Saturday, 27 March 2010




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Election 2010, Conference Report, Religious Freedom, Bioethics,Education, Islam, Sexual Orientation, Social, Family

 

Election 2010

 

How Public Policy Affects Social Action

 

 

CCFONtv,

25 Mar 2010 (5m 35s)

 

 

Conference Report

 

 

CCFON: Awake, Arise O Church- Conference Report

 

DVDs of the conference will be available soon. For details, please emailkathryn.wakeling@ccfon.org

 

 

Religious Freedom

 

CCFON: 6,000 Christians, including Church Leaders, Petition Government to Drop Civil Partnerships Amendment to Equality Bill.

 

The Catholic Herald: Technicality halts efforts to reverse adoption agency ban

 

The Times: Churches quit religion forum over atheist articles of faith.

 

Daily Telegraph: New code allows religious pharmacists to opt out of prescribing contraception.

 

LA Times: Attacks on Christians intensify in Malaysia.

 

 

Bioethics

 

European Lung Foundation: Stem cell trachea transplant success in UK child.

 

Calgary Herald: Banking on the future: Newborn's umbilical cord blood could save a life.

 

WDSU New Orleans: Groundbreaking stem cell research being done on Northshore.

 

Top News: $10.2 million donated by Robertson’s Foundation for umbilical cell research.

 

 

Education

 

Daily Telegraph: Children’s Commissioner: Parents should care more about young people’s happiness than success.

 

BBC News: Truancy in schools in England reaches record high.

 

 

Islam

 

CCFON: Charges against MP of incitement to racial hatred dropped.

 

The Times: Conservatives would cut ties with Muslim Council of Britain over Daud Abdullah.

 

Daily Telegraph: Baroness Deech: Risks of cousin marriage not discussed for fear of offending Muslims.

 

Daily Mail: Islamic TV show ‘backed marital rape' and promotes extremist groups, claims Muslim think tank.

 

Daily Telegraph: Islamic social worker ‘told Muslim mother to move to Bangladesh or lose children to Christianity’.

 

Daily Mail: Muslim school ‘unlawful’ for giving priority to Sunni pupils over Shias.

 

This is London: UK’s Muslim TV: Wives must not refuse sex with spouse.

 

Europe News: Muslim Brotherhood to construct new mosque in Warsaw.

 

CBN News (Video): New mosque rattles small Austrian town.

 

Fox News: Death threats for Saudi woman who blasts Muslim clerics on live TV.

 

Spero News: Pakistan: Christians treated like animals by Muslims.

 

 

Sexual Orientation

 

CCFON: Homosexual couple turned away from Berkshire Bed and Breakfast.

 

BBC News: Guernsey homosexual age of consent lowered to 16.

 

Daily Telegraph: Government insists vicars will not be sued for refusing homosexual 'marriages’ in churches.

 

The Times: Prom ban violated lesbian’s rights, Mississippi judge rules.

 

Daily Telegraph: Homosexual soldiers attack US general who claimed homosexuals were to blame for Srebrenica.

 

 

Social

 

CCFON: Music 'is replacing religion' says academic.

 

Daily Mail: Middle-class cocaine users are like 'crack addicts on street corners', say Government's chief drug advisor.

 

Braintree and Witham Times: Teen pregnancy one of worst in Essex.

 

Yorkshire Evening Post: Commentary: Sex education won’t cut pregnancies.

 

 

Family

 

Daily Telegraph: Marriage more stable than living together, Office for National Statistics finds.

 

 

Andrea Minichiello Williams

Christian Concern for our Nation

http://www.ccfon.org



Andrea can be contacted at andrea@ccfon.org and 020 7935 1488


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