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UK Education Minister rejects mandatory sex-ed in schools

Britain’s Education Secretary has rejected calls to make sex education mandatory in primary and secondary schools across England. According to The Christian Institute, Nicky Morgan MP rejected calls from four different House of Commons committee chiefs to introduce Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), and Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) as mandatory subjects, stating...

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Couples who attend church together happier – study

Couples who attend church together are happier than those who do not, new research has found. According to the research, undertaken by the US-based Institute for Family Studies, fully 78% of couples who state they attend church as a couple described themselves as “extremely happy” compared with 67% of couples who do not attend religious services either as a couple or on an individual...

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Party leaders refuse to back Constitutional right to life

Both the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil leaders refused to back the Constitutional protection for unborn children during the first televised debate of the general election campaign. Questioned on their own stance and their parties’ stances on the current debate around repealing the 8th Amendment in response to life-limiting foetal abnormalities, Taoiseach Enda Kenny reiterated his belief that the best way forward on...

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Northern Ireland rejects abortion legislation

The Northern Ireland Assembly has rejected legislative changes aimed at easing the region’s abortion restrictions. In a vote at Stormont on an amendment to the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945, Members of the Local Assembly (MLAs) rejected, by 59 to 40, a proposal to allow for...

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Far fewer Catholic schools oversubscribed than previously estimated

Far fewer Catholic primary schools in Ireland are oversubscribed than we previously estimated, The Irish Catholic reports. Despite routine claims by politicians and commentators that one in five primary schools are oversubscribed in an ongoing debate around Catholic schools prioritising the children of Catholic parents in the event of over-enrollment, an exclusive report in The...

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Social media harming relationships – ACCORD

Social media are having a detrimental effect on married couples, new research has found. As he released the annual report of the Church’s marriage preparation and counselling service, ACCORD, the body’s president, Bishop Denis Nulty, also unveiled the results of a broad-ranging study of ACCORD’s own records between 2007 and 2015, which reveals a steady...

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Northern Ireland Bishops issue appeal ahead of abortion vote

Northern Ireland’s Catholic Bishops have called on legislators to protect unborn children as they prepare to vote on allowing abortion in the region under certain circumstances. Ahead of a vote on an amendment to the Northern Ireland Justice Bill which would allow terminations based on a diagnosis of a life-limiting condition in a foetus, the Bishops...

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European Bishops welcome ‘genocide’ finding against Islamic State

The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) has welcomed the European Parliament resolution describing Islamic State violence against Christians and other religious minorities as ‘genocide’. In a statement on behalf of the group, COMECE’s general secretary Fr Patrick Daly said the move was “as remarkable as it was welcome”. “We warmly welcome...

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BBC accused of bias for ‘pro-abortion’ guidelines in reporting

Britain’s national broadcaster, the BBC, has been accused of bias after the emergence of a document instructing reporters to use pro-abortion language. According to The Christian Institute, the BBC’s official ‘News style guide’ requires that staff should never use the term ‘pro-abortion’, but instead use ‘pro-choice’. This is recommended by the guide as “campaigners favour a...

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Time for ‘comfortable Christianity’ is over, leading academic says

A leading American academic has issued a rallying call to Christians in a country where “the love affair with Jesus and his Gospel and his Church is over”. In a major speech to delegates at the annual Legatus Summit of Catholic business leaders in Florida, and reported by Lifesite News, Professor Robert George of Princeton...

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