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| Over 30 per cent of Britons donate to charity by text message and 61 per cent now donate through online giving websites, according to a study by online shopping scheme Give as you Live. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 23rd April 2015 |
| Teenage pregnancy rates in Stoke on Trent are the second highest in Britain – despite a fall in the number of young mums in the City. Issued by the National Statistics they also show a drop in girls aged under 16 conceiving in the City. And among the under 16’s the data for 2013 shows the incidence is one in around 140. And in Stoke-on-Trent 58.6% of pregnant girls under 16 went on to have abortions – compared to 69.3% in Staffordshire and 61.6% nationally. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - March 11th 2015 |
| Churches, some dating from the 12th Century are being sold by the Church of England as the number of worshippers continue to fall, it was reported in late February. Nineteen former churches are currently listed for sale, with an estimated value of £3million. The oldest is the 12th century St. Peters’ in Buckinghamshire. The latest figures for 2012 suggest that fewer than 800,000 people worship at Anglican Sunday Services, half the number in the 1960’s. | |
| Church | Evangelicals Now - April 2015 |
| The average online donation fell by 8.6 per cent in 2014 to £63.69, according to a survey by fundraising software company Blackbaud - the first drop in the five years the survey has taken place. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 15th April 2015 |
| A pro-life initiative has addressed the United Nations, calling for the medical establishment to discontinue the use of the term ‘incompatible with life’. | |
| Health | The Christian Institute - 10th April 2015 |
| Just days before Mr Javid's announcement (see above), NSPCC ChildLine revealed the results of a survey in which a tenth of 12 to 13-year olds said they fear they are “addicted” to pornography. In addition, the survey found that one in five 12 to 13-year olds think that watching pornography is normal behaviour. | |
| Young People | Christian Concern - 11th April 2015 |
| Christianity will remain the world’s largest religion in 2050 but only just, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. The US think tank forecasts that Islam will grow rapidly over the next 35 years, taking the number of Muslims to 2.8 billion by the century's mid-point compared to 2.9 billion Christians. By then, the UK will no longer have a majority identifying as Christian and 10% of Europe's population could be Muslim, the study claims. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 11th April 2015 |
| A lawyer representing the Scottish Government has conceded that there is no opt out to the controversial Named Person scheme, despite previous assurances that parents are under no obligation to engage with the named person. | |
| The Law | The Christian Institute - 12th June 2015 |
| Over 100,000 people in the UK do not have access to adequate palliative care, a new report claims. Research conducted by the London School of Economics suggests that those most at risk include ethnic minorities, those living in poorer areas and those aged 85 or over. | |
| Health | Christian Concern - 11th April 2015 |
| Forty three per cent of British people say they intend to leave money to charity in their wills, according to a survey conducted last month by the British Heart Foundation. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 7th April 2015 |
| Donations dropped £400m in 2014, UK Giving research suggests. The total amount given to charity by individual donors was £10.6bn, according to research from the Charities Aid Foundation. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 7th April 2015 |
| A disturbing new study from the University of Swansea has revealed that just over 20% of students who participated in their study had considered entering the sex industry in some form. That it has become an option for students seeking to fund their way through university suggests a worrying normalisation of commercial sex within our society especially among young adults. | |
| Young People | CARE Impact Direct - 27th March 2015 |
| Less than a third of charities report acceptably on public benefit and less than two thirds produced acceptable accounts over a two-year period, a Charity Commission survey of its register has found. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 27th March 2015 |
| A bill confirming that town and parish councils are able to hold prayers as part of their meetings passed its third reading in the House of Lords yesterday and will now become law. | |
| The Law | Bible Society - 27th March 2015 |
| The YouVersion Bible app has now been downloaded over 175 million times on smartphones and tablets around the world. YouVersion partners with Bible Societies and it supports 1,092 versions of the Bible in 780 languages. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 27th March 2015 |
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