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Whitehall ‘cover-up on unwed mothers’: Accusations fly over changes to birth figures
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off
By Steve Doughty, Mailonline The importance of marriage risks being further downgraded by the Office for National Statistics, critics claimed yesterday. New Whitehall rules mean the number of children born to unmarried ... Read more..Judges weaken rules on paedophiles
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Human Rights, Paedophilia | Comments Off
By David Barrett, Telegraph Paedophiles have won unsupervised access to their own children because it would breach their human rights to keep them apart, judges have ruled. The Court of Appeal ... Read more..The high cost of divorce
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in Divorce | Comments Off
By Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet With cohabitation replacing marriage, divorce is receding as a cause of family breakdown, but it remains a serious problem. An article in the Washington Times cites US ... Read more..British teen drinking ‘spawning a violent and promiscuous generation’
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in Culture | Comments Off
By George Conger, CEN Binge drinking among teenage girls has become a serious public health problem for the UK and a source of public disorder, a report compiled by the Centre ... Read more..Church of England Bishops: Lack of Virtue at Fault for London Riots
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Culture | Comments Off
By Jeff Walton, The IRD Responding to the looting and arson that swept British cities this month, several top Church of England bishops condemned the violence and spotlighted moral failures that ... Read more..Prayer for Christ the King in Tripoli
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in News, Prayer, suffering church | Comments Off
By Peter Ould, Twurch of England website We’ve received this prayer letter via Bishop Mouneer’s chaplain in Egypt from the Anglican Church in Tripoli. Please use it to guide your prayers ... Read more..Seven Hundred Clergy Can Be Wrong
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in Church life, Gay Activism, Syncretism | Comments Off
By Alan Sears, Breakpoint An enterprising chiropractor ought to be able to make a good living in New York these days, going church to church and offering his services. So many ... Read more..Priests forced out of homes as Kunonga wins property fight
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in Anglican Communion | Comments Off
By Pat Ashworth, Church Times CLERICS and their families are being evicted from rectories in Zimbabwe, after a High Court decision giving custodianship of church property to Nolbert Kunonga, the excommunicated ... Read more..The state should keep its nose out of the Catholic Church’s confession boxes
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in Church life, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
By Brendan O'Neill, Telegraph News of the World journalists who invaded celebrities’ privacy by hacking into their idle phone chatter have got nothing on Irish politicians. The Irish state is hell ... Read more..The monogamy monopoly
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in Marriage, Polygamy | Comments Off
By Nelson Jones, New Statesman Should the state sanction or condone polygamous unions? Most notably, Islam permits a man to have up to four wives, although the same opportunity is not extended ... Read more..Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
By O Carter Snead, Witherspoon Institute Public officials—especially the President—are obligated to protect the intrinsic equal dignity of all human beings, regardless not only of sex and race, but also without ... Read more..Corrie stars to celebrate Manchester Pride Parade
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
From The Christian Institute Coronation Street will lead out the Manchester Gay Pride Parade for the second year running, despite recent criticism at the soap’s mounting same-sex story lines. ITV bosses have ... Read more..This Isn’t Meddling — It’s Murder
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
By Albert Mohler Euphemisms are the refuge of moral cowardice, and no euphemism is so cowardly or so deadly as “reduction” — a word that sounds like math, but really means ... Read more..7 reasons for good cheer after Madrid
Monday, August 22nd, 2011 Posted in Pope Benedict, youth culture | Comments Off
By Michael Cook, MercatorNet Who cares if the media ignored World Youth Day? Last year at this time the Catholic Church was licking its wounds after its biggest public relations shellacking in ... Read more..Benedict XVI in Spain: a triumph for this ‘meek man of mighty action’ (despite the best efforts of the BBC)
Monday, August 22nd, 2011 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates, Faith, youth culture | Comments Off
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph The crowd-pulling power of Benedict XVI is almost miraculous, given the contrast with his openly charismatic predecessor, and his former image as a conservative “enforcer”. Who could ... Read more..World Youth Day and the London Riots
Monday, August 22nd, 2011 Posted in Culture, Pope Benedict, youth culture | Comments Off
by Ben Akers, First Things Although it is tempting to point to economic and social disadvantages as the root cause of the recent unrest in the United Kingdom, it is refreshing ... Read more..How statism has come to dominate even the Church
Monday, August 22nd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Education, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
By Ed West, Telegraph On Saturday my colleague Damian Thompson noted that it has been another fantastic academic year for my alma mater, the highly successful Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in ... Read more..European Court Allows Alliance Defense Fund To Intervene In Multiple UK Religious Discrimination Cases
Monday, August 22nd, 2011 Posted in Human Rights, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
From Evangelical News The European Court of Human Rights has granted the request of the Alliance Defense Fund to intervene to defend religious rights of conscience in four pivotal cases originating ... Read more..How do we give our young people the values they need?
Sunday, August 21st, 2011 Posted in Culture, youth culture | Comments Off
By Michael Nazir-Ali, Conservative Home Someone said recently, in the aftermath of the rioting, looting and killing" "this is what a godless society looks like". It is certainly true that we ... Read more..Starbucks chief pulls out of megachurch visit after homosexuality protest
Sunday, August 21st, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off
From Christian Today Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz has cancelled his visit to a US megachurch following a controversial homosexuality protest. The coffee shop businessman was due to speak at a leadership ... Read more..