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| Following the announcement of plans for high street chemists to provide free chlamydia detection kits, the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) has accused the government of merely mopping up the mess they have helped to create. In 2001, the morning after pill went on sale over the counter to help tackle rising teen pregnancy rate. Boots, along with other chemists, were blamed for fuelling consequential steep rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It was predicted that the sale of the morning after pill over the counter would fuel a rise in STIs. While cases of chlamydia and other STIs skyrocketed, the sales of the pill doubled. Statistics now confirm that since the pill went on sale, there has been a minimal reduction in unplanned teen pregnancies. | |
| Health | Youthwork - May 2005 |
| News released by the Office of National Statistics that the population is ageing highlights the need for effective ministry among older people, according to a mission specialist for the Baptist Union of Great Britain. The statistics revealed that between 1971 and 2003 the number of people aged 65 and over has risen by 28% while the number of under 16s has fallen by 80%. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Baptist Times - 31st March 2005 |
| Support for the death penalty in the US has fallen from more than 60% in 2003 to only 48% in November 2004. | |
| Politics | The Baptist Times - 31st March 2005 |
| A survey last year found that 47% of Britons would help a relative to die and that 82% back a change in the law on medically assisted suicide. The Voluntary Euthanasia Society said at the time that this showed an increase in support for a change in the law. | |
| Health | The Baptist Times - 31st March 2005 |
| We live in a country in which over 70% identify themselves as Christians, but to many people that involves little more than, being polite to neighbours and kind to dogs, with no biblically ethical standpoints at all. It's bizarre, too, that some people are far more vocal about cruelty to animals than they are about human beings. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Unity - April 2005 |
| Recent statistics reveal the extent of the problem in an area populated by 23,000 people. A health survey in 1999 revealed that 47% of adult males on the islands admitted to drinking over the twice the safe amount of alcohol per week. Similarly, a 2002 NHS report found that 13 to 15 year olds in Shetland consumed significantly more alcohol than their counterparts in the rest of the UK. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Faithworks - Issue 4 2005 |
| More than six million fetuses have been legally aborted since the Abortion Act was passed in 1967. Last year there were 181,000 abortions performed in Britain. | |
| Health | Church of England Newspaper - 1st April 2005 |
| 'When I was 21 years old, I found Scientology and that gave me a kind of sanity. I think (after death) that the body ends and you as a spirit go on. It's up to you what you are going to do. You want to get back into another body or if you just want to hang out; whatever you feel like.' John Travolta | |
| What famous people say | Charisma - April 2005 |
| 'One of the biggest mistakes humans can make is to believe there is only one way. Actually there are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.' Oprah Winfrey | |
| What famous people say | Charisma - April 2005 |
| '(Buddhism) is a gradual process as the mind is familiarized with another way. hopefully, the correct way. So it is a process that takes several lifetimes.' Richard Gere | |
| What famous people say | Charisma - April 2005 |
| 'I put the Force into (Star Wars) in order to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people -more a belief in God than a belief in any particular religious system.' George Lucas | |
| What famous people say | Charisma - April 2005 |
| 'There's no doubt about it - I have felt the hand of God throughout my life. I had that Pentecostal foundation and a mother who used to say, Son you never know who's praying for you.' Denzel Washington | |
| What famous people say | Charisma - April 2005 |
| 'I have always wanted to believe that there is something more to life than what we have here on Earth. I mean it would be nice to know that there is something more, a higher power waiting for us, wouldn't it?' Kevin Costner | |
| What famous people say | Charisma - April 2005 |
| Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ was a key reason why 5,000 people contacted The Christian Enquiry Agency last year, up by 3,000 on the previous year, according to its director Jeff Bonser. | |
| Entertainment | Christianity - April 2005 |
| One in four women will experience domestic violence at some time in their lives. In fact for every minute of every day in the UK, the police are called upon for help due to domestic violence. The sad outcome being that every two victims of domestic violence in the UK are murdered. | |
| Crime | Christianity - April 2005 |
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