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  • Mail: Five staff who triggered baby deaths scandal at NHS hospital to finally face justice
    November 28th, 2015
    Five midwives who triggered a scandal over baby deaths at an NHS hospital are finally to face justice – after being allowed to keep working there for seven years.
     
    One of the midwives – who dubbed themselves the 'musketeers' – has been promoted to 'risk manager' of the maternity unit at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria where, according to a major report, a 'dysfunctional culture' led to the deaths of at least 11 babies and one mother between 2004 and 2013.
     
    Another faces being struck off over failings she made – years after the scandal first emerged – which left a newborn 'gasping' for life.
  • BBC: Three die in shooting at Colorado clinic
    November 28th, 2015
    A shooting at a family planning clinic in Colorado Springs has left two civilians and a police officer dead, with the suspected gunman under arrest.
     
    Nine other people were injured during the standoff at the Planned Parenthood clinic, which lasted five hours before the suspect surrendered.
     
    A number of people were trapped inside the building as shots were exchanged.
     
    The motive remains unclear. The Planned Parenthood group has drawn anti-abortion protests in the past.
  • Christian Today: Norwegian Christian couple accused of 'indoctrinating' children have them removed
    November 27th, 2015
    An extraordinary row has erupted over the removal by Norway's child welfare services of the five children of a Pentecostal Christian couple.
     
    Marius Bodnariu is a Romanian married to Ruth, a Norwegian. Formerly members of the Philadelphia Pentecostal Church in Bucharest, they moved to Norway 10 years ago to start a family there and live in Naustdal on the west coast, north of Bergen.
     
    According to a petition in support of the family which has attracted more than 22,600 signatures, the couple have been charged with "Christian radicalism and indoctrination".
  • Birmingham Mail: Pupil denied extra classes because she was not wearing hijab, teacher hearing told
    November 26th, 2015
    A struggling pupil at a Trojan Horse-linked school in Birmingham was denied extra classes because she was a girl and didn’t wear a “hijab”, a senior Government worker claimed.
     
    Anthony Dunne made the allegation as part of his evidence against five teachers who worked at the former Park View Educational Trust, which ran three schools alleged to have been at the heart of a plot to Islamise the curriculum.
     
    Lindsey Clarke, Razwan Faraz, Hardeep Saini, Arshad Hussain and Monzoor Hussain are all accused of professional misconduct by the National College For Teaching & Leadership (NCTL).
  • Life News: Planned Parenthood kills 897 babies in abortions every single day
    November 25th, 2015
    Desperation breeds the kind of logic that warrants double takes – did they really just say that?
     
    Planned Parenthood, under extreme scrutiny for appearing to chop up and sell the body parts of aborted babies in undercover videos, has been on a mission to save their image, which has led to lots of questionable tactics and illogical statements – more than usual for the nation’s largest abortion giant.
     
    But they deserve every single bit of scrutiny that has come their way, and a giant pink bus is about to shower them with even more unwanted attention as it embarks on a cross-country tour to shed light on their unsavory business practices and lets Americans, and in particular Planned Parenthood’s own clientele, know that the abortion giant has made it their daily goal to betray as many women as possible.
  • Mail: Atheism to go on RE syllabus after High Court ruling
    November 25th, 2015
    Atheism will go on the school syllabus for RE lessons after the High Court ruled Education Secretary Nicky Morgan's move to omit non-religious views from lessons was unlawful. 
     
    The ruling in London was a victory for three families, supported by the British Humanist Association, who claimed Nicky Morgan had taken a 'skewed' approach and was failing to reflect the diverse nature of the UK in schools.
     
    The government minister had previously defended the omission, arguing students should focus on studying religious beliefs because of the nature of the subject. 
  • Christian Today: Atheism in decline and will be defeated by faith, says Oxford professor
    November 25th, 2015
    Atheism is in decline and will be trumped by faith, the professor of science and religion at the University of Oxford has said.
     
    Professor Alister McGrath made his predictions during the annual Parchman Lectures at Baylor University's Truett Theological Seminary, the Baptist Standard reports. The academic, who has degrees in molecular biology, theology and intellectual history, spoke on "why faith makes sense: exploring the rationality of Christianity."
     
    McGrath said he was an atheist as a young man, but faith makes greater sense of reality and transcends reason, which is insufficient for understanding the world.
     
    "New Atheism ridicules the 'irrationality of faith,'" said McGrath, who has debated New Atheist icons such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. "But it's in decline, because it's stale, dull and incredible. It provides unsatisfactory answers to ultimate questions. People want to know more."
     
    The Oxford professor ridiculed the atheist claim that reality is only "what reason and science can demonstrate," pointing out the limits of science and the ambiguous nature of scientific truth.
  • The News, Portsmouth: High Court backs families in religious studies GCSE challenge
    November 25th, 2015
    The Education Secretary made "an error of law" when she left "non-religious world views" out of the new religious studies GCSE, the High Court has ruled.
     
    The ruling was a victory for three families, supported by the British Humanist Association, who claimed Nicky Morgan had taken a "skewed" approach and was failing to reflect in schools the pluralistic nature of the UK.
     
    Allowing their application for judicial review, Mr Justice Warby, sitting in London, ruled there had been "a breach of the duty to take care that information or knowledge included in the curriculum is conveyed in a pluralistic manner".
  • Life News: Sex-selection abortions targeting girls in Vietnam are causing a massive gender ratio imbalance
    November 25th, 2015
    Sex-selection abortions are illegal in Vietnam, but the cultural preference for boys is leading families to find new ways around the law.
     
    Abortion rates are rising drastically in the Asian nation and, with them, the discriminatory practice of aborting unborn girls, according to the Bangkok Post. Vietnamese women face societal pressure to abort their unborn girls and fear abuse from their husbands or families – fears that are echoed by many women throughout Asia.
  • Mirror: Teenage ISIS 'poster girl' who travelled to Syria 'beaten to death after trying to escape Raqqa'
    November 25th, 2015
    A teen who became a 'poster girl' for ISIS after travelling to Syria along with her friend is believed to have been beaten to death while trying to flee the terror organisation.
     
    Samra Kesinovic, 17, who left home in April 2014 was killed after she tried to escape Raqqa, Austrian media have claimed.
     
    Her friend Sabina Selimovic, who was 15 when she left her Austrian home, is also believed to have died in the war torn Middle Eastern country.