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| “The eyes of the world are upon us,” warned the Moderator, the Rt Rev David Arnott, as the Anglican Assembly prepared to discuss the Special Commission on Same-Sex relationships and the Ministry. After a full day’s debate, the Assembly voted by 351 votes to 294 to go down what the Commision described as the ‘revisionist’ trajectory, resolving ‘to consider further the lifting of the moratorium on the acceptance for training and ordination of persons in a same-sex relationship'. | |
| Church | Life And Work July 2011 |
| According to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), the sexier girls look in their Facebook pictures the more likely they are to be targeted by adult predators. The latest figures show that in 2010 the organisation received 6,291 reports, a rise of 880 on the previous year. Parents say that along with mobile phones, Facebook is the most difficult thing to say no to with many giving in from fear their children will lose out socially. | |
| Young People | Families First July/August 2011 |
| New research has revealed that video game addiction is being cited in a growing number of divorce petitions. The study, by Divorce Online, examined 200 unreasonable behaviour petitions field by women using its service between January and April 2011. In 15% of the cases the wives complained that their husbands were happier to play on their games consoles then pay them attention. Divorce Online managing director Mark Keenan said his team carried out the research after noticing World of Warcraft was repeatedly cited by unhappy wives. | |
| Odd Facts | Families First July/August 2011 |
| The English which we speak and write today contains words, phrases and expressions which have been preserved and passed down to us in the Authorised Version of the Bible. This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Authorised or King James Bible in 1611. These days we associate ‘the Land of Nod’ with bedtime. The Nod of the Bible is a Hebrew word which means ‘wandering’. A very popular phrase resorted to by the media when some celebrity or politician bites the dust is ‘how are the mighty fallen’. This expression is found in the second Book of Samuel, chapter one, verse nineteen. Alan Thomas claimed of the King James Bible that ‘No book has had a greater influence on the English language’. | |
| Education | The Covenant Nations Volume 2, Number 2 2011 |
| In 2011 there are nine nations that presently hold stocks of nuclear weapons which are calculated to total in the region of 22,680. | |
| World Issues | The Covenant Nations Volume 2, Number 2 2011 |
| Actor Jim Caviezel knew he was taking a controversial role when he played Jesus in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Since that role, Caviezel says he has been ‘rejected in my own industry’, a consequence director Mel Gibson warned him about before he accepted the role. ‘He said, “You’ll never work in this town again”. I told him, “We all have to embrace our crosses”.’ Caviezel was addressing an audience of churchgoers in Orlando, Florida. The actor said he wasn’t worried about his career, saying that his faith guides him both personally and professionally. | |
| Media | Evangelicals Now June 2011 |
| More families will lose their homes in Northern Ireland than anywhere else in the UK this year because of the global economic downturn and the international banking fiasco, according to the Bishop of Down and Connor, Noel Treanor. Bishop Treanor also highlighted the need for the next Northern Ireland Assembly to address the fact that the region has the highest levels of childhood poverty across the UK. | |
| Housing | The Universe April 24 2011 |
| The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement has launched an online anti-homophobia resource for use in secondary religious education. The project aims to enable students to look at gay issues in an accessible, non-threatening way, and to highlight positive faith responses towards LGBT people whilst encouraging healthy debate. | |
| Education | Reform May 2011 |
| The Malaysian government has agreed to release 35,000 Bibles that have been held at customs since 2009 due to a dispute over the use of the word “Allah” as a translation for God. Its offer, in March, was made conditional on each Bible bearing the words “For Christianity” on the cover. | |
| World Issues | Reform May 2011 |
| The independent Bailey Review of Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood, commissioned by the Department for Education, has just published a survey which found that 88% of parents of five to 16-year-olds believe children are under pressure to grow up too quickly. It also found that nearly half of parents are unhappy with programmes or adverts on TV before the 9pm watershed. Specific areas of parental concern were that clothes weren’t age appropriate, and there was increasingly sexualised content in music videos and pre-watershed TV, which has ‘too adult’ themes in some soap operas. | |
| Young People | The Universe May 1 2011 |
| Increased life expectancy is to blame for the decline in young people attending church, reported a number of newspapers. According to the papers, researchers claim that teenagers and people in their twenties are not afraid of death and the prospect of long life encourages them to postpone practising religion. The researchers’ study suggests that churches will continue to attract older congregations unless they do more to highlight the benefits of faith to people of all ages. Over the past 50 years church attendance in Britain has consistently declined. | |
| Young People | The War Cry May 7 2011 |
| Humanist philosopher AC Grayling has written a secular version of the Bible entitled The Good Book: a secular bible. Aimed to be a ‘positive’ book but without any mention of God, it mirrors the language of the Bible but uses secular philosophies instead of religion. It contains ten ‘commandments’ such as respect nature, do your utmost, be informed, be kind’. The Birkbeck College professor is a well-known atheist. | |
| Religious Persecution | Christianity June 2011 |
| Lord Patten, the new chairman of the BBC Trust, has hit out at the intolerance of atheists. Chris Patten, one of the highest profile lay Catholics in public life, is also Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He was the last governor of Hong Kong and former chairman of the Conservative Party. He said it was ‘curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Salvationist May 21 2011 |
| Leaders of non-Christian faith groups should be invited to sit alongside bishops in the House of Lords, an historian who contributed to a commission on reform of the second chamber has suggested. John Smith, an architectural historian, argues that, although bishops should remain ‘in the majority’, ‘an interdenominational and interfaith college’ would ‘broaden faith representation’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Salvationist May 21 2011 |
| The Pro-Life Alliance has called for a redoubling of efforts to increase public awareness of the dangers of changing the law on assisted suicide. As pro-euthanasia activists continue to aggressively pursue their agenda, Dominica Roberts of the Pro-life Alliance told The Universe: “It is important that British pro-life groups should not just react to initiatives by pro-death groups, but keep up a continual campaign to bring before the public the truth of the dangers of changing the law.” Mrs Roberts’ call followed a legal ruling which has protected a woman’s anonymity as she attempts to have the law on euthanasia changed. The woman is seeking to have food, fluids and medical treatment withdrawn from her 43-year-old brain-damaged daughter. The case presents a new challenge to the law. Unlike the Tony Bland case, which allowed the withdrawal of food and fluid for the first time, the woman’s daughter is not in a “persistent vegetative state” but in a “minimally conscious state”. | |
| The Law | The Universe May 22 2011 |
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