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  • NewNowNext: Anti-Gay Jehovah's Witness Video Teaches Kids That LGBT People "Can Change"
    May 3rd, 2016

    An unsettling animated short created by Jehovah’s Witnesses aims to indoctrinate kids with homophobic values, and teaches them that LGBT people “can change” and must be enlightened.

    The two-minute video is part of a series on the organization’s website called “Become Jehovah’s Friend,” which targets children and explains the religion’s values by applying them in real-life situations.

    In “Lesson 22: One Man, One Woman,” a young girl brings a family portrait she drew at school home to her mother. As the two are looking it over, the girl mentions that her friend Cassie “drew two mommies” in her picture because she has two mothers.

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  • Mail: The girl, nine, who was born a boy, lives with her lesbian mother and the woman's girlfriend... who is now becoming a man
    May 3rd, 2016

    The stepmother of one of Britain's youngest transgender schoolgirls is now living as a man, the family has revealed.
    Jessica, nine, was born a boy but has identified as a girl since she was very young, and has been going to school as a girl for more than a year.
    Her parents split up when she was a baby, when her mother, Ella, began a relationship with a woman called Alex shortly afterwards, with Jessica calling Alex her 'step mum'.

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  • Telegraph: Hamas welcomes Jeremy Corbyn's refusal to condemn Islamist group
    May 3rd, 2016

    Terror organisation Hamas has backed Jeremy Corbyn's stance on Israel as they say it is "a painful hit that the Zionist enemy received".

    The Islamist organisation also "welcomed" the Labour leader's vow to continue talking to the organisation he once called his "friends" despite pressure on him to denounce the group.

    Mr Corbyn refused to denounce the groups in the wake of calls from Jewish leaders, the Israeli Ambassador and members of his own party to distance himself from those with anti-Semitic views.

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  • Christian Today: Persecuted Christians read Bible for first time in their own language after 182 year wait
    May 3rd, 2016

    Christians in Southeast Asia have successfully translated the New Testament into their mother-tongue, and are now able to read the Word in their own language for the first time.

    The gospel was first shared with the community in 1834 by missionaries, but the Bible did not exist in their own language until now.

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  • Christian Today: UN hears of horrific ISIS brutality at #WeAreN Christian persecution conference
    May 3rd, 2016

    "Forgive them."

    These were the words of a young Christian girl from Mosul as she died in her mother's arms after ISIS militants torched their home.

    Another couple, whose children had been captured by the Islamist terror group, discovered a plastic bag on their doorstep one day. The bag contained severed body parts of their daughters and a video tape of them being raped and tortured.

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  • BBC: How has marriage changed life for gay people?
    May 2nd, 2016

    Writer and activist Peter McGraith married his partner David in the first ceremony conducted under the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 covering most of the UK. Here, he asks what effect it's had on gay and lesbian couples - and on marriage itself.

    Do we care if marriage equality contributes to the demise of gay culture, identity and community?

  • Guardian: Do not resuscitate orders placed on patients without consent, says study
    May 2nd, 2016

    Tens of thousands of patients are having “do not resuscitate” orders imposed without their families’ consent, an audit has found.

    Hospitals are failing to tell relations that they do not intend to attempt potentially lifesaving techniques to save their loved ones, according to the Royal College of Physicians.

  • BBC: Heads discuss teaching of religious education
    May 1st, 2016

    Head teachers are to discuss whether parents in England should be allowed to take their children out of religious education classes, on the grounds that it undermines the teaching of "British values".

    The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), which is holding its annual conference, will hear that pupils need to take part in RE to learn how to respect the views of other people.

  • Washington Times: Religious freedom under ‘sustained assault’ around the world, report finds
    May 1st, 2016

    Citing the Islamic State’s attacks on Christians and other religious minorities, rising bigotry against Jews and Muslims in Europe and Beijing’s campaign against churches in China, a new U.S. government report said Monday that attacks on religious freedom have grown measurably around the world over the past year.

    While President Obama has pursued openings with some key offenders, including Iran and Myanmar, and criticized others such as North Korea and China, the annual report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said embattled faith groups are “under serious and sustained assault” in those nations and beyond.

  • BBC: US woman jailed for cutting foetus from stranger's womb
    April 30th, 2016

    A woman in the US state of Colorado has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for cutting a nearly eight-month-old foetus from a stranger's womb.

    Dynel Lane was convicted of attempting to kill Michelle Wilkins and of the unlawful termination of her pregnancy.

    Prosecutors could not charge her with murdering the baby because a coroner found no evidence that it had lived.