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Last update: Wednesday 25th March




In an aggressive move to position itself as the intellectual centre of the Muslim world, Turkey announced in late October plans to open an Islamic university similar to Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the oldest and most respected centre of Islamic learning. Ankara’s announcement comes amid years of legal stonewalling for Turkey’s Christian minorities to build their own seminaries.
Education	Evangelicals Now - January 2015



Students in a New York High school are claiming that their Christian club was denied the right to meet on campus by the school administration. Liz Loverde, a pupil at the school, said that she had the idea to form ‘Dare to Believe’ as an outlet for students to escape the trials of high school. The 16 year-old student says that the school administration denied the club’s status because it was faith-based and not permitted on campus.
Education	Evangelicals Now - January 2015



The UK’s largest private abortion provider, BPAS, has called for laws banning efforts to educate people about abortion outside the facilities where it takes place, it was reported in November. Although in 2012 it stated that it was keen to protect freedom of speech, it now wants to create ‘buffer zones’ around clinics.
The Law	Evangelicals Now - January 2015



The number of children living with both parents has plunged by a third in the space of a generation, a landmark new study on family life in Britain showed in mid-November. More than one in three children have already lived through domestic upheaval such as seeing their parents break up by the age of 11 and only 50% still have married parents by the time they finish primary school. 30 years ago 90% still lived with their married parents.
Family	Evangelicals Now - January 2015



The Humanist Society Scotland is calling on the Scottish Parliament to force teachers to promote same sex marriage, even if it contravenes their religious conscience, it was reported in mid-November. Responding to draft sex and relationship education guidance for schools, the HSS said that allowing faith schools to uphold a traditional marriage view ‘goes against equality’.
Education	Evangelicals Now - January 2015



The Law Society, on 23 November, withdrew controversial guidelines for solicitors on how to compile ‘shari’a complaint’ wills, amid complaints that they encouraged discrimination against women and non-Muslims.
The Law	Evangelicals Now - January 2015



MPs say more needs to be done to protect dairy farmers from falls in milk prices including new powers to fine supermarkets over disputes. The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee said farmers were being forced out of business by factors beyond their control.
Social Issues	The Sentinel - 21st January 2015



France is to create 2,680 new jobs and boost spending by £325m to bolster counter terrorism efforts, Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said. He said such resources were crucial to dealing with an expanded extremist threat, with 3,000 people currently requiring surveillance across France.
Crime	The Sentinel - 22nd January 2015



The regular Prime Minister’s Questions session is a farce and should be scrapped altogether, Nick Clegg has said. The Liberal Democrats leader admitted that he found sitting alongside David Cameron during the Commons clashes “awkward”.
Politics	The Sentinel - 19th January 2015



The cost of creating places for the 880,000 extra pupils expected in England by 2023 could push schools to breaking point, council leaders warn. The Local government association fears the demand for school places could soon reach tipping point with no more space or money to extend schools. The LGA wants the government to fully fund the cost of the extra places, calculated to run to £12bn. Official government figures, published last year, project that by 2023 there will be a total of 8,022,000 pupils in England’s schools – up from 7,143,000 in the current academic year.
Education	The Sentinel - 14th January 2015



Schoolchildren in Florida have been given a colouring book which shows off the beliefs and values of devil worship. The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities shows children how to draw an inverted pentagram round an image of Satan. The book was produced after Florida’s conservative Christian school board allowed Bibles to be handed out in schools but banned atheist books. Local anti-religion groups then produced the satanic book of activities – which the religious school board is now obliged to hand out.
Education	Bible Society - 23rd January 2014



The majority creed among the male population is now atheism or agnosticism, but almost two thirds of women believe in heaven or an afterlife, according to the latest tranche of findings from the 1970 British Cohort study, which has been tracking 9,000 people now in their early 40s for more than 25 years. It found 54 per cent of men could be classed either as atheist or agnostic, compared with only 34 per cent of women.
Religion/Spirituality	Bible Society - 23rd January 2014



Parents of pupils at Durham Free School have expressed their outrage after the school was told to close after inspectors called it an educational failure and said some children displayed ‘discriminatory views’ toward people of other faiths. The response came after pupils at the Christian school were asked a series of questions regarding homosexuality and Islam.
Education	Bible Society - 23rd January 2014



The East London NHS Foundation Trust has been taken to an employment tribunal this week by Victoria Wasteney, a senior occupational therapist who works for them. She is accusing it of discriminating against her because of her Christian faith. She was accused of ‘bullying and harassing’ a Muslim colleague who told managers that Ms Wasteney had tried to convert her to Christianity.
Work/Employment	Bible Society - 23rd January 2014



How charities spend their money and what they do are more of a concern for the public than fundraising methods, according to a poll carried out by Ipsos Mori for the think tank NPC.
Money	Civil Society News - 23rd January 2015

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