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| 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 |
| Persecution of Christians in China reached its highest level in more than a decade last year, as the government cracked down on church growth perceived as a threat to Communist Party power. Texas-based China Aid Association (CAA) reported 572 cases of religious – mainly Christian – persecution last year, a 300% increase over the previous year’s 143 cases. The number of people affected in those cases jumped from 7,424 to 17,884 people. More than 1,592 were Church leaders, compared with 800 the previous year. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now – June 2015 |
| Natalie Bennett said in May that the Green Party is ‘open’ to considering the recognition of polyamorous relationships. She told a man describing himself as in a ‘stable relationship’ with two other men: ‘At present, we do not have a policy on civil partnerships involving more than two people…[but] we have led the way on many issues related to the liberalisation of legal status in adult consenting relationships, and we are open to further conversation and consultation.’ | |
| The Law | Evangelicals Now – June 2015 |
| A High Court judge in May granted permission for a Judicial Review of the liberalisation of the prosecution policy in relation to the law on assisted suicide. An October amendment to the policy made the prosecution of healthcare professionals in assisted suicide cases less likely. Granting permission, Lord Justice Bean said that the granting of this review said nothing about the strength of the claim, expect that it was not frivolous. | |
| The Law | Evangelicals Now – June 2015 |
| A physically healthy, 24-year-old Belgian woman is set to be killed this summer after concluding, "I just never wanted to live. It is not for me.” Three doctors have now agreed that the woman, identified only as Laura, should be allowed to die because of 'psychological pain', paving the way for to be killed bylethal injection under Belgium's controversial euthanasia law. She says that she hates the thought of the pain that her death will cause to those who love her. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 27th June 2015 |
| Children under the age of 12 should be able to access assisted suicide, doctors in the Netherlands have said. Under the country's current laws, those aged between 12 and 16 can be helped to kill themselves if they are able to express their will, have parental permission, are terminally ill and suffering unbearably. But the Dutch Paediatricians Association says that the current age limit should be scrapped. Neighbouring Belgium already allows euthanasia for children of all ages. | |
| Young People | Christian Concern - 27th June 2015 |
| Open Doors has launched its annual World Watch List, highlighting the toughest 50 countries to be a Christian...In Syria, 40 per cent of the Christian population has fled the country while in Nigeria, Boko Haram militants have increased attacks on Christian communities. In Iraq, the ultra-violent ‘Islamic State’ has destroyed long established Christian communities. Then there is North Korea - number one on the list for the 13th consecutive year; purges have seen tens of thousands of people arrested, tortured and killed. An emerging trend is the sharp rise in persecution in sub-Saharan Africa. | |
| Religious Persecution | Youthwork - March 2015 |
| More than two thirds of Church of Scotland Presbyteries have backed the measure allowing the ordination of people in same sex relationships. The final results, released in January, showed that 32 out of 45 Presbyteries voted in favour of the Overture (Act of the General Assembly) which would permit a Kirk Session to allow ministers and deacons who are in a civil partnerships to apply for a vacant charge. | |
| Church | Life And Work - March 2015 |
| Christian magistrate Richard Page, who has sat as a Justice of the Peace in Kent for 15 years, has been told that he must undergo `equality training' before returning to work after he blocked the adoption of a chid by a same sex couple. His religious beliefs about family life were deemed discriminatory. | |
| Work/Employment | Christianity - March 2015 |
| Ground breaking research is taking place at north Staffordshire’s main hospital to try to find a way of diagnosing lung cancer quickly - by analysing patients’ breath. The research, if successful, could lead to the invention of a simple test, which would allow for a far earlier diagnosis of lung cancer - automatically improving prognosis. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 4th February 2015 |
| The UK’s economy grew by 2.6% last year the fastest pace since 2007 and up from 1.7% in 2013. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - 28th January 2015 |
| Today, the situation in Karamoja is desperate. Six out of 10 people lack access to clean water; every month half of the children suffer from diarrhoea, the third biggest killer of children under five years old. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire - March 2015 |
| Under new licensing rules, girls under the age of 16 – i.e. below the age of consent – will be able to obtain the morning after pill from pharmacies across the UK for the first time. A girl hoping to buy the pill will be asked whether she is willing to tell her parents that she has had unprotected sex, or if not, whether she is willing for somebody else to tell them. The pharmacist then makes a determination as to whether the girl is able to comprehend the consequences of her decision. | |
| Young People | CARE Impact Direct - 19th June 2015 |
| New research by Children and Young People Now has found a 50% increase in children seeking help as a result of child sexual exploitation in the past year. | |
| Crime | Christian Concern - 6th June 2015 |
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