Key Quotes for 2004

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The EU is already the largest population block after China (1,273 million) and India (1,029 million). There's a huge amount of at least nominal Christianity in Europe, which will grow as the European Union gets larger.
Religion/Spirituality	The Church of England Newspaper - 19th February 2004



The Kinsey Report of 1953 estimated that some 10 per cent of the population were homosexual. Surveying nearly 20,000 randomly selected Britons, the Welcome researchers concluded that only 6.1 per cent of men and 3.4 per cent of women had had any homosexual experience at any stage in their lifetime. They concluded that 90 per cent of that 6.1 per cent of men had also had a female sexual partner, while 95.8 per cent of the 3.4 per cent of women had also had a male partner. Barely one per cent of men and less than 0.25 per cent of women described their sexual experience as mostly or exclusively homosexual.
Sex	The Church of England Newspaper - 19th February 2004



The Met Office which keeps track of weather and temperature patterns has predicted that temperatures in Britain will rise between 1'C and 3'C by 2080. There is clear evidence that the winter season is shrinking and that spring now arrives about two weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago. That means that for every degree rise in temperature, spring arrives about six days earlier.
Environment	Kids Alive - 13th March 2004



allysally is a large public sector housing estate consisting of approximately 1100 dwellings, situated on the outskirts of Coleraine, N. Ireland. The area suffers from a concentration of social problems and a high level of deprivation. Unemployment is in excess of 60 per cent, over 30 per cent of families are single parent and 75 per cent of the population in the area depend on social security benefits.
Social Issues	Christian Irishman - March 2004



The Salvation Army in South Africa is continuing its partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme to assist as many people as possible. The number of people being fed has increased enormously. In the first month 3,000 people were fed in Butha Buthe alone. With the addition of the distribution in Mafeteng, the relief programme provides 105,000 people with basic food supplies every month.
Church	Salvationist - 13th March 2004



"The country of Rwanda holds the world record for the most people killed in 100 days: an estimated 1 million. Whole generations were wiped out. People lost their entire families.
Disasters/War	Salvationist - 13th March 2004



More 16 to 18 year olds join the NHS Organ Donor Register than any other age group and most of them enrol by the driving licence route." "More than 7,000 people need a transplant to save or dramatically improve their life. But the shortage of donors means fewer than 3,000 are carried out each year. Every year nearly 400 people die while waiting and many more lose their lives before they get on the transplant list." "Research shows that 90 per cent of people in the UK support the principle of organ donation. But only about 18 per cent have got round to registering their wishes.
Health	The War Cry - 13th March 2004



A national survey of 20,000 households in Britian found that young women aged 16 to 24 drank an average of 14.1 units of alcohol a week in 2002, compared with 11 units in 1998. Their consumption has doubled in 10 years. Young men of the same age drank more than women but their alcohol intake was on a downward trend, averaging 21.5 units a week in 2002, compared with 25.5 in 1998. There was also a drop in the number of young men going on alcohol binges. The proportion who had gone on a bender at least once in the week before the survey fell from 39% in 1998 to 35% in 2002. Over the same period the proportion of young women binge drinkers rose from 24% to 28%.
Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions	The Guardian,Friday 19th March 2004.



The 1,800+ children who lost their parents in the earthquake in Bam may face a future growing up in an orphanage, according to World Vision.
Disasters/War	Enough - Issue 6 2004



In 2002 children between 10 and 17 committed 49,200 crimes. Over 6,000 of these were acts of violence. For some time now police chiefs and researchers have made it very clear that family breakdown has been a key factor in our crime statistics.
Crime	Enough - Issue 6 2004



The majority of homeless people have to choose between eating or paying for other essentials, according to a new survey from Housing Justice. The survey into how easy it is for homeless people to maintain a healthy diet found that three out of four (77 per cent) have to make difficult decisions between buying food or using their limited resources on other essentials. The Housing Justice survey revealed that over half (60 per cent) of the people spoken to found it difficult to eat well, and nearly a third of them said the reason was a lack of money. Although the survey shows that just over 50 per cent the people had eaten fresh fruit and vegetables on the day before the survey, this was primarily because a few day centres provide well balanced meals.
Health	Enough - Issue 6 2004



illions of tea producers not selling to the Fairtrade market are currently being hit hard by the huge fall in tea prices - almost half in real terms - since the 1970's. The Times of India recently reported that hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost due to a 22 per cent price plunge.
Money	Enough - Issue 6 2004



At a factory in Southern India, twelve year old Raj is forced to work, closing the ends of cigarettes. An average day lasts 15 hours, starting at 6am and finishing at 9pm. An average working week is six days. He gets two five minute breaks a day, if he is lucky. His pay depends on the number of cigarette ends he closes - the goal being 3,000 a day. His family is meant to use this to repay a moneylender's loan. But Raj's wages are so low (approximately 30 pence a day), and the interest charged on the loan is so exorbitant, that he has no hope of ever clearing the outstanding debt.
Money	Enough - Issue 6 2004



Rwanda has been crucified by a genocide that killed 1.2 million people out of its population of 8 million. Half of the women in Rwanda are widows now, and half of these were raped.
Disasters/War	Lent Extra 2004



The tax credit regime is leaving many two-parent households in poverty - i.e. with an income below 60 per cent median (Government target) - in circumstances where a comparable lone parent family would be lifted well clear of poverty. Of the 3.8 million children in poverty in 2001/02, 1.45 million children (largest single category) were in working, two parent families. Most families who are in poverty this year will still be in poverty next year if the 60 per cent median is 4-5 per cent higher next year than this.
Family	Now - March 2004

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