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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



Charities fear that having to pay for their regulator would be a "damaging burden" on resources, according to a survey conducted by the Directory of Social Change.
Social Issues	Civil Society News - 26th August 2015



Public trust in charities is at its lowest since 2007 with just half of people saying that they trust not-for-profit groups, according to a survey by the research consultancy nfpSynergy.
Social Issues	Civil Society News - 26th August 2015



The government donates £2.7 billion a year in aid to countries where Christians are suffering some of the most extreme religious persecution in the world. Analysis of official aid statistics shows that four out of five countries listed on a global human rights watch list, receive money from the overseas development budget or through other official agencies.
Social Issues	Bible Society - 14th August 2015



Fewer than one in three weddings were celebrated in church in 2012, compared to more than half in the 1980s according to research conducted by Oxford University. This change is attributed to the rise in cohabitation, the decline in allegiance to churches, and the popularity of weddings staged in stately homes or football grounds, according to the study.
Social Issues	Bible Society - 24th July 2015



The average amount given to charity is higher than in previous years, while volunteering levels have seen little change, according to a Cabinet Office survey published yesterday.
Social Issues	Civil Society News - 22nd July 2016



The ComRes poll, conducted on 10–12 July for social policy charity CARE, revealed that 74 per cent of the public believe the UK Government should require sites that provide porn to the UK – regardless of whether or not they are actually located in the UK – to put in place age verification checks. Only 13 per cent disagreed. Among women, support was 84 per cent. A further 73 per cent also said that age verification should apply to 18 as well as R18 rated films streamed online. This would ensure under 18s are protected from watching 18 rated films like 50 Shades of Grey and are consequently afforded protections online that parallel those available offline. Again only 13 per cent disagreed.
Social Issues	CARE - 17th July 2015



A formal complaint has, in April, been lodged with the General Medical Council (GMC) against the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) and three leading psychiatrists over the College’s public statements about homosexuality. The complainants accuse the Royal College of neglecting its public duty by making misleading statements about same-sex attraction at the time of the same sex marriage Bill whereby it claimed that sexual orientation was biological and fixed at birth and then, quietly, a year later, stating that sexual orientation was neither inborn nor unchangeable. The complaints highlight the influence of the Royal College on public discourse and argue that its long delay and failure to publicise the eventual correction widely, constitute negligence.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now – June 2015



Researchers in Hawaii are looking for girls to participate in second trimester abortions as part of the research on whether oxytocin can reduce bleeding in mothers during and after abortion, it was reported in April. The girls can be as young as 14 for the study, where the unborn baby is 18 to 24 weeks gestation. Second trimester abortions are dangerous for women in many cases. The abortion procedure is two days and involves stopping the baby’s heart and then delivering or dismembering the baby.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now – June 2015



Today the Life Legal Defense Foundations was finally able to reveal its support of a two-year undercover operation proving that Planned Parenthood routinely peddles the organs and tissues of babies aborted in its self-proclaimed "health centers." This systematic profiteering is known to and approved by officers at the abortion giant's highest levels of authority. Planned Parenthood will even alter the abortion method in order to guarantee the tissues most sought after -- regardless of what might be best for the aborting mother.
Social Issues	Life Legal Defense Foundation - 14th July 2015



Britain's National Sperm Bank which opened in October 2014 and received £77,000 in government funding, has so far secured only five donors, it was revealed this week. Testing procedures mean that only one in twenty potential donors are ultimately accepted.
Social Issues	Christian Concern - 4th July 2015



In 2014 Saudi Arabia was ranked 130 out of 142 counties in the annual report on gender equality published by the World Economic Forum. Women have historically been banned from voting...Women must be accompanied in public by a male chaperone, usually a relative, known as a ‘mahram’...In February 2015 a controversial law was passed which forces female television presenters to adhere to modest Islamic dress code. Participation in sports is limited and a woman cannot try on clothes in shop changing rooms. There are also restrictions preventing women from entering a cemetery, reading an uncensored fashion magazine, or buying a Barbie doll.
Social Issues	Christianity – June 2015



A new report from a coalition of British churches, including the Church of Scotland, called for an urgent rethink of the benefit sanctions system in March. Benefit sanctions is the suspension of benefits payments to people who fail to follow detailed instructions related to finding work. The report, ‘Time to Rethink Benefit Sanctions’, reveals that over 100,000 children in the UK – 6,500 in Scotland – were affected by sanctions in 2013-14. It also states that over 100 people who have been assessed as unfit for work due to mental health problems are sanctioned every day; and that the number of weeks sanctions imposed has gone up from 1-1.5 million a year between 2000 and 2010 to almost 7 million weeks in the year 2013-14.
Social Issues	Life and Work – May 2015



The Daily Mail has claimed that fundraisers targeted individuals with dementia and used a loophole to try to dodge Telephone Preference Service rules after an investigation into agency GoGen.
Social Issues	Civil Society News - 7th July 2015



The Church of England has sold its £1.6m stake in Soco which has been searching for oil in Africa's oldest national park, saying it has failed to address allegations of bribery, corruption and human rights abuses. This is only the third time in recent years that the Church has disinvested from a company on ethical grounds, and it did so after 20 months of sustained engagement with Soco.
Social Issues	Bible Society - 3rd July 2015

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