Key Quotes for 2015

Showing page 20 of 26

1... 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ...26

Last update: Wednesday 25th March




Research from the Teenage Cancer Trust has suggested that teenagers may be too worried, embarrassed or uncomfortable to talk to their doctor. The charity spoke to 1,000 13 to 24 year olds and a third of them said they found it difficult to speak to doctors. The main reason given among those who found it difficult was embarrassment, while a difficulty expressing themselves or the concern that doctors would think they were stupid were also a major concern.
Young People	Youthwork - November 2014



Collected reports from the Department for Health have suggested that this generation of teenagers are remarkably more sensible than their predecessors. Teenage pregnancy rates are at their lowest since the 1970s, with a simultaneous drop in abortion rates. The numbers of young people drinking, smoking, and taking drugs has also shrunk massively since 2003, 9% of young people had drunk in the last week, compared to 25 % ten years ago. Similarly 16% had taken drugs (down from 30%) and 3% described themselves as smokers (down from 9%).
Young People	Youthwork - November 2014



A study has shown that family breakdown can have a negative effect on children’s exam results and personal life. In the study of 4,000 adults and 500 young people, 65% said divorce had damaged GCSE results, and 44% said it had a similar effect on A Levels. This may be linked to the result that 15 % of those questioned moved schools following a divorce.
Young People	Youthwork - February 2015



Ofsted has warned that many secondary schools in England are not making sufficient progress. The school inspector’s chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said that secondary schools have ‘stalled’ and that they need to concentrate on the basics, after almost a third were reported as not being good enough. Wilshaw also said that 170,000 pupils are in inadequate secondary schools, close to 70,000 more than two years ago.
Education	Youthwork - February 2015



With startling statistics such as one in 12 young people self-harming, 850,000 children and young people having a clinically diagnosed mental illness and 95% of imprisoned young people having a mental health disorder, it’s plain to see that we have something of a health crisis on our hands. In the UK we spend just £40 million per year on mental health services. This might sound like a decent amount until you compare it to a spend of £671 million on sexual health initiatives and £108 million on tackling obesity.
Young People	Youthwork - February 2015



Parents are being marginalised by Scottish sex education guidance that encourages teachers to speak to a child’s named person about any wellbeing concerns, with no mention of the role of parents in the section on confidentiality it was reported in December.
Family	Evangelicals Now - February 2015



As young people were praying and fasting together on 2 December, police forces stormed the church gathering in Sudan with bulldozers and began demolishing the building.
Religious Persecution	Evangelicals Now - February 2015



The Islamic State released, in the late autumn, guidelines for how militants are supposed to treat their female slaves. The leaflet tells IS followers that ‘unbelieving women can be bought, sold and abused.’
Crime	Evangelicals Now - February 2015



Christian children in Indonesia’s most easterly province are bearing the brunt of a multi- faceted Islamisation programme that is changing the character of the formerly Christian majority region, it was reported in mid-December. Papuan children are being trafficked to Islamic boarding schools.
Religious Persecution	Evangelicals Now - February 2015



The regulations for techniques to create three and four parent babies were published in late 2014, with MPs and Peers due to vote early in 2015 on allowing the two procedures, Maternal Spindle Transfer and Pro Nuclear Transfer. If legalised, the UK would become the only country in the world to permit the two techniques.
Health	Evangelicals Now - February 2015



The UK’s highest court has overturned a decision affecting the case of two Roman Catholic midwives who had previously won the right to avoid supervising staff involved in abortions. Last April, judges at Edinburgh’s Court of Session ruled that Mary Doogan and Connie Wood’s conscientious objection to abortions meant that they had the right to refuse to delegate, supervise or support staff involved in abortions. But the UK Supreme court has now overturned this ruling after an appeal by NHS Great Glasgow and Clyde.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now - February 2015



While 86% of British parents read, watched or listened to Bible stories when they were growing up, only 55% of today’s children have the same experience.
Religion/Spirituality	The Plain Truth - Winter 2014-2015



One in 50 Anglican clergy in the UK believes God in merely a human construct, according to the results of a new survey. And just eight in ten believe there is a personal God with a further three in 100 believing there is some spirit or life force. The YouGov survey (published October 2014) of more than 1500 Anglican clergy, commissioned by the Westminster Faith debates for the current series on the future of the Church of England.
Religion/Spirituality	The Plain Truth - Winter 2014-2015



Two Colombian activists met with US policy makers in mid-November to raise concerns about freedom of religion or belief in Colombia, and presented a report outlining 5 categories of religious freedom violations.
Religious Persecution	Evangelicals Now - January 2015



On 13 November, three top religious leaders of the Central Africa Republic were awarded a prize for their efforts for peace in the war-torn Central Africa Republic. In the midst of the country’s 2 years of violence, often portrayed as confessional conflict, the three clerics formed a joint platform to promote peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims.
Religion/Spirituality	Evangelicals Now - January 2015

Showing page 20 of 26

1... 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ...26