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Every Friday CCFON will bring to you stories of fundamental significance to Christians and our Nation. To equip you to pray and act. To put the hope of Christ at the centre of our Nation. Click on titles for full stories.   Donate for Christian Freedoms Abortion – Action Alert, CCFON call to engage, Bioethics, End of Life, Family, Islam, Religious Freedom, Sexual Orientation, Social, Events   Abortion - Action Alert   The first TV advert for abortion services was shown on Monday evening on Channel 4. The advert, from Marie Stopes International, does not mention abortion by name and encourages women who may be pregnant to give them a call.  Many of our supporters called Marie Stopes and discovered that rather than being given pregnancy advice, they were encouraged to pay for a consultation and were told that Marie Stopes only offer termination of pregnancy.  Those stating that they wanted to continue with their pregnancy were directed elsewhere.   Many more of these adverts are being planned for June and beyond. We believe that advertising abortion services, as just another product or service, is an affront to human life. If you would like to complain against abortion adverts being shown on TV, please consider the following actions:   News Report on abortion advert   BBC News, 24 May 2010 (2m 20s)     Josephine Quintavalle, ProLife Alliance, debates abortion advert   BBC Radio 4 'Woman's Hour', 22 May 2010 (7m 10s)       Complain to the Advertising Standards Authority Phone: 020 7492 2222 Online: Complaint form E-mail: new.complaints@asa.org.uk Write (if you can't email or phone): Advertising Standards Authority, Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6QT   Click here for a suggestion of what to write/say.   Click here to sign petition against the advertisement of abortion on TV.   Complain to Channel 4 Phone: 0845 076 0191 Online: Complaint form Write (if you can't email or phone): Channel 4 Enquiries, PO Box 1058, Belfast, BT1 9DU   Click here for a suggestion of what to write/say.   Write to your new MP (Enter your postcode to find the name and contact details of your local MP).     CCFON: Outrage as Marie Stopes Broadcast Abortion Advert on UK TV.   CCFON: Abortion booklet.   Letter to The Telegraph: Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali: Trauma of abortion. (scroll down)   My Republica: Woman dies undergoing abortion at Marie Stopes Centre.   Paul Coleman comments on abortion advert due to be aired on Monday 24 May 2010   UCB UK Radio, 20 May 2010 (7m 15s)   Telegraph blog: Pro-life lobby must now be allowed to broadcast grim realities of abortion.   Lennox Herald: Letter: Advertising abortion will backfire.   CCFON: Student Deputy President quits over stance on abortion.   Daily Mail: Should grandparents have a right to stop their grandchildren being aborted?   Guardian: Normalising abortion ignores women's needs.   Scotsman: One schoolgirl every week has abortion in the Lothians.   Daily Mail: Let girls keep morning-after pill at home, say NHS drugs rationing body chiefs.   Washington Times: Commentary: With Friends like these: Kagan and abortion.     CCFON call to engage     Andrew Marsh, CCFON, on Christian engagement with government   HopeFM, 26 May 2010 (13m 29s) CCFON Media Centre: Andrew Marsh, CCFON, on Christian engagement with government.   Will you help carry the Christian message to the heart of government?   Bioethics   Guardian: British scientists launch first ethical stem cell project recreating brain disease.   NY Daily News: Vatican supports adult stem cell therapy project with NYC-based company.     End of Life   CCFON: General Medical Council Promotes ‘Right to Die’ in its New Guidance.   CCFON: Crown Prosecution Service frees husband who helped wife to kill herself.   Daily Mail: ‘I will end my partner's life even if it means jail,’ says retired IT worker.     Family   A new study Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children finds that divorce is particularly harmful for children’s economic mobility in both absolute and relative terms.   Daily Mail: Families lose £1,200 as children's trust funds are scrapped in bid to save £520m.   Daily Telegraph: Leader of England’s Catholics criticises coalition over marriage.   BBC News: Births to older mothers ‘treble’ in 20 years.   CBN News (Video): Sexually indulgent now, marriage ruined later?   Daily Mail: ‘Working mothers are to blame if their children misbehave,’ says leading psychologist.     Islam   Scotsman: City blocks expansion bid for Islamic teaching centre.   Kent Online: Chatham pub to be converted to Muslim centre.   Harrow Times: Cllr Asad Omar named as first Muslim Mayor of Harrow.   Telegraph blog: Is Labour handing Tower Hamlets back to the Islamists?   Telegraph blog: The security minister and the Islamist-linked TV station.   Radio Today: BBC 5 Live unfair to Islam, says Islam Channel.   First Things: Why Sharia is incompatible with Western law.   The Times: Plans for 13-storey mosque at Ground Zero provoke anti-Muslim backlash.   Human Events: Commentary: Why there should be no mosques at Ground Zero.   The Nation: New York bus ads urge Muslims to abandon Islam.   The Times: Christian sisters kidnapped by Islamists are learning to play again.   Swiss Info: Human Rights Court moves forward with minaret ban appeals.   AFP News: Muslims celebrate as France makes way for Grand Mosque.   FSM News: Commentary: ISS (Islamic Stockholm Syndrome).   Deutsche Welle: Second German Islam Conference begins amid criticism.   Associated Press: Swedish university re-invites Muhammad artist.   National Review: Commentary: How Islamists came to dominate European Islam.   Europe News: Amsterdam: Sharia court now in session for the public.   CBN News (Video): Iranian Christians acquitted on all charges.   Spero News: Christians celebrate in the street after Islamic authorities shut down church.     Religious Freedom   Christian Institute: Street preacher suing Police over controversial arrest.   BBC News: High Court challenge to stop Bideford council prayers.   Christian Today: Christians called to pray for new Parliament and Government.   Guardian: BBC News needs a religion editor, says Radio 4 presenter.   Daily Telegraph: BBC TV executives 'view religion as a rather tiresome obligation'.   BBC News: Zero tolerance for sectarian hate in Northern Ireland.   Independent: Government keep quiet about the case of Christian British hostage in Yemen.   Independent: Bible Society brings the word of God to remote tribes.   CC News: European Parliament blasts religious intolerance in Pakistan.     Sexual Orientation   On 23rd March, CCFON submitted a petition to Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman—click here to see our letter. The petition called on the Government to reject Lord Alli’s amendment to the Equality Act 2010, which sought to allow civil partnership registrations to take place in religious premises in England and Wales. This is the reply we received from the Government Equalities Unit this week.    Our concern is that allowing such registrations to take place in religious premises and removing the ban, will put pressure on churches and church ministers to allow the ceremonies in their places of worship. What is permissive law today may become compulsory law tomorrow. Our letter was not heeded and the amendment was passed. However, we need to be ready to respond to a future consultation on the regulations which allow premises to be approved for Civil Partnerships in religious premises.   The Times: Britain may reduce aid if homosexuals are not set free in Malawi.   Guardian: African statesman condemns homosexuality as an ‘abomination’.   Daily Nation: Letter: ‘Homosexuality an abomination in the sight of God and man’.   Wall Street Journal: US Congress vote for normalisation of homosexuality in military.   USA Today: Expedia launches site for homosexual travellers.     Social   Daily Mail: Cameron unveils blueprint to rebuild ‘broken Britain’ after 13 years of Labour.   Christian Today: Church launches economy commission in wake of credit crunch.   XinhuaNet: UN launches campaign for universal ban on sale and prostitution of children.   Scotsman: Shop fined £53 for porn display after kids’ tip-off.   Daily Mail: Numbers of prescriptions for alcoholism soar 12% in a year.   Guardian: Northern Ireland minister calls on Ulster Museum to promote creationism.   BBC News: Opinions toughen on cannabis users and illegal drugs.   Daily Mail: Pupils aged 11 debate rape, pornography and prostitution.   BBC News: Young more lonely than the old, UK survey suggests.   Daily Mail: Why many people prefer TV to their husbands, wives or partners.   BBC News: Naked Swiss hiker in court battle over Appenzell fines.   Speak Up blog: Do Churches really benefit communities?     Events   World Congress of Families: Family Values Conference   Paul Diamond, Standing Counsel to the Christian Legal among speakers.   2-3 June 2010, Baden Powell House, 65-67 Queens Gate, South Kensington, SW7 5JS.   Click here for conference information and booking form.     Waterfront Christian Fellowship   Speaker: Andrea Minichiello Williams, Director of CCFON/CLC on The State of the Nation.   8 June 2010 at 7pm, William Street Church, William Street, Brierley Hill, DY5 3XH.     Global Day of Prayer   2 - 6pm at West Ham Stadium. £5 per ticket. Click here for tickets.  Andrea Minichiello Williams Christian Concern for our Nation http://www.ccfon.org