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| A passionate appeal by the leader of one of Britain's leading black majority churches has seen young men come forward to lay drugs and lethal weapons on his church's altar. |
| Baptist times - October 9 2003 |
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| A court has freed a woman who was due to be stoned to death for adultery. The last-minute reprieve for Amina Laal was issued by the Islamic Court of Katsina. She had been sentenced to die, because she became pregnant after being divorced from her husband. The Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, told the Missionary News Service: "The laws are made for men, but men are not made for the laws. In Nigeria, many people, including many Muslims, are unhappy about these death sentences, which Muslims themselves consider illegal. |
| Christian Herald - 11 October 2003 |
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| A member of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, Krausova was reacting to recent information from the Czech Statistics Office showing that declared believers had dropped in the past decade from 44% to 32% of the population, despite church leaders' hopes of a religious revivial after the 1989 'Velvet Revolution' which ousted the old communist regime. |
| Christian Herald - 11 October 2003 |
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| The number of Christians in labour camps in China is estimated to be around 800. A further estimate places the number of long-term prisoners, sentenced to three years labour or worse, as between 100 to 200. This needs to be set against the growth of the Church in China which is nothing short of phenomenal. Open Doors estimates that some 15,000 people become Christians every day. Since Western misionaries first took the Gospel to China in the early 19th century, Christians have grown from a handful to an estimated 80 million today. |
| Christian Herald - 11 October 2003 |
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A new generation of teen adults have emerged who face the pressures of adulthood far too soon, a recent Channel 4 documentary revealed. Old kids have been forced to grow up faster and suffer greater angust than previous generations. Absent parents, violence and poor mental health were the main areas noted to cause the greatest stress. Reasearchers found that a growing number of young people rarely see one of their parents, often have emtionally demanding parents and live with the knowledge that weapons are frequently taken to school by their peers.
A more worrying aspect of the study showed that, out of the 1000 teens interviewed, 85% get drunk regularly and 70% approved of threesomes and sex toys. A thurd of girls claimed they were unconcerned by infidelity and a thurd of all those surveyed wanted the age of consent lowered to 14. |
| Youthwork. Nov, 2003. |
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| There are 13 million families in the U.K. |
| The sentinel Tues Oct 21st 2003 |
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| In 2000 there were 6.2 million girls aged under 16 in the U.K. |
| The Sentinel, tues 21st Oct. |
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| In 2002, 596,122 babies were born in England and Wales- 40% of those were born outside marriage. |
| The Sentinel,tues 21st Oct 2003. |
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| In 2001 the average life expectancy for a man was 75, for a woman it was 80. |
| The Sentinel, tues 21st Oct 2003. |
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| One in four families is headed by a lone parent. |
| The Sentinel. Tues 21st Oct 2003 |
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| The average age at which a woman was most likely to marry for the first time in 2001 was 28, for men it was 30. |
| The Sentinel. Tues 21st Oct 2003. |
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| In 1900 five million women worked; 29% of the workforce. By 2000 this had risen to 13 million; 46% of the workforce. |
| The Sentinel. Tues 21st Oct 2003. |
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| The average age at which a woman is likely to have her first child is 29 and five months. |
| The Sentinel. Tues 21st Oct, 2003. |
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| In 1897 there were 504 divorces, in 2001 there were 143,818. |
| The Sentinel. Tues 21st Oct, 2003. |
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| More than three million children live in households classed as being in poverty, about half live in London. |
| The Sentinel. Tues 21st Oct, 2003. |
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