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| A Christian Union in a London-based university had its mission week cancelled this month by the Student’s Union. Royal Holloway’s Student’s Union (SU) received a complaint that a visiting speaker to the Christian Union (CU) said that the recent disaster in Haiti was because of its own sin, prompting the dramatic action. After several attempts by the CU to contact the SU a meeting was finally arranged. Here it was clarified that the speaker had been misquoted. The SU then admitted that it had acted ‘hastily’ and should have contacted the CU about the allegations. The CU was informed it could hold such meetings in the future. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church Of England Newspaper - March 12th 2010 |
| A report from the Stockholm International Peace Institute found that the volume of arms sales has gone up by 22 per cent over the past five years, with a 150 per cent rise in South America. | |
| World Issues | The Universe, Sunday March 21, 2010 |
| Years of official denial have ended and the result of mass immigration has been revealed – it is projected to push the population of the country from its present 62 million to 70 million by 2029, half of the increase expected to come from immigrant populations. | |
| Social Issues | The Covenant Nations, 2010 |
| The Government has vowed to fight any new attempt to scrap Britain’s opt-out from Europe’s maximum 48-hour working week. The pledge came as the European Commission launched a review of working time rules almost a year after the last effort to curb the opt-out was defeated in Brussels. The Commission said its opening of consultations with workers’ and employers’ representatives was just a first step and there were no plans “at this stage” for plans to amend current arrangements. | |
| Work/Employment | The Sentinel, Thursday March 25, 2010 |
| Government departments face the prospect of seeing their budgets slashed by a quarter following the general election, a leading financial think-tank warned last night, The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that defence, transport, housing and universities could all face deep cuts if Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Budget calculations are to add up. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, Friday March 26, 2010 |
| A pensions group has called on the Government to reform the state pension to lift two million people out of means-testing. The National Association of Pension Funds called for the basic state pension and the state second pension to be combined into a new Foundation Pension. It said this would be worth £8,000 a year. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, Monday March 29, 2010 |
| More than two-thirds of the cost of British regulation is laid at the EU’s door in a new report laid out today. The total domestic and European regulatory burden on the national economy has been £176 billion since 1998. The amount is roughly the same as the country’s budget deficit, and 72 per cent of it – £124 billion – results from EU-generated legislation, says the report. This means that EU regulation in the past 11 years has cost every UK household an average of £4,912, the Open Europe report says. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, Tuesday March 30, 2010 |
| The new parliamentary expenses watchdog was last night under fire after ruling MPs should be allowed to carry on employing family members at the taxpayers’ expense. Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, insisted spouses and other family members provided “good value for money”. The new one-employee limit, which will be introduced once the new Parliament is installed, will cover cohabitees and financial partners as well as spouses and blood relatives. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel, Tuesday March 30, 2010 |
| Two recent surveys have highlighted the potential importance of the religious vote at the next general election. A poll released by the think-tank Theos found that 32 per cent of those polled believe religious freedoms have been restricted in the UK over the past ten years, while 59 per cent disagreed. Another survey by the Evangelical Alliance showed 81 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds polled at the Soul Survivor Momentum event plan to vote, more than double the percentage of people in that age range who actually voted in the 2005 election. | |
| Politics | Salvationist, 6 March 2010 |
| MPs say homeopathic medicine should no longer be funded on the NHS. There is no evidence that the drugs are and more effective than placebo – the same as taking a sugar or dummy pill and believing it works, according to the Commons Science and Technology Committee. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, Tuesday February 23, 2010 |
| The latest data collected on UK youth homelessness (centrepoint.org.uk) revealed that in the last three years across England and Wales, at least 75,000 young people remain at risk of homelessness every year, ranging from rough sleeping to sofa surfing. The reasons for homelessness are wide and varied but primarily revolve around the breakdown in the family home. It’s reported that 45% of all homeless young people have experienced violence in the family home. | |
| Family | Youthwork, April 2010 |
| The majority of young people only want to be famous, rather than embarking on a traditional career, according to a recent survey. In a study of over 1,000 16-year-olds, 54% responded to the question ‘what would you like to be when you’re older’ with the answer ‘famous’. 15% said they would like a career in medicine, 13% a job in the media, and 9% were aiming for a legal career. However, despite the dominance of the fame dream, 68% of the starry-eyed respondents claimed they didn’t know how to become a celebrity, and 21% said they would try to become famous through a reality TV show such as Britain’s Got Talent. Of those who hoped for a life in the public eye, only 19% felt they were talented enough to deserve fame. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, April 2010 |
| Children are being increasingly exposed to sexual imagery and their parents have limited opportunities to stop it, a report for the Home Office warns. | |
| Family | Youthwork, April 2010 |
| Groups of Anglicans entering into communion with the Catholic Church will not be absorbed the way “a teaspoon of sugar would be lost in a gallon of coffee”, said Cardinal William Levada, prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. Instead, Anglicans will provide a distinct sound within the Church, the way the different instruments in an orchestra blend in a symphony, said the cardinal. | |
| Church | The Universe, Sunday March 14, 2010 |
| The Government has announced a new £1 million funding scheme to enable faith groups to increase their influence with local councils. Groups will be able to bid for a share of the Faith Leadership in Government Fund, which is designed to ‘help them develop a bigger voice and strengthen their capacity to challenge and engage government’. | |
| Politics | Salvationist, 3 April 2010 |
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