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Highlights, Abortion and Bioethics, End of Life, Religious Freedom,Sexual Orientation, Social and Family, Islam, Events
Highlights
Speaking up for the unborn child
Wednesday 27th October is the 43rd anniversary of the Abortion Act. We are planning an event on that day to mark the occasion. Further details will be available soon but please mark the date in your diary.
Abortion and Bioethics
CCFON: Patients prepare to sue, as doctor is struck off for providing unproven stem cell treatments.
Associated Press: Study shows progress with stem cell alternative.
C-FAM News: Critics call new maternal death report faulty.
End of Life
Aberdeen Press and Journal: Suicide bill prompts concerns for disabled.
BBC News: Manx meeting discusses euthanasia.
CBC News: Assisted suicide advert banned in Canada.
Herald Sun (Australia): A third of GPs back euthanasia for old people 'tired of life'.
Religious Freedom
Most parts of the Equality Act 2010 come into force today. The Act is intended to consolidate the many existing strands of discrimination law into one single Act and although the government has repeatedly insisted that the new Act will not change the law, it remains to be seen how the differently worded sections will be interpreted by the courts.
Many believe that a ‘clash of rights’ has occurred between Christians who wish to act on the biblical belief that sex is reserved for marriage between a man and a woman, and those who say that such a stance discriminates against their sexual orientation. Several recent cases suggest that rather than the ‘rights’ of different groups being balanced, Christians are being routinely penalised. Examples include adoption agencies being forced to shut, Christians losing their jobs and guest house owners (and even a church) being sued.
Financial Times: Discrimination cases set to rise.
BBC News: New equality rights in workplace come into force.
Daily Telegraph: Commentary: The Equality Act: possibly the worst law in English history.
Daily Telegraph: Archbishop of Westminster urges followers to display their faith.
Daily Telegraph: I don't believe in God, says Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Guardian: Commentary: Labour can't afford not to engage with faith.
Spectator: Commentary: Jumping on the bandwagon (or Popemobile).
Daily Mail: 'Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores claims Church Of England.
Islamist Watch: Trend: Christians preach to Muslims, get arrested.
CBN News (US): ACLU sues New Jersey City over Lord's prayer.
Dakota Voice: 100 US pastors stand for freedom.
Daily Telegraph: Barack Obama says he is 'Christian by choice'.
Asia News: India: Police arrest Pentecostal pastor beaten by Hindu extremists.
News AM: ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is not allowed in Holy Cross Church of Akhtamar.
Sexual Orientation
CCFON: BBC research prompts calls for greater normalisation of homosexuality on TV and radio.
The Times (subscription required): Homosexual bishops are all right by me, says Archbishop.
Pink News: Labour’s top homosexual MPs stand for shadow cabinet.
CDC (US): Research: Homosexuals account for 48% of all HIV cases in the US.
Social and Family
The Times (subscription required): Deal struck for £9bn bonfire of the benefits.
ConservativeHome: Iain Duncan Smith has won his battle for a universal credit.
CNN News: U.N. partnering with faith groups.
First Things: Commentary: Contraception is not a 'basic human right'.
Islam
Daily Telegraph: Anti-terror chief tried to secure UK entry for Muslim preacher.
Manchester Evening News: No burka ban at Blackburn College.
Daily Telegraph: Police apologise for putting 200 CCTV cameras in Muslim area.
Daily Telegraph: Catholic school ‘could be run by mosque’.
Daily Mail: Top supermarkets secretly sell halal.
Guardian: The battle against cyber-jihad.
BBC News: Islamic veil ban in Dutch coalition deal.
Sydney Morning Herald: Anti-Islam MPs given vital role in Holland.
News 24: Anti-Muslim feeling up in Germany.
AFP News: Australia's first Muslim MP sworn in on Koran.
BBC News: Al-Qaeda terror plot targeting Europe uncovered.
Morocco Board: Christians expelled from Morocco.
Christian Post: Dozens of Christians beaten by mob in Gujrat, Pakistan.
Worthy News: Ethiopian Muslims burn down Christian homes and farms.
Events
'Where did you pick that up? - Schools and the sexualisation of our children'
A conference in Central London sponsored by Anglican Mainstream tomorrow (Saturday 2nd October). Registration required. Click here for flyer.
State of the Nation
Speaker: Andrea Minichiello Williams
Date & Time: Sunday, 3rd October at 9am and 10.30am Venue: St Lukes Church, 16 St Luke's Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5AW.
‘A defence of the status quo – Why it would be wrong to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia’
A debate at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham on end of life issues.
Guest speaker: Rt Reverend David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham.
Date & Time: Monday, 4 October 2010 at 1pm. Venue: Friends Meeting House, 40 Bull Street, Birmingham, B4 6AF
‘Are Christians the UK’s New ‘Marginalised Minority’?’
Andrea Minichiello Williams will take part in a debate in Cambridge organised by the Woolf Institute.
Date & Time: Tuesday, 5 October 2010 at 1pm. Venue: Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, Cambridge. Click here for more information.
A list of other upcoming events can be found here.
Andrea Minichiello Williams Christian Concern for our Nation |
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