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  • Independent: Wales poised to scrap Religious Education lessons in schools
    August 3rd, 2015
    Wales is poised to scrap Religious Education lessons in its schools, it has been revealed.
     
    Instead, the Welsh Government's Minister for Education and Skills Huw Lewis, argued it should be renamed to focus on the teaching of "religion, philosophy and ethics".
  • BBC: North Korea and Christianity - uneasy bedfellows
    August 3rd, 2015

    There has been concern recently that Christian communities face destruction in parts of the Middle East. But there are other parts of the world where they also have extreme difficulty, with Christian groups often citing North Korea in particular.

  • Christian Medical Comment: If you are concerned about the stories emerging from Planned Parenthood in America, please sign the pro-life declaration
    August 3rd, 2015

    The recent exposure of Planned Parenthood for the large-scale flogging of human body parts for profit (see also here, here, here and here) – along with a long catalogue of past misdemeanours - is causing more and more people to realise that they are, in fact, pro-life.

  • Mail: Outcry over 'suicide courts' for the terminally ill
    August 3rd, 2015
    A new attempt to legalise assisted dying has proposed ‘suicide courts’ in which judges will decide on whether desperately sick patients can be helped to end their lives.
     
    A bill to go before MPs next month proposes that High Court judges should have the power to rule on whether someone who is terminally ill can demand to be killed by their doctor.
     
    It gives judges just two weeks to examine the evidence and make their ruling – a deadline that critics said yesterday is far too short.
  • Times (£): US senate to vote on abortion funding cut
    August 3rd, 2015

    The US Senate is due to vote today on whether to cut funds to America’s largest abortion provider amid a politically explosive scandal over the alleged sale of foetal tissue.

  • Ukip peer says Islam is not a peaceful religion
    August 3rd, 2015
    Islam is not a peaceful faith, according to Ukip’s only peer. Lord Pearson of Rannoch, who led Ukip in 2009 and 2010, is working on a new guide to Islam which he claims will re-educate Britain and challenge some of the misconceptions about the religion.
     
    He wants to start a public conversation about Islam as a means of “integrating Muslim communities better”. They are, he said, “very segregated and with very high birthrates”.
     
    He is preparing to launch an initiative called “Shall we talk about Islam” because, he said, “you may have noticed we are not allowed to talk about it”. Those that do are “branded islamophobic racists or accused of stirring up religious hatred”.
  • End Sexual Exploitation: New Peer-Reviewed Study Affirms the Reality of Porn Addiction
    August 2nd, 2015

    Contrary to recent claims, pornography addiction is no illusion. A recent peer-reviewed study that appeared in the journal “Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity” affirms the reality of porn addiction, and supports the addiction model. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation contends that this information is of vital importance for both medical professionals and those affected by porn addiction in order to facilitate accurate treatment and healing.

  • Express: 1,000 churches could shut across Britain as congregations shrink
    August 1st, 2015

    Almost 1,000 of the country’s churches are on the "at risk" register as shrinking congregations struggle to meet the repair costs.

  • Telegraph: Bishop of Shrewsbury warns that assisted dying bill would be "law of despair"
    July 31st, 2015

    A controversial bill that seeks to legalise assisted dying represents the “first step” towards euthanasia, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury has warned.

  • Telegraph: Meet the man who is trying to save the Christians of the Middle East
    July 31st, 2015

    Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam's by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Egyptian Copts may have found some respite under Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, but after their persecution under the previous Muslim Brotherhood government, they know how precarious their existence in 90 percent Muslim Egypt remains. Elsewhere, it's much worse. Twenty-one Copts were beheaded by the Islamic State affiliate in Libya for the crime of being Christian. In those large swaths of Syria and Iraq where the Islamic State rules, the consequences for Christians are terrible -- enslavement, exile, torture, massacre, crucifixion.