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• Woman Sues New Mexico Abortion Clinic for Sending Baby’s Body Parts for Research Without Notice

  06-12-2016 19:01 via christiannews.net
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A New Mexico woman who had an abortion in 2012 and recently discovered that her baby's body parts had been sent for research without her knowledge has filed suit. Jessica Duran, then 21, had been advised by the father of her child and her parents to have an abortion when she found herself pregnant. She didn't really want to end her child's...
  
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• Idaho Governor ensures schools can't be forced to use trans pronouns

  16-04-2024 16:41 via christian.org.uk
  
  The US state of Idaho will now protect teachers and students from being forced to use a person’s preferred name or pronouns which contradict their biological sex.
  
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• Militants Detain Church Leader in Sudan, Demand Ransom

  16-04-2024 16:40 via christiannews.net
  
  Shendi town in relation to Khartoum, Sudan. (Map data © Google 2024) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday (April 12) intercepted a church leader in Sudan as he was traveling out of Omdurman and temporarily jailed him, area sources said. The Rev. Antar Abbas Abu Hidia, general secretary of the...
  
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• Keir Starmer backs barring trans players from women’s sport

  16-04-2024 11:51 via christian.org.uk
  
  Sir Keir Starmer has said it is unsafe and unfair for biological males to compete in female sporting categories.
  
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• At 50, I had a flashback to a priest abusing me as a child. Then I decided to confront him

  16-04-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mary Dispenza spent years as a nun and working in the church before her buried memories rose to the surface. It was the start of her long journey towards justice and peaceMary Dispenza was almost 50 when she experienced her first flashback. At the time, she was in a workshop entitled Sexual Misconduct on the Part of the Clergy, which she had been asked to attend as part of her job in pastoral support for the Roman Catholic archdiocese in Seattle. To this day, she isn’t sure what words
  
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• Poll: Over half of adults oppose decriminalisation of abortion

  15-04-2024 17:06 via christian.org.uk
  
  The majority of the public oppose attempts to decriminalise abortion up to birth in England and Wales.
  
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• Staff celebrated social transitioning of child behind parents' backs

  15-04-2024 12:35 via christian.org.uk
  
  A school that secretly championed the social transitioning of a vulnerable teenager has left the girl’s parents reeling.
  
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• Donald Trump says he would not sign national abortion ban if reelected

  13-04-2024 19:55 via christiannews.net
  
  (The Hill) — Former President Trump on Wednesday said he would not sign a national abortion ban if reelected and such a bill passed Congress. The Biden campaign quickly dismissed him as a “liar,” citing his record on the issue. Trump was asked by reporters in Georgia if he would sign a national abortion ban if it reached his desk. “No,” Trump...
  
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• ‘Shhh or I’ll shoot you’: family of jailed Christian woman tell of Israeli raid

  13-04-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Troops took Layan Nasir away at gunpoint from her home in the West Bank and her parents haven’t been told where she is The Israeli troops arrived at about 4am last Saturday to take 23-year-old Layan Nasir away at gunpoint from her parents home in the West Bank town of Birzeit. There was no arrest warrant or charges, and her parents haven’t been notified where she is held.The only Palestinian Christian woman currently in Israeli detention, her case has been raised by the archbishop of
  
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• Pakistan Told to Address Forced Marriages, Conversions of Girls

  12-04-2024 22:10 via christiannews.net
  
  Laiba Suhail was kidnapped in Faisalabad District, Pakistan on Feb. 12, 2024. (Courtesy of family) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – U.N. human rights experts on Thursday (April 11) called on Pakistan to make legal changes in light of continued vulnerability of women and girls of minority faiths to forced marriages...
  
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• Belgium: Insurance boss backs euthanasia for elderly to save money

  12-04-2024 15:39 via christian.org.uk
  
  Allowing elderly people to die by lethal injection will save the Belgian Government money, the boss of an insurance firm has suggested.
  
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• Young Christian Woman Killed by Muslim Family Member

  12-04-2024 14:58 via christiannews.net
  Body of Namukuve Sawuya, killed on March 29, 2024 in Iganga District, Uganda. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim brother of a 19-year-old woman in eastern Uganda on March 29 killed her for putting her faith in Christ, sources said. Namukuve Sawuya had come to faith through a Christian Union Fellowship at her high school, a...
  
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• Police Scotland discovers just 3 per cent of 7,000 complaints are actually hate crimes

  12-04-2024 14:52 via christian.org.uk
  
  Police Scotland has been flooded with over 7,000 hate crime complaints in the first week of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act coming into force, but only three per cent were assessed to be criminal acts.
  
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• DVLA issues thousands of sex-swap driving licences

  12-04-2024 14:24 via christian.org.uk
  
  Thousands of people changed the sex marker on their driving licence last year, it has been revealed.
  
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• ‘Buffer zones pose threat to religious freedom’, pro-lifers warn MSPs

  12-04-2024 10:29 via christian.org.uk
  
  MSPs have been urged not to impose Scotland-wide censorship zones banning silent prayer.
  
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• Christian Slain, Mother and Daughter Burned for their Faith

  11-04-2024 17:25 via christiannews.net
  
  Ronald Twinomugisha was killed in Iganga District, Uganda on March 30, 2024. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An evangelist was slain and a mother and her 10-year-old daughter suffered serious burns for their faith in separate incidents last month in eastern Uganda. In Busei B village, Nakalama Sub-County in Iganga District, sources...
  
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• Scot Govt must 'stop refusing' to protect young people from trans drugs

  11-04-2024 16:38 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Scottish Government has been urged to take note of the revelations that giving trans drugs to young people is “based on remarkably weak evidence”.
  
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• Arizona Supreme Court upholds law protecting 'countless' lives from abortion

  11-04-2024 15:12 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld an 1864 law protecting unborn children from abortion.
  
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• Netherlands: Physically healthy young woman scheduled to die by euthanasia

  11-04-2024 14:12 via christian.org.uk
  
  A 28-year-old Dutch woman with mental health problems but no physical illness has been approved by medics for euthanasia.
  
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• Woman in Limerick suffers 'life-threatening' complication after taking abortion pills

  11-04-2024 10:25 via christian.org.uk
  
  Women in the Republic of Ireland are at risk from undiagnosed “life-threatening” complications by not being offered routine ultrasounds before taking abortion pills, medics have warned.
  
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• Breaking NewsAl-Shabab Kills Christians During Multiple Attacks in Kenya

  10-04-2024 18:32 via christiannews.net
  
  4/10/2024 Kenya (International Christian Concern) – During the morning of Tuesday, April 9, suspected al-Shabab members killed a farmer in Bobo, Hindi, a Christian village in Kenya that the Islamic extremist group attacked in 2022. Later that afternoon, the militants barricaded a road in the Milihoi area in Lamu County, a route between Mpeketoni and Hindi they...
  
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• NHS England to review trans policies for kids and adults

  10-04-2024 16:44 via christian.org.uk
  
  The NHS is set to review the transgender procedures it provides for both children and adults, following the Cass Review’s long-awaited final report.
  
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• Baby thriving with pacemaker after mum refused abortion

  10-04-2024 11:23 via christian.org.uk
  
  A baby diagnosed with a heart condition in the womb is now flourishing thanks to a pacemaker, all because her mum chose life.
  
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• Poll: Almost half of Scots want ‘hate crime’ law ditched

  09-04-2024 15:03 via christian.org.uk
  
  A new poll has shown clear public opposition to the Scottish Government’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act.
  
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• On Fire review – smoke-filled disaster movie asks God to help out with climate crisis

  09-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Co-director and star Peter Facinelli must rescue his family trapped by a wildfire, but while he digs deep to save them the film dodges the really big question raised hereIt is a truth almost universally acknowledged that eco-thrillers are films that preach to the converted. So, fair dos to this environmental drama for also preaching to another cohort of the converted: Christians. The script shoehorns in a few prayer scenes to appeal to viewers of faith – though cynics might think it is a s
  
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• Schools undermining trans guidance behind parents' backs

  09-04-2024 11:52 via christian.org.uk
  
  Schools across Devon and Cornwall are under fire for ignoring Government guidance on how schools should help gender-questioning children.
  
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• Vatican calls gender fluidity and surrogacy threats to human dignity

  08-04-2024 17:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Infinite Dignity declaration reaffirms church’s position on gender reassignment, abortion and euthanasiaThe Vatican has described the belief in gender fluidity as “a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God”, as it released an updated declaration of what the Catholic church regards as threats to human dignity.The new Dignitas infinita (Infinite Dignity) declaration released by the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Monday after five years in the making reiterat
  
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• The Labour party’s complicated relationship with God | Letters

  07-04-2024 18:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrew Copson of Humanists UK, Zaki Cooper, David Tutssel and David Cragg-James respond to an editorial about the party and faith communitiesLike many histories of the Labour party, your editorial (31 March) overstates the emphasis on its Christian origins. Labour’s first leader, Keir Hardie, may have been a lay preacher, but its first prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, was a paid-up humanist and an early president of Humanists UK. Many in Labour’s founding committees were humani
  
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• Christian nationalists embrace Trump as their savior – will they be his?

  07-04-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Christians opposed to infidelity and immorality have embraced a thrice-married man who can’t name a single Bible verseA thrice-married man who refers to the Eucharist as a “little cracker”, was apparently unable to name a single Bible verse and says he has never asked God for forgiveness was always an unlikely hero for the most conservative Christians in the US.But in both 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump resoundingly won the vote of white evangelicals. Now, with Trump having almost
  
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• CI: ‘Scot Govt will land itself in court over new conversion practices law’

  05-04-2024 16:18 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Scottish Government faces a legal battle in its controversial bid to outlaw so-called conversion practices, The Christian Institute has warned.
  
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