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Want to join a library? Have you had a sex change?
Saturday, August 27th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
By Tim Ross, Telegraph Councils are asking residents who want to borrow books from public libraries whether they have HIV, schizophrenia, or have had a sex change, The Daily Telegraph has ... Read more..Alan Duncan backs down after accusing Israelis of ‘land grab’
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Conflict | Comments Off
By Tim Ross, Telegraph The international development minister, Alan Duncan, has been forced to remove a video from a government website in which he accused Israelis of a “land grab” in ... Read more..Uphold Conscience Protection: Religious Freedom’s Contribution to the American Experience and Threats to its Survival
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Culture, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
by Helen Alvaré, Witherspoon Institute Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of ... Read more..Can contraception make America better?
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Culture | Comments Off
By Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet Forty years ago modern contraception was sold to women as part of a liberation package: at last they would be in control of their fertility and their ... Read more..‘Respectful’ hearing for gay-rites debate
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Civil Partnerships, Gay Marriage | Comments Off
By Simon Sarmiento “RITES relating to marriage” was the subject under study by 56 Anglican liturgists at the biennial meeting of the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation (IALC) earlier this month in ... Read more..God is no longer the ‘Heavenly Father’
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
By Jimmie Davis Jr, Westside Gazette The United Church of Christ [UCC] has banned God the “Heavenly Father” and stricken the language from their church constitution. Delegates met at UCC’s General Synod ... Read more..News Bulletin 26 August 2011 – The Christian Institute
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
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Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Education | Comments Off
From Christian Today The number of students taking short course Religious Education at GCSE level has fallen by eight per cent, latest figures show. 2011 figures reveal an increase in the number ... Read more..Sex and the iWorld: Where did you pick that up?
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Sex education | Comments Off
Core Issues presents A one-day conference for Christian and concerned parents, educators, ministers and leaders investigating appropriate sex-education Saturday 15th October 10.00 – 4.00 at Ballynahinch Baptist Church, Down BT24 8BL, Northern ... Read more..Mugabe meeting for Archbishop Williams
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Persecuted church | Comments Off
By George Conger, CEN The Archbishop of Canterbury will travel to Harare in October and will seek a meeting with Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe to plead the case for the country’s ... Read more..A crucial moment in America’s marriage culture
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off
From Brian Brown, NOM The fatwa against Jerry Buell—a Florida schoolteacher who was suspended by a public school for posting on his Facebook page that he was repulsed by gay marriage ... Read more..Euthanasia Pushes Belgium Into Abyss as Numbers Rise
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off
By Wesley J Smith, Life News The Netherlands used to be the heart of euthanasia darkness. It is still dark, but the culture of death crown has passed to Belgium, which ... Read more..Teacher suspended for criticizing gay ‘marriage’ reinstated
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism, Political Correctness | Comments Off
By Christine Dhanagom, LifeSite News A social studies teacher who was suspended from the classroom due to comments he made on his private Facebook page condemning same-sex “marriage” is now being ... Read more..A Dying Nation: Russia’s abortion crisis
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
by Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News The demographic crisis of a country now only ironically known as “Mother Russia” has long gone unaddressed in the English-speaking world. Recently, however, the Population Research Institute ... Read more..Equality and Human Rights Commission reverses position on religious cases intervention
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in Human Rights, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
By Adam Wagner, UK Human Rights Blog (Hat Tip: Echurch) The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has reversed its plans to intervene in two European Court of Human Rights cases ... Read more..Iran seizes thousands of Bibles in bid to stop conversions to Christianity
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off
From Barnabas Fund Iranian authorities have seized 6,500 Bibles in their latest efforts to block the spread of the Gospel in the strongly Islamic country. Announcing the seizure, which took place between ... Read more..Campaigners sue US schools over porn web filters
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism, Pornography | Comments Off
From The Christian Institute Schools in Missouri, America, are being sued for using internet pornography filters – because the filters may also block some homosexual websites. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ... Read more..Most new HIV cases found in gay men, US stats show
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off
From The Christian Institute Men who have sex with other men (MSM) account for the majority of new HIV infections in America despite representing just two per cent of the population, ... Read more..Baptism at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in Church life | Comments Off
By Riazat Butt, Guardian Riazat Butt visits the US camp in Afghanistan's Helmand Province – and notes the differences between the American and British military's approach to religion It is often said ... Read more..Obama admin website: infants and children are ‘sexual beings’
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Paedophilia | Comments Off
By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News Borrowing Planned Parenthood’s talking points almost verbatim, the Obama administration is now encouraging parents to begin thinking about their children, and even babies, as “sexual beings” ... Read more..