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| The Bible Society has reported a growing demand for copies of the Bible in China where an estimated 500,000 people convert to Christianity every year, according to a report in The Christian Post. Four million Bibles were printed and distributed across China in 2009 but the rapid growth of the church, year on year, means that demand for Bibles is outstripping supply, say the Bible Society. The official number of Christians in China stands at 28.6 million, but it is believed that the true figure could be as high as 90 million. | |
| Church | Christian Marketplace, April 2010 |
| Whilst Facebook was the most popular choice for kids, 9% of parents said they’d allowed their child to lie about their age in order to access the site, where the minimum recommended age is 13. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| Just 11% of parents had checked all Internet settings and actively looked through their child’s activity online to make sure it was safe. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| 48% of parents were not aware of their children’s activity online, and one in four said they trusted that their children would keep themselves safe. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| A study of 1,345 parents by discount code and voucher site www.myvouchercodes.co.uk revealed that 78% had allowed their under-15s to use social networking sites. | |
| Social Issues | Inspire, April 2010 |
| Councils in England should prepare for lean years ahead, a report from the spending authorities warned today. Local authorities should be ready to take “tough decisions” on cash-saving moves such as pay freezes for staff, to avoid job cuts in frontline services, said the Audit Commission report. Councils have so far been cushioned from the worst impacts of the recession because the Government kept to a three-year funding settlement ending in 2011, said the commission. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, Tuesday March 23, 2010 |
| An amendment to the Civil Partnerships Act may have left churches open to being sued if they refuse to marry gay couples. Previously, civil partnerships could only take place in register offices and secular venues such as hotels and stately homes. An amendment made to the Act by the Lords in March lifted the ban on partnerships taking place in religious premises. | |
| Religious Persecution | Christianity, April 2010 |
| The Bishops of the Episcopal Church have repudiated the Anglican Communion’s moratorium on the consecration of gay bishops, and have affirmed the election of Canon Mary Glasspool as Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles. On March 17, the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs announced that Canon Glasspool had received the support of a majority of the 110 diocesan standing committees and diocesan bishops in the church. | |
| Church | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday March 26, 2010 |
| Pro-lifers have voiced their concern over new assisted suicide guidelines, published on February 25, which say prosecutions are unlikely if the act was ‘motivated by compassion’. Dr. Peter Saunders of the Care Not Killing alliance said ‘Anyone who takes part in an assisted suicide is going to claim they were acting out of compassion. The only witness who really knows will be dead’. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| The number of thefts from UK shops rose by a third in 2009. It is reported that an incident occurred nearly every minute, 24 hours a day, while incidents of violence and abuse against shop staff doubled, the British Retail Consortium’s Retail Crime Survey 2009 revealed in January. For the first time the survey assessed the proportion of retail crimes not reported to the police. It showed that retail crime of all types cost UK shops £1.1 billion in 2008/09, a 10% increase on the previous year and a sum equivalent to employing 72,000 retail staff. Physical violence against shop staff rose 58% and verbal abuse by 37%. | |
| Crime | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| Statistics released in February revealed that primary-schoolgirls as young as ten are becoming pregnant. Between 2000 and 2007, more than a dozen girls aged ten became pregnant. In the same period, almost 40 girls aged 11 were found to be pregnant. The figures also show that there were an alarming 60,000 pregnancies for children under 16 between 2000 and 2007. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| Foreign students from outside Europe wanting to come to the UK to study will be required to meet stricter entry criteria and the new regulations will ensure that students studying below degree level have a limited ability to work in the UK and that their dependants cannot work here at all. This may have a big impact on language schools, the international students with whom Friends International have contact and their work as a whole. | |
| Politics | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| A new morning-after pill designed to be taken up to five days after sex has been heavily criticised by pro-life and family values groups, it was reported at the end of January. Critics have warned that the new drug, known as Ellaone, is an ‘abortive agent’ which terminates early-stage pregnancies. There are also concerns that the five-day pill will encourage casual sexual relationships. The drug, launched in the UK in October 2009, is currently only available on prescription from a doctor. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| Making girls wear skirts as part of their school uniform is ‘potentially unlawful’, equality bureaucrats said in February. It may discriminate against female pupils who have gender dysphoria and believe themselves to be boys, according to a 68-page report. Officials at the Equality and Human Rights Commission released their guidance in expectation that the new Equality Bill will become law. | |
| Politics | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| After a period of fierce political debate about marriage and the tax system, new evidence in February reveals the extent to which middle-income families are financially penalised by the Government’s refusal to recognise marriage in the tax system. Tax Burden on Families 2008/09, from the Christian social policy charity CARE, shows that a one-earner married couple with children, earning up to £33,000 a year, pays almost a third more tax in the UK than in the average OECD country and 18% more than the UK average. | |
| Money | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
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