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| Figures released by ChildLine showed a 42% increase from last year in the number of children counselled by the charity about bullying. The rise is the biggest annual increase in the charity's 18 year history. More than 31,000 children and young people spoke to a ChildLine counsellor about bullying last year, a figure increased from just over 21,000 during the previous 12 months. | |
| Social Issues | The Baptist Times - 2nd September 2004 |
| Out of 200 Christians 30 per cent spent ten hours or more reading Chrisitian books each month with secular book reading accounting for just 18 per cent. TV is more addictive for Christians with 41 per cent watching between 20-40 hours each month, according to a survey carried out at the Christian Resources Exhibition. | |
| Social Issues | Direction - September 2004 |
| There are 250,000 sweat glands on the feet. Your feet can swell by up to one shoe size when hot. Nylon tights don't absorb sweat at all. People who go barefoot or wear open sandals most of the time don't suffer from smelly feet or athletes foot. Hot swollen feet make your legs ache and feel tired. Seven out of ten people don't treat their athlete's foot properly. You don't have to be an athlete to get athlete's foot. | |
| Health | The War Cry - 21st August 2004 |
| According to a recent survey where you live makes a difference to your self esteem. The highest being found in East Anglia (48 per cent) and the lowest (32 per cent) in the West Midlands. The survey also asked people what boosted their individual self esteem. 65 per cent answered self respect, 52 per cent answered confidence, 29 per cent answered independence, 27 per cent answered dignity and 17 per cent answered contentment. | |
| Odd Facts | The War Cry - 21st August 2004 |
| Ninety eight per cent of the 10.7 million Greeks are Orthodox. The protestants number 15,000 - 20,000, or no more than 0.19 per cent of the population. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Charisma - August 2004 |
| An NOP poll found that 71 per cent of 1,912 adults said that they would not be bothered at all, or not very much if larger shops closed on Sundays. | |
| Odd Facts | The Church of England Newspaper - 27th August 2004 |
| Belgium's health minister has infuriated prolifers by saying every girl under 14 who finds herself pregnant should have an abortion. Statistics showed a four per cent rise in adolescent pregnancies between 2002 and 2003 in Belgium. | |
| Young People | The Universe - 29th August 2004 |
| A study in 1966 showed that 60 per cent of scientists either disbelieved or were doubtful about God, and the percentage goes up if you look at the most elite scientist. | |
| Science | Evangelicals now - September 2004 |
| Polands population is more that 96 per cent Catholic. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals now - September 2004 |
| A Mencap survey has found that 85 per cent of carers back the idea of a minimum entitlement to short breaks. | |
| Odd Facts | Third Sector - 16th June 2004 |
| The Terrence Higgins Trust is warning that if the NHS does not introduce urgent measures to tackle the growing crisis, HIV care alone will cost an extra £300m by 2010, and an additional £6bn for lifetime HIV treatment. Diagnosis of HIV increased by 200 per cent between 1996 and 2002, and infection rates of all other sexually transmitted diseases have grown too. | |
| Health | Third Sector - 16th June 2004 |
| Some 84 per cent of young people resent being asked for money by street fundraisers, according to a Giving National website poll. | |
| Young People | Third Sector - 16th June 2004 |
| Government figures released earlier this year revealed that binge drinking took some 3,300 11-15 year olds into English hospitals, that's about nine children each day. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Prophecy Today - Septmeber/October 2004 |
| A survey of 2,357 Jewish parents found that some did not always even have two pieces of bread and some sort of filling at home to give their children for the morning break in school. | |
| Social Issues | Prophecy Today - Septmeber/October 2004 |
| Kenya- There are 370,000 Maasai in Kenya Life expectancy in Kenya is 48 years for men and 50 for women | |
| Environment | Tear Times - Autumn 2004 |
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