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• Hostility to people of faith in West on the rise

  29-10-2024 14:41 via christian.org.uk
  
  Religious freedom experts have highlighted the “increasing intolerance” of people of faith in Europe and North America.
  
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• Lessons from Belgium: Cancer doctors on the dangers of assisted suicide

  07-11-2024 11:39 via christian.org.uk
  
  Cancer doctors have shared concerns that legalising assisted suicide would impact palliative care and unduly pressure doctors.
  
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• GPs branded ‘transphobes' for refusing to prescribe 'sex-swap' hormones

  07-11-2024 09:25 via christian.org.uk
  
  Activist group TransActual UK has branded doctors ‘transphobes’ for refusing to prescribe sex-swap hormones on conscience grounds.
  
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• Women, Children among Christians Kidnapped in Nigeria

  06-11-2024 18:06 via christiannews.net
  Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Map data © Google 2024) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Nov. 1) kidnapped four Christians in an attack on villages in north-central Nigeria, sources said. One woman was among the four Christians abducted from two predominantly Christian villages, Mai-Iddo and...
  
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• Charles Moore: 'Assisted suicide would damage the moral fabric of our society'

  06-11-2024 17:53 via christian.org.uk
  
  Journalist Charles Moore has said that legalising assisted suicide would “change the moral basis of society”.
  
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• Displaced Christians in Sudan Driven from Homes

  05-11-2024 20:31 via christiannews.net
  
  Location of River Nile state in Sudan. (TUBS, Creative Commons) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Muslims in Sudan’s River Nile state on Oct. 19 drove 34 displaced Christians from their homes, sources said. The Muslim residents of the El Matamah area of Al-Makniya told the Christians of Nuba Mountains ancestry who had fled military conflict in...
  
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• 'Governments must not impose LGBT ideology on churches'

  05-11-2024 17:58 via christian.org.uk
  
  Churches across Norway have called for religious freedom to be upheld amid attempts to force the public to “adapt to ‘queer theory’ on gender, sexuality, and marriage”.
  
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• Christians, Others Entrapped in Blasphemy Charges, Report Says

  05-11-2024 17:51 via christiannews.net
  
  Shagufta Kiran was sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. (Jubilee Campaign) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim vigilante groups are working with federal authorities to lure young people into sharing blasphemous content on social media in order to put them behind bars, according to an...
  
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• Hospice UK urged to take clear stance against assisted suicide

  01-11-2024 15:55 via christian.org.uk
  
  Palliative care experts have urged Hospice UK to drop its ‘neutral’ stance on assisted suicide.
  
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• Royal British Legion peddles ‘LGBT poppy’ ahead of Remembrance Day

  01-11-2024 15:41 via christian.org.uk
  
  A pin badge displaying the LGBT ‘Progress Pride Flag’ alongside the traditional poppy is being sold by the Royal British Legion (RBL).
  
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• Mum pressured to abort child with Down’s syndrome chooses life

  01-11-2024 15:36 via christian.org.uk
  
  A Welsh mother has spoken out about how she chose life, despite facing pressure to abort her baby after her daughter was diagnosed with Down’s syndrome.
  
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• From online bingo to £1m gambling losses in a month

  01-11-2024 15:30 via christian.org.uk
  
  A vulnerable woman who lost £1m in a month playing ‘online slots’ believes she was groomed by the gambling industry.
  
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• NHS backtracks on woke training that attacks prayer and gender-critical views

  01-11-2024 14:14 via christian.org.uk
  
  NHS England has ditched woke training that branded prayer “unacceptable” and labelled people concerned about sharing single-sex spaces “transphobic”.
  
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• Canadian grandmother offered euthanasia before 'life-saving' cancer surgery

  01-11-2024 14:10 via christian.org.uk
  
  A grandmother in Canada has reported that she was pressured to consider euthanasia before undergoing cancer surgery.
  
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• Over 600 children in Scotland lost a parent to drugs in one year

  01-11-2024 14:00 via christian.org.uk
  
  A new report reveals over 600 children lost a parent or guardian from drug related deaths in Scotland in 2020.
  
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• MPs worried about the impact of assisted suicide

  01-11-2024 11:29 via christian.org.uk
  
  Dozens of MPs are unsure about legalising assisted suicide as concerns grow ahead of next month’s House of Commons debate.
  
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• Calls for fairness as golfers urge ban on men from women’s competitions

  01-11-2024 11:12 via christian.org.uk
  
  A letter from 275 professional female golfers has called on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) to ban men who identify as women from their competitions.
  
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• Assisted suicide insurance pay-outs raise spectre of coercion

  31-10-2024 17:19 via christian.org.uk
  
  Insurance ‘windfalls’ may lead relatives to pressurise the elderly to opt for assisted suicide, campaigners have warned.
  
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• Civil servants dragged to court over gender-critical beliefs

  31-10-2024 17:02 via christian.org.uk
  
  Two civil servants are being sued by their colleague for defending the reality of biological sex.
  
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• Tesco disregards calls to keep Sunday special

  31-10-2024 13:11 via christian.org.uk
  
  Supermarket giant Tesco has confirmed that it will commence Sunday trading on the Isle of Lewis, despite strong local opposition.
  
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• Norfolk Police slammed over trans policy allowing men to share women's facilities

  31-10-2024 12:09 via christian.org.uk
  
  Norfolk police force has been criticised for a policy that allows male staff who identify as females to use women’s toilets, showers and changing rooms.
  
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• Abortion censorship zones now in force across England and Wales

  31-10-2024 01:01 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Government has imposed censorship zones banning prayer and offers of help to pregnant women outside abortion centres across England and Wales.
  
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• US court denounces school for teaching 6-year-olds trans ideology behind parents’ backs

  30-10-2024 14:37 via christian.org.uk
  
  A US District Court has upheld parental rights, after a teacher promoted transgender ideology to children as young as six.
  
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• Christian Institute founding Chairman John Burn OBE dies

  29-10-2024 17:35 via christian.org.uk
  
  The Christian Institute’s founder and first Chairman, John Burn OBE, has died aged 86.
  
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• Christian Jailed on Blasphemy Charge Released on Bail

  29-10-2024 17:14 via christiannews.net
  Chand Shamaun in shackles at hearing on blasphemy charges filed in June 2024. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian jailed since June on blasphemy and terrorism charges in Pakistan was released on bail on Oct. 23 after a high court noted glaring loopholes in...
  
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• Country diary: A high yield of harvest services in the parish | Rev Simon Lockett

  29-10-2024 06:30
  
  Tyberton, Herefordshire: We gather for a Caim ritual and to collect food parcels for local poor families. This week, I will be blessing a plough as the winter crops are sownThe band in the box pew are in full swing. Susanna plays the violin, AJ the accordion, and I’m singing “We plough the fields and scatter …” for the fourth time in as many weeks. Harvest is a busy time of year for a vicar with five churches in his benefice. This one, St Mary’s in Tyberton, i
  
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• UN Body Slams Pakistan for Human Rights Violations

  28-10-2024 18:27 via christiannews.net
  
  Committee on Civil and Political Rights review of Pakistan’s human rights record in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 17-18, 2024. (UN Web TV) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Authorities in Pakistan have failed to curb a range of human rights violations, including a sharp increase in blasphemy-related violence,...
  
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• Local communities hold key to the future of church buildings | Letters

  28-10-2024 17:56
  
  Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’ article on the conservation of old parish church buildings that are going to ruin as congregations declineSimon Jenkins is right that the decline in church attendance is a serious threat to the English church buildings and traditions that we hold dear (The Church of England is panicking about declining congregations – here’s what it should do instead, 24 October). Rather than lose these valuable places of congregation, many local groups have ap
  
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• Harris and Trump lean into their faith in appeals to Christian voters in Georgia

  27-10-2024 17:28
  
  Religious voters on both the right and the left are a powerful force in Georgia. In a race this close, they may be decisiveTwo Georgia megachurches hosted presidential candidates last week, highlighting the stark differences between how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump speak about faith and what Georgia’s Christian religious congregations expect of them.Though Trump and Harris communicate differently to the public about their faith, religious leaders on the left and the right are casting thi
  
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• Hollywood actor Luke Evans: ‘I was bullied for being gay before I even understood what it meant’

  26-10-2024 08:00
  
  In this exclusive extract from his new memoir, the star recalls his childhood as a ‘tormented tug of war’ between his faith and his sexuality• ‘I thought I’d die at Armageddon’: read an interview with Luke EvansMam pushed open the front gate, which was hanging off by a hinge. The garden before us was a mess – an old sofa sprouting weeds and springs, a pile of half-burnt plastic toys – though we’d seen worse. The other day we’d had t
  
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