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Archive for September, 2010

Congressman Says Internet-Fueled Sex Trafficking Too Big for Government Alone

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Peter J. Smith for Life Site News   WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) told a House subcommittee on Wednesday that stronger efforts need to be ... Read more..

Manila Archbishop: “Grave Sin” of Abortion Leads to Automatic Excommunication

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski for Life Site News   MANILA, Philippines, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales has issued a pastoral letter, to be read at all Masses in ... Read more..

Friday Five: Founding Fathers on the Constitution of the United States

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Catherine Snow for Citizen Link   Today, Sept. 17, is the 223rd birthday of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia. To pay homage to this foundational document, CitizenLink reflects on the ... Read more..

End-of-life Bill could bring ‘death tourism’ to Scotland

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Christian Institute   Scotland could become a destination for “death tourism” if a highly controversial bid to legalise assisted suicide becomes law, according to palliative care nurses.   The End of Life Assistance ... Read more..

Divorce can speed up the onset of puberty in girls

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Christian Institute   The emotional distress caused by divorce can cause some girls to go through puberty early, according to new research.   Researchers discovered that girls from higher-income families whose fathers had ... Read more..

Anglican Perspective

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

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Only one in 100 Britons is gay despite long-held myth… but 71% of public say they are Christian

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in Faith, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Steve Doughty, Mailonline The first ever official count of the gay population has found that only one in 100 adults is homosexual. The figure explodes the assumption - long promoted by ... Read more..

RC Archbishop Accuses Pro-Abortion Government Officials of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in Marriage, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSite News The leader of the Catholic archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina, is accusing pro-abortion and anti-family politicians in his country of "crimes against humanity," ... Read more..

Islamists claim responsibility for Russian bombing

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From The Associated Press   MOSCOW (AP) -- A Chechen Islamist rebel group has claimed responsibility for last week's suicide car bombing in Russia's volatile North Caucasus that left 18 dead and ... Read more..

Turkey referendum called watershed victory

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From World Tribune Analysts said Prime Minister Recep Erdogan won a victory in a Sept. 12 referendum to revise the constitution. They said the proposed constitutional amendments would expand the influence ... Read more..

Taxpayers fund council ‘adventures in Sindia and Lesbianandgayland’ as part of sessions on equality and diversity

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

Chris Hastings for The Daily Mail   Council bosses are being asked to imagine they are English economic migrants in the fictitious region of Sindia, or go on an ‘adventure in Lesbian-andgayland’ ... Read more..

Radical Islamism challenges notions of freedom

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali for The Australian IT is often thought the main threat of radical Islamism to the West and, indeed, the world, is terrorism. It is also said to be ... Read more..

Pope Benedict XV1 goes to war with `atheist extremism’

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From CCFON   Guardian: Pope Benedict XVI goes to war with 'atheist extremism'.   Andrea Williams comments: “The Pope’s warning against the ‘aggressive forms of secularism’ has clearly touched a raw nerve amongst the ... Read more..

Elections under way for representatives to Church of England Synod

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in Church of England, General Synod | Comments Off

From Christian Today Voting has got underway for new members of the Church of England's General Synod. Members of the Church of England have begun casting their votes for the next five-year ... Read more..

HIV rates ‘out of control’ among gay men in France

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute A study has shown rates of HIV in France are 200 times higher in homosexual men than amongst heterosexuals. Scientists from the French National Institute for Public Health ... Read more..

First national survey finds 1.5 per cent of adults say they are gay, lesbian or bisexual

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in Culture, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From Pink News A survey of 450,000 UK adults has found that 1.5 per cent were willing to identify themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual. The Integrated Household Survey, carried out by ... Read more..

Hold antenatal classes in schools for pregnant teens

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Culture | Comments Off

By Rebecca Smith, Telegraph Antenatal clinics should be provided in schools and colleges so young mothers can receive proper medical care while pregnant, the NHS advisory body has suggested. The National Institute ... Read more..

New website launched to mark 350th anniversary of Book of Common Prayer

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 Posted in Book Of Common Prayer, Liturgy | Comments Off

By Brian Hutt, Christian Today The Prayer Book Society has launched a new website ahead of yearlong celebrations in 2012 to mark the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common ... Read more..

Which God will the Coalition ‘do’?

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Civil Liberty, Faith, Politics | Comments Off

By Cranmer When David Cameron dismissed all talk of Britain’s secularism as ‘exaggerated’, and dismissively said that such comment ‘misses the point’, he could hardly have expected to find himself swiftly ... Read more..

The Africans are coming

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Chris Sugden  Evangelicals Now October 2010 The second all-African Bishops Conference took place in Entebbe, Uganda from August 23-27.  Over 310 Anglican Bishops attended, including 35 from Uganda. When the 150 ... Read more..