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The Scottish government is to "refresh" guidance about its named persons scheme after acknowledging "concerns".
MSPs debated the system, which will assign a named person to everyone under 18 in Scotland from 31 August, in a Conservative-led session at Holyrood.
The Tories sought consensus by calling for a "pause" in the policy, despite backing scrapping it altogether.
Are Muslim refugees already beginning to infringe on the rights of Christians to freely and openly practice their religion?
Much to the surprise of several faithful, Christians hoping to practice their faith in a church in Italy were told by a Catholic charity group to "pray in silence" so as not to disturb Muslim migrants from Africa who were seeking temporary refuge there.
GOVERNMENT legislators are closing down Sundays for financial gain, says a London mission leader.
As the nation’s Muslims begin Ramadan, and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announces his intention to fast and thereby ‘build bridges of understanding’, London City Mission's boss Graham Miller has hit out at the government for forcing people out of church.
Does religious liberty apply to non-Christian religions? Someone told me this week that he had seen a Baptist writer question whether Muslim Americans qualify for religious liberty “benefits.” Hearing that was honestly surprising, in that it would represent a direct contradiction of our confessional document and all of its predecessors. But beyond this there’s a broader question that’s important to consider: must a person who believes Jesus Christ is the only way to God defend religious freedom for Christians and non-Christians alike?
A new IVF-based technique ‘is likely to lead to normal pregnancies and reduce the risk that babies born will have mitochondrial disease’, according to researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Disease at Newcastle University.
Published today (Wednesday 8 June 2016) in the journal Nature, scientists report the first in-depth analysis of human embryos created using a new ‘three-parent’ technique devised to reduce the risk of mothers passing on mitochondrial disease to their children.
Scientists hoping to create the first three parent babies to wipe out mitochondrial disease have discovered that mutated DNA could still be passed on to babies through the procedure.
The technique, which is being pioneered by Newcastle University, replaces an egg's defective mitochondrial DNA with healthy genetic material from a female donor, to prevent children suffering debilitating conditions like muscular dystrophy.
A waitress in a cafe in central Nice has filed a police complaint after she was allegedly assaulted by two men because she refused to “stop serving alcohol” on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
The alleged beating in the French Riviera town historically famed for its sun, palm-fringed beach front and quality of life, has prompted a heated political debate over whether the country is increasingly becoming prey to “religious fundamentalism and ghettoised communities”.
The Home Office plans to commission a series of telephone polls to survey British Muslims’ attitudes towards extremist ideas and ideologies, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Ministers hope that the polling will not only measure respondents’ existing views but also allow them to track the effectiveness of counter-extremism initiatives such as the controversial Prevent programme.
The Investigatory Powers Bill passed its latest milestone yesterday, as the proposed surveillance legislation passed through the House of Commons. MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of the bill, with 444 ayes to only 69 noes. In the run-up to the vote, Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham voiced several concerns, saying the draft law needed "significant improvement" before his support was guaranteed. The Home Office did manage to secure the Labour Party vote, however, thanks to several concessions on its part, including submitting to an independent review of untargeted, bulk surveillance powers.
More than a 1,000 cases of female genital mutilation were reported in the first three months of this year, sparking calls for a national action plan from the Royal College of Midwives.