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| The Pope noted that agriculture in Afghanistan and some Latin American countries was linked to the production of narcotics and called for a “rechannelling” of such activities. He urged the international community not to resign itself to the drug trade and the grave moral and social problems it brings. | |
| World Issues | The Universe – 17th January 2010 |
| A child is instinctively joyful. Children laugh 300 times a day, adults only 40 times a day (some less). | |
| Odd Facts | Families First – January/February 2010 |
| Gordon Brown will launch a £100 billion programme to build thousands of offshore wind turbines in a bid to meet the UK’s renewable energy targets. The prime minister is expected to award a raft of development contracts to build a new generation of offshore wind farms, mainly in the North Sea. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel – 4th January 2010 |
| Poker Face, by Lady Gaga, was the biggest-selling song of 2009, selling more than 880,000 copies according to the Official Charts Company. I Dreamed a Dream, by Susan Boyle, was the best-selling album, shifting 1.5 million copies | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 4th January 2010 |
| Simon Cowell is more famous than God, according to a survey of under-10s. The X Factor judge topped the poll after more than 1,000 children were asked who was the most famous person in the world. The queen came in second with God in third place. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel – 21st December 2009 |
| The Turkish assassin who shot Pope John Paul II said he plans to make a pilgrimage to the late Pope’s Vatican graveside after his final release from prison on January 18. Italy’s Corriere della Sera daily said “friends and confidants” of Mehmet Ali Agca had disclosed that he planned to move abroad and write the “whole truth” in an autobiography, adding that he had been offered $2 million by a US television channel in one of dozens of interview requests. | |
| World Issues | The Universe – 20th December 2009 |
| Christians in employment in the UK will no longer be able to act according to their consciences – after a landmark Employment Appeal Tribunal case declared at the end of November that the rights of homosexual couples trump those of people of faith and conscience. Gary McFarlane, a 48-year-old solicitor and part-time relationship counselor with relate (Avon), was dismissed by the charity for failing to give an unequivocal commitment to help same-sex couples improve their sex lives. Mr. McFarlane claimed unfair dismissal and discrimination. | |
| Work/Employment | Evangelicals – January 2010 |
| The leaders of the three main parties have agreed to terms for a series of televised debates during the next general election campaign. The broadcasters BBC, ITV and Sky said under the terms of the deals they would each be hosting one debate during the campaign. The programmes, lasting between 85 and 90 minutes, will be filmed in front of a selected studio audience. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 22nd December 2009 |
| The sharp decline in Britons identifying with religious groups is being led by the Church of England, new research reveals, but the voice of the Church of England remains disproportionately influential. Over the last quarter of a century the number of British people describing themselves as Christians has dropped from 66 per cent to 50 per cent, according to new research from the National Centre for Social Research (Natcen). Professor David Voas, who analysed the British Social Attitudes Survey data, said a conservative estimate would see the same drop again the next 25 years, with only a third of the population then identifying themselves as Christian. | |
| Church | The Church of England – 18th December 2009 |
| Robbie Williams has been declared the most written-about male celebrity of the past 10 years in a column-inch countdown of British national newspapers. Over the last 10 years, a total of 27,976 articles have been written in national newspapers about the Tunstall-born singer-songwriter. With a high profile marriage and divorce, adoption bids and one of the most successful careers around, Madonna has accrued 45,633 mentions over the decade. Michael Jackson, whose death in June sent shockwaves around the world, was the best- documented star of 2009 in the survey. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - 22nd December 2009 |
| Research from the NSPCC and the University of Bristol has found that one in three teenage girls suffer from some form of sexual abuse in their relationships with boyfriends, while a quarter suffer physical violence such as being slapped, punched of beaten. One in six have felt pressured to have intercourse, while one in 16 have been raped. Around 90 per cent of 13 – to 17-year-olds of both sexes have been in intimate relationships, and girls who are in relationships with older boyfriends are more at risk of abuse, with three-quarters of them reporting that they have been victims. It’s not just girls who are being abused. Some boys report having been pressurised into sexual activity – around one in 17 – and around 20 per cent have suffered physical violence from their girlfriends. However, it would seem that girls are more likely to keep quiet about the abuse they suffer, feeling that it’s somehow normal or through fears that they would lose their boyfriends, whereas boys were more likely to reciprocate or end the relationship if they suffered from abuse from their girlfriends. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – January 2010 |
| Tens of thousands of children from England’s poorest areas are missing on average a day of school each week, according to official figures. Persistent absence is five times higher in the most deprived 10 per cent of neighbourhoods compared to the richest 10 per cent, according to conservative analysis of Government statistics. | |
| Education | The Sentinel – 28th December 2009 |
| Figures released in response to a Parliamentary Question posed by the Liberal Democrats show that 70% of 19 year olds don’t do regular exercise. In addition 17 and 18 year-olds in Sixth Forms take part in an average of just 30 minutes of PE per week compared to a government target of three hours. | |
| Health | Youthwork – January 2010 |
| X Factor theme tune O Fortuna was named the UK’s most widely heard classical track since records began. Carl Orff’s composition from his 1937 oratorio Carmina Burana topped a list of the most-played classical recordings of the past 75 years. Second place in the list went to Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 29th December 2009 |
| The latest installment in the vampire movie series Twilight is a ‘deviant moral vacuum’, according to the Vatican. The movie has already broken box office records as the highest single-day earner after pulling in $62.2 million on its opening day of release. Monsignor Franco Perazzelo, of the pontifical council of culture, said that New Moon ‘ combines a mixture of excesses that, as ever, is aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element…This film is nothing more than a moral vacuum with a deviant message and as such, is something, that should be of concern,’ he said. In October the Vatican warned parents that Halloween had an ‘undercurrent of occultism’ and was ‘absolutely anti-Christian’. The Vatican advised parents instead to ‘direct the meaning of the feast towards wholesomeness and beauty rather than terror, fear and death’. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – January 2010 |
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