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Christian Concern brings you cutting edge stories week by week, to equip the church to act and pray, to restore the hope of Christ to the centre of our nation. Please visit our website at: www.christianconcern.com In this edition: Send postcard to PM   Choose Life campaign   Wilberforce Academy - applications open!

Send Postcard to Prime Minister Four cases relating to Christian freedoms are to be heard shortly by the European Court of Human Rights. These include two CLC clients: Shirley Chaplin, the nurse who was asked to remove the cross she had worn since her confirmation; and Gary McFarlane, the counsellor who had a possible conscientious objection to providing sex therapy to homosexual couples.   The Prime Minister needs to make a statement on the cases to the European Court by 30th September.   Please contact the Prime Minister by sending him one of our postcards, which ask him to support the cases.  Please try and send your postcards by 22nd September (but postcards sent after this date will still be noted).   You can order free copies of our postcards from us which you can then distribute. Contact us by email (admin@christianconcern.com) with your address and number of postcards you would like. Choose Life: Make Abortion History The Choose Life campaign, run by Christian Concern, aims to mobilise a generation to make abortion history in this nation. Please join us on Thursday 27th October 2011 for a special conference and a demonstration outside Parliament on the 44th anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act, as we seek to find new ways to keep the spotlight on the destruction that abortion brings. Find out more here > Wilberforce Academy Applications are now open for our annual Wilberforce Academy, a week-long course in Oxford designed to equip the next generation of Christian leaders in public life. We’re looking for students and young professionals with a passion to serve Jesus Christ in a variety of vocations including law, politics, education, media, healthcare, arts and business. The course runs from 25th – 30th March 2012. Would you or someone you know benefit? Applications Now Open – Find out more here >

Abortion Christian Concern: Florida couple receive $4.5 million for missed chance of abortion Telegraph (blog): Pro-lifers need to take a leaf out of the animal rights movement's books Christian Today: Thank the Good Lord for parliamentary democracy Telegraph (letters): The real-life Vera Drakes were not so saintly Scotsman: If you vote to allow abortion I will overrule referendum, says prince LifeSiteNews: Infanticide just a late, late abortion?: According to one Canadian judge, pretty much Religious freedom Daily Mail: Postal workers refuse to deliver Bible recordings because the CDs are ‘offensive’ Peter Saunder’s Blog: Cranmer’s law and Christian Conscience Peter Ould (blog): Equality and Religious Belief Dallas Voice: NY town clerk may lose job for refusing to issue marriage license to same-sex couple Family Telegraph: Cycle of 'compulsive consumerism' leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds BBC News: UK families face consumer pressure, says report BBC News: Our children need time not stuff Telegraph (blog): How unmarried couples can have greater legal rights than husbands and wives Jubilee Centre (blog): Marriage evidence prevails Mercator Net: Fatherhood and biology Telegraph: Men 'biologically wired' to care for children Daily Mail: Like many co-habitees, Louise dismissed marriage as 'just a piece of paper'. Now she admits it would've kept her family from falling apart Social Daily Mail: Why the young are rejecting infidelity The Times (£): We cannot arrest our way out of these riots Guardian: 'Sexist' Topman T-shirts taken off shelves National Catholic Register: HHS Blocks Abstinence Education As 'Unallowable' Church Daily Telegraph: Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams set to quit next year The Times (£): Bishops line up to succeed Rowan Williams amid ‘quit’ rumours Daily Mail: Will the Church ever have a strong enough leader? Christian Today: Christianity meets high street consumerism in Christmas ad Daily Mail: Father-of-four who had just found God ‘murdered’ as he waited for church to open BBC News: Christians in China: Is the country in spiritual crisis? Sexual Orientation & Gender Christian Concern: Senior Scottish Catholic voices opposition to homosexual marriage BBC News: Catholic Church in anti-gay marriage stance Daily Mail: Ten-year-old boy returns to school after summer holidays as a GIRL as 'he believes he is trapped in the wrong body' Daily Mail: Lesbian couple 'dressed adopted son in girl's clothes and posted photo on Facebook' AP: Dutch government to change transgender rules LifeSiteNews: McGuinty: Liberals won’t back down from imposing gay agenda in classrooms: lesbian minister Daily Mail: Third sex becomes official: Australian passports now have three gender options - male, female and x Israel Telegraph: The folly of the Palestinian statehood bid Express Tribune: Israel, Palestinians head for UN statehood showdown Daily Mail (blog): Is Cameron about to vote for a unilateral Palestinian state? Cranmer (blog): Palestine – no Jews, no gays, no gypsies... Daily Telegraph: Egypt declares Camp David accords with Israel ‘not a sacred thing’ Islam Christian Concern: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali: 9/11 anniversary: The end of Islamic extremism is far from nigh Daily Mail: Britain has travelled steadily towards the edge of the cliff in the years since 9/11 Daily Mail: 100 protesters burn American flag outside U.S. embassy in London during minute's silence for 9/11 Irish Independent: Dozens of arrests mar 9/11 commemorations in London Big News Network: Spies to root out Muslim extremism from British schools Jerusalem Post: Dutch MP issues fatwa to free Muslims from extremism The Blaze: Radical Islamic group opens Shariah court in Belgium Education News: Toronto allows imams to conduct prayers in public school International Persecution Andrea Williams Blog: More violence in Nigeria, it’s time to act Sahara Reporters: Bomb Explosions Hit Jos City AFP: Gunmen bomb Nigeria police post, kill police, free inmates Reuters: Nigeria Islamists could attack universities- police ICC: Alliance of Nigeria’s Islamic Radical Group With Al-Qaeda Threatens Christians One News Now: Christians 'hunted down' World Net Daily: Killer words: Muslims text death threats to Christians Events Awake, Arise – Colchester   Date: 17th September Time: 9am – 6pm     Love Jos conference – London   Date: 24th September Time: 3pm Venue: KICC, 468 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London E17 9AH   Speakers include: Baroness Cox - Member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo - Senior Pastor, Kingsway International Christian Centre. Bishop Michael Nazir Ali (video) - Director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue and former Bishop of Rochester Ade Oomoba - Christian Concern UK Mrs. Esther Ibanga - Senior Pastor, Jos Christian Missions International For more information and to register online please go to: www.lovejosconference.org.uk   More events >