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| An Egyptian telecom billionaire, Naguib Sawiris, has contacted the prime ministers of Greece and Italy about buying an island in order to house and employ 100,000–200,000 refugees. Sawiris said he was moved into action by the photo of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi and pictures of the treatment of refugees in Hungary. | |
| World Issues | Bible Society - 18th September 2015 |
| Imams, priests, rabbis and other religious figures will have to enrol on a ‘national register of faith leaders’ and be subject to government-specified training and security checks in the Home Office’s latest action on extremism. The strategy, due to be published this autumn, says that Whitehall will ‘require all faiths to maintain a national register of faith leaders’. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 18th September 2015 |
| Only 23 per cent of Conservative MPs think that charities should be protected from spending cuts compared to 65 per cent of Labour MPs, a Charities Aid Foundation report shows. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 21st September 2015 |
| Social enterprises are outperforming the wider economy in almost every area of business, according to research by Social Enterprise UK. | |
| Work/Employment | Civil Society News - 16th September 2015 |
| The Australian Coalition Government has voted to keep its official position on marriage as between one man and one woman. The decision means that an upcoming same-sex marriage bill will not pass. | |
| The Law | Christian Concern - 15th August 2015 |
| New figures show that the number of single women using IVF has more than doubled in the last decade. Experts suggest that the increase is due to women delaying having a family for career reasons and then choosing to conceive by IVF before it's too late, without waiting to get married. | |
| Family | Christian Concern - 15th August 2015 |
| Under an EU relocation plan Slovakia has said it will take 200 Christian migrants but not Muslims. | |
| World Issues | Bible Society - 21st August 2015 |
| The number of pupils taking Religious Studies has fallen by 67 per cent in the past three years. The 'short' version of the course counts as half a GCSE and has been removed from Department of Education performance tables. The National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE) blamed this on the fall. | |
| Education | Bible Society - 21st August 2015 |
| New figures from the Church of England show that some of the country’s oldest cathedrals are seeing congregations grow. More than 10 million people visited cathedrals in England last year and almost 37,000 attended Sunday or midweek services – up almost a quarter in a decade. | |
| Church | Bible Society - 21st August 2015 |
| Amnesty International has dubbed the conditions in Austria's camp for asylum seekers as 'inhumane'. Almost 5,000 people are housed in the camp in the village of Traiskirchen, about 30 miles outside the capital, Vienna. Bible Society of Austria's Director, Jutta Henner, backed Amnesty International's statement, calling conditions at the camp 'shocking'. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 21st August 2015 |
| Ahead of the debate on the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill, polling commissioned by CARE revealed that 76% of people believe legalising assisted suicide would result in terminally ill people who believe they are a burden feeling a responsibility to access assisted suicide. In addition, of the 2,082 people surveyed, 86% of respondents felt there was a risk of politicians and NHS managers using subtle pressures to prioritise assisted suicide over palliative care. 52% of people thought patients opting for assisted suicide would experience no pain or discomfort, yet complications ranging from vomiting the lethal drugs they ingest to regaining consciousness are not uncommon in places where assisted suicide is legal such as Oregon and Washington States. | |
| Social Issues | CARE Impact Direct - 11th September 2015 |
| Legacy giving increased by 8 per cent from £2bn in 2013 to £2.2bn in 2014 in England and Wales, despite a slight fall in the number of people that died, according to research published today. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 11th September 2015 |
| A third of people would consider a non-church location for their funeral and a quarter would ask mourners to wear colourful clothes according to a new poll of UK adults. Research amongst Co-operative Funeralcare’s own directors also found that nearly half (49 per cent) had arranged service in a location other than a church or crematorium. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 11th September 2015 |
| The latest attempt to liberalise the current law and introduce assisted suicide has been comprehensively defeated in the Commons. The Assisted Dying Bill (No 2) was soundly rejected by MPs at Second Reading with 330 MPs voting against the legislation and 118 voting in favour. | |
| The Law | CARE - 11th September 2015 |
| Four out of five evangelicals think government policies to tackle extremism may make it harder for them to share their faith. Two thirds of respondents to the Alliance’s survey of more than 1,700 evangelicals felt that the current attempt to define values was a reflection of the country’s identity crisis and three quarters agreed that freedom of speech needs greater protection. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelical Alliance - 24th August 2015 |
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