carrying her fetus to term - knowing it would not survive - or traveling abroad for an abortion.
The daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mpho, says part of her was "stripped away" when she had to relinquish the Anglican priesthood over her same-sex marriage, writes Justine Lang.
Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth followed her father into a life in the Anglican church, but when she decided to marry the woman she loved, she had to leave.
She married her long-term Dutch girlfriend, Marceline van Furth, in a small private ceremony in the Netherlands at the end of last year, but they went public last month when they had a wedding celebration in Cape Town.
The bishops of the Episcopal Church will be invited to attend the 2020 Lambeth Conference and will not suffer meaningful consequences for introducing same-sex marriage rites. In conversation with the leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury outlined what the long term consequences would be for churches that defied the Communion ban on gay marriage. If the sanctions applied to the SEC, if it adopts gay marriage rites, are applied to the Episcopal Church, then its bishops should expect to be present at Lambeth 2020.
The duty on public bodies to report signs of radicalisation, included in the government’s strategy to counter Islamist extremism, is today’s equivalent of internment in Northern Ireland, the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, has said, calling for the strategy to be scrapped.
In a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester, Burnham called for a cross-party review of the Prevent strategy, but said his personal view was that the policy should be discarded. “I do feel that the brand is so toxic now that I think it’s got to go,” he said.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has published a children’s rights review of the UK – and it calls for more consistent sex and relationship education.
Ireland's restrictive abortion laws subject women to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, a UN inquiry has ruled, in a landmark decision that will increase pressure on Dublin and other governments to repeal bans on the practice.
The judgement by the UN's human rights committee demands that Ireland relax its abortion laws to allow “accessible procedures for pregnancy termination."
The referendum on whether we remain in the European Union or leave is clearly an important decision we are being asked to make. We've produced resources to try and help Christians think beyond some of the headlines of the campaigns and see how as Christians we should think about the issues involved.
The emoji Bible started out as a public project on Twitter. Zach Swetz, a guy who works in social media and marketing, began sending out scripture verses, translated into little haloed smiley faces, and asking for feedback. Late in May, he released a full emoji Bible on iTunes.
One in three said the religion promotes violence in the UK with 72 per cent saying most people in the UK have a negative view of Islam.
Professional survey company ComRes questioned 2,012 people, chosen to be representative of the British adult population, on behalf of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to find out more about British attitudes towards Islam.
Just 32 per cent thought Islam promotes peace in the UK.
A man who claims to be attracted to young men and adolescent boys in Belgium is trying to end his life through euthanasia.
The 39-year-old has suffered from depression and other mental health problems since he was a child.
Jonathan Blake spoke to him for the Victoria Derbyshire programme.