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| Four or five terror plots have been stopped this year, the Commissioner of Police has said. Police have previously prevented on average one plot a year. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - November 24th 2014 |
| A new study of the philanthropic activity of wealthy UK donors has provided clear evidence that those aged under 40 are significantly more likely to participate in socially-conscious investment than their older peers. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 9th January 2015 |
| President Jacob Zuma has donated £26,000 to translate the Bible directly from Hebrew and Greek into isiZulu. Mr Zuma's mother tongue is isiZulu, the main language spoken in South Africa. The Bible has been translated into isiZulu previously, but from other languages. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 9th January 2015 |
| A Syriac Orthodox church will be built in Yeşilköy on the outskirts of Istanbul, after the Turkish government gave the go ahead for the first new church in the country for nearly a century. | |
| Church | Bible Society - 9th January 2015 |
| The Centre for Policy Studies has accused charities of a lack of transparency and inconsistency in their annual accounts, and claimed that up to £3.4bn is being "concealed" by the top 50 charities. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 7th January 2015 |
| Christian Aid has joined the ranks of living wage employers and announced that it has been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation to hold itself accountable. | |
| Work/Employment | Civil Society News - 8th January 2015 |
| Around two in every hundred of the UK’s over-75s are diagnosed with cancer each year. And this accounts for around a third of the nation’s new cancer cases each year. But because life expectancy in the UK is increasing, the number of older people living with cancer is growing. By 2020 there will be nearly two million people aged 65 and over alive following a diagnosis of cancer. | |
| Health | Cancer Research UK - 2nd January 2015 |
| Lifestyle factors like smoking, too much unhealthy food, being overweight, alcohol, UV exposure and a lack of regular exercise have caused nearly 600,000 extra cases of cancer in the UK in the past five years. | |
| Health | Cancer Research UK - 2nd January 2015 |
| The British Red Cross has partnered with Tesco to create a new Disaster Relief Alliance to provide financial support to areas of vulnerability before a disaster occurs. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 5th January 2015 |
| According to a new Energy Bill Revolution survey of Netmums members, over 70% are concerned for the heath of their children or elderly this winter due to cold homes, 97% believe political leaders have ‘no idea’ what it is like to live in a cold home and 1 in 5 are forced to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families. | |
| Social Issues | Netmums - 22nd December 2014 |
| A White House official said the Pope played key role in the historic deal agreed this week between the US and Cuba, establishing diplomatic relations for the first time in 50 years. Pope Francis personally appealed to the US and Cuban leaders, encouraging them to move forward and improve relations between the two countries. | |
| World Issues | Bible Society - 19th December 2014 |
| The Charity Commission investigated almost 2,000 charities in the year to March 2014 and used statutory inquiry powers four times as often as the previous year, according to a report released today. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 19th December 2014 |
| Tax relief on giving is expected to rise by 11 per cent in the year to March 2015, suggesting a large increase in donations over the course of the year, according to provisional figures published today by HM Revenue & Customs. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 19th December 2014 |
| A survey by Ipsos Mori for NPC about how charities are perceived by people who vote for various political parties has suggested that Ukip voters have lower levels of trust in charities than those who plan to vote for one of the three mainstream parties. | |
| Politics | Civil Society News - 18th December 2014 |
| Nearly 3,000 people have urged the Welsh Government to change medical guidelines, after a baby born less than two weeks before the legal abortion limit was left to die in hospital. Emma Jones’ son Riley was breathing independently for 93 minutes, but staff at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales refused to treat him because he was born at just 22 weeks and three days into the pregnancy. Now the Welsh Assembly’s Petitions Committee has considered Emma’s 2,759-signature call for guidance to ensure that babies born after 22 weeks and who show signs of life are given appropriate medical care. | |
| Health | The Christian Institute - 5th December 2014 |
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