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• Utah school district that banned Bible considers removing Book of Mormon

  03-06-2023 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Davis school district says it will assess text after complaint for ‘pornographic or indecent materials’ under law passed last year A school district in Utah that last week banned the Bible from school libraries is now being asked to consider a further title for removal: the Book of Mormon.The Davis school district, which serves Davis county, north of Salt Lake City, said it was considering a new complaint demanding the removal of the foundational text of the Utah-based Church of Jesu
  
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• Home Office could forcibly separate non-cohabiting couple before their wedding

  02-06-2023 15:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Youssef Mikhaiel is at risk of forced removal to Egypt before he marries Sarah BradleyA couple planning to marry soon could be forcibly separated by the Home Office because they are not cohabiting before their wedding.Sarah Bradley, 29, a British digital marketing teacher, and Youssef Mikhaiel, 28, an Egyptian man who graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in aeronautical engineering, met in February 2022 through a Christian dating app. Continue reading...
  
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• Mum: 'My doctor told me it was selfish not to abort my son'

  02-06-2023 14:18 via christian.org.uk
  
  A couple who were told it was “selfish” not to abort their disabled son have said he is “the greatest gift we could have received”.
  
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• Violence in India kills scores of Christians and turns churches to ashes

  02-06-2023 13:55 via christian.org.uk
  
  At least 70 Christians have been killed and hundreds of churches razed to the ground during violence in the state of Manipur, north-west India, a Christian charity has reported.
  
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• Abortion figures in Scotland rise drastically

  02-06-2023 12:54 via christian.org.uk
  
  The total number of abortions in Scotland rose by 19 per cent in 2022, latest figures have revealed.
  
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• Council resolute in opposition to inappropriate sex ed

  02-06-2023 11:04 via christian.org.uk
  
  Local children must be protected from inappropriate sex education material produced by the Scottish Government, the Western Isles Council has confirmed.
  
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• Seven-year-olds taught about being 'pangender at a Norfolk primary school

  02-06-2023 10:34 via christian.org.uk
  
  Children as young as seven are being taught contested gender identity beliefs at a Church of England school in Norfolk, parents have said.
  
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• More US states act to defend unborn from abortion

  02-06-2023 10:08 via christian.org.uk
  
  North Carolina has joined the increasing number of US states to pass further legal protections for the unborn.
  
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• ‘Insidious organization’: a reality TV family and the dangers of fundamentalism

  01-06-2023 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Amazon series Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets goes beyond the famous family into the fundamentalist ministry they representedAny casual purveyor of American cable television is probably familiar with the Duggar family – if not with the specifics of their juggernaut series on TLC, then with the sheer number of them. From 2007 until 2015, the Duggars, a highly conservative Christian baptist family from Arkansas, starred on a reality TV series titled after their ever-expanding numbe
  
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• Pastor, Wife among 43 Christians Killed in Central Nigeria 

  01-06-2023 20:05 via christiannews.net
  
  Keffi, Nasarawa state, Nigeria. (Elubo NG, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a church pastor, his wife and 41 other people in an attack last month on two predominantly Christian villages in Nasarawa state, Nigeria, sources said. The Rev. Daniel Danbeki of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Takalafiya...
  
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• Woman in Malta charged in court for having abortion

  01-06-2023 19:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Pro-choice groups condemn rare enforcement of country’s total ban on terminationsA woman in Malta has been charged in court for having an abortion, in a rare enforcement of the country’s total ban on terminations.The Women’s Rights Foundation of Malta said: “What should have never happened [has] happened today: a Maltese woman was brought to court facing charges of having a medical abortion at home.” Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Missing’ emails show Tavistock ‘in thrall’ to scandal-hit trans group

  01-06-2023 16:41 via christian.org.uk
  
  Mermaids enjoyed a ‘special relationship’ with NHS England’s notorious Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), documents from 2014 to 2018 have revealed.
  
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• Columnist: 'Scotland must back away from cliff-edge of assisted suicide'

  01-06-2023 15:59 via christian.org.uk
  
  Scotland must not further abandon its moral heritage by legalising assisted suicide, a columnist has warned.
  
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• Kate Forbes: 'Scots are fed up of being intimidated into self-censorship'

  01-06-2023 14:03 via christian.org.uk
  
  Christian MSP and former SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has said the public backlash against attempts to shut down free speech in Scotland is increasing.
  
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• Education Secretary: 'Teachers should not hide kids' gender-confusion from parents'

  01-06-2023 10:53 via christian.org.uk
  
  Schools should not affirm a child’s ‘gender identity’ behind their parents’ backs, the Education Secretary has said.
  
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• Trans activists fail to shut down PM-backed Oxford Union event

  31-05-2023 16:06 via christian.org.uk
  
  An attempt by transgender activists to silence the gender-critical views of Professor Kathleen Stock OBE at an Oxford Union event has failed.
  
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• Christian in Pakistan Sentenced to Death under Blasphemy Law

  31-05-2023 15:12 via christiannews.net
  Noman Masih. (Morning Star News via defense counsel) LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A court in Bahawalpur, Pakistan on Tuesday (May 30) handed the death penalty to a 22-year-old Christian on an unsubstantiated conviction under the country’s blasphemy laws, sources said. Lazar Allah Rakha, attorney for Noman Masih, said that the sessions court...
  
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• Christian Woman Starved, Left in Wild Animal Park

  30-05-2023 19:46 via christiannews.net
  
  Location of Kasese District, Uganda. (OpenStreetMap contributors, Jarry1250, NordNordWest, Creative Commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim upset with his wife’s conversion to Christianity in western Uganda denied her food and left her in a national park with wild animals, she said. Sharifa Muhando, 27, of Kasese town, said her husband...
  
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• Toddler in North Korea ‘sentenced to life in prison after parents caught with Bible’

  30-05-2023 18:34 via christiannews.net
  
  (The Telegraph) — A toddler was sentenced to life imprisonment in North Korea after the child’s family was found in possession of a Bible, according to a new report by the US State Department. Although the incident took place in 2009, it has been highlighted in the department’s new report on international religious freedoms this month, citing data from Korea...
  
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• Pro-life group loses appeal against NI Secretary’s push on abortion services

  30-05-2023 17:36 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has lost its appeal against the former Northern Ireland Secretary’s intervention to increase abortion services in the Province.
  
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• Muslims Stop Christian Services in Two Cities in Indonesia

  29-05-2023 23:48 via christiannews.net
  Medan, North Sumatra. (Flickr, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Muslim mobs on May 19 stopped Christians from worship in two cities of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, sources said. Muslims reportedly disrupted Christians as they worshipped in a café in a village in Binjai, 13 miles from Medan, capital of North Sumatra...
  
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• Martin Scorsese to make another movie about Jesus, he announces after meeting Pope

  29-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scorsese, cinema’s most mainstream Catholic director, angered Catholics globally with his 1988 film The Last Temptation of ChristMartin Scorsese may follow his acclaimed crime epic about the killing of Native Americans in the US in the 1920s with another film about Jesus Christ, reports suggest.Scorsese, fresh from a rapturous reception for his Killers of the Flower Moon at the Cannes film festival, is currently in Italy attending a series of religious and cinematic events. Continue readin
  
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• The pope and Emanuela Orlandi: Vatican back in the spotlight over mystery of missing girl

  28-05-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  She was 15 when she was last seen alive in Rome. Her brother explains why he backs a new theory featured in a TV showNot long before she disappeared in the summer of 1983, Emanuela Orlandi went to Piazza del Catalone, a small square just outside of the Vatican walls, to meet friends.There was still a party vibe during that sweltering June just a few weeks after AS Roma clinched the Serie A title. In a photograph taken at the time Orlandi, who was then 15, is wearing a headband in yellow and red,
  
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• Nun’s body intact four years after death draws people to Missouri monastery

  27-05-2023 16:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster’s body was exhumed and found to be ‘incorrupt’, a sign of holiness and later justification for sainthoodHundreds of people in the US have traveled to a monastery in a small Missouri town to view a nun’s body that seemingly has no signs of decay four years after her death.Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, a monastery in Gower, Missouri, about an hour outside of Kansas City. Con
  
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• Lib Dem leader Davey: ‘Men can be women’

  26-05-2023 16:58 via christian.org.uk
  
  Sir Ed Davey has said that it is ‘quite clear a woman can have penis’.
  
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• Sex ed charity 'apologises' for explicit web links

  26-05-2023 16:50 via christian.org.uk
  
  A controversial charity, known for delivering explicit sex education in schools around the UK, has been forced to apologise for links to “regrettable” material on its website.
  
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• Pro-life US churches awarded $1.4m after refusing to fund abortions

  26-05-2023 16:19 via christian.org.uk
  
  California has been ordered to pay a combined $1.4 million to four churches, after two federal courts ruled that they could not be forced to provide health insurance cover for abortions.
  
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• 'A victory for children': Christian adoption agency wins second battle against NY state

  26-05-2023 16:15 via christian.org.uk
  
  A Christian adoption agency in the US has been awarded $25,000 after New York State officials made another attempt to penalise it for only placing children with a married mother and father.
  
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• Pope misses Friday audiences because of fever, Vatican says

  26-05-2023 15:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Vatican reveals 86-year-old pontiff’s condition when asked why no audienceslisted on daily schedulePope Francis did not receive anyone in audiences on Friday because he had a fever, the Vatican said.The Vatican spokesperson, Matteo Bruni, did not provide any further details on the health of the 86-year-old Roman Catholic leader. Continue reading...
  
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• NI goalkeeper: ‘Govt should give football gambling ads the boot’

  26-05-2023 11:07 via christian.org.uk
  
  Gambling ads in football should be banned, Northern Ireland international keeper and recovering gambling addict Trevor Carson has said.
  
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• Sturgeon wins LGBT award as she claims: 'Gender self-ID does not diminish women's rights'

  25-05-2023 17:12 via christian.org.uk
  
  Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that women’s rights are not endangered by allowing men to self-identify as female.
  
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• Canadian bioethicists: ‘Poverty justifies euthanasia’

  25-05-2023 15:05 via christian.org.uk
  
  Being poor is sufficient reason for people to be allowed to undergo assisted suicide, an academic paper has argued.
  
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• Republican bill requiring display of Ten Commandments in Texas schools fails

  24-05-2023 19:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Bill which would have required every public school to display text in each classroom condemned by civil rights groupsRepublicans in Texas failed to pass legislation that would have required the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in every public school classroom.The controversial bill, authored by the Republican state senator Phil King, would have required schools to display the Old Testament text “in a conspicuous place in each classroom”, in a durable poster or frame. Cont
  
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• Teacher sacked after sharing marriage beliefs during staff training

  24-05-2023 15:53 via christian.org.uk
  
  A teacher has been dismissed from The Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales School, in Cardiff, after sharing his beliefs on marriage at a staff training seminar.
  
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• Govt must tackle 'national emergency' of falling marriage numbers

  24-05-2023 13:21 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Government must ensure it encourages couples to commit to life-long marriages together as wedding numbers continue to decline, a pro-marriage group has said.
  
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• Govt: 'Conversion therapy ban will not outlaw discussions on gender'

  24-05-2023 12:01 via christian.org.uk
  
  Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch has offered reassurances that the Government’s ban on so-called conversion therapy will not criminalise parents for questioning their child’s gender confusion.
  
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• Illinois: nearly 2,000 children abused by Catholic clergy over 70-year period

  23-05-2023 20:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Attorney general releases investigation into abuse between 1950 and 2019 and hails survivors ‘who have long suffered in silence’An Illinois attorney general’s office investigation released on Tuesday found that 451 Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children in the state over a nearly 70-year period, which was more than four times the 103 individuals the church named when the state began its review in 2018.Attorney general Kwame Raoul said at a news conference that in
  
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• Civitas: One in ten teenage pupils want to 'change gender'

  19-05-2023 14:42 via christian.org.uk
  
  One in ten teenagers aged 16 to 18 want to ‘change their gender’ or have already done so, a top think-tank has revealed.
  
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• Plan 75 film shows 'a disturbingly realistic glimpse' of assisted suicide

  19-05-2023 14:35 via christian.org.uk
  
  It is “not fiction” to suggest that many vulnerable people would be pressured to end their lives if the UK legalised assisted suicide, a senior columnist has said.
  
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• Oxford dons: ‘SU attack on free speech entering dangerous territory’

  19-05-2023 14:32 via christian.org.uk
  
  The “effective prohibition” of free speech by Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) cannot continue, say dozens of the leading university’s academic staff.
  
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• Medics who uphold biological sex accused of 'conversion therapy'

  19-05-2023 12:17 via christian.org.uk
  
  Medics who do not immediately affirm a gender-confused patient’s ‘gender identity’ are being accused of conversion therapy, it has been revealed.
  
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• 'Monkey dust' could be reclassified as Class A drug

  19-05-2023 11:46 via christian.org.uk
  
  The UK Government is considering reclassifying the drug ‘monkey dust’ from Class B to A, it has been announced.
  
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• Hell, yes: younger Britons more likely to believe in damnation, study finds

  19-05-2023 10:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Belief in afterlife higher among gen Z and millennials than in baby boomers, despite being less religious generallyYou may think the idea of hellfire belongs to an age when people’s lives were shaped by the threat of eternal damnation.Wrong, it seems: generation Z and millennials in the UK are significantly more likely to believe in hell than baby boomers, according to a new study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London. Continue reading...
  
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• Challenging assisted suicide: ‘We must care for those who are suffering, not end their lives’

  19-05-2023 10:19 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Church of Scotland has joined Roman Catholic and Muslim leaders to warn the Scottish Parliament that legalising assisted suicide would be “extremely detrimental” to the vulnerable.
  
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• Charge Reduced for Indonesian Official Who Stopped Service

  18-05-2023 19:45 via christiannews.net
  
  Local official Wawan Kurniawan stops worship service in Rajabasa Jaya village, Indonesia, on Feb. 19, 2023. (Morning Star News screenshot from YouTube) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Authorities have reduced a blasphemy charge to one of mere “intrusion” for an official on western Indonesia’s Sumatra Island who broke up a worship...
  
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• RC Bishop: Creation of GM babies 'violates human dignity'

  18-05-2023 12:47 via christian.org.uk
  
  The creation of genetically-modified children ‘reduces the gift of life to technical manipulation’, the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has said.
  
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• Anglican church body presiding over Peter Hollingworth misconduct case admits confusing identity of abuse survivors

  18-05-2023 10:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Professional standards board says it misidentified one of the complainants due to a ‘misunderstanding’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Anglican church body that presided over the Peter Hollingworth case has admitted it erroneously confused the identity of one of only two abuse survivors whose complaints it was considering.Earlier this month, Guardian Australia revealed the church&rsq
  
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• Miriam Cates: the new Tory ‘darling’ and rising star of the right

  18-05-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Only an MP since the last election, she has already been labelled a culture warrior but has amassed a tight-knit group of supportersDown the stone steps in a tucked-away corner of Westminster Hall, the Conservative backbencher Miriam Cates can occasionally be found on a weekday lunchtime playing piano at a chapel service for Christian MPs.But this week, she has been preaching to the converted, delivering a keynote address at the National Conservatism conference. Continue reading...
  
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• Unusual Ruling Frees Christian Couple from Prison in Iran

  17-05-2023 20:16 via christiannews.net
  Sara Ahmadi and Homayoun Zhaveh. (Article 18) (Morning Star News) – Iranian authorities released two Christian leaders from prison last week after a judge broke with common judicial practice in the country and ruled that home church participation was not illegal, sources said. Throwing out a 2020 conviction, a judge in Branch 34 of the Appeals Court in Tehran...
  
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• Down's syndrome campaigners to take case to Europe

  17-05-2023 15:35 via christian.org.uk
  
  Down’s syndrome campaigners Heidi Crowter and Máire Lea-Wilson have announced their intention to take the fight against disability-selective abortions to the highest court in Europe.
  
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