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  • Chronicle Live: Legalising assisted dying would put us on a dangerous path and would harm the vulnerable
    September 6th, 2015
    Legalising assisted dying would put the health service on a “dangerous path” and put at risk the quality of end-of-life care, a North MP has said.
     
    Catherine McKinnell has spoken out about the emotive issue as MPs are set to debate the Assisted Dying Bill in Parliament on Friday.
     
    The legislation could give terminally-ill patients, judged to have six months or less to live, the right to ask doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication.
  • IBT: Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey calls on Britain to 'crush' Isis to save Christians
    September 6th, 2015

    The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has called on Britain to "crush" Middle East militia Islamic State. In a column for the Daily Telegraph, Carey insisted that there must be renewed "military and diplomatic" efforts to defeat the terrorist group.

  • Ekklesia: UK should take a minimum of 10.000 Syrian refugees, says Christian Aid
    September 6th, 2015
    Christian Aid has welcomed David Cameron’s pledge that the UK will increase the number of Syrian refugees it allows in, but said the numbers must be ambitious.
     
    It also added its voice to a call for all EU states to put in place a fair and mandatory sharing of responsibility for refugees arriving in Europe, and an increase in search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
     
    Mr Cameron announced in Lisbon that the UK had already taken some 5,000 Syrians and would now accept "thousands more" of those regarded "at particular risk" from refugee camps in the Middle East.
  • Guardian: Reject right-to-die bill that 'crosses the Rubicon', Welby urges MPs
    September 6th, 2015

    Britain will cross a “legal and ethical Rubicon” if parliament votes to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives, said the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as leaders of all the UK’s major faith groups call on MPs to reject plans to allow assisted suicide.

  • BioEdge: European court strikes down challenge to embryo law
    September 5th, 2015
    The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a case that would have overruled existing Italian law on the use of frozen embryos in research.
     
    The court ruled that Adelina Parillo – who with her partner Stefano Rolla, a film director, created five embryos in 2002 – did not have a right to donate her embryos to scientists for research.
     
    Parillo was claiming that existing Italian law regulating embryo research violated the right to privacy and private property. After the sudden death of her partner in 2003 Parillo tried to donate the embryos for research into disease.
  • Jewish Chronicle: Iain Duncan Smith warns of dangers of religious discrimination in the workplace
    September 4th, 2015

    Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said it would be a “travesty” if employees were unable to carry out their work duties because of religious discrimination.

  • Northern Echo: Suicide no solution
    September 2nd, 2015

    WITH the impending vote on assisted suicide, supportive opinion abounds in the media, enhanced by genuinely emotive examples of personal trauma faced by some terminally ill people and their families.

  • Guardian: Time for ethics debate on GM embryos, say scientists
    September 2nd, 2015

    Leading UK research funders are calling for an urgent national debate on the ethics of genetically modifying human embryos and other tissues to prevent serious diseases.

    The plea has been prompted by scientists’ rapid progress in developing a powerful tool called genome editing, which has the potential to transform the treatment of genetic conditions by rewriting the DNA code of affected cells.

  • Times (£): Scot writes textbook on resisting Isis
    September 2nd, 2015

    A Scottish expert on terrorism has written a hand book for teachers to help protect pupils from radicalisation online in the face of growing Islamic extremism.

  • BBC: New cross symbolic for Pakistan's Christians
    September 1st, 2015

    Over the last year or so, on my way to work in Karachi I have noticed an unusually tall structure come up. Initially, it seemed like a massive pillar made of tonnes and tonnes of iron, steel and cement. It later took the shape of a giant cross.