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  • Mail: Stem Express cuts ties with Planned Parenthood amidst foetal organ trafficking claims
    August 16th, 2015
    A fetal tissue procurement company has ended its partnership with Planned Parenthood after graphic undercover videos of their practices emerged amid allegations they are illegally selling aborted organs.
     
    Stem Express, which describes itself as a 'small life sciences company', said they cut its ties with the women's organisation due to 'increased questions' over their relationship.
     
    The government-funded group has been accused of selling aborted tissue to research companies, an allegation they have denied. 
  • Mail: GPs put 1 in 20 under-aged girls on the Pill
    August 16th, 2015
    One in 20 schoolgirls – many as young as 12 – are now being prescribed the contraceptive Pill by GPs without their parents’ knowledge, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
     
    A shock study found that family doctors are handing out the Pill to about 75,000 girls under 16 every year – a jump of 50 per cent in a decade.
     
    Worryingly, parents are unlikely ever to find out because health workers do not have to inform them when they provide contraception to a minor.
  • Mail: ISIS post pictures of 'Christian women kidnapped in Syria threatening that they will become sex slaves if ransom is not paid'
    August 15th, 2015
    Disturbing images which have appeared online could be of three Assyrian Christian women ISIS abducted in February.
     
    In three 'leaked' images shared on social media, the women hold pieces of paper on which their names and a date - July 27, 2015 - are written.
     
    It is feared this means they will be sold to ISIS fighters if their families or charities do not pay ransom for their release, although no figure appears on the signs they hold.
  • BBC: Cancer patient ends life at Dignitas in Switzerland
    August 14th, 2015
    A man with terminal cancer who travelled to Switzerland to end his life has died.
     
    Assisted suicide campaigner Bob Cole, 68, a former town councillor in north Wales, travelled to Dignitas on Wednesday from his home in Chester.
     
    His wife, Ann Hall, died at the same centre in Zurich last year.
  • Times (£): Sectarian hatred at the heart of British Muslim community
    August 14th, 2015
    Religious sectarianism is on the rise in Britain’s Muslim community and threatens to spill over into violent crime and terrorism, leading clerics warned yesterday.
     
    An investigation by The Times has found a sharp but largely hidden rise in sectarian tensions between the minority Shia community and the dominant Sunni groups, driven by the long, bitter war in Syria.
     
    Ill-feeling is being stoked by vitriolic preachers on both sides of the divide — including some who lecture at British universities — and incidents such as assaults, attacks on buildings and intimidation online.
  • Christian Today: China intensifies anti-church campaign as faithful risk lives in defying state orders
    August 13th, 2015

    The Chinese government's crackdown on Christian churches is getting worse as it now includes even state-sanctioned churches, religious authorities in China revealed.

     
    But the campaign is being boldly challenged by the faithful who risk their lives to defy state orders, with one bishop urging Christians to "defend" the right to religion, CBN wrote.
  • New York Times: ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
    August 13th, 2015

    In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practised a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.

  • BBC: Australia Greens supported on gay marriage plebiscite bill
    August 13th, 2015
    Crossbench senators are backing an Australian Greens bill calling for a gay marriage plebiscite before the next election.
     
    Prime Minister Tony Abbott has suggested a plebiscite be held after the election, due in 2016.
     
    The government's official position is to retain the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman.
  • National Right to Life: 14-year-old Italian girl was an 'unwanted baby' who survived abortion attempt
    August 13th, 2015

    On Monday, NRL News Today reported on an Italian couple that for the second time was suing because in 2001 a hospital "failed" to abort their now 14-year-old daughter.

  • Patheos: Abolishing Abortion - why I fear the European Equilibrium
    August 13th, 2015

    As the Planned Parenthood “fetal tissue research” videos were shining a spotlight on abortion in the US, putting abortion-rights organisations on the defensive and prompting queasiness and sometimes deep thought among pro-choice people, as the Republican Party were once more attempting to have Planned Parenthood defunded, and Marco Rubio was announcing his support for a complete ban on abortion, a very different narrative was unfolding across the Atlantic.