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| A recent survey revealed that many people harbour incredibly negative attitudes to religion. Some 46% of those surveyed said that “religion is a major part of the problem in our world,” whilst 42% think it’s not religion per se but “people of faith” who are the problem. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Inspire issue 114 - July/August 2017 |
| New data from vitality shows that sedentary people who increase their activity level to 21 minute a day (150 minutes a week) are likely to live 3.1 years longer as a result. Increasing to 90 minute a week could add 2.7 years, or just 60 minutes 2.4 years. | |
| Health | Inspire issue 114 - July/August 2017 |
| 28 per cent of 11-to-12-year-olds report seeing pornography and by 15, children were more likely to have seen online pornography with 65 per cent of 15-to-16-year-olds reporting seeing pornography. Children were as likely to stumble across pornography as to search for it deliberately...Although 27 per cent of children felt shocked when they first viewed pornography, that decreased to only eight per cent in relation to their current viewing of it. 31 per cent of the boys and 15 per cent of the girls reported that they continue to see pornography after first viewing it. Once a child has encountered pornography, the likelihood increases of encountering it again, even unintentionally. For those who continue to view it, young people become less negative and generally less anxious or disgusted by pornography. Most children first saw online pornography on a portable laptop (38 per cent), although mobile phone access was also relatively common (33 per cent) and just under one- quarter first saw online pornography on a desktop computer (24 per cent). | |
| Young People | Faith at Home - 2016-2017 |
| Yemen is suffering the worst cholera epidemic in the world, with more than 200,000 cases of the disease affecting every region of the war-torn country, the UN has warned. It has blamed the outbreak on two years of civil war in the country, which has destroyed water and sanitation systems, allowing the disease to spread rapidly (News, 7 April). More than 14.5 million people in the country do not have access to clean water. A joint statement from UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) at the weekend said that more than 1300 people had died so far from the disease, a quarter of them children. The death toll is expected to rise further. | |
| World Issues | Church Times - June 30 2017 |
| More than a million private renters currently have to claim housing benefits to help cover the cost of their rent. Many of them are already in work, but owing to high rents and slow wage-growth, they cannot meet the cost of even the cheapest homes without additional support. | |
| Housing | Church Times - June 30 2017 |
| More than a million households in Britain are at the risk of becoming homeless by 2020, owing to the benefit freeze and the escalating cost of rents in the private sector, a report from Shelter suggests. | |
| Housing | Church Times - June 30 2017 |
| As many as 80 per cent of the more than 1.2 million Foodbank-users in the UK are forced to skip meals “multiple times a year” because they cannot afford basic provisions, research from the University of Oxford and King’s College, London, suggests. The research was published yesterday in a report, Financial Insecurity, Food Security, and Disability, from the Trussell Trust, which runs 428 Foodbanks across the country. Inflation, coupled with low incomes and benefit delays are largely to blame, the charity says. Of the more than 400 households served by the 18 foodbanks surveyed for its report, almost half reported regularly “unsteady” incomes. For 78 per cent of households, in the past year, going without eating was the only solution – sometimes for days at a time – to cut expenditure. Three out five said that rising or unexpected expenses, including increased food prices, were a key cause. | |
| Social Issues | Church Times - June 30 2017 |
| More than one in ten people in debt do not have a bed to sleep in at night, and others have to rent a bed by the week because they can’t afford to buy their own, a report published by the charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests, writes a staff reporter. New survey data from 1200 of CAP’s new clients in the UK also found that one in three of those who came to them for help could not afford a washing machine, and a quarter could not buy a television. | |
| Social Issues | Church Times - June 30 2017 |
| The fall in teenage pregnancies in the UK can be linked to funding cuts for sexual health services, according to new research. Funding changes meant less advertising for services and made contraceptives less readily available. The findings have been described as a ‘wake-up call’ to those who continue to claim such services are needed to reduce teen pregnancies. The Government spent hundreds of millions of pounds on its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy between 1999 and 2010 before it was axed. | |
| Social Issues | The Christian Institute Newsletter - Summer 2017 |
| Two year old children should be taught about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual issues, according to National Union of Teachers (NUT). At its annual conference in April, delegates passed a motion calling for compulsory teaching of LGBT issues “throughout all phases of state education” including nurseries. | |
| Education | The Christian Institute Newsletter - Summer 2017 |
| The information reveals that 11.5 per cent of BBC bosses and 10.6 per cent of staff are LGBT. According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics only 1.7 per cent of the population is lesbian, gay or bisexual. The number of people who have obtained a gender recognition certificate to change their legal birth sex is only 4,500 – around 0.007 per cent of the UK population. | |
| Social Issues | The Christian Institute Newsletter - Summer 2017 |
| The statistics are startling: around 75 percent of 5-15 year olds now use a tablet. 20 percent of 8-15 year olds, when questioned, said they believed that everything they see on social media is true. And only one third of 12-15 year olds could identify the advertising they were seeing in their search engine. It’s estimated that around 90% of children have a digital footprint in the form of photos and family information posted on social media by the time they reach their second birthday. Research shows that 92 percent of parents manage their child’s time on the internet. | |
| Media | Families First - May/June 2017 |
| A recent study showed that 75 per cent of parents think sex education should be compulsory and that schools should teach about these issues. | |
| Education | Families First - May/June 2017 |
| 50 per cent of young people feel comfortable sharing their faith all or most of the time, according to a survey by HOPE Revolution partnership. | |
| Young People | Premier Christianity - July 2017 |
| Seven in ten women would like to see the time limit for abortion reduced, according to a poll by the pro-life group ‘Where do they stand’. | |
| Social Issues | Premier Christianity - July 2017 |
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