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| MPs will be banned from claiming the cost of mortgage payments on their second homes under proposals being put forward, it is reported. It is understood the Kelly committee, which has been reviewing MPs’ expenses, will recommend MPs will only be able to rent second homes in the future. It is also expected to suggest MPs are barred from employing family members. It is understood the changes will be phased in over five years. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel-October 28th 2009 |
| The Indian Government has rejected a call by the prime minister of Albania for the remains of the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta to be reburied in the Adriatic country. “Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen – she is resting in her own country, her own land,” Vishnu Prakash, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told a press conference in New Dehli. “The question of her remains being taken back to Albania does not arise at all.” The official was reacting go a call by Albania’s premier, Sali Berisha, for the nun’s body to be repatriated in time for her 100th birthday on August 26 2010. | |
| World Issues | The Universe- October 25th 2009 |
| Fear of causing offence after various broadcasting scandals has left TV in danger of becoming to bland, Channel 4’s programme chief claims. Julian Bellamy said the BBC appeared to avoid potentially controversial ideas “like the plague” following incidents like the Jonathan Ross, and Russell Brand Radio 2 “Sachsgate” controversy. | |
| Media | The Sentinel – November 5th 2009 |
| The Times reported of the Pope’s comments during his first visit to the Czech Republic. The pontiff warned that societies risk potential problems if they decide to exclude God. He said: ‘History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God from the horizon of his choices and actions.’ He added that technical progress was not enough to ‘guarantee the moral welfare of society’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The War Cry - 10 October 2009 |
| The Executive Director of the Christian Legal Centre has called the interim guidelines on assisted suicide in England and Wales a ‘profoundly mistaken policy’. Although the guidelines from the Director of Public Prosecutions are subject to public consultation, barrister Andrea Williams said: ‘We should learn from other jurisdictions where assisted suicide has been legalised. Research shows that elderly and vulnerable people are seeing themselves as a burden on their families and being under a “duty to die”. ‘We are concerned that the system will be open to abuse and to an ever-widening application, which has been observed in previous cases in our own legal history where laws have been injudiciously liberalised.’ The guidelines were drawn up after the Law Lords asked for clarification of the grounds on which someone would be prosecuted for assisting a suicide. | |
| The Law | The War Cry - 10 October 2009 |
| More students are signing up to Christian Unions on arriving at university than in previous years, according to the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF). | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Church of England - 9 October 2009 |
| Scepticism against faith communities has been foisted upon society by the political elite, said the shadow community cohesion minister, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, lambasting the trend as “both wrong and dangerous”. Speaking at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Lady Warsi said: “Under Labour, the State has become increasingly sceptical of an individual’s religious belief. “We’ve all seen the stories, how appalling that in Labour’s Britain a community nurse can be suspended for offering to pray for a patient’s recovery. Or a school receptionist could face disciplinary action for sending an email to friends asking them to pray for her daughter. “At the heart of these cases lies a growing intolerance and illiberal attitude towards those who believe in God”. | |
| Religious Persecution | The Church of England - 9 October 2009 |
| The majority of people in Britain want to keep Christ in Christmas, a poll has shown. A survey of more than 1,000 adults, published by Theos, found that 84% of those interviewed disagreed with the statement that ‘Christmas should be re-named to reflect our multi-cultural society’. Some 85% agreed that ‘Christmas should be called Christmas because we are still a Christian country’. Commenting on the results of the poll, Nick Spencer, Director of Studies at Theos, said: “The results of this research underline what most people instinctively know. There remains enormous and genuine affection for both the Christian affection for both the Christian festival of Christmas and the values underpinning it.” | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Church of England - 9 October 2009 |
| Catholic Labour MP John Battle has backed the new head of the Supreme Court, Lord Phillips, who has said that too many people are being locked up in the UK. As the prison population hit a record high of 84,442, Lord Phillips called for a greater use of community alternatives to jail. “I have always been in favour of alternatives to custody where that cause is open to the judge,” the peer said. Mr Battle called for less imprisonment and more resourcing of education and rehabilitation for prisoners. | |
| Social Issues | The Universe - 4 October 2009 |
| Success in the struggle against the Taliban cannot be taken for granted, the commander of the international forces in Afghanistan has warned. U.S. General Stanley McChrystal said the situation in the country was “serious”, with increasing violence and a growing insurgency. The U.S. government is currently evaluating Gen McChrystal’s plan to overhaul the international strategy in Afghanistan, including a request for up to 40,000 additional troops. | |
| World Issues | The Sentinel - 2 October 2009 |
| Moral and human dignity is lost by the UK so long as it has nuclear weapons, said the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, from Nagasaki last week. Dr Williams said: “To plan a strategy around such weapons is to be defeated by them.” The Archbishop quoted Ronald Knox in 1945 who described the atomic bomb as “an attack on the central virtues of Christian existence”. Dr Williams said: “That attack will continue so long as weapons of mass destruction like nuclear armaments are used as threats in international conflict. “To threaten such an outrage against humanity and its world is to begin to lose one’s moral and human dignity. To work for a world free from nuclear arms is to work for the sake of that moral and human dignity.” | |
| What famous people say | The Church of England - 2 October 2009 |
| Britain’s five biggest banks have signed up to new internationally-agreed curbs on bonuses, it was announced last night. Chancellor Alistair Darling welcomed the decision by the banks to accept the principles agreed last week at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. The five, HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, RBS and Standard Chartered, have committed to implement the new rules, intended to link bonuses to long-term performance, on payments for 2009. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - 1 October 2009 |
| It is clear from surveys and quiz programmes that elementary knowledge of the Bible is much less common than it was a century ago. Younger people are less likely to recognise Bible names than a generation ago. The majority of people today are appallingly ignorant of the basic facts of Christianity, the nature of the Christian life and the contents of the Word of God. | |
| Education | The Flame - October – December 2009 |
| A survey by Bliss magazine and Women’s Aid at the end of 2008 found that a quarter of 16-year-old girls had been hit or hurt by someone they were dating and a quarter of 14-year-old girls had been forced to have sex or do something sexual. It was a relatively small survey, but the concerns it raised have been echoed by other agencies. The Children’s Secretary, Ed Balls, has asked the Anti-Bullying Alliance to produce guidance for schools on gender bullying in response to concerns about the exploitation of teenage girls. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - October 2009 |
| The Archbishop of Wales has warned that allowing 16-year-olds to opt out of prayer in assembly could lead to the marginalisation of religion in schools. Writing in the Times Educational Supplement, Rev Dr Barry Morgan said letting sixth-formers withdraw from collective worship could lead them ‘narrowly focused on personal attainment’. ‘Collective worship has been branded as something that young people grow out of by the age of 16, at precisely the time when it might be the best way of feeding both their minds and their hearts as they start to explore the responsibilities and consequences of adult life,’ he said. ‘I am concerned that this is the thin end of the wedge and could be just the start of a process that devalues and ultimately marginalises the provision of collective worship in schools.’ The Archbishop warned of schools being turned into a ‘bland secular wasteland’. He said that a shared spiritual experience was a ‘chance for pupils to participate fully in, reflect on and respond to life and religious issues’. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - October 2009 |
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