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| A survey in Scotland has found that almost half of Scottish adults do not identify with any religion. The Scottish household survey saw 47.3% respond ‘none’ when asked about their faith. Five years ago the figure was 40%. The Church of Scotland is still the most popular denomination in the country, with 27. 8% of the population identifying themselves as part of the Church. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - October 2015 |
| It has emerged that at least 25 women in Britain who have never had sex, have given birth in the last five years using IVF. At least four British IVF firms were involved in assisting the women. The treatment is not available to heterosexual virgins on the NHS but they can attain the treatment privately for around £5,000. | |
| Family | Christian Concern - 3rd October 2015 |
| A Lancashire council has reversed a plan to remove a large wooden cross from a local crematorium. Reports this week indicated that the cross, which had hung at Accrington Crematorium for over 50 years, was to be removed for fear of offending non-Christians. Following criticism of the proposal, the cross will remain and only be taken down if specifically requested by a family. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 3rd October 2015 |
| A levy on plastic bags in supermarkets, which comes into force today, will raise more than £70m per year for charities, according government estimates. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 5th October 2015 |
| 50% of young people who identify as Christians don’t read their Bible more than once a month. 83% of Christian young people think sex is only for marriage; only 36% think homosexuality is a sin. 40% of employed youth workers “struggle” to worship in their church. 75% of full-time youth workers spend eight hours or less working face to face with young people per week: just a fifth of their time is spent with young people. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Youthwork - August 2015 |
| According to Dr Lisa Miller’s research, children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality are 40% less likely to abuse substances, 60 % less likely to be depressed as teenagers, 88% less likely to have dangerous or unprotected sex. | |
| Young People | Christianity - August 2015 |
| A Christian law school must change its code of conduct to embrace homosexuality to keeps its accreditation, a court ruled in July. Trinity Western University (TWU) in British Columbia had planned to open a law school which followed a Christian ‘community covenant’ next year. Students would not be permitted to engage in ‘sexually intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman’. TWU said that the ruling violated their rights as a religious institution and plans to appeal. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now - September 2015 |
| A private letter in which Charles Darwin admits to being an atheist has sold for £125,000. The British naturalist was dogged by rumours and speculation as to his lack of religious beliefs but he always shied away from confirming them either way. This is why the letter has proved so popular with collectors. | |
| Science | Bible Society - 25th September 2015 |
| Christian Freedom International has found that more than 200 million followers are facing persecution in 105 countries. This makes Christianity the most persecuted religion in the world. The report also found that more Christians have been martyred in the 20th and 21st centuries than during the previous 19 combined. | |
| Religious Persecution | Bible Society - 25th September 2015 |
| A Syrian refugee family will live in a Grade II four-bedroom building after Justin Welby said he would welcome people fleeing the war-ravaged country at his official London residence. The rent will be paid for by charitable funds under the Archbishop of Canterbury’s personal control. | |
| Social Issues | Bible Society - 25th September 2015 |
| A survey of retail workers by shop workers' trade union Usdaw shows that 91% of staff at large stores are opposed to the government's plans to relax Sunday trading laws. The number one reason for opposition was the detrimental effect it would have on family life. Workers also expressed concern about the additional pressure they would come under to work on Sundays. | |
| Shopping | Christian Concern - 26th September 2015 |
| Almost six out of ten people in England say they are Christian, according to a new poll of carried out by ComRes. But only two in five believe that Jesus was a real person, showing a high degree of Biblical illiteracy. And just nine per cent of those identifying as Christian pray regularly, read the Bible and attend church at least monthly. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 26th September 2015 |
| Amnesty International in August dubbed the conditions in Austria’s camp for asylum seekers as ‘inhumane’. Almost 5,000 people are housed in the camp in the village of Traiskirchen, about 30 miles outside Vienna. Bible Society of Austria’s Director, Jutta Henner, backed Amnesty International’s statement, calling conditions at the camp ‘shocking’. Bible Society makes Bibles and portions of the Bible available within the camp. | |
| World Issues | Evangelicals Now - October 2015 |
| The last year saw the slowest growth in the charity retail sector in more than a decade, according to figures published in the Charity Shops Survey 2015. | |
| Shopping | Civil Society News - 29th September 2015 |
| More than three in five Conservative MPs think the charity sector as a whole is too political, while three in ten believe that charities should not be allowed to campaign in Parliament, according to a new survey. | |
| Politics | Civil Society News - 18th September 2015 |
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