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| 63% of school aged children wouldn’t care if social media didn’t exist. 60% think friends portray a fake version of themselves online. | |
| Media | Premier Youth and Children’s Work - November 2017 |
| It was recently revealed that more than a quarter of 16 to 18-year-olds have admitted to bullying or insulting someone online. Over a third of all boys have admitted to antisocial behaviour online, matched against 22 per cent of all girls. Nine in ten of those young people who have bullied someone online have themselves been targeted. | |
| Young People | Premier Youth and Children’s Work - November 2017 |
| Ipsos Mori recently surveyed 2,612 11 to 16-year-olds to find out their most trusted professions, and vicars ranked fifth. | |
| Work/Employment | Premier Youth and Children’s Work - November 2017 |
| Attacks on the freedom of religion are on the rise around the world, and protecting that freedom must become a priority of both the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development (DfID) a new report by a parliamentary group argues. | |
| Religious Persecution | Church Times - 27th October 2017 |
| A study that links pollution to one in six deaths worldwide, of which 92 per cent occur in developing countries, has prompted the aid agency Tearfund to amplify its calls for “repair, recycling, and reuse”. The report of the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health published last week, links pollution to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015. It found air pollution to be the biggest contributor, linked to 6.5 million deaths, water pollution to 1.8 million; and workplace-related pollution to 0.8 million. Almost all the pollution-related deaths (92 per cent) occurred in low and middle income countries. | |
| World Issues | Church Times - 27th October 2017 |
| There are 94,000 children currently in the care system in the UK, with 35,000 coming into care in any one year. | |
| Social Issues | Premier Christianity - November 2017 |
| Presenter of Radio 4’s In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg has encouraged schools to reintroduce Bible readings so that children aren’t “deprived” of “the depth of language” in the words. | |
| What famous people say | Premier Christianity - November 2017 |
| A growing number of schools are removing the historical terms BC and AD from religious education lessons in a bid to avoid offending non-Christians. Teachers in East Sussex and Essex are among those replacing ‘Before Christ’ and ‘Anno Domini’ (which means the year of the Lord) with ‘Before Common Era’ (BCE) and ‘Common Era’ (CE) according to an investigation by The Mail on Sunday. | |
| Education | Premier Christianity - November 2017 |
| One in seven couples approved to adopt children are homosexual, according to new figures. Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that applications for adoption by same-sex couples have risen by 13 per cent in the last year. Over the same period, the number of applications by heterosexual couples fell by 12 per cent. | |
| Family | The Christian Institute - 8th December 2017 |
| Teenage pregnancies have fallen dramatically since 2008, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In the year to September 2016, just over 17,500 girls under 18 in England became pregnant – in stark contrast to the 39,474 teenage pregnancies in the year to September 2008. | |
| Young People | The Christian Institute - 8th December 2017 |
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