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| Euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands rose by 10 per cent last year, an influential medical committee has reported...According to Dutch media reports, the practice now accounts for four per cent of all deaths in the country. | |
| World Issues | The Christian Institute - 21st April 2017 |
| The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has called for a specialist centre offering late-term abortions to Scottish women, after the publication of a controversial new report. The study, by researchers at Glasgow University, advocates wider provision of abortion between 16 weeks and the legal limit of 24 weeks, calling it a “legitimate pregnancy outcome”. | |
| Health | The Christian Institute - 21st April 2017 |
| The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has passed a motion calling on its members to teach nursery children about same-sex relationships and transsexualism. Delegates at the NUT's annual conference in Cardiff approved the motion. It follows the government's plans to introduce "age appropriate" relationships and sex education in schools. | |
| Education | Christian Concern - 22nd April 2017 |
| The World Health Organisation (WHO) now refers to abortion as 'family planning', it has emerged. Journal articles by WHO researchers discuss strategies to promote and measure abortion access around the world. In Africa, teams from WHO train doctors to perform abortions, even when it is against the country's law. The UN General Assembly has said for decades that abortion should not be promoted as a method of 'family planning' under any circumstances. | |
| World Issues | Christian Concern - 22nd April 2017 |
| One third of babies born at 23 weeks survive to at least their first birthday, leading to calls for the abortion time limit to be reduced. In 2010, 23% survived, but this figure has since risen. | |
| Health | Christian Concern - 22nd April 2017 |
| The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), a professional body overseeing pharmacists in the UK, has amended its guidance to deny pharmacists the right to opt out of providing services which conflict with their deeply held religious or moral beliefs. This creates a monopoly in the pharmacy profession for those who support abortion, contraception, or other morally suspect treatments and ignores the concerns of many people who responded to the GPhC consultation. | |
| Health | Christian Concern - 13th April 2017 |
| Volunteering levels have declined by 15 per cent over a decade, according to Office for National Statistics figures published today. Figures from the household satellite accounts, analysed today by the ONS, show that people in the UK volunteered for 1.93 billion hours in 2015, compared to 2.28 billion hours in 2005. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 16th March 2017 |
| There are now more than one million people working in charities, according to the latest annual figures published by the Charity Commission. Figures for the year up to September 2016 show that total sector workforce has reached 1.08 million. This is an increase of almost 130,000 on the year to September 2015. | |
| Work/Employment | Civil Society News - 17th March 2017 |
| FareShare has allowed local charities to deliver more than five million extra meals to people in need in the first year of a new partnership with Tesco, and has also doubled the number of charities which use its service. | |
| Food and Drink | Civil Society News - 17th March 2017 |
| Private information about children was published online by a council piloting the controversial Named Person scheme, it has been revealed. | |
| Social Issues | The Christian Institute - 17th March 2017 |
| Young children are to receive 'happiness lessons', including mindfulness, in a new government trial aimed at improving the well-being of the UK's children. They will be taught to think of disturbing thoughts as 'buses', which come and go. It follows results of a study last month which found that the UK's children are among the unhappiest in the world. | |
| Education | Christian Concern - 17th March 2017 |
| As many as 25% of 'Islamophobic hate crimes' recorded by the Metropolitan Police are crimes committed against non-Muslims or people of unknown faith. Freedom of Information inquiries made by Hardeep Singh of the Network of Sikh Organisations show that of the 1,277 incidents of 'Islamophobic hate crime' last year, only 912 victims were Muslims. Bizarrely, 43 Christians and two Jews were recorded as victims of 'Islamophobic hate crime'. | |
| Crime | Christian Concern - 17th March 2017 |
| Newly released statistics show that there were nearly 5,500 newly reported cases of FGM in the UK in 2016. Although the practice has been illegal in the UK for over 30 years, there has yet to be a single conviction for carrying out FGM. | |
| Crime | Christian Concern - 17th March 2017 |
| The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has granted a team of doctors in Newcastle a licence to create embryos with DNA from three people. The doctors say that this will prevent children from dying of genetic diseases, but there are huge ethical concerns over who a child's parents are, the mass creation and destruction of embryos and the harvesting of eggs from vulnerable donors. The doctors say the first 'three-parent child' will be born in 2018. | |
| Science | Christian Concern - 17th March 2017 |
| Voters will have to show proof of identification before casting their ballot in a pilot scheme to stop electoral fraud. A trial of the ID scheme will take place at a number of polling stations all across England in the local elections in 2018. A decision will then be taken on whether to roll out the measure for the whole country. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - 9th January 2017 |
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