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| The summer’s wet weather has sent online clothing sales soaring by 23 per cent, figures showed today. Sales of electrical items online during July were the highest of any month this year, up 7.5 per cent on last month, according to IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) and Capgemini. UK shoppers spent more than £4.8 billion online in July, an increase of 11.3 per cent on June, despite pressures on disposable income. | |
| Shopping | The Sentinel – August 20th 2008 |
| Today, at least 12m men, women and children worldwide are forced to work through the threat or use of violence. They are denied freedom, dehumanised and treated as property to be brought and sold. Even though it is illegal under international law, no region is free from this abuse and slavery is found in most countries – including the UK. In the Philippines, young girls are used as domestic slaves, boys as young as four years old are abducted from their families in South Asia to be used as camel jockeys in the Gulf, IN Niger people are born into a slave class; young men in Brazil are used as forced labour to clear the Amazon, and women are trafficked to western Europe an forced to work in the food-processing factories. | |
| The Law | The Difference- 2008 |
| A new study from the Barna Group, published in September, says Americans are talking about moral issues more and more, and that talk is redefining acceptable action, especially in young adults. Adults under 25 are more than twice as likely to cross traditional standards, according to Barna’s findings: The moral code began to disintegrate when the generation before them – the Baby Busters – pushed the limits that had been challenged by their parents – the Baby Boomers.” | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now & Religion Today – October 2008 |
| Authorities on August 5 locked up eight high school male students in metal shipping containers at a military training school for objecting to the burning of hundreds of Bibles. The students, from the Sawa Defence Training Centre, near Eritrea’s border with Sudan, were incarcerated after military authorities confiscated more than 1,500 personal Bibles from students arriving for the 2008-2009 academic year. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now & Compass – October 2008 |
| A new survey released in August shows that more than half of American adults believe in divine intervention at the hospital, and doctors need to be sensitive to those expecting miracles. 57% said that divine intervention could save even when medical treatment appears hopeless, and almost 20% of doctors and medical workers surveyed agreed. Almost 75% said patients have a right to such treatment. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now & Religion Today – October 2008 |
| A policeman, twice commended by his force for his loyalty and diligence, is to take his force to the Employment Tribunal on grounds of harassment because of his traditional Christian values, according to a report in July. PC Graham Cogman, 49, from Sea Palling in North Norfolk, has been an officer with the Norfolk Police for 15 years, having previously served in the RAF for 12 years. The father-of-two attends his local Church of England parish church, and, via the Christian Legal Centre, has instructed leading human rights barrister Paul Diamond to act on his behalf. | |
| The Law | Evangelicals - September 2008 |
| A study of 1,426 pupils aged 14 and 15 at state school in Southampton, commissioned by Hampshire police, carried out by Portsmouth University and published in July, found that nearly one in five of the pupils carried a weapon. Churches across London united in a Prayer for peace relay to tackle gun and knife crime and seek to bring peace to the capital. Prayer meetings were held every day in August in each of the 33 London boroughs. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals - September 2008 |
| A new survey released in September showed that more than a quarter of self described “active Christian women” have experienced sexually inappropriate behaviour, and a quarter of those place the incident inside church settings. The survey by NationalChristianPoll.com asked nearly 800 women about such inappropriate behaviour as sexual advances, touching or sexual contact, suggestive jokes, glances with sexual overtones and demeaning comments. | |
| Sex | Evangelicals Now & Religion Today – October 2008 |
| The son of a Hamas MP who is popular in the West Bank has declared that he has become a Christian. Masab Yousef, son of the Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that he has left Islam and become a Christian. He was speaking in an interview given in America where he is now living with the help of friends from his church. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals - September 2008 |
| In September, it was reported that more than 700 Christians participated in Walk4Bibles to fund almost 14,000 Bibles for persecuted believers worldwide. Organised by Bible League, participants in ten cities in Australia walked seven to 14 kilometres. “I counted the Bibles at home and we had ten”, said nine-year-old Rachael. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now & Religion Today – October 2008 |
| The national census is a £500 million waste of money and should be scrapped, a think tank said today. A report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) says information collected by the 10-yearly survey is out of date by the time it is published and underestimates the number of people living in Britain. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel - August 21st 2008 |
| More than half the public would support a ban on the purchase of sex if it would help tackle human trafficking, according to a new Government poll revealed in August. The results of the survey will bolster calls for a change in the law to tackle the demand side of prostitution, led by the Minister for Women and Equalities, Harriet Harman. The law is currently under review by the Home Office. | |
| The Law | Evangelicals Now & The Christian Institute – October 2008 |
| Britons have been accused of “a lack of national purpose” after research showed two in three adults will spend the August bank holiday watching television. A survey of 2,000 British adults found that 36 per cent were not interested in getting involved with community events or celebrating their heritage on public holidays. Instead they preferred to stay indoors. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - August 21st 2008 |
| In August, it was reported that the TUC will debate a motion calling for equality duties to be extended to cover the private and voluntary sectors. Equality duties place a legal requirement on organisations to promote equality on certain grounds. Currently, the only areas covered are race, disability and sex equality. However, as part of the Equality Bill, the Government is proposing to extend equality duties to cover sexual orientation, gender reassignment age, and religion or belief. | |
| The Law | Evangelicals Now & The Christian Institute – October 2008 |
| Personal debt in the UK is higher than the income generated by the country as a whole for the second year running, research has shown. The total owed by consumers through mortgages, loans and credit cards rose by 7.3% to stand at £1.444 trillion. But during the same period gross domestic product (GDP) rose by only 5.1% to £1.41 trillion. As a result it would take until January 8, 2009, to pay off the UK’S consumer dept from GDP during a calendar year. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - August 22nd 2008 |
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