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A controversial Marxist lesbian academic who believes primary school children should choose their own gender claims half of all young people are gay.
Roz Ward, who until recently ran the Safe Schools Coalition gender theory program in Victoria, said same-sex attraction was more widespread than commonly believed.
'It's more like 40 to 50 per cent of young people who are not exclusively attracted to the opposite sex,' she told a Pride Week event.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a shooting and stabbing terror attack which resulted in the death of an Israeli policewoman.
Hadas Malka, 23, a staff sergeant major, was fatally stabbed in Jerusalem and it is the first time ISIS has said it was behind an attack in the city.
But the claim, which came with the jihadists facing defeat in their Iraq and Syria bastions, was swiftly dismissed by Palestinian militant groups.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is holding its Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on the 25-29 June and, once again, certain factions within the British Medical Association (BMA) are trying to force the organisation to support the total decriminalisation of abortion. This will mean that the abortion limit is increased to at least 28 weeks (7 months) and, if the proponents of decriminalisation get their way, will mean that abortion is made legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy for any reason whatsoever.
This would mean making sex-selective abortion legal. It would be perfectly lawful to kill unborn girls for the crime of being girls. This is a revolting form of sexism which no civilised society should tolerate.
As many as one fifth of teenagers are 'active followers of Jesus', according to new research.
And one of the things that encouraged them to give their lives to Christ was visits to church buildings, often with their schools.
The poll was carried out by ComRes months ago but has onlly just been released because researchers were so surprised by the results they had them checked and double-checked.
In the summer of 2011, the well-known evangelical campus ministry Campus Crusade announced it was planning to change its name to the strange abbreviation "Cru."[1] The word "crusade" had negative connotations, particularly overseas. It was identified with the medieval Christian crusades against Islam. Apparently the word became a barrier to today's campus evangelism. Similarly, when I attended Christian schools in the 60s and 70s, many of them chose as their team name "the Crusaders." This in fact was the name of my own high school in northern Ohio.
Times have changed. Many people even in the United States believe that the Crusades were a great blot on Christian history. It's true that they were far from perfect, and Christians committed atrocities. On the other hand, the goal of the crusaders was to retake Christian territory that had been forcibly overthrown by Islam.[2] We could certainly make the case that if there're any room for just war, this would be it.[3] Getting rid of violent, murderous Islam (like ISIS today) is a legitimate military aspiration.
We recently ran a piece on abortion and male suicide. Now, the BBC has produced a radio programme on men and abortion.
Today, BBC Radio 4 aired a programme called "It's my baby too", asking the question "how are men affected by abortion?" It features presenter Aasmah Mir talking to men who have gone through the experience and to women about how they feel men cope with abortion. She also heard from abortion service providers about the current process, academics about the limited research conducted into the impact abortion has on men, and experts working in the field of relationship counselling.
Although the show isn't perfect by any means (it uncritically features David Steel recounting why he introduced the 1967 Abortion Act), it is significant because any public discussion of how abortion affects men is almost unheard of.
The Church of England's General Synod is to consider whether to introduce a way to allow transgender Christians affirm their new identity in a church setting.
A motion has been brought by the Diocese of Blackburn which will be debated at July's meeting in York.
The Church will look at how an existing service for reaffirming baptismal vows may form the liturgical basis for services which help transgender Christians mark their gender transition publicly.
Little more than a week has passed since yet another election has turned British politics on its head. One of the most prominent themes: the role of evangelicals in politics.
With her loss of 13 seats, Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Theresa May was sent scrambling to form a coalition government in what is now a hung Parliament. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is in negotiations to be the likely partner.
Founded by pastor Ian Paisley as the political arm of the Protestant factions during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the DUP gained notoriety for its fiery social conservatism. Even as social policy across Britain liberalized, the DUP held the line to protect abortion restrictions and to ban the expansion of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
Ireland's newly elected Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that a referendum will be held in 2018 on the issue of repealing the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution, which strictly prohibits abortion in nearly all circumstances. Varadkar announced the planned referendum alongside his selection of new cabinet ministers, including 'pro-choice' Minister for Health Simon Harris, who will be preparing legislation to enable this referendum to be held. Humanists UK and its section Northern Ireland Humanists have welcomed the announcement, which represents a significant step towards the full realisation of women's sexual and reproductive rights in the Republic of Ireland and will strengthen the case for equal access to abortion in Northern Ireland.
The announcement follows an increase in pressure upon the Irish Government for the law to be changed. Earlier this month, the UN Humans Rights Committee ruled that Ireland's prohibition on abortion, which forces women to travel abroad for the procedure, violates international human rights treaties. This was the second ruling against the Irish Government by the UN Human Rights Committee on this issue since 2015.
Tim Farron's resignation caused shockwaves as he announced he was stepping down, not because he was forced out, not because of his party's mediocre election performance, but because being Liberal Democrat leader was incompatible with his Christian faith.
His full statement has sparked debate over whether faith and politics can mix and whether we will ever see a socially conservative Christian in charge of a political party again.
Here is his full resignation speech, delivered to party activists on Wednesday evening, in full.