Key Quotes for 2003

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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Conservative Party leader, Michael Howard MP, praised the role of voluntary sector at the CAF last week. Mr. Howard@s speech came as figures were released showing that, despite a recent upturn, giving to charity has fallen by 25% as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) over the last decade.
Baptist Times, Nov 20th 2003.
 
Doctor Trevor Stammers have told MPs that abstinence should be a part of the nations sexual health teaching programe. He praised schemes in the United States which taught abstinence to young people. My plea is that we dont scoff at abstinence.
The consultation heard how rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have rocketed in the UK during the 90s. Rates of chalamydia soared by 139% between 1996 and 2002. There was an 870% rise in cases of syphilis during the same period.
Cases of gonorrhea have risen by 67% in women, and a rise has also been reported by homosexual men.
While the number of aids- related deaths is reducing, the number of HIV diagnoses in the UK has risen sharply since 1985.
A condom alone policy is never going to work. Dr Low-Beer cited the situation in Uganda, where Aids and STD prevention has focused on the teaching of abstinence and faithfulness within marrage. The results were startling. Numbers of HIV cases dropped from 21.1% of the population in 1991, to 6.4% of the population in 2001. Casual sex had reduced by 65% between 1989 and 1995, he said.If there is less casual sex, there is less sexual disease and less unwanted pregnancies.
Baptist Times, Nov 20th 2003.
 
One of the greatest challenges confronting the church in poor countries around the world is HIV/Aids.
Last year three million people lost their lives to Aids. That means more than 8,000 people dying every day. But that is not all. Today and every day more than 13,000 people around the world will become infected.
Monday Dec 1st, was world Aids day, when millions of people focusedon this terrifying global pandemic. Churches in the UK, some who have been touched by HIV/Aids, others who have not, joined in prayer with Christians around the globe.
Baptist Times, Nov 20th 2003.
 
Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the Western world.
It causes more than30,000 deaths per year in England and Wales, with 80% of those occuring in men. The increase in lung cancer in every country where this has been studied, has followed an increase in tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking.
Worldwide, there has been a dramatic shift in patterns of smoking. In the UK, the rate of smoking has fallen by around 25% since 1970, but there have been huge increases in Asia, South America, and particularly Africa.
Baptist Times, Nov 20th 2003.
 
The Archbishop of Cape Town this week made an impassioned plea to the worldwide Church not to become sidetracked by the issues of homosexuality, and so forget the 42 million people worldwide who are living with HIV/Aids, more than 90% of whom are from developing countries. The global emergancy of HIV/Aids should be a priority for the church, 13,000 people become HIV positive every day and over half of them are young people under 24. We must not loose our focus on that.
Christian Herald, 18th Oct 2003.
 
BBC 1s Question Time poll asked viewers to vote on the issue of gay priests 69%opposed.
Direction, Dec 2003.
 
A MORI poll in June 2003 found that 58% of 15 to 24 year olds disagreed with the statement that asylum seekers and refugees make a positive contribution to life in this country.
The same poll showed that 48% of the 15-24 year olds belived that few asylum seekers are genuine. Yet, last year more than one in three asylum seekers 34% were found to be in need of protection or were allowed to stay on humanitarian grounds, and a futher 22% of appeals were successful. Home Office investergators clearly belive thousands are genuin.
The facts show that a huge 72% of the worlds 12 million refugees between 1992 and 2001 were to be found in the developing world in the countries that are least able to support them. On the basis of , population and economics (GDP), the UN High Commision for Refugees ranked the U.K 32nd in the world in 2002 in terms of taking in refugees. In Europe the U.K was ranked 8th.
Direction, Dec 2003.
 
Sweden is one of the most secular countries in the world, with less than 3% of the population attending worship regularly.
Salvationist, 15th Nov 2003.
 
In Honduras, one of the countries which will cease to receive funding from DFID in the near future, 44% of the population live on less than £1.20 a day.
Christian Herald. 15 Nov, 2003.
 
On the Island of Lewis, the Western Isles Licensing board has granted licence extentions to three pubs in Stonoway, the main town,which means they can serve alcohol on sundays. The decision leave the neighbouring island of Harris as the only area in the U.K to be dry on sundays, according to the Lord s Day Observance Society.
Christian Herald. Nov 15, 2003.
 
Authorities in a Brizilian town are ordering local churches to install sound proofing, after complaints that worship is too noisy.
Christian Herald, Nov. 2003
 
The U.S is the most scientific nation on earth and yet in some states almost 50% of the population attended church regularly.
Christian Herald, 15th Nov, 2003.
 
Europe today numbers 15 countries. In two or three years, 25 more countries will join from eastern Europe.
Christian Herald. Nov 15th, 2003.
 
There is a further imbalance that rich countries spend on development assistance $56 billion a year compared with the $300 they spend onagricultural susides and $600 billion for defence.
Christian Herald Nov 15th, 2003.
 
Over the next 25 years, 50 million people will be added to the population of the rich countries and approximately one and a half billion people will be added to the poor countries.
Christian Herald, 15th Nov 2003.
 
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