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| A small church in Central Java, Indonesia, that has struggled for more than a decade to keep its worship facility, celebrated a re-opening in early December only to see it shut before Christmas, due to protests from hard-line Islamists. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now, March 2014 |
| Draft guidelines published by the Department of Health (DoH) state that doctors will no longer be required to see women who are considering an abortion, raising concerns that the proposals will further undermine protections built into the 1967 Abortion Act. They suggest that nurses may also carry out abortions by administering drugs used for the procedure as long as a doctor ‘decides upon, initiates and takes responsibility throughout the process’. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, March 2014 |
| A survey in mid-January showed that 90% of MPs are against lowering the age of consent, stating that it would send a wrong signal to those who sexually assault children. 79% of those surveyed also disagreed that lowering the age of consent ‘would simply reflect reality’, an argument touted by the UK’s Faculty of Public Health President, Professor John Ashton in late 2013. | |
| Evangelicals Now, March 2014 | |
| Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales have discussed whether to stop performing the legal part of wedding ceremonies because of gay marriage legislation, according to media reports. This may be necessary in order to protect Roman Catholic priests from legal action for refusing to perform same-sex weddings. Leading human rights lawyer Aidan O’Neill QC previously highlighted the way the Church of England’s gay marriage exemption is ‘eminently challengeable’ in Europe. This is because the Church has a legal obligation to marry anyone in their local parish. | |
| Social Issues | Protestant Truth, January-February 2014 |
| A new assisted suicide bill has been launched in Scotland, despite the previous attempt having been soundly defeated by MSPs. Margo Macdonald’s new Bill comes as a Europe-wide campaign against euthanasia begins in Brussels. In Brussels the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Europe has warned that in other countries where euthanasia has been legalised, people have been killed who were not terminally ill. | |
| Social Issues | Protestant Truth, January-February 2014 |
| Secularists have launched a campaign to end the Christian coronation oath, in a bid criticised as ‘deeply misjudged’. Speaking to the Sunday Times, a Church of England source warned that if the secularists’ bid is successful it would hasten the removal of Christianity from public life. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Protestant Truth, January-February 2014 |
| Christians in Syria are accusing al-Qaeda-backed Islamists of having carried out one of the worst atrocities of the war so far and killed more than 40 members of the minority Christian community during their occupation of the town of Sadad, north of Damascus. The Syrian government announced last week that its forces had regained control of this strategic town. | |
| Disasters/War | Protestant Truth, January-February 2014 |
| The best teachers do more than just convey information; they whet the appetite for learning, they develop the student’s capacity to understand, analyse, explore and discover other information. The well-taught student is not limited to the information their teacher has imparted to them. Good education is not really a curriculum matter but a teaching skill that relies heavily on the relationship the teacher can develop with the student. Usually the teachers we remember and love the most did more than impart information to us. They were the ones who opened the world to us, taking us to places and ideas, understanding and critical thinking that we did not know even existed prior to them taking an interest in us. | |
| Education | The Briefing, March April 2014 |
| A New York politician who says he worships the Flying Spaghetti Monster was sworn in as a council member for the town of Pomfret last month. He wore a colander on his head for the ceremony, as befits his status as a committed pastafarian. Pastafarians like Christopher Schaeffer claim that the only creed of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma. He told the local paper the stunt was a ‘statement about religious freedom’. | |
| Politics | Third Way, March 2014 |
| Students at Central Michigan University are learning about the undead this year, thanks to a religion course that’s exploring apocalyptic themes in the Bible and how they relate to popular culture. The course tutor Kelly Murphy says she always wanted to teach a course on apocalyptic literature, and she is a fan of the zombie TV show The Walking Dead. The class title is ‘From Revelation to The Walking Dead’. | |
| Education | Third Way, March 2014 |
| Three out of ten British children have next to no understanding of the Bible and their parents aren’t in a position to educate them. So revealed a survey released last month by the Bible Society, which was founded in 1804 to spread knowledge about the Scriptures. Results suggested that most boys and girls ages 8 to 15-years-old did not know that Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark or Jesus’ birth were found in the Bible. More than a third of the 800 children surveyed did not know that David and Goliath and the story of the Good Samaritan were Bible tales. More curiously, one in ten children believe that stories about King Midas or Icarus were in the Bible. Many of the parents who responded – the society commissioned YouGov to survey almost 6,000 adults – did see the Bible as a source of good values for their children. But almost half of them did not recognise the story of Noah’s Ark as coming from the Bible and many confused actual Bible stories with plotlines from modern books and films such as Harry Potter. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Third Way, March 2014 |
| Worldwide, women between the ages of 15 and 44 run a greater risk of being the victims of rape or abuse in the home than they do of contracting cancer or malaria, or having an accident. Evidence collected by the UN indicates that one in three girls in developing countries are likely to be married as a child bride, seven out of 10 women face physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner during their life time, 3 million girls are facing female genital mutilation and cutting, and a total of 603 million women live in countries where domestic abuse is not regarded as a crime. | |
| World Issues | Families First, January/February 2014 |
| Funding for research into using the internet to improve everyday devices is to be more than doubled as part of efforts to make the UK a world leader in digital technology, David Cameron said. The Prime Minister announced an extra £45 million to develop the so-called “internet of things” as he arrived in Germany for the CeBIT 2014 trade fair. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, March 10, 2014 |
| Nick Clegg intends to remain as Liberal Democrat leader until at least 2020 – whether or not the party is in power. His office released the statement as speculation about the Deputy Prime Minister’s future overshadowed his spring conference speech. Mr Clegg was forced to respond to speculation about his future following reports that senior MPs were positioning themselves as possible successors. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel, March 10, 2014 |
| The national minimum wage will increase by 19p an hour to £6.50. The new rates will be implemented in October and will benefit a million workers. Business Secretary Vince Cable said he had accepted a recommendation from the Low Pay Commission that the minimum wage should increase by three per cent. The rate for 18 to 20-year-olds will go up by 10p to £5.13 an hour, a two percent increase. The rate for those aged 16 and 17 will rise by 7p to £3.79, also a two percent rise. Apprentices will earn an extra 5p an hour, taking their wages to at least £2.73. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, March 13, 2014 |
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