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  • Christian Today: Christian student blocked from including prayer in high school commencement speech
    June 20th, 2017

    America is known as the land of the free and the home of the brave, but to Christians it is also increasingly becoming a land of the politically correct and a country where honor students can't mention God in their graduation speeches.

    This was recently exemplified by Moriah Bridges, a graduating student at Beaver High School in Pennsylvania, who was asked to deliver an address on behalf of the students during their commencement on June 2.

    Bridges wanted to thank God for the immense blessings He has given to the students, their parents, the teachers and administrators of the school. But before she could utter a word, school officials gagged her, with principal Steven Wellendorf telling her that thanking God in the form of a prayer at a public school event--even one led by a student--is not allowed by law, Fox News reported.

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  • Premier: GAFCON sets date for missionary bishop's consecration
    June 20th, 2017

    A date has been set for the consecration of a new bishop who will serve disaffected Anglicans throughout the UK and across Europe.

    The service will be held next Friday morning by GAFCON at Edman Chapel on the campus of Wheaton College, near Chicago.

    The group of conservative Anglicans created the post in reaction to a move by the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) last June towards allowing same-sex marriage. The Church officially approved the step earlier this month.

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  • Telegraph: 'You're stirring up hatred like a bigoted lunatic': Piers Morgan in extraordinary row with ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson
    June 20th, 2017

    Piers Morgan has accused Tommy Robinson, the former English Defence League leader, of "sounding like a bigoted lunatic".

    He was interviewing Robinson on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday morning in the wake of the of the Finsbury Park attack.

    As Robinson held up a copy of the Koran, Morgan told him: "Show some damn respect for people's religious beliefs."

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  • BBC: European Court blasts Russia 'gay propaganda' law
    June 20th, 2017

    Russia's "gay propaganda" law is discriminatory and encourages homophobia, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

    The Strasbourg judges said Russia had discriminated against three gay rights activists who opposed the law. It was adopted in 2013, banning promotion of homosexuality among people under 18.

    The law "reinforced stigma and prejudice and encouraged homophobia", the ruling said.

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  • LifeSite: Gender-confused kids need therapy, not puberty-blocking drugs: New study
    June 20th, 2017

    Increasingly, gender therapists and physicians argue that children as young as nine should be given puberty-blocking drugs if they experience gender dysphoria.

    But a new article by three medical experts reveals that there is little scientific evidence to support such a radical procedure.

    The article, "Growing Pains: Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria," published Tuesday in The New Atlantis, discusses over 50 peer-reviewed studies on gender dysphoria in children.

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  • BioEdge: Unexpected mutations after CRISPR gene-editing
    June 20th, 2017

    A study lead by investigators at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) suggests that CRISPR gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the human genome.

    The study, which has sparked concerns about the negative effects of gene-editing interventions, involved researchers sequenced the entire genome of mice that had undergone CRISPR gene editing in previous study into blindness. Researchers looked for all mutations, including those that only altered a single nucleotide.

    According to Kellie Schaefer, a Stanford PhD student and co-author of the study, the genomes of two independent gene therapy recipients had sustained more than 1,500 single-nucleotide mutations and more than 100 larger deletions and insertions. The earlier study had successfully corrected for blindness in the mice, but none of the DNA mutations were predicted by computer algorithms that are widely used by researchers to look for off-target effects.

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  • Telegraph: Finsbury Park suspect 'turned against Muslims' after London Bridge attack
    June 20th, 2017

    The suspect in the Finsbury Park terror attack had expressed increasingly antagonistic views towards Muslims in the weeks following the recent London Bridge atrocity, it has emerged.

    Darren Osborne, 47, was arrested in the early hours of Monday on suspicion of driving a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in north London. He is alleged to have shouted "kill all Muslims" and "this is for London Bridge" in the wake of the attack.

    Muslim residents on the Cardiff estate where he lived with his partner and four children, claimed he had previously been friendly but said his attitude had changed in recent weeks.

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  • BBC iPlayer: Leo: Becoming a Trans man
    June 19th, 2017

    Born biologically a girl, 15 year old Leo is one of the first children in Britain to be prescribed a new treatment - hormone blockers - to help him achieve what he feels is his natural gender identity of becoming a man.

    As he turns 16, we follow Leo as he faces big changes and life-changing decisions.

    Watch here.

  • Anglican Ink: Ramadan fast for deacon to be
    June 19th, 2017

    A Church in Wales deacon has spent the day prior to her ordination fasting at a mosque. A Diocese of Bangor press release reports Sara Roberts spent Saturday 17 June 2017 "fasting with her Muslim colleagues and friends in their holy season of Ramadan." At the end of the day Ms Roberts joined an Iftar meal at the Bangor Islamic Centre to mark the end of the daytime fast during Ramadan.

    "There are many reasons why I am doing this," Ms. Roberts said. "[T]o show solidarity to our Muslim neighbours, to share in this powerful testament to faith, to contemplate my approaching ordination and what it means and to explore more deeply the relationship between food, prayer and connection to the Divine."

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  • Life News: Georgia Now Bans Late-Term Abortions After 20 Weeks
    June 19th, 2017

    Today the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a challenge to Georgia's 20-week fetal pain abortion bill that had kept the 2012 law passed by the Georgia General Assembly from being enforced for the last five years.

    The fetal pain bill, so named because an unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks, made most abortions after 20-weeks illegal. During the lawsuit that lasted for the last five years, enforcement of this law has been on hold; but with the decision today, the law banning abortions after a fetus can feel pain is now the law of Georgia.

    Here's more on the victory against the ACLU lawsuit against the law.

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