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| Pressure from overseas governments and NGOs to drop the “Christian Nation” clause in Zambia’s constitution has drawn sharp protest from church leaders in the Central African country. The former Executive Director of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia, Bishop Paul Mususu, told the Times of Zambia last week that it was wrong for foreigners to dictate the terms of the constitution and promote a secular state that would support gay rights. “It is not proper for us to get rid of what we have cherished over the years. We shall be sinking so low if we allow things like homosexuality and pornography in the name of freedom of expression,” Bishop Mususu said. | |
| World Issues | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| Banks that abuse the social contact and put short-term greed above long-term social and economic stability should lose their licences, the Archbishop of Armagh told the opening session of the Church of Ireland’s General Synod last week. Meeting at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin on May 6, Dr Alan Harper called for stricter regulation and supervision of the financial industry and for a return to probity and morality and banking. He warned that Britain and Ireland’s high street banks had become “morally compromised by association with the culture of investment banking”. | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| Morality is natural not nurtured, a new scientific study in America has revealed. Psychologists at the Infant Cognition Centre of Yale University in Connecticut have published findings which show babies making moral judgments from six months old. | |
| Science | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| Two councils in separate parts of England are under fire for holding prayers as part of their meetings. Both the town of Bideford in North Devon and Wellington in Shropshire have been criticised for conducting prayers. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| Church officials have praised South African President Jacob Zuma for repeatedly testing for HIV and announcing his status, saying it indicated a new political willingness to address the Aids epidemic in South Africa. Zuma’s public disclosure on April 25 that he recently tested negative for HIV, the virus which causes Aids, “is very significant in this country where the stigma attached to Aids is so strong” said Dominican Fr Mike Deeb, director of the justice and peace department of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference. | |
| World Issues | The Universe, Sunday May 9, 2010 |
| Bishops need to be brought back to earth, suggested a new survey of the Church’s evangelicals, three-quarters of whom believe the consecration of women bishops would divide the Church. Nearly a third of respondents (32 per cent) did not think bishops were in touch with ordinary church life, and 60 per cent felt they should not be accommodated in palaces or large houses. | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 7, 2010 |
| The UK borrowing deficit will outstrip any other country in the EU this year, according to figures from the European Commission yesterday. The group predicts UK net borrowing will be 12 per cent of output in 2010 – a higher proportion than any other country and above Greece’s 9.3 per cent. The Commission cut predictions for UK borrowing, but it still sees the budget deficit in the next two years as higher than projected by the Treasury. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, Thursday, May 6, 2010 |
| An election victory for Iraq’s more secular parties backing Prime Minister-elect Ayad Allawi is not tempting Iraqi Christian refugees to return home, even as members of the Chaldean Catholic Church hierarchy continue to express confidence that Christians can live in peace in Iraq. “It’s very, very difficult to turn back to Iraq, impossible to turn back,” said Christian Toma Georgees from his apartment in Damascus, Syria. “Our problem is not with the Iraqi government. Our problem is with the Iraqi people, ignorant people who want to kill us, who want to kill all the Christians. Those people are ignorant, and they just want to drink our blood as Christians.” “If we talk about going back to Iraq, we’re talking about going to hell,” said Hanah Abdel Hahel Salumi, widow and mother of four in Damascus. | |
| World Issues | The Universe, Sunday May 2, 2010 |
| Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe has declared that British society would be ‘better’ if we all followed the Ten Commandments. Miss Widdecombe said, ‘What I’m saying is if today, with all the other advances – the modern technology and the medicine and all the great things that we’ve got – if today we tried to follow the Ten Commandments we would be a better society’. When she was asked if following the Ten Commandments would lead to religious intolerance, Miss Widdecombe eplied, ‘No, it doesn’t. I think they [other religions] are wrong. If you tell me you’re a socialist, I will think you wrong. That doesn’t mean I will prohibit you from proclaiming your socialism’. ‘And that’s what we’ve lost – we’ve lost the capacity to say, “you’re wrong”. I can’t say somebody’s wrong without being intolerant? Oh yes I can’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Precious Seed International, May 2010 |
| A runaway teenage girl who converted from Islam to Christianity has reached a court settlement that allows her to live away from her Muslim parents. Rifqa Bary, 17, will stay in a foster home under state custody in Columbus, America, until she turns 18 in August. Bary ran away in July, saying she feared her father Mohamed would harm or kill her for leaving Islam. She fled to the Florida home of married pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz, whom she had contacted on Facebook. After staying with them for two weeks, she was eventually moved into foster care. | |
| Religious Persecution | Precious Seed International, May 2010 |
| Christian B&B owners Mike and Suzanne Wilkinson, who wouldn’t give a double bed to a homosexual couple in March, have been deluged with hate mail, including a threat to burn down their home. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now, May 2010 |
| According to a poll published in March, 74% of the population of the UK believes it is wrong for bishops to have reserved places in the House of Lords. The findings came from the first major survey of public opinion with regard to the place of bishops in the House of Lords. | |
| Politics | Evangelicals Now, May 2010 |
| An aggressive secular agenda forced several major church denominations to withdraw from the Government’s advisory body on religion, The Times reported in March. The Religion and Belief Consultative Group appeared on the brink of disbanding, following what the Church of England called an impasse in meetings between secularists and religious believers. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now, May 2010 |
| The Government on April 7 bowed to pressure and withdrew its highly controversial home education and sex education plans for England. It is believed that the Conservative Party blocked the sex education plans. Both the Tories and Lib Dems were opposed to the home education proposals. Under the proposals, sex education was to become a statutory part of the national curriculum and control over the content of lessons was to be taken away from school governors and given to Whitehall officials. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now, May 2010 |
| Claims by the British National Party that it is the “guardian of Britain’s Christian heritage” have been stoutly dismissed as “nonsense” by a leading cleric in a multi-ethnic northern diocese. The swipe at the ultra-right wing BNP comes from Canon Sam Randall, Officer for Church in the World to Bishop of Bradford David James. | |
| Politics | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, April 30, 2010 |
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