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| An online petition asking people to resist the legislation of assisted suicide in the UK was launched in May by Not Dead Yet UK, a network of disabled people in the UK opposing the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Signing up to the online petition will help fight against Lord Falconer’s forthcoming Private Members Bill which Not Dead Yet fear will begin to open the door to state sanctioned assisted dying. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, July 2014 |
| Almost half of 10 to 14-year-olds have seen their parents drunk, according to a poll. Research carried out by ICM on behalf of Drinkaware, the industry-funded charity, found that a staggering 46% had seen their parents drunk, with 29% saying they had witnessed the same scene on more than one occasion. In contrast, 72% of the 1,000 parents taking part in the survey said they felt very confident talking to their children about drinking – with 75% believing they were best placed to do so. | |
| Social Issues | The Plain Truth, Spring 2014 |
| The Telegraph has reported that the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to issue new guidance which makes it clear that sex-selective abortion is unacceptable and illegal, it was reported in late May. The guidance will close a loophole in the Abortion Act which has made it difficult to bring charges against doctors who have carried out abortions based on gender and pre-signed abortion forms without consulting with the patients. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelists Now, July 2014 |
| More than 1.1 million schoolchildren do not speak English as their first language. New data suggests that the numbers of youngsters who do not have English as their mother tongue has rocketed, with around a quarter of a million more now speaking other languages at home, compared to five years ago. Overall, one in six pupils in state primary and secondary schools, have a first language that is known, or believed to be, other than English – a total of 1,109,610 children. In 2013, around 15.9% of youngsters spoke English as a second language, while in 2009, it was 13.2%. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, June 13, 2013 |
| Insurgencies led by religious extremists in Iraq and Syria are the most serious danger Britain faces, David Cameron has warned. The Prime Minister insisted the prospect of battle-hardened jihadists returning to the UK was a ‘real threat to our country’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Sentinel, June 18. 2014 |
| The supermarket price war drove food and drink costs to their first fall since 2006 last month as inflation dipped to a four-and-a-half-year low. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation dropped more steeply than expected to 1.5% in May – the lowest level since October 2009 – from 1.8% in April. Shoppers experienced a year-on-year decline of 0.6% in food and non-alcoholic drinks prices, the first for more than eight years and the heaviest since October 2004. It came amid a sustained push by the major supermarkets to combat the threat of discounters Aldi and Lidl. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, June 18, 2014 |
| Two professors sacked by an evangelical college in the United States, Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee, for refusing to sign its statement of faith, are suing the college. Professor Stephen Barnett and Professor Steve DeGeorge refused to agree to Bryan College’s revised statement of faith, after the college authorities added a clause that stated that Adam and Eve were historical individuals created by God and not by means of evolution. More than 20 other lecturers at the college have backed the pair, but the trustees said they had every right to change the statement of faith to assert a literal understanding of Genesis. | |
| Education | Church Times, 30 May 2014 |
| A High Court judge has rejected a couple’s opposition to the adoption of their children by a same-sex couple. The Slovak Roma couple argued that the lifestyle of the adoptive parents “goes against our Roma culture and lifestyle”, and that the children “will not be able to be brought up in the Catholic faith because of the conflicts between Catholicism and homosexuality”. On Friday, Sir James Munby upheld the adoption plan, but said that it was “unfortunate” that Kent County Council had suggested that the Roma couple were “bigoted”. A Kent County Council spokesman said: “We have acted in the best interests of these young children.” | |
| Social Issues | Church Times, 30 May 2014 |
| A new report by Save the Children is warning that the number of children in poverty in Britain could rocket to 4.9 million by 2020. A Fair Start for Every Child, which was released on Wednesday, predicts that, because of stagnant wages and welfare cuts, 1.4 million more children would be living in poverty by 2020. The total will then be the highest recorded level of child poverty in the UK for a generation. Child poverty is defined as being when a household income is 60 per cent below the national average. Today, this applies to 27 per cent of British children – some 3.5 million. | |
| Social Issues | Church Times, 30 May 2014 |
| The next phase of a church response to payday lenders was launched on Tuesday – a network of “Credit Champions” to promote responsible lending and saving. The Church Credit Champions Network (CCCN) was unveiled at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in central London, by Sir Hector Sants, the former investment banker and financial regulator who is leading the Archbishop of Canterbury’s taskforce on finance. The taskforce was set up last year, after Archbishop Welby’s run-in with Wonga. | |
| Money | Church Times, 30 May 2014 |
| The head of UCAS has said that university is often ‘wasted’ on school leavers because they take the wrong degree. Mary Curnock Cook, chief executive of UCAS, said that many teenagers, in particular those from middle-class backgrounds, ‘sleepwalk’ into university without giving it proper thought. Mrs Curnock Cook went on to say that more people should consider deferring their degree until their 20s and 30s in order to make the right decision. | |
| Education | Premier Youthwork, July 2014 |
| Forgiving and forgetting really works, according to researchers at the University of St Andrews. They gave people hypothetical scenarios involving offences such as infidelity, followed by memory tests. Those who ‘forgave’ offences did worse in the tests. The findings might help in therapy. | |
| Odd Facts | Premier Christianity, July 2014 |
| The number of people saying they trust charities has fallen from 66 per cent to 56 per cent in 2014, according to research published today by nfpSynergy. Charities have dropped to seventh in a list of the most trusted institutions, from fourth last year. They have been overtaken by the royal family, schools and small businesses, according to the research, published today. The Armed Forces, the NHS and the Scouts and Guides are top three in the list, with levels of trust at 70 per cent, 68 per cent and 64 per cent respectively, it finds. Political parties and the government are bottom of the list with levels of trust at 12 per cent and 20 per cent respectively. The survey, carried out in April, shows 28 per cent of people trust the Fundraising Standards Board but the same proportion have never heard of the regulator. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 24th June 2014 |
| Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has signalled he is ready to take action to cool Britain’s surging housing market amid fears that a new property price bubble could derail the economic recovery. Mr. Carney said the Bank could adopt a range of measures – including imposing a new “affordability test” for borrowers and advising the Government to rein in its Help to Buy scheme. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, May 19, 2014 |
| Inflation rose for the first time in 10 months in April, stalling hopes for a pick-up in real terms wages. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation increased to 1.8% after hitting a four-year low of 1.6% the month before. Latest figures show annual wage increases were stuck at 1.7% meaning a hoped-for sustained period of pay rising faster than the cost of living has yet to materialise. Earnings have not consistently been improving at a higher rate than the cost of living since 2008 but appear to have caught up in recent months. | |
| Money | The Sentinel, May 21, 2014 |
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