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| The Catholic Association for Racial Justice has attacked the continuing discriminatory performance of a criminal justice system that sees blacks nine times more likely to be locked up than whites. The chair of CARJ Margaret Ann Fisken used Prisoners' Sunday last week to highlight new Home Office statistics that showed a 58% increase in the number of Afro-Caribbean prisoners in British jails. | |
| Crime | The Universe – 28th November 2004 |
| The expected attack on US abortion laws by the newly re-elected Bush administration began this week when Republican senators launched plans to allow hospitals to opt out of performing abortions without incurring financial penalties. | |
| Politics | The Universe – 28th November 2004 |
| The Pope is one of the three most admired living men, according to a major new poll of UK residents. According to the ICM People's Poll, the Pontiff ranked at the top of the poll with Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Universe – 28th November 2004 |
| The Stroke Association is to launch a media campaign today to stress the message that binge drinkers are twice as likely to have a stroke as other people.The survey of 1,900 people, exposes the gulf between public perceptions and the reality of what constitutes binge drinking. Only 29% admitted to binge drinking. But, when asked how many alcoholic drinks they consumed, 52% admitted to drinking four or more on a night out - putting them over the medically recommended daily alcohol intake limits of 3-4 units for men and 2-3 units for women. Binge drinking can trigger a stroke by increasing blood pressure, which can then lead to a blood clot or a burst artery. But when people were asked what they thought the long-term effects of binge drinking were, only 40% identified strokes. This compares with 95% citing liver damage and 87% naming dehydration. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Third Sector – 1st December 2004 |
| Becoming stressed now and again may be good for your health. Short bursts of stress, such as that caused by public speaking, strengthen the body's immune system, say psychologists Dr Suzanne Segerstrom and Dr Gregory Miller.But the psychologists also found that long-term stress, such as that caused by living with a permanent disability, renders a person less able to fight infections. Stressful situations that last only short periods appear to tap into the primeval 'fight or flight' response, which benefits a person by boosting their bodies natural frontline defence against infections. | |
| Health | The War Cry – 20th November 2004 |
| There are, the statisticians tell us, 12 million football fans in the UK and 67% report that they experience depression at the end of the football season. Not surprisingly, since 60% are 'psychologically dependent on the game'. Three quarters say that the game 'is more important than anything in their lives' and 86% plan their lives round games. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Christianity – December 2004 |
| Total outstanding student debt in the UK rose 18.7% to just over £14.6bn last year according to a study by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Students graduate owing an average of £12,000, up from £6,000 when Labour came to power, and one in 10 students owe above £15,000. However, around this average there were vast differences; students at Birbeck, a University of London College for part-time students had debts of £128 a year, whole students at Bath University debts of £7,471.However, the study also revealed that students spend nearly £1bn a year on alcohol, a cost which was second only to rent in the total expenditure. | |
| Money | Christianity – October 2004 |
| Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer, and in the end gravity will get us all. | |
| What famous people say | Actor Johnny Depp – Third Way – December 2004 |
| At least six Muslim girls, including two 12 year olds, were expelled from schools in France for wearing head scarves. These are the first exclusions under a law banning conspicuous religious symbols in public schools. Officials say a further 70 girls are defying the ban, | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelical Times – December 2004 |
| Church-based schools continue to excel in the Department for Education's league table of 17,800 primary schools. Of the 190 primaries where all the pupils reached Level 4 (the achievement expected of an 11-year old), 81 were Church of England schools and 33 were Roman Catholic. | |
| Education | Evangelical Times – January 2005 |
| A survey of 1,285 homosexual and bisexual men and women found that just under a third had attempted suicide and almost 40% had experienced problems such as anxiety and sleep disturbance. The survey by researchers from Imperial College found that 42% of gay men, 43% of lesbians and 49% of bisexual men and women had a clinically recognised mental health problem. In addition to anxiety and sleep disturbance, these also included panic attacks, depressive moods or thoughts, problems with memory or concentration, compulsive behaviour or obsessive thoughts. Around the same numbers also reported self-harming. | |
| Health | Evangelical Times – January 2005 |
| Young Americans are living up to their moral pledges to wait for marriage, according to US government statistics. Data shows an increase in teens who describe themselves as 'religious' - and the largest number of young women getting married since the early 1960's. In 1999, 12% of women aged 21 to 24 lived with male partners, while 9% married. In 2003, according to interim data, these figures were reversed.Other statistics issued last month by the Centers for Disease Control showed the number of teenage pregnancies has fallen for the twelfth consecutive year, with those among young teenagers now at their lowest since 1946. | |
| Family | Evangelical Times – January 2005 |
| The first week of 2005 sees the start of a new war on poverty called for by the Pope. In his New Year message for the World Day of Peace, the Pontiff called on world leaders, Christians, and men and women of good will everywhere to work all out for peace by overcoming what he described as the "evils" of poverty, fratricidal conflict and injustice. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe – 2nd January 2005 |
| Church chiefs have criticised a Dublin radio station for sponsoring a 'wedding' ceremony for a couple matched up on a phone-in programme who never saw each other until the ceremony. Amid concerns that the stunt devalued the Sacrament of Marriage, the director of the Irish hierarchy's communications office Martin Long said the most important point to note was that there was a key difference between a marriage and a wedding. "In a marriage a couple, through love and support for one another, are ministering the sacrament of marriage every day," said Mr Long. "Marriage is not a one-day event, it's a life-long commitment.".The wedding 'commitment' ceremony resembled a wedding in most respects except that the couple were not actually legally married. | |
| Media | The Universe – 2nd January 2005 |
| Angry pro-lifers have attacked a move to launch a new 'credit card' which will make it easier for girls as young as 11 to obtain the so-called 'morning after pill'. The promotion of the card, which will allow girls to be 'fast-tracked' into a doctors' surgery, has caused further discontent among opponents as it comes just days after a survey of 18,000 women revealed that greater availability of the 'morning after' pill had not reduced the abortion rate among the survey group. | |
| Sex | The Universe – 2nd January 2005 |
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