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| New data form the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in August revealed a substantial increase in the number of civil partnership dissolutions. In 2009, 351 civil partnerships were dissolved almost double those in 2008. The number of civil partnerships peaked at 4,869 in the first quarter of 2006, as longstanding same-sex couples took advantage of the change in the law, but there has been a slowdown since. Now November 2010 | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now November 2010 |
| Violent images of gun crime on TV and in video games are leading people “to want to do it for real”, MPs have been told. The Countryside Alliance, the Gun Trade Association and British Association of Shooting and Conservation (Basc) – three groups which typically back shooting all said they believed images of shooting and violence on TV and in games influenced the way people used weapons. It came after scientists said last week watching violent films desensitized teenage boys. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel October 27, 2010 |
| Polish Church leaders have defended the right of their country’s Catholic schools to refuse employment to homosexual teachers, after human rights groups called for the resignation of a government minister who spoke out on the issue. “We must defend someone’s right to declare their views and convictions publicly,” Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz of Warsaw told the Gazeta Wyborcza daily. Under both state and Church law, Catholic schools must clearly state the norms under which they take on teachers. It’s a long time since I encountered such an attack on a state official because of what they’ve said.” The archbishop was reacting to criticism of Elzbieta Radziszewska, government plenipotentiary for equal rights, after she confirmed that Catholic schools were entitled to dismiss gay or lesbian staff. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe October 10, 2010 |
| More than half of Britons believe helping others in the UK and abroad is important to achieving happiness, a new poll commissioned by CAFOD has revealed. On the eve of a new report into human well-being, the survey found that 75 per cent of those asked believe helping people in the UK is key to happiness, with 54 per cent citing helping those abroad as of importance. Nearly 90 per cent of people said that living in a world where the environment is protected and where poverty does not exist is important to them. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe - October 17, 2010 |
| Public bodies like the police and schools will not be forced to meet centralized targets for homosexual, transsexual and religious equality, the government said in August. Instead, public sector organizations will be allowed to decide how best to implement the new equality duty rushed into law by the previous government. The Government Equalities Office said that the move marks an end to top down targets and box ticking bureaucracy, making public bodies accountable to the taxpayer rather than faceless Government officials. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now October 2010 |
| The UK is facing a dramatic rise in pensioners as a record number of people turn 65 in 2012, the Government said yesterday. More than 800,000 people will celebrate their 65th birthday during the year, 150,000 more in 2011, according to the Department for Work and Pensions. The massive increase, which stems back to the post-war spike in births in 1946 and 1947, will lead to a significant rise in Government spending on the state pension. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel September 22, 2010 |
| Traditional neighbourhood values of shared interests amid like-minded people could be in decline, according to new research from Legal &General. The Next Door strangers report found that more than one quarter (27%) of us say we “do not trust” our neighbours and most of us feel we neither have a lot in common with (59%) nor share the same values (44%) as them. The report also found that the majority of British residents don’t know their neighbours’ names and wouldn’t recognize them if they passed them in the street (70%) | |
| Social Issues | Inspire Issue 53 |
| The College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) has urged the Scottish Parliament to reject a Bill permitting assisted suicide and euthanasia. In a Sept 27 statement, the primus of the SEC, Bishop David Chillingworth of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane, stated the “view of the Bishops is that they would be reluctant to see moves to enshrine the right to die through assisted suicide formally enshrined in legislation.” | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England Newspaper –October-1-2010 |
| Accusations of homophobia and duplicity are being leveled at the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams following an interview last week where he was asked to clarify his position on gay people in the church. Speaking to the Times Magazine, Dr Williams acknowledged his earlier questioning of traditional interpretations of Biblical teaching on sex, and reaffirmed his official position that gay bishops are permissible provided they are celibate This has been dismissed as wrong and ridiculous by liberals within and without the Church and criticized for its lack of clarity by traditionalists. | |
| Social Issues | The Church of England Newspaper – October-1-2010 |
| Britain’s record on family breakdown is the worst in Europe. Three-quarters of the households on social housing estates in the UK are now headed by lone parents, usually mothers. According to a speech given by Iain Duncan Smith, founder of the Centre for Social Justice, in the UK 15% of babies are currently born without a resident biological father and approximately 7% are born with no registered father on their birth certificate. The consequences for children are toxic. Children who grow up without fathers, in a lone parent environment, are 75% more likely to fail at school, 70% more likely to be drug addicts, 50% more likely to develop an alcohol problem, 40% more likely to have serious problems with debt, and 35% more likely to experience unemployment and a need for social welfare. 70% of young offenders come from fatherless homes. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity, October 2010 |
| Pope Benedict has warned of moral and ethical erosion in his native Germany, particularly on right-to-life and marriage issues. The Pope linked the weakening of traditional moral principles to a new concept of God – an impersonal and invisible God who has little impact on society. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe, Sunday September 19, 2010 |
| The Archbishop of York has implored the Government to reconsider its decision to opt out of an EU directive intended to clamp down on the “evils” of international sex trafficking. Dr John Sentamu, a longstanding campaigner on the issue, made the appeal last weekend, starkly describing the sexual exploitation of victims as “modern day slavery”. The primate, pointing out that more than half of the 30,000 women involved in off-street prostitution in the UK are EU migrants, said: “We need a united front against the traffickers, pimps and gangsters – and speak out for those who don’t have a voice.” | |
| Social Issues | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| At the millennium, 192 UN member states and around 23 international organisations agreed to eight international development goals to be achieved by the year 2015. Goals included fighting extreme poverty, fighting epidemics such as Aids and reducing child poverty. While some countries have made progress, others are far from achieving any of the aims. | |
| Social Issues | The Church Of England Newspaper - September 3rd 2010 |
| Comprehensive research into neighbours in the UK, launched in June, revealed that the UK is less than half as neighbourly now as it was in 1982, with 49% of Britons saying they know more about their favourite celebrity than about their neighbour. | |
| Social Issues | ‘Evangelicals Now’ – August, 2010 |
| The United Kingdom has the highest level of drug addiction in Europe. The number of couples getting married has reached its lowest point since 1862. Schools send home 2,200 children a day for disruptive behavior in the classroom. Violent crime by women has reached an all-time high, with an average of 250 women being arrested each day. 58% of 14-17-year-olds have viewed pornography, and 40% are sexually active. Over 41,000 women under eighteen fall pregnant each year, and 49% of them have abortions. Since abortion was legalized I the UK just over 40 years, seven million children have been aborted. Everywhere you look there are signs of decay. | |
| Social Issues | Newfrontiers Magazine – July-September 2010 |
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