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| Health Protection Agency figures show that there has been a 3.6 per cent rise in MRSA throughout the NHS in the past year, with blood infections rising from 7,384 to 7,647. As many as 100,000 patients get some form of infection in hospital each year in the UK, and 5,000 patients die from it. Around 50 per cent of such infections are acquired during surgery and many more in the post-operative period. | |
| Health | The Baptist Times - 5th August 2004 |
| A survey carried out at the Christian Resources Exhibition found that out of the 200 people surveyed, 30 per cent spent ten hours or more reading Christian books each month, with secular book reading accounting for just 18 per cent of readers spending over ten hours of their time in this way. 41 per cent watched between 20-40 hours of TV each month, with only around half that figure - 21 per cent spending the same amount of time reading the Bible. | |
| Social Issues | Direction - September 2004 |
| 900 million farmers in poor countries live on less than a dollar a day, yet rich countries spend $900 million a day sudsidising their own agriculture. $2,000 is spent on health per person in America, yet only $2 per person in Ethiopia. | |
| Money | Life and Work - September 2004 |
| Christian Research revealed earlier this year that the number of men volunteering for overseas mission has dropped by seven per cent since 2001 to 42 per cent of all volunteers today. Men only make up 39 per cent of those volunteering for mission for up to two years, and the same is true for summer mission. It appears that women are more willing to give their time and expertise to God in this way. | |
| Odd Facts | The Baptist Times - 19th August 2004 |
| I am absolutely confident that the mechanisms for judging my fallibility are infallible. (Prime Minister Tony Blair) | |
| What famous people say | Third Way - September 2004 |
| I did something for the worst possible reason - just because I could. I think that's just about the most morally indefensible reason that anybody could have for doing anything. (Bill Clinton) | |
| What famous people say | Third Way - September 2004 |
| As part of the 2001 Census people were asked to indicate their religious affiliation. The question was voluntary, but only 8 per cent failed to answer. 72 per cent designated themselves Christians. 15 per cent had no religion. 3 per cent were Muslims, 1 per cent Hindus, 0.5 per cent Jews and 0.5 per cent Sikhs. Buddhists and other religions fell below that figure. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Protestant Truth - September / October 2004 |
| A Guardian / ICM poll has revealed that voters rank Iraq last out of a list of ten issues that they will consider when voting at the next election. Only 12 per cent say it will be an important issue for them when they decide who to support. | |
| Politics | The War Cry - 28th August 2004 |
| Greenbelt Festival sales figures are up 16 per cent on last year and close to the sell-out figure of 17,500. | |
| Odd Facts | Youthwork - September 2004 |
| Since the release of the Matrix there has been an ever growing body of discussion especially on the web, of ways that people are experiencing God and hearing God speak through film. These people are experiencing a Divine Encounter through the medium of popular culture. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Youthwork - September 2004 |
| S teens spend 164,000,000,000 dollars a year online buying clothes, music, movie tickets and books. An average teenager watches 4 hours of television per day. That adds up to 2 complete months every year and 9 complete years by the time we retire. By the age of 16 the average youth has witnessed 18,000 murders on TV. 46 per cent of men and 38 per cent of women log on to the internet every day. More than 250,000,000 Harry Potter books have now been sold. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - September 2004 |
| 'We are nurtured by the amniotic fluid of popular culture.' Tom Beaudoin | |
| What famous people say | Youthwork - September 2004 |
| 44 per cent of all violent crime is related to the use and abuse of alcohol. Seventy per cent of weekend night admissions to casualty can also be blamed on alcohol. The use and abuse of alcohol costs Britain around £20 billion a year through crime, injuries and lost work productivity. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork - September 2004 |
| A National Opinion Poll (NOP) survey in October 2003 revealed that 43 per cent of ALL 14 to 19s eventually want to run their own business. Less than one in ten young people who did want to start their own business would do so to become a millionaire. Instead they were more interested in the challenge (28 per cent), the desire to do something enjoyable (26 per cent), and being in control (20 per cent). Seven out of ten interviewed in the same survey believed that the skills required to be an entrepreneur can be learned, with less than one in five believing the opposite. National business education charity Young Enterprise was founded in 1963 and now runs a range of programmes for more than 165,000 young people each year. Over 40,000 students aged 15-19 set up their own small businesses last year as part of the Young Enterprise company initiative. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - September 2004 |
| A survey of 7,000 people, conducted by the sponsorship Research International in six countries found that the Shell Oil logo, the Mercedes badge and the five Olympic rings were recognised far more widely than the Christian Cross. McDonald's golden arches and Shell's glowing yellow shell were recognised by 84 per cent of those questioned, while a mere 54 per cent could identify the Cross. | |
| Odd Facts | Youthwork - September 2004 |
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