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Amity Printing Press, based in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, is the world’s largest printer of Bibles, it was reported in late April. Qiu Zhonghui, president of the company said: ‘In 2012 we celebrated production of the 100 millionth copy. It took 20 years to print the first 50 million copies, but the second 50 million took just five years.’
Religion/Spirituality	Evangelicals Now – June 2015



The number of Christians in the USA is declining according to the Pew Research Centre. In 2007, 78.4% of US adults identified with Christian groups. That percentage has now fallen to 70.6%. Pew’s Religious Landscape Study also found that the number of Americans with no religious affliction has risen from 16.1% in 2007 to 22.8% today.
Religion/Spirituality	Christianity – July 2015



UK faith groups give over £3bn a year in time to social action projects, according to the Cinnamon Network’s recent Faith Action Audit. The network says faith groups are ‘uniquely positioned to support those in most need on multiple levels’. Faith groups were praised in the report for their debt advice, coaching people back into work, offering emergency food parcels and providing safe places to build friendship.
Religion/Spirituality	Christianity – July 2015



Trafficking generates over £32 billion a year and destroys an estimated 27 million lives. To stop trafficking would involve a massive overhaul of our modern-day lifestyle, economy, and society. Trafficking is part of our everyday lives due to our ever-growing commercial thirst and greed to buy more clothes/products for less, which creates a demand for cheap manufacturing. It may appear to have no real cost to us, but it does for the millions of slaves in Latin America and elsewhere.
World Issues	Latinfile – Spring 2015



Small is the normal expression of church both in the UK and on a global scale. In 2013, the Church of England reported that the average weekly attendance in the UK was 38 adults in its 16,000 plus parish churches. In November 2014, of the 516 churches in the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC), 355 (69%) had fewer than 50 members and 221 (43%) had fewer than 25. The URC and Methodist traditions also have many churches with 40 people or fewer.
Church	Christianity – April 2015



Many thousands of German Christians are said to be renouncing their faith and leaving the church in order to avoid new taxes. According to the Daily Telegraph, 200,000 Germans filed official declarations last year renouncing their membership of the Protestant church, with a similar number thought to have left the Roman Catholic Church. Church members in Germany must pay taxes to the government to fund church activities. Under the law there, anyone who was baptised as a child is automatically a member of the church and obliged to pay a percentage of their income, regardless of current beliefs or church attendance.
Church	ThirdWay – March 2015



The U.S and Canada are willing to accept refugees from Iraq but through an application process that takes years and requires the would-be refugees to make dangerous journeys across the Middle East.
World Issues	Sword - March/April 2015



Today the Life Legal Defense Foundations was finally able to reveal its support of a two-year undercover operation proving that Planned Parenthood routinely peddles the organs and tissues of babies aborted in its self-proclaimed "health centers." This systematic profiteering is known to and approved by officers at the abortion giant's highest levels of authority. Planned Parenthood will even alter the abortion method in order to guarantee the tissues most sought after -- regardless of what might be best for the aborting mother.
Social Issues	Life Legal Defense Foundation - 14th July 2015



A 24-year-old Belgian woman has been told that she qualifies for euthanasia because she suffers from ‘suicidal thoughts’.
Health	The Christian Institute - 3rd July 2015



Britain's National Sperm Bank which opened in October 2014 and received £77,000 in government funding, has so far secured only five donors, it was revealed this week. Testing procedures mean that only one in twenty potential donors are ultimately accepted.
Social Issues	Christian Concern - 4th July 2015



Britain should do more to encourage mothers to take on paid work, an EU institution has suggested. The Council of the European Union claims that the number of mothers who choose either not to work or to work part-time represents a "social challenge" and it calls on the UK Government to provide more child-care. The number of UK mothers choosing to remain at home, often to care for children, has already fallen from nearly 3 million in 1993 to just over 2 million now.
Family	Christian Concern - 4th July 2015



A summary published last month collating various surveys suggests that 29% of British Muslims would prefer to live in this country under Sharia law rather than British law. Nearly a third (31%) agree that Muslim conversion to another religion is "forbidden and punishable by death" and 17% believe it is appropriate that Muslims who convert to other religions are cut off by their families, according to the research. Up to 20% say there is a clash between Islam and British values.
Religion/Spirituality	Christian Concern - 4th July 2015



Christians are happier than people from other religious groups, according to data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of a three-year study measuring personal well-being in the UK. Jewish people are next in line. Muslims and Buddhists were found to be the least happy, after those who said that they had no religion at all. Christians and Jewish people are most likely to report that they feel that the things they do in life are worth while...It found that overall, British people were happier in the year up to December 2014 than they had been in the past two years, and that levels of anxiety were declining. Some 32.6 per cent rated their happiness level at 9, or 10 out of 10, in 2013-14- up from 30.9 per cent in 2012-13. Young people were found to be less likely than adults to feel that the things they did in life were worthwhile but they were more likely to report higher feelings of life-satisfaction and happiness.
Health	ThirdWay – May 2015



The number of women becoming nuns in the UK has reached a 25-year high. Figures from the Catholic Church show the number of women taking their holy vows has trebled in the past five years. The Church says women are being drawn to religious life because of a ‘gap in the market for meaning in our culture’.
Religion/Spirituality	ThirdWay – May 2015



Whole areas of the NHS in England are being placed in special measures as a way of tackling failing services. NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said previous attempts to turn around to turn around services had been found wanting. He said the new approach would involve the whole system, including community services and social care, as well as hospitals. Essex, North Cumbria and most of Devon are the first areas to be tackled. All have reported significant financial problems and some of the hospitals in the areas are already in the old system of special measures.
Health	The Sentinel – June 4th 2015

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