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| More than 60 teenage Eritrean students caught with Bibles at a compulsory military training camp have been arrested and subjected to severe punishment during August. |
| Evangelicals Now 2003. |
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| A school solely for homosexual teenagers opened in september. |
| Evangelicals Now Oct 2003 |
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| Muslim authorities in Rome recently sacked the Egyptian imam of Rome's Grand Mosque,Abdel Sami, Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa, for praising Palestinian suicide bombers and calling for the annihilation of all enemies of Islam. |
| Evangelicals Now 2003 |
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| Canada's largest Protestant community passed a motion calling on the federal government to endorse same-sex marriage throughout the country. |
| Evangelicals Now Oct 2003 |
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| Two South Korean pastors and two lay-men, imprisoned in China because of their pastoral and humanitarian work among North Korean refugees, await court decisions on their fate |
| Evangelicals Now Oct 2003 |
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| Evangelical Gypsies now make up 50 or 60 per cent of the total gypsy population" says Pedro Zamora, Old Testament Professor at Spain's United Evangelical Seminary. |
| Christian Herald - 20 September 2003 |
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Observers in Britain have recalled that the 10 hottest years in recorded weather history have all been since 1990. Core samples from the ice cap show that at no period for 400,000 years has the temperature risen so far or so fast as in the past 150 years.
Our politicians and scientists warn of worse perils to come; people take passing notice but then, once the heat becomes bearable again, they get on with their daily lives. |
| Third Way - October 2003 |
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| Cameron Stout - winner of Big Brother 2003 - told 25,000 people at Festival Manchester "God has been through it with me...and he'll continue to be with me, whatever comes my way." |
| The War Cry - 20 September 2003 |
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| Statistics suggest that over 50% of American High School students remain virgins. |
| Youthwork - October 2003 |
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As of 1st October 2003, the minimum wage for those aged 18-21 is £3.80 per hour. For those over 21 the rate is £4.50 per hour.
16-17 year olds and apprentices are still exempt from the minimum wage. However, amid evidence of very low pay among 16-17s, the Low Pay Commission propose that a new rate be established for that age band in October 2004.
At present 16-17s can be paid any wage that they agree to work for, however low it may be. |
| Youthwork - October 2003 |
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A group of 15 to 24 year olds were questioned at the start of National Refugee Week this summer, producing results that might traditionally have been expected of an older representative sample. Most controversially, 58% felt that asylum seekers make no positive contribution to this country.
Only 51% of interviewees believed that asylum seekers deserved equal human rights to British citizens, and 48% agreed with the statement 'few asylum seekers in this country are genuine.' However 56% believed that Britain should offer a safe haven to 'genuine' cases fleeing war or persecution. |
| Youthwork - October 2003 |
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'A greater number of young people are browsing the Internet without adult supevision, according to new findings. The Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU) claims that there has been a sharp rise in the percentages of 12-15 year olds that admit to 'never being supervised' when web surfing.
In a SHEU survey in 20, 46% of 14-15 year old females said they always surfed unsupervised. In the same survey two years later, that figure had risen to 68% - a trend more or less replicated across both sexes and in the wider 12-15 age band. In the 2000 statistics, 71% of 14-15 year old males reported that they were never supervised. |
| Youthwork - October 2003 |
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| A new report out shows that unless radical improvements in global healthcare are made in the next 12 years, an estimated 80 million children and mothers will die unnecessarily. The Grow Up Free From Poverty coalition, including Tearfund, Cafod and Save the Children, reveals that if child mortality rates continue at the same pace, the lives of millions of children will be lost every year from preventable illnesses like diarrhoea and pneumonia. |
| Christian Herald - 27 September 2003 |
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| Over 2,000 young people were interviewed in the compilation of the statistics, and more than half of these were interviewed in a school, and not a church context. Approximately half of 10-year-olds admitted to regular church attendance, compared with around 30% of twelve-year-olds. Similarly, whilst 70% of ten-year-olds said they attended church at least occasionally, this figure fell to under 50% where twelve-year-olds were concerned. |
| Youthwork - May 2003 |
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| Sk8er chick Avril Lavigne's Christian roots have been exposed in rock tome Rolling Stone. An article in a recent issue of the magazine reveals that the 'Complicated' singer comes from a family of devout Christians, and that her first singing appearances were in church. She told a reporter: 'My Mom wouldn't even let me sing (the country song) 'Strawberry Wine', because it said 'wine' in it. |
| Youthwork - May 2003 |
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