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| The architect of the 1967 Abortion Act in October called abortion on the grounds of gender ‘wholly repugnant’. This was after a Daily Telegraph investigation found that some doctors were agreeing to perform abortions based on the sex of the unborn baby. Lord Steel of Aikwood, the Liberal Democrat who introduced the original legislation, called for urgent guidance from medical regulators on the issue after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped a recent case against two doctors after a 19-month police inquiry. They decided it would not be in the ‘public interest’ to prosecute them. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, November 2013 |
| David Cameron has been warned Britain is at risk of being seen as a ‘nasty country’ as he presses ahead with a clampdown on benefits for migrants. The Prime Minister has set out radical plans to overhaul welfare rules, including stopping new arrivals from the European Union (EU) getting out-of-work benefits for three months. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, November 28, 2013 |
| A bid to obtain an emergency judicial review on the displaying of bus adverts in London failed in early November. Transport for London (TfL) allowed Stonewall’s bus adverts to appear on buses last year reading, ‘Some people are gay. Get over it!’ but did not allow the Core Issues Trust counter advert, ‘Not gay. Ex-gay, post-gay and proud. Get over it!’ Back in March a judge had ruled that the TfL decision was ‘inconsistent and partial’. The ads breached TfL’s own guidelines. The original case is currently on appeal with a result due imminently. However, TfL allowed the Stonewall ads to be put up for a second time in October, despite the judgment in March which said that they were offensive. It appears that the whole tenor of the original judgment was ignored by the judge reviewing the case, and Christian Concern, who have been supporting the case, have been ordered to pay costs. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, December 2013 |
| The Chinese government has welcomed the role of the church in providing social care in the country. China’s leaders held meetings in mid-November in Beijing to discuss the economic and political agenda for the next decade, in which it seems the church will play a vital role. Though it is the world’s second biggest economy, China is facing a social care crisis, particularly in caring for an increasingly elderly population. According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, by 2040 nearly 20% of China’s rural population will be aged over 65. The government called on the church to provide care for the elderly, as well as offering drug prevention and rehabilitation, and work with those living with HIV. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, December 2013 |
| The family advocacy organisation Common Sense Media has found that 38% of children under the age of 2 have used a mobile device for playing games, watching videos or other media-related purposes. The time spent using these devices showed that children aged 0 to 8 spent an average of 15 minutes a day using mobile devices. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, December 2013 |
| A technique which would create three-parent babies was criticised as a eugenic practice and ‘incompatible with human dignity’ by members of the Council of Europe in mid-October. A group of eight British MPs and peers, along with 26 other European politicians, signed a declaration saying that the technique is against international law. In the UK, the government has backed moves to allow scientists to take genetic material from three or four adults to create a child. Politicians have to vote on the technique before it can become law in the UK, with supporters saying the technique would help avoid mitochondrial disease passed on from mother to child. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, December 2013 |
| According to research commissioned by the Dying Matters coalition in 2012, more than two-thirds (71%) of the public agree that people in Britain are uncomfortable discussing dying, death and bereavement. No doubt the evasion of the subject has been informed by the increasingly medicalised and distanced nature of death, which is often removed from day-to-day family and community life. Dying Matters also say that nearly 60% of UK deaths now take place in hospital, despite the fact that 70% of people would prefer to die at home. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity, December 2013 |
| Just 12% of adults know the nativity story, and 51% of people say the birth of Jesus is irrelevant to their Christmas. That’s according to ChristmasstartswithChrist.com, an annual campaign designed to help churches and communities to remember the real meaning of Christmas. Its website has links to posters, leaflets, advent calendars and information to support churches at Christmas. | |
| Social Issues | Christianity, December 2013 |
| More than a quarter of young people in Britain do not trust Muslims, a BBC Radio One Newsbeat survey has discovered. Of the 1000 asked in the poll, 27 per cent said that they didn’t trust Muslims, 16 per cent said that they didn’t trust Hindus or Sikhs, 15 per cent said they didn’t trust Jews and 12 per cent said they didn’t trust Christians. | |
| Social Issues | Youthwork, November 2013 |
| The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged families not to make their lives ‘miserable’ at Christmas attempting to keep up with ‘ridiculous and absurd’ pressures to spend money. The Most Rev Justin Welby admitted it was a ‘cliche of modern life’ to complain about materialism at Christmas but he said the ‘over the top’ consumerism of the festive season was putting relationships under strain. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, November 12, 2013 |
| David Cameron has attacked Facebook as ‘irresponsible’ for lifting a ban on videos of beheadings being posted on its site. The Prime Minister said the social network must explain its decision to allow images showing decapitations to ‘worried parents’. Facebook indicated it could introduce warnings for viewers about graphic content but insisted the website should be a place where people could share their experiences about controversial events. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, October 23, 2013 |
| Home Secretary Theresa May has said ad vans telling illegal immigrants to ‘go home or face arrest’ were ‘too much of a blunt instrument’ after the Government confirmed it would scrap the campaign. The Home Office recently came under fire for using the ads reading “In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest”. The department confirmed earlier it does not intend to roll out the campaign nationwide following an evaluation. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, October 23, 2013 |
| 97% of abortions carried out in the UK last year could have been illegal, a pro-life charity chairman said in early August. Professor Jack Scarisbrick referred to the latest Department of Health statistics which show that abortions were mostly performed on mental health grounds. But the latest Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists guidelines say women with an unexpected pregnancy are no more or less likely to suffer adverse psychological consequences if they have an abortion or continue with the pregnancy. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, September 2013 |
| Wealthy gay dad, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, said in early August that he and his civil partner Tony will go to court to force churches to host gay weddings. He told the Essex Chronicle that he will take legal action because, ‘I am still not getting what I want’. A government bill legalising gay marriage passed Parliament over the summer, but it was said to include measures to protect churches from being forced to perform same-sex marriages. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, September 2013 |
| The Government’s attempt to slash net migration has suffered a set back after fresh figures revealed the first increase in Britain in more than a year. Home Secretary Teresa May and Prime Minister David Cameron want to reduce net migration from non-EU counties to less than 100,000 before the next election in 2015. But the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed a net flow of 176,000 migrants came to the UK in the year to December 2012, up from 153,000 in the year to September 2012, ending five consecutive quarters of decline. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel, August 30th 2013 |
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