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Sex education classes and birth control advertising fail to curb teenage pregnancy rates, research suggests.
Instead, they may encourage young people to have unprotected sex which results in unwanted pregnancies.
The findings have emerged following analysis of pregnancy rates after Government funding for a range of schemes designed to promote safe sex was cut.
Jeremy Corbyn is promising to defend the wearing of crosses, hijabs and other religious clothing in a special 'race and faith' manifesto on Tuesday afternoon.
The Labour leader is seeking to tackle the perception he is soft on antisemitism, vowing to tackle hate crime and recruit 10,000 more police officers to work on community beats.
The special interest manifesto promises to reassess the counter-extremism Prevent programme, which has been criticised for prejudicing against Muslims.
As same-sex marriage activists called for tennis great Margaret Court's name to be removed from the Margaret Court Arena, I was attending the 11th World Congress of Families in Budapest, Hungary.
So many same-sex marriage advocates will not tolerate dissent and even a tennis great must be punished for lovingly saying out loud that marriage is a man-woman project.
On the banks of the Danube, the UK's Guardian newspaper labelled the World Congress of Families "an anti-LGBT hate group" and criticised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (pictured) and his government for hosting and sponsoring it.
Cultural debates come packaged with new words and concepts. By creating "constructs" that give names to subjective theories, progressives attempt to crystallize their social theories and give them the appearance of ironclad certainty.
Those who control the language control the terms of the debate. Words create and confirm ideas, and if new words can give meaning to new concepts, over time, these concepts become unquestionable as we grow accustomed to their usage.
Take, for example, the sexual revolution and one of its most infamous legacies, "no-fault divorce." No-fault divorce attempts to facilitate the dissolution of a marriage. But ask yourself, is there really such a thing as a divorce in which all parties are without fault? Of course not. Ask anyone who has ever been through one. No-fault divorce is merely a legal mechanism that makes the dissolution of a marriage more efficient. Yet the way we understand divorce on a cultural level has been transformed by this shift in vocabulary.
The subject of assisted dying seems to be in the news most weeks. Vaughan Roberts' new book, Assisted Suicide, helps readers to think through these complex issues from a Christian perspective. Here he speaks about the crucial need for a book on this topic.
Vaughan, dying is a topic that most of us don't want to think about! But why is it important for Christians to understand the issues around assisted dying?
We all need to think these things through personally, because each of us has no idea when death and dying will come very close to us. When we—or someone in our family—are facing dementia, or a radical loss of capacity, how will we respond? We need have thought these things through before they become very real and emotional issues. On top of that, our media often presents very strong and emotional arguments in favour of giving people "the right to die", and it's vital that we are able to speak truth into a very confused debate.
Theresa May took part in a panel talk with an anti-gay pastor on Sunday.
The prime minister joined Reverend Agu Iruweku for a church service followed by a question and answer session.
Rev Iruweku, a senior pastor of Jesus House in London since 1994, has been criticised for his views on homosexuality which adhere to traditional biblical teaching.
A teachers union spokesperson says the Prime Minister's comments about gender neutral uniforms may have disappointed some students, as he appeared confused about the issue.
Mr English was asked by media on Monday about the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA)'s recommendation for schools to introduce gender neutral uniforms.
He said that the Government "will not be focusing on transgender uniforms".
According to a chaplain, Friday's massacre of 29 Coptic Christians who were on their way to a monastery in Egypt occurred after Islamic radicals marched them off the bus one by one and asked them to deny their faith in Jesus Christ.
A priest identified as Father Rashed, a chaplain for one of the groups comforting the survivors of the attack, said in an article in Breitbart News on Sunday that 10 masked Islamic State militants did not simply open fire on the bus on its way to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor.
Instead, the IS radicals apparently stopped the bus, made the victims walk out, and asked each of them, including the children, whether they were Christians.
The Church of England is to vote on creating an official 'baptism-style' service to celebrate when transgender Christians change sex.
The controversial motion has dismayed traditionalists, who say the Bible teaches that gender is God-given.
But liberals said vicars have been forced to devise unofficial services to welcome sex-change worshippers and the Church should demonstrate its unambiguous acceptance of transsexuals.
There's one headline you didn't read in the aftermath of the Manchester attack:
Isis celebrates 'crusaders' attack and vows further violence against Christians
Sounds silly, I know. But look at what Isis actually said in their statement after the bombing.