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• Peers oppose changes that would ‘water down’ assisted suicide safeguards

  05-12-2025 18:30 via christian.org.uk
  Peers warned against “watering down” safeguards in continued scrutiny of the assisted suicide Bill for England and Wales.
  
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• Belfast councillors rethink noise restriction on street preaching

  05-12-2025 17:23 via christian.org.uk
  A byelaw in Belfast which limits the volume of street preaching will be redrafted, after being rejected by councillors.
  
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• Faith amid suffering: Johanna Watkins

  05-12-2025 17:22 via christian.org.uk
  Johanna Watkins, a Christian woman who had a rare long-term illness, has died, leaving a legacy of steadfast faith.
  
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• The Women’s Institute to restrict membership to women

  05-12-2025 15:55 via christian.org.uk
  The Women’s Institute has announced it will ban men who identify as women from membership from April 2026.
  
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• Girlguiding ditches trans-inclusive policy for new members

  04-12-2025 17:18 via christian.org.uk
  New membership of Girlguiding will be restricted to girls and young women, the organisation has announced.
  
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• Labour suggested backing assisted suicide Bill pre-election

  04-12-2025 17:15 via christian.org.uk
  Leaked documents reveal the Labour Party considered using its influence to legalise assisted suicide via a Private Member’s Bill (PMB), rather than as Government policy.
  
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• Councils call on TfL to ban gambling ads on the Tube

  04-12-2025 16:44 via christian.org.uk
  Five London councils have called on Sir Sadiq Khan to ban adverts for casinos and gambling companies on the Underground.
  
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• Stormont backs baby loss certificate scheme

  04-12-2025 16:30 via christian.org.uk
  Parents in Northern Ireland who have lost their unborn child through miscarriage will soon be eligible for a baby loss certificate.
  
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• TDs urged to protect children from ‘dangerous ideologies’

  04-12-2025 12:14 via christian.org.uk
  Improved measures are needed to help keep children safe from “dangerous ideologies and political activism”, Dáil Éireann has been told.
  
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• Pro-assisted suicide Peers call for ‘death doulas’

  02-12-2025 17:50 via christian.org.uk
  Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill should legislate for ‘death doulas’ under a new ‘national assisted suicide service’, two Peers have recommended.
  
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• Lecturer branded ‘transphobic’ over Harry Potter lab music

  02-12-2025 16:50 via christian.org.uk
  Claims that a university lecturer was “transphobic” for playing Harry Potter soundtracks in his laboratory classes have been dismissed.
  
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• Pope Leo tells Lebanese leaders 'peace is a desire and a vocation' – video

  30-11-2025 19:49
  Pope Leo XIV delivered a speech in Lebanon on Sunday where he repeated his call for representatives to do their part to help achieve peace in the region. Speaking in a room with several senior government and religious figures, the pope praised the Lebanese people for their resilience, adding: 'You always know how to rise again with courage'Pope Leo urges Lebanese leaders to make peace highest priority Continue reading...
  
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• Pope Leo urges Lebanese leaders to make peace highest priority

  30-11-2025 19:09
  Pontiff tells politicians and religious heads they must persevere with peace efforts despite facing ‘highly complex, conflictual’ situationPope Leo has urged political leaders in Lebanon to make peace their highest priority in a forceful appeal as he is visiting the country, which remains a target of Israeli airstrikes, on the second leg of his first overseas trip as Catholic leader.Leo, the first US pope, arrived in Beirut on Sunday from a four-day visit to Turkey where he said that
  
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• Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – if they stay off social media

  28-11-2025 17:01
  Trio given leave to stay in their abandoned convent near Salzburg until further notice, church officials sayThree octogenarian nuns who gained a global following after breaking out of their care home and moving back to their abandoned convent near Salzburg have been given leave to stay in the nunnery “until further notice” – on condition they stay off social media, church officials have said.The rebel sisters – Bernadette, 88, Regina, 86, and Rita, 82, all former teachers
  
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• Christian Institute Chairman Revd Dr Richard Turnbull promoted to glory

  28-11-2025 16:30 via christian.org.uk
  The Christian Institute’s Chairman, Revd Dr Richard Turnbull, has died aged 65. He had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
  
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• Holyrood's controversial assisted suicide Bill moves towards final stage

  28-11-2025 16:01 via christian.org.uk
  MSPs have rushed through debates on scores of amendments to Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide Bill, the majority of the Committee choosing to reject most attempts by fellow MSPs to address problems with it.
  
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• ‘Shine, Jesus, Shine’ voted nation’s favourite school assembly hymn

  28-11-2025 14:27 via christian.org.uk
  Brits have chosen Graham Kendrick’s hymn, ‘Shine, Jesus, Shine’, as their all-time school favourite, according to a BBC Songs of Praise poll.
  
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• Budget: Online gambling faces tax hike but betting shops exempt

  28-11-2025 13:40 via christian.org.uk
  While online betting companies will face significantly higher levies following Rachel Reeves’s Budget announcement, brick and mortar establishments will not.
  
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• Man with Down’s inspiring disabled people to enter the workplace

  28-11-2025 12:35 via christian.org.uk
  A man with Down’s syndrome has been celebrated for inspiring others with disabilities to enter the workforce.
  
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• Alabama priest leaves clergy after woman alleges ‘private companionship’ beginning when she was 17

  28-11-2025 12:00
  Robert Sullivan’s self-imposed removal comes after accusations he provided financial support in exchange for arrangement which included sexA longtime Roman Catholic priest in Alabama has voluntarily left the clergy after a woman alleged to his superiors that he provided her financial support in exchange for “private companionship” including sex beginning when she was 17.Robert Sullivan’s self-imposed removal from the priesthood – known as laicization – was ann
  
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• Govt under pressure to scrap puberty blocker experiment on children

  28-11-2025 10:49 via christian.org.uk
  Health Secretary Wes Streeting is being strongly urged to abandon plans for a puberty blocker trial involving scores of gender-confused children.
  
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• Pope Leo warns of risk from ‘piecemeal’ world war in first overseas trip

  27-11-2025 18:25
  Leo welcomed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as he begins six-day itinerary that will also include visit to LebanonA new world war is being fought “piecemeal” and is endangering the future of humanity, Pope Leo has warned, as he arrived in Turkey for his first foreign trip since becoming head of the Catholic church.Speaking in Ankara, where he was welcomed on Thursday by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Leo said the world was experiencing “a heightened level of co
  
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• Pope Leo gifted Thanksgiving pie during debut trip as Catholic church leader – video

  27-11-2025 18:03
  Pope Leo is making his debut overseas trip as leader of the Catholic church, travelling on a six-day mission of peace and unity to Turkey and Lebanon.Leo first met President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara. He is also due to meet Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world’s 260 million Orthodox Christians, for celebrations of the 1,700th anniversary of a major early church council in Nicaea, now İznik, which settled ideological disputes.Leo’s arrival in Lebanon
  
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• CofE advised same-sex blessings may 'jeopardise' its doctrine

  27-11-2025 15:36 via christian.org.uk
  The Church of England is in “danger” of undermining the doctrine of marriage by blessing same-sex couples, an advisory group has warned.
  
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• 'Voices told me to kill myself': Clinic patients on recovering from cannabis psychosis

  27-11-2025 15:15 via christian.org.uk
  A clinic in south London aimed at combatting the rise of cannabis psychosis is making strides in helping people recover.
  
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• New women’s campaign group vows to kick men out of women’s sport

  27-11-2025 11:45 via christian.org.uk
  A new group founded by former Olympian Sharron Davies MBE has pledged to end men being allowed to compete in women’s sport across the UK.
  
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• Suicide drug seller exploited victims ‘in their most desperate moments’

  26-11-2025 16:03 via christian.org.uk
  A Wrexham man who sold lethal drugs online has pleaded guilty to encouraging or assisting suicide.
  
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• Rightwing influencers spin anti-Muslim rage in Michigan for social media reach

  26-11-2025 14:00
  In Dearborn, provocateurs have held anti-Islam rallies, attempted to burn the Qur’an and rile residents for clickbaitWhite nationalist and rightwing agitators recently descended on Dearborn, Michigan, to hold an anti-Islam rally at which they attempted to burn a Qur’an and manufacture controversy over the city’s large Arab American population. But the protest has been dismissed by local leaders as a cheap publicity stunt aimed at generating money and clicks for far-right influe
  
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• Parents of gender-confused children call for probe into BBC pro-trans bias

  26-11-2025 08:47 via christian.org.uk
  A group representing parents of gender-confused children has urged Ofcom to investigate the BBC’s promotion of transgender ideology.
  
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• Hugh Nowell obituary

  25-11-2025 19:28
  
  My former colleague Hugh Nowell, who has died aged 98, was for many years a senior figure at Grosvenor Books, a publishing company connected to the Moral Re-Armament movement.A co-founder of the firm in the early 1960s, Hugh continued there until his retirement at the age of 70 in 1997. During this time he worked as joint chief executive and then managing director. Continue reading...
  
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• NI Education Minister to safeguard 'Christian ethos' following RE ruling

  25-11-2025 17:52 via christian.org.uk
  Northern Ireland’s Education Minister has emphasised that the Christian ethos of schools will not be swept aside.
  
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• John Lennox shares wisdom on ‘finishing well’

  25-11-2025 17:52 via christian.org.uk
  John Lennox has given advice on “finishing well” in an interview for the Sing! Conference.
  
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• Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash

  25-11-2025 07:00
  Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequencesEarlier this year, not long after Tommy Robinson embraced evangelical Christianity while in prison, the then Conservative MP Danny Kruger spoke in parliament about the need for a restoration of Britain through the “recovery of a Christian politics”. Less than two months later, Kruger joined Reform, and
  
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• Man who ‘let his family down’ by gambling stolen £450k sentenced to prison

  24-11-2025 14:53 via christian.org.uk
  A son who gambled away his elderly mother’s savings and investments has been given a 28-month jail sentence.
  
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• They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben

  23-11-2025 15:00
  Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggressionTrumpism’s most revealing and defining moments – not its most important, nor cruelest, nor most dangerous, nor stupidest, but perhaps its most illuminating – came earlier this autumn. In the course of a few weeks, the US president started showing everyone his plans for a gilded ballroom twice the size of the White
  
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• Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church | Simon Tisdall

  23-11-2025 07:00
  Inequality, immigration and civil rights are the battlegrounds on which the church, and some other Christian denominations, are fightingThe supreme court can’t do it – it’s packed with conservatives who owe him their jobs. Congress won’t do it – Republicans slavishly follow his orders, Democrats are ill-led and divided. For today’s White House, the concept of constitutional limits on executive power is a quaint relic. The news media, or sections of it, does it
  
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• Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste? | Jason Okundaye

  22-11-2025 07:00
  Anti-AI and pro-beauty, Leo XIV has proved an unlikely custodian of culture – and a patron of meaningful work in a world of algorithmic slopSo, who figured that Pope Leo XIV would end up being kind of cool? Not me. Although as a lapsed Catholic I had little stake in the conclave race, I felt that there was something unglamorous, dare I say godless, about a first-ever supreme pontiff born in the US, let alone one hailing from Chicago, the same city as Hugh Hefner, Hillary Clinton and Kanye
  
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• Kristen Bell and Brian Cox among actors shocked they’re attached to Fox News podcast

  21-11-2025 21:56
  The 52-episode Christian podcast was announced with a number of actors involved yet many claim they had no idea about itThe Fox News announcement of a new podcast series on Jesus Christ has turned into a bizarre holiday tale in Hollywood, as several actors attached to massive, 52-episode project claim their recordings date back 15 years and are being released without their prior knowledge.The new audiobook titled The Life of Jesus Christ Podcast, announced on Wednesday as part of a splashy rollo
  
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• Supreme Court reinstates ruling against ‘proselytising’ in NI RE lessons

  21-11-2025 15:40 via christian.org.uk
  Exclusively Christian RE lessons and assemblies in Northern Irish primary schools that don’t acknowledge other views are unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled.
  
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• Watchdog survey: 'One in two youngsters gamble'

  21-11-2025 15:37 via christian.org.uk
  Nearly half of all 11 to 17-year-olds admit to gambling, a Gambling Commission survey has revealed.
  
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• Police Scotland ends gender self-ID in crime recording

  21-11-2025 14:59 via christian.org.uk
  Police in Scotland will record suspects’ biological sex, regardless of how they self-identify, its Chief Constable has confirmed.
  
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• ‘Make the Charter your own’: CI street preaching resource welcomed by leaders

  21-11-2025 14:54 via christian.org.uk
  Politicians and church leaders gathered in Westminster this week to mark the launch of The Christian Institute’s Street Preacher’s Charter.
  
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• Secularists lobby Welsh Govt to ‘protect children from Christian teaching’

  20-11-2025 14:25 via christian.org.uk
  The National Secular Society has urged the Welsh Government to consider stopping faith schools teaching the “tenets of their faith”.
  
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• Baby born at 23 weeks now 1 year old and ‘absolutely thriving’

  19-11-2025 17:50 via christian.org.uk
  A baby born at 23 weeks and four days is “thriving” and has celebrated her first birthday at home.
  
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• Druidry documentary seeks 'connection and community' in the wrong place

  19-11-2025 17:39 via christian.org.uk
  The BBC has promoted Druidry as a way to get involved in local communities.
  
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• Scots report pushes extreme abortion agenda

  19-11-2025 15:05 via christian.org.uk
  Abortion should be allowed on demand up to birth, a Scottish Government-commissioned report has recommended.
  
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• Pope Leo condemns US’s ‘extremely disrespectful’ treatment of immigrants

  19-11-2025 14:21
  Pontiff backs statement by US bishops condemning raids and mass deportations under Trump administrationPope Leo has reiterated his disapproval of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying foreigners in the US are being treated in an “extremely disrespectful way”.Leo, the first US pontiff in the history of the Catholic church, made the remarks in response to questions about a statement adopted last week during a special assembly of US bishops that criticised the Trump administ
  
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• Actress Sophie Turner warns how assisted suicide Bill endangers young people with eating disorders

  19-11-2025 13:23 via christian.org.uk
  Celebrities and other public figures are expressing “deep concern” over Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, saying it poses a “serious risk” to those struggling with eating disorders.
  
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• The Street Preacher's Charter: 'An invaluable asset for gospel freedom'

  19-11-2025 11:36 via christian.org.uk
  A new resource for evangelists on their rights and responsibilities when street preaching has been published by The Christian Institute.
  
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• Testimony review – a devastating exposé of the Irish church’s brutal Magdalene laundries

  19-11-2025 10:00
  A searing documentary on the laundries sees a determined young human rights lawyer join survivors and campaigners in a fight for truth and accountabilityAt least 10,000 women and girls were imprisoned in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries, forced into unpaid labour and subject to cruelty and suffering. This documentary narrated by Imelda Staunton tells the story of the campaign to hold the Irish government to account for its role in the laundries, mother and baby homes and industrial schools fo
  
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