The chronic delays and crippling bureaucracy faced by people who want to adopt will be swept away by the Government, in a significant response to a campaign by The Times.
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December 22nd, 2011
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December 22nd, 2011
Only 60 babies a year in need of adoption are being placed permanently with families, compared with four thousand in 1974. Overall, the number of adoptions has fallen by 8% since 2007. The average time between being taken into care and being adopted is two years and seven months - and there is now a record number of children in care. One of the main reasons for these dispiriting figures is that rising need is met by a system which is marked by risk aversion and marred by politically correctness. I described recently how government guidance issued over ten years ago to ireminded local authorities that seeking ethnic matches should not delay adoption has not been followed by many local councils.
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December 22nd, 2011
KAGORO, Nigeria (Compass Direct News) – A Muslim villager in Kaduna state allegedly helped Fulani herdsmen and other Muslims from nearby Kafanchan to ambush a Christian settlement, resulting in the death of one woman and gunshot wounds to two other Christians on Dec. 10, area sources said.
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December 22nd, 2011
One campaigner said there appeared to be an "aversion" to the display of Christianity in public.
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December 22nd, 2011
Supermarkets have become ‘ashamed’ of selling Christmas cards with religious themes, Christian leaders said yesterday.
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December 22nd, 2011
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (Worthy News)– Saudi police arrested 42 Ethiopian Christians attending a prayer meeting in Jeddah Thursday.
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December 22nd, 2011
NASHVILLE // Two Muslim men who said they were removed from an aeroplane in May in the US after the pilot objected to their presence are suing Delta Air Lines and a regional carrier that operated the connecting flight.
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December 22nd, 2011
Is religious freedom under threat in America today? Yes and no. Compared to Eritrea, where the government habitually forces Pentecostals into unventilated shipping containers until they renounce their beliefs, American religious freedom is in very good shape. But comparative evils abroad are a poor reason to be complacent about liberty at home. Today, in fact, multiple threats warrant special vigilance.
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December 22nd, 2011
Father Immanuel Dabaghian, one of Baghdad’s last surviving priests, is expecting a quiet Christmas. To join him in the Church of the Virgin Mary means two hours of security checks and a body search at the door, and even then there’s no guarantee of survival. Islamist gunmen massacred 58 people in a nearby church last year, and fresh graffiti warns remaining worshippers that they could be next.
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December 22nd, 2011
Tim Minchin, an Australian comedian, wrote and performed the song for Jonathan Ross' Christmas broadcast. The show was recorded last week and is due to be broadcast tomorrow night.