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  • Christian Today: J John's 'Just One' will see 20,000 gather for the UK's largest evangelistic event in decades
    June 27th, 2017

    In July 20,000 people from across the UK will fill London's Emirates Stadium to hear the Gospel preached by international evangelist J John.

    Just One is a mass-gathering the scale of which has not been seen in the UK since the visit of famed US evangelist Billy Graham more than three decades ago.

    Taking place on July 8, the one-day arena event will feature J John, alongside music from Matt Redman, Hillsong, and the London Community Gospel choir, as part of a 'celebration of the relevance of the Christian faith'.

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  • BBC: Abortion should not be crime, says doctors' union
    June 27th, 2017

    Doctors have backed decriminalising abortion, as momentum gathers to overhaul the 1967 Abortion Act.

    Currently women in England and Wales have to prove to a doctor that carrying on with the pregnancy is detrimental to health or wellbeing to get permission for a termination.

    Without permission, abortion is a criminal offence.

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  • Mail: Lord Carey resigns from Church of England
    June 27th, 2017

    Lord Carey quit his Church of England role yesterday after a damning inquiry found he colluded with senior clergy to protect a paedophile bishop.

    The former Archbishop of Canterbury resigned as honorary Assistant Bishop of Oxford after he was accused of helping to 'deliberately conceal' evidence which helped Peter Ball escape prosecution for 22 years.

    Ball, the former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester and a friend of Prince Charles, was finally jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after admitting sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s.

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  • Premier: Lord Carey quits following Peter Ball sexual abuse review
    June 26th, 2017

    Lord George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has resigned from his position of honorary bishop in the Diocese of Oxford.

    The resignation comes after Carey was criticised in a review of the church's handling of abuse carried out by Bishop Peter Ball, who was jailed in 2015 for historic offences against young men.

    Rt. Rev. Dr. Steven Croft, the Bishop of Oxford, said he recently met the Carey regarding Dame Moira Gibb's review into the Peter Ball case which was released last Thursday.

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  • Jihad Watch: FGM and Islam's Mutilation of… Everything
    June 26th, 2017

    Rather than an outlier Muslim practice held over from its pagan desert origins, female genital mutilation must be seen in its wider context of Islam's view of women, and as an especially shocking indicator of the true nature of the "god" of Islam.

    The recent Federal Department of Justice case in Michigan against a pair of Muslim doctors — one as perpetrator, the other providing access to his clinic — accused of performing female genital mutilation against several young girls, has suddenly put FGM into the spotlight.

    A recent statement from the DOJ indicates their investigation leads them to believe that "up to 100 girls" may have had their genitals cut by the Michigan FGM ring. There are even accusations a Michigan mosque paid for genital cuttings. In a related story, a Muslim imam at a mosque with multiple terror ties is recorded as endorsing FGM.

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  • BBC: Trump breaks White House Eid dinner tradition
    June 26th, 2017

    US President Donald Trump has broken a nearly 20-year-old tradition by failing to host a dinner marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

    The White House event had been held every year since President Clinton's tenure.

    The Eid al-Fitr feast ends Ramadan, a period when Muslims fast and focus on charitable giving.

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  • Mail: More than one thousand doctors revolt over abortion vote
    June 26th, 2017

    More than 1,000 doctors are in open revolt over a vote to scrap the abortion limit.

    Tomorrow up to 500 doctors at the British Medical Association's annual conference will debate whether the country should decriminalise abortion.

    If they vote in favour, the BMA will adopt this stance as its formal policy and lobby the Government for a change in the law which bans abortions after 24 weeks.

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  • Virtue Online: Is the Archbishop of Canterbury losing control of the Anglican Communion?
    June 25th, 2017

    His face is looking increasingly drawn these days. He snaps at people. (I personally experienced that in Canterbury at a press conference when the Primates met last year). He behaves thuggishly towards anyone who opposes his authority and how he believes the communion should be run. Archbishop Justin Welby's expectation is that everyone should fall in line behind him, especially as he becomes more accepting of homosexuality, a behavior the Church has proscribed for 2,000 years. He cajoles, coerces and demands, and the more he does so, the greater the alienation grows.

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  • Premier: Christian seeks legal advice after being ordered off ladder at Speakers' Corner
    June 25th, 2017

    A Christian has sought advice from lawyers after he was ordered down from a ladder he was using to address crowds in central London.

    Jay Smith was debating with Muslim Mohammed Hijab at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park when police told them both to get down.

    Following the incident last Sunday, the 64 year old - who founded the Pfander Centre for Apologetics - complained to the Metropolitan Police.

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  • Peter Saunders: Over 1,000 doctors reject BMA abortion decriminalisation motion - this is why
    June 25th, 2017

    Over 1,000 doctors and medical students have signed an open letter urging the British Medical Association (BMA) to reject a motion calling for the complete decriminalisation of abortion. Also, just under 21,000 members of the public have signed a similar petition on Citizen Go.

    Motion 50, which I have already reviewed in some detail, will be debated at the BMA annual representative meeting in Bournemouth at 10am on Tuesday 27 June. The debate will be streamed online via the BMA website.

    The letter, titled 'Reject motion 50', hits out at extreme pro-abortion campaigners who have been working behind the scenes to get the BMA's support ahead of a private member's bill in Parliament calling for all abortion to be decriminalised.

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