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| A video has been released, exposing US abortion giant Planned Parenthood's (PP) illegal harvesting of baby body parts. The video, produced by the Center for Medical Progress, is a compilation of previously released footage that highlights PP's illicit profiteering from the sale of the body parts of aborted babies. For the first time, the Senate, as well as the House, has passed a bill to defund PP for one year. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 9th January 2016 |
| Christianity is being "silenced" within the UK’s public sector, according to a former top Whitehall civil servant. William Nye said talking about Christianity in the civil service is becoming increasingly "odd and unusual". | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 9th January 2016 |
| With nearly half of disabled people not in work, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has published its manifesto to promote equality for disabled people and challenge discrimination against them. | |
| Work/Employment | Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 11th January 2016 |
| A growing number of UK councils are taking companies’ tax records into account when deciding how to award contracts worth tens of billions of pounds, in a trend welcomed by Christian Aid. | |
| Money | Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 11th January 2016 |
| Emergency admissions to hospital due to alcohol have increased by more than 50% in nine years in England and now top 250,000 a year, a report has found. | |
| Health | BBC News - 22nd December 2015 |
| People held in segregation in prisons experience impoverished regimes with poor levels of purposeful activity. More than half suffer from three or more mental health problems, an in-depth research report published on 17 December by the Prison Reform Trust reveals. The report finds that segregation units and close supervision centres entail social isolation, inactivity, and increased control of prisoners – a combination proven to harm mental health and wellbeing. | |
| Health | Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 22nd December 2015 |
| The UK Government is breaking national, EU and international law and policy by supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia in the context of its military intervention and bombing campaign in Yemen, say international law experts. | |
| World Issues | Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 17th December 2015 |
| Adults should be allowed to ‘choose’ their legal gender, a committee of MPs is set to propose. A report, due to be made public next week, is expected to state that over-18s should be able to ‘change’ their legal gender simply by filling out an application form. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 9th January 2016 |
| A report led by Baroness Butler-Sloss which said that Britain is no longer a Christian country has been criticised by cabinet ministers who said it was ‘seriously misguided’ and by the Church of England which claimed it appeared to have been ‘hijacked’ by humanists. The report into religion and belief in Britain, calls for a ‘new settlement’ for religion because the religious landscape has been ‘transformed’ by a growth in non-Christian religions and numbers of people with no religion. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 11th December 2015 |
| Mother Teresa has been named in the top ten of the most influential women of all time. The nun spent most of her life in India and came sixth in the list, which was topped by former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. | |
| Odd Facts | Bible Society - 4th December 2015 |
| The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled over the last 15 years with 26 new infections occurring every hour, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced. | |
| Health | Ekklesia Weekly Digest - 3rd December 2015 |
| The head of the Syrian Catholic Church, Mar Ignace Youssif III Youan, has said the West has betrayed Syrians and caused an endless conflict in the country. He said: ‘We Christians are not able to live in this chaos.’ He added that the West has ignored the advice of Syrians, assuming that Assad's regime could be destroyed in a few months, and now has too much faith in airstrikes as the answer. | |
| Disasters/War | Bible Society - 20th November 2015 |
| The Holy See delegation to the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) highlighted the ‘very significant number of hate crimes’ recorded against Christians and suggested that because it is not a minority faith, they are not considered vulnerable. | |
| Crime | Bible Society - 20th November 2015 |
| The government’s recently published "Counter Extremism Strategy" is incoherent and poses huge risks to the freedom of Christians and others, according to a new a briefing published by Christian Concern. First presented at an emergency meeting for church leaders earlier this month, the document outlines major problems with the government's approach to tackling 'Islamic radicalisation' and highlights what Christians need to do in response. | |
| Politics | Christian Concern - 21st November 2015 |
| Doctors should be able to euthanise those with "unbearable" mental conditions, even if the patient has not given consent, a Finnish researcher has said. Dr Jukka Varelius made the claim in the British-run Bioethics journal. | |
| Health | Christian Concern - 21st November 2015 |
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