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| More than 350,000 people in the UK suffer from a gambling addiction and there has been a steady increase evident over the last few years with the recession and sheer availability of online gambling outlets. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Guardian - 23rd August 2014 |
| Fewer than one in five doctors would be willing to help patients end their lives, according to a new poll. A survey of 600 doctors found that 58% are against a change in the law to allow for assisted suicide – a significant increase from the last time the survey asked the question ten years ago. Only 19% indicated they would be prepared to assist in the suicide of a patient. | |
| Social Issues | CARE - 29th August 2014 |
| CARE published new polling conducted by ComRes to coincide with Monday's debate. It showed a dramatic fall in support for the controversial three parent procedures since the previous poll in February. Support dropped from 35% in favour with 34% against in February to just 18% in favour and 46% against (which rose to 55% against in certain situations) in late August. | |
| Social Issues | CARE - 5th September 2014 |
| Over 145 individual charities have benefited from donations made as a result of the ice bucket challenge, while American charity the ALS Association has tried to trademark the term. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 1st September 2014 |
| People in Britain are willing to speak to street fundraisers for only three minutes on average, with four out of ten refusing to stop altogether, according a survey by donations website Give as you Live. | |
| Money | Civil Society News - 3rd September 2014 |
| Volunteering is worth £34bn a year in support of public services in the UK, new research by the innovation charity Nesta estimates. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 4th September 2014 |
| 50 million downloads make YouVersion the most widely used Bible app in the world. Bible Society has helped achieve this through uploading many Bible translations into the Digital Bible Library which then go onto YouVersion. Welsh, Irish, Cornish, Romany and most recently Manx are some of the languages which have been translated. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 5th September 2014 |
| During his daily mass, Pope Francis has said that a Christian earns his ability to speak with authority from the Holy Spirit, not from a theology degree. He said: ‘Perhaps you will be a great theologian, but you are not a Christian, because you do not have the Spirit of God. That which gives authority, that which gives you your identity and the Holy Spirit, the anointing of the Holy Spirit’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 5th September 2014 |
| Volunteering is at a ten-year high, with 26 per cent of people carrying out some volunteering in the last three months, and more men are volunteering than women, according to new research by nfpSynergy. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 5th September 2014 |
| In August, Khartoum Central Church, where 550 Christians had been meeting each week, was closed by government agents. They said the reason for the decision was that the building was registered as an office but was being used as a place of worship. When some of the church's leaders went to the security office to try to stop the church from being closed, they were surprised to be shown a document signed by a senior church board member declaring that the property was only to be used as an office and not as a church. It is suspected that the board member signed the document under pressure and was told not to tell anyone. | |
| Religious Persecution | Open Doors - 29th August 2014 |
| David Cameron has announced that online music videos will be given age ratings in order to protect children. He unveiled a pilot scheme with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and YouTube which will rate videos if they are deemed to have inappropriate content. | |
| Young People | Christian Institute - 22nd August 2014 |
| Children are being affected by graphic content in video games, including violence and prostitution, a YouGov survey has found. One in four parents said that they notice a negative change in behaviour when their children play certain video games. A third of parents interviewed felt that gaming was occupying so much of their children’s time that it was hampering their physical activity. | |
| Young People | Christian Institute - 22nd August 2014 |
| Leading atheist Richard Dawkins has been widely criticised for claiming that it is “immoral” not to abort Down’s syndrome babies, during a debate on Twitter. | |
| Family | Christian Institute - 22nd August 2014 |
| The decision by the U.S. Navy, to remove Bibles from its Navy rooms, has been reversed. Navy Exchange Service Command officials had previously said they would be removing all religious literature, following complaints from an atheist group. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 22nd August 2014 |
| Travelodge to remove Bibles from its rooms. The 500-strong hotel chain has decided to remove all of the Bibles from its hotel rooms because, they say, having a Christian book does not reflect Britain's ‘multicultural society’. Some Bibles will now be held behind reception desks for customers wishing to read it. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 22nd August 2014 |
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