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	<title>The Christian Institute &#187; News</title>
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		<title>Video: church left in ruins after yobs set Bibles alight</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-church-left-in-ruins-after-yobs-set-bibles-alight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian heritage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 19th century Cambridgeshire church has been gutted following a massive fire, reportedly started when yobs set Bibles and prayer books alight. 

Watch a BBC report on the story


The news comes in the same week as it emerged youths disrupted a Roman Catholic church service, running to the front and intimidating the congregation.
The horrific fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mum is glad she couldn’t end it all, says Baroness</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mum-is-glad-she-couldnt-end-it-all-says-baroness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mum-is-glad-she-couldnt-end-it-all-says-baroness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My cancer-stricken mum longed to die, but she went on to enjoy another four years surrounded by her loving family, says Baroness Finlay of Llandaff.
Lady Finlay, writing in the Daily Mail, has revealed how her mum longed to escape her suffering caused by breast cancer, but the law against assisted suicide protected her when she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police told: don&#8217;t ask for &#8216;Christian&#8217; names, it offends</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/police-told-dont-ask-for-christian-names-it-offends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/police-told-dont-ask-for-christian-names-it-offends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political correctness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Police in Kent have been banned from asking for a person&#8217;s &#8220;Christian&#8221; name, in case it offends people from other faiths.
The call has been met with dismay, with one experienced officer calling it politically correct &#8220;nonsense&#8221;. 
And the Plain English Campaign questioned whether there really was anyone from other faiths who would be offended. 
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underage sex should have consequences, says Tory MP</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/under-age-sex-should-have-consequences-says-tory-mp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/under-age-sex-should-have-consequences-says-tory-mp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age of consent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Underage sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A senior Tory MP has questioned why there are no legal consequences for children who break the law by engaging in underage sex.
Tim Loughton, who made the comments during an interview with the Guardian newspaper, said: “How many kids get prosecuted for having underage sex? Virtually none. 
&#8220;Where are the consequences of breaking the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brit expat loses his  genderless status</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/brit-expat-loses-his-genderless-status/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/brit-expat-loses-his-genderless-status/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transsexualism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A British expat who became the first person in the world to be officially recognised as genderless has lost his no-gender status. 
Norrie May-Welby, who moved to Australia when he was seven, is a man but chose to undergo a sex change operation 20 years ago.
However, Mr May-Welby wasn’t happy with his new body and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious freedom is being restricted, says new study</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/religious-freedom-is-being-restricted-says-new-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/religious-freedom-is-being-restricted-says-new-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a third of people in the UK believe that religious freedom has been restricted over the past ten years, according to a new poll.


Download The Christian Institute&#8217;s &#8216;Marginalising Christians&#8217; report


In an accompanying report, entitled Free to Believe, Professor Roger Trigg warns that pushing Christian voices from the public sphere will undermine democracy.
Prof Trigg writes: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scots fertility clinic in   row over foreign eggs</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scots-fertility-clinic-in-row-over-foreign-eggs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scots-fertility-clinic-in-row-over-foreign-eggs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IVF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Scottish fertility clinic has been branded “irresponsible” and “exploitative” for allowing Scottish women to buy human eggs abroad.
British law currently bans the selling of human eggs, and requires all donors to be traceable by any future children. 
But now an IVF clinic based in Glasgow is set to bypass these laws by teaming up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methadone is doing me more harm than heroin</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/methadone-is-doing-me-more-harm-than-heroin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/methadone-is-doing-me-more-harm-than-heroin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methadone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Drug users hooked on methadone are pleading with the Government to help them get off drugs completely instead of just parking them on the heroin substitute. 
One former addict, Rosie, told The Times methadone is &#8220;almost more of a poison than heroin, there doesn’t ever seem to be an end to it”.
And Jay, who started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glimmer of hope for RC adoption agency</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/glimmer-of-hope-for-rc-adoption-agency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/glimmer-of-hope-for-rc-adoption-agency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Orientation Regulations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[England’s last remaining Roman Catholic adoption agency has won a lifeline in the High Court today over laws which could force it to consider homosexuals as parents.
Leeds-based Catholic Care is battling for its life because its policy of not placing children with unmarried couples may breach Labour’s homosexual equality laws.
Today’s High Court ruling gives the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human egg set to be &#8216;raffled&#8217; as IVF prize</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/human-egg-set-to-be-raffled-as-ivf-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/human-egg-set-to-be-raffled-as-ivf-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IVF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A British IVF centre is today raffling a human egg in a move labelled as &#8220;deplorable&#8221; by a pro-life expert. 
Listen to the issue being debated
on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme

The Bridge Centre in London is promoting a new service which allows recipients to choose an IVF egg based on the egg donor&#8217;s race and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Muslim gangs force Sharia law in UK prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-muslim-gangs-force-sharia-law-in-uk-prisons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-muslim-gangs-force-sharia-law-in-uk-prisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Radical Muslim gangs are forcing a form of Sharia law on non-Muslim inmates in the nation’s prisons, according to a BBC investigation.

Muslim gangs force Sharia law in UK prisons


A former prison officer from Long Lartin prison, a maximum security centre, told BBC Radio 5 Live about instances where non-Muslim inmates were beaten up and intimidated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen mums set to get &#8216;life coaching&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/teen-mums-set-to-get-life-coaching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/teen-mums-set-to-get-life-coaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenage sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Teenage mothers are set to get several years of one-on-one ‘life coaching’ from dedicated nurses, under new plans to be announced.
Pregnant girls under the age of 21 will get support from new “nurse practitioners”, according to proposals.
Support
Findings from pilot schemes in 60 areas across the country suggested that young women who received dedicated support were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public fury at demo of sex positions on This Morning</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/public-fury-at-demo-of-sex-positions-on-this-morning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/public-fury-at-demo-of-sex-positions-on-this-morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public decency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taste and decency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scores of viewers have expressed outrage after witnessing actors demonstrating sex positions live on ITV’s flagship daytime television show, This Morning.
Members of the public have flooded internet message boards and complained to media groups saying the explicit sex topics were “inappropriate” for a morning show.
Shock
This Morning, traditionally famous for cookery and fashion features, shocked viewers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Definition of marriage blurred by &#8216;gay rights&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/definition-of-marriage-blurred-by-gay-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/definition-of-marriage-blurred-by-gay-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage and the family]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[English law no longer has a “clear concept of marriage” due to the advance of ‘homosexual rights’, according to one of the country’s top family lawyers.  
Baroness Deech, Chair of the Bar Standards Board, also believes that human rights law could soon be used to legalise full homosexual marriage.
The independent peer is delivering a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase in non-Muslims opting for Sharia courts</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/increase-in-non-muslims-opting-for-sharia-courts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/increase-in-non-muslims-opting-for-sharia-courts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tiny but increasing number of non-Muslims are turning to Sharia courts to resolve civil disputes, but critics fear that the courts are inherently discriminatory. 
The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) is reporting a 15% increase in the number of non-Muslims resorting to Islamic courts to settle commercial disputes this year. 
Last year, over 20 non-Muslims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feminists tell Poles to fly to Britain for free abortion</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/feminists-tell-poles-to-fly-to-britain-for-free-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/feminists-tell-poles-to-fly-to-britain-for-free-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Polish women are being told to fly to the UK for a free abortion on the NHS. 
A feminist group is promoting adverts which, using the famous MasterCard slogan, proclaim the &#8220;relief&#8221; at having an NHS abortion is &#8220;priceless&#8221;. 
Ann Widdecombe MP said the advert shows Britain has turned into the abortion capital of Europe. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scandal of naked lap-dancer aged 14</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scandal-of-naked-lap-dancer-aged-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scandal-of-naked-lap-dancer-aged-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prostitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenage sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 14-year-old schoolgirl has been discovered performing naked in a lap-dancing club while her mother thought she was at a friend’s sleepover.
An investigation by The Sun newspaper revealed that the girl, who has not been named, was allegedly dancing naked behind a screen and taking customers for private dances until 3am.
Undercover
According to the newspaper&#8217;s investigation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron pledges  support for faith schools</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/david-cameron-pledges-support-for-faith-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/david-cameron-pledges-support-for-faith-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has pledged his support for faith schools and has indicated that a Conservative Government would oversee an increase in their numbers. 
During an interview with The Jewish Chronicle Mr Cameron declared himself to be “a big supporter of faith schools, personally as well as politically”.
Mr Cameron, whose daughter attends a Church of England [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Office funds Muslim police more than Christian</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/home-office-funds-muslim-police-more-than-christian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/home-office-funds-muslim-police-more-than-christian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Muslim police group has received at least six times more funding than a Christian group in recent years, according to new figures released by the Home Office.


Download The Christian Institute&#8217;s &#8216;Marginalising Christians&#8217; report


The National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) received £90,000 in Government grants in the last two years, but the Christian Police Association [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Death arrives in UK for suicide &#8216;workshops&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dr-death-arrives-in-uk-for-suicide-workshops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dr-death-arrives-in-uk-for-suicide-workshops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An assisted suicide advocate known as Dr Death is holding a suicide ‘workshop’ in London today. 

Watch a Sky News report
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		<title>Porn director to stand as Lib Dem candidate</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/porn-director-to-stand-as-lib-dem-candidate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/porn-director-to-stand-as-lib-dem-candidate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democrats have selected a porn director to stand for a Parliamentary seat and party leader Nick Clegg has defended the decision saying she would be a passionate campaigner for her local area.
“She&#8217;s not done anything illegal”, said Mr Clegg when asked his view on somebody involved in pornography representing his party.
“I think all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RC bishops slam Irish Civil Partnership Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/rc-bishops-slam-irish-civil-partnership-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/rc-bishops-slam-irish-civil-partnership-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ireland&#8217;s Civil Partnership Bill is an &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; attack on freedom of conscience and religion, Irish Roman Catholic bishops have said. 
Speaking at a press conference three Irish bishops said the Bill “represents a fundamental revolution in our understanding of marriage and the family and cannot go unchallenged”.
 Rights 
The Irish Civil Partnership Bill goes even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum alcohol pricing &#8216;would save lives&#8217;, says MP</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/minimum-alcohol-pricing-would-save-lives-says-mp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/minimum-alcohol-pricing-would-save-lives-says-mp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of lives in England and Wales could be saved if minimum pricing is introduced, according to a senior Labour MP. 
Kevin Barron, chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, made the claim as both the Westminster and Holyrood parliaments debated the issue.  
Mr Barron, speaking in the Westminster debate, said: “It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dignitas death for wife who tried to murder her husband</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dignitas-death-for-wife-who-tried-to-murder-her-husband/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dignitas-death-for-wife-who-tried-to-murder-her-husband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A woman who attempted to smother her seriously ill husband to death, despite his objections, has ended her life in a Swiss suicide clinic.
The 1999 trial of Vicki Wood, who died at the Dignitas facility last Friday, was seen as a watershed in the nation’s debate on assisted suicide.
During the trial a High Court Judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stats: 1 in 10 drug offenders are kids</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/stats-1-in-10-drug-offenders-are-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/stats-1-in-10-drug-offenders-are-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 100 children are convicted of drug offences every week, shocking figures from the Ministry of Justice have shown.
Separate figures also show one in ten drug offenders is a child, a figure double the proportion when Labour came to power.  
The Government has come under fire for its drugs policies, with its £10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay-at-home mums are deserting Labour</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/stay-at-home-mums-are-deserting-labour-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/stay-at-home-mums-are-deserting-labour-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ordinary stay-at-home mums are deserting the Labour Party because of its &#8216;career woman policies&#8217;, according to sociologist Geoff Dench.
Mr Dench, who revealed his findings during a presentation on family policy, said: “Women who value home and family life above a career are becoming disenfranchised. 
“The feminist ‘sisterhood’ has clearly failed them, and the result is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MP wants to change   assisted suicide law</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mp-wants-to-change-assisted-suicide-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mp-wants-to-change-assisted-suicide-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has controversially called for a public inquiry to consider legalising assisted suicide, during a debate in the House of Commons.
She called for a Royal Commission to examine the issue. A Royal Commission is a public inquiry set up by the Government with substantial powers of investigation.
Miss Hewitt’s call follows the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MP: ban lingerie ads on buses to protect kids</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mp-ban-lingerie-ads-on-buses-to-protect-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mp-ban-lingerie-ads-on-buses-to-protect-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lingerie adverts that are too erotic should be banned to protect children from getting the wrong ideas about sex, a Tory MP says. 
Nadine Dorries also wants &#8216;lads mags&#8217; featuring semi-naked girls on the cover to be removed from child-eye level in newsagents. 
The MP for Mid-Bedfordshire has drawn attention to an Armani advertising campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millionaire ex-con sells all to   look after Ugandan orphans</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/millionaire-ex-con-sells-all-to-look-after-ugandan-orphans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/millionaire-ex-con-sells-all-to-look-after-ugandan-orphans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A telecommunications tycoon has given up his “incredibly selfish” life and is moving to Uganda to start a charity helping orphans after &#8216;finding God&#8217;.
Jon Pedley, who by his own admission has in the past pursued money above everything else, has decided to sell his businesses, his home and all of his furniture to pay for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Dutch set to debate weakening euthanasia laws</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-dutch-set-to-debate-weakening-euthanasia-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-dutch-set-to-debate-weakening-euthanasia-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dutch Parliament is set to debate allowing elderly people who &#8220;consider their lives complete&#8221; to have non-doctors assist them in their suicide. 

Watch a CBN report


Holland has already legalised euthanasia for terminally ill people, and last year there were around 2,500 cases of people dying under the law.
But this new move comes as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sexting&#8217; to be included in primary curriculum</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/sexting-to-be-included-in-primary-curriculum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/sexting-to-be-included-in-primary-curriculum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Primary-aged children should be taught about the dangers of sending sexually explicit picture and text messages via mobile phones, according to Government plans.
So-called ‘sexting’ is seen as part of the growing sexualisation of young girls under pressure from boys who have watched too much pornography.
It has also led to bullying of girls whose images and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tories reveal &#8216;rainbow list&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/tories-reveal-rainbow-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/tories-reveal-rainbow-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party has released a list of its homosexual candidates standing at the upcoming General Election. 
Although the party says it has 20 &#8216;out&#8217; gay candidates, only eleven of them were happy to be named on the public list. 
 Change 
The register, which has been dubbed a &#8216;rainbow list&#8217;, was released to The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliament dumps title &#8216;chairman&#8217; …it’s &#8217;sexist&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/parliament-dumps-title-chairman-%e2%80%a6its-sexist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/parliament-dumps-title-chairman-%e2%80%a6its-sexist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equality Bill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The House of Commons has ditched the &#8217;sexist&#8217; term &#8220;Chairman&#8221; from its proceedings and replaced it with &#8220;Chair&#8221;, but critics have slammed the move as &#8220;ridiculous&#8221;. 
Conservative MPs Nadine Dorries and Sir Patrick Cormack lambasted the name changes, which were brought to the Commons by Minister for Women and Equality, Harriet Harman. 
 Silly 
Sir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binge drinking mums trigger birth defects</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/binge-drinking-mums-trigger-birth-defects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/binge-drinking-mums-trigger-birth-defects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost a thousand Scots babies are suffering from potentially fatal brain and organ damage because mothers are drinking too much in the early stages of pregnancy, research has revealed.
Many more babies in Scotland may also face a lifetime suffering from malformations or learning difficulties. 
Researchers say the effects of excessive drinking on unborn babies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls: &#8216;we want parents to protect us from sex&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/girls-we-want-parents-to-protect-us-from-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/girls-we-want-parents-to-protect-us-from-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pornography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen girls have hit out at modern liberal mums who do little to protect them from ‘pornified’ boys.
“I wish my parents would say I&#8217;m not allowed to be home alone with a boy&#8221;, said one 16-year-old girl. &#8220;I wish they&#8217;d say boys aren&#8217;t allowed in my bedroom. 
&#8220;They make this big deal about &#8216;trusting us&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish pro-life fury over abortion reforms</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/spanish-pro-life-fury-over-abortion-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/spanish-pro-life-fury-over-abortion-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators have marched through Spanish cities protesting against a controversial bill which will allow abortion on demand. 
The Bill, which was passed by the Spanish Senate last month, will introduce abortion on demand up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy.
The law is expected to come into force in July, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish law firm set to provide Sharia advice</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scottish-law-firm-set-to-provide-sharia-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scottish-law-firm-set-to-provide-sharia-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Scottish law firm has become the first in the country to offer clients advice on Sharia law alongside its conventional legal services. 
The controversial service, offered by Glasgow based Hamilton Burns solicitors, allows clients to receive guidance from both a Muslim lawyer fully trained in Scottish law and a Sharia scholar.
The firm offers Islamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Lib Dems push for same-sex &#8216;marriage&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scottish-lib-dems-push-for-same-sex-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scottish-lib-dems-push-for-same-sex-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrats in Scotland have called on the Scottish Government to legalise full homosexual ‘marriage’.
The Lib Dem Scottish Spring Conference passed a motion on Sunday saying that aswell as legalising ‘marriage’, civil partnerships should also stay available to same-sex couples. 
Marriage
Party activists argued “the current arrangements with regards to marriage are discriminatory”.
The motion, entitled Equal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News at Ten anchor warns   of anti-Christian media bias</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/news-at-ten-anchor-warns-of-anti-christian-media-bias/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/news-at-ten-anchor-warns-of-anti-christian-media-bias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITV News at Ten anchor Julie Etchingham has warned that Christians are suffering discrimination at the hands of a secular media.
Mrs Etchingham, who is a Roman Catholic, is the latest public figure to warn about the anti-Christian bias in the nation’s media. 
During an interview with The Independent newspaper Mrs Etchingham lamented that the media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court rejects Ladele appeal request</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/supreme-court-rejects-ladele-appeal-request/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/supreme-court-rejects-ladele-appeal-request/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Supreme Court has refused permission for an appeal in the case of Lillian Ladele, a Christian registrar who was disciplined because of her stance on civil partnerships.
The nation’s highest court dismissed the application, claiming it “does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance.”
Miss Ladele says she is “disappointed” and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality quango: vegans protected by Harman&#8217;s Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/equality-quango-vegans-protected-by-harmans-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/equality-quango-vegans-protected-by-harmans-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equality Bill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2742</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vegans, Rastafarians and atheists will be protected from discrimination under the Equality Bill, equality bureaucrats claim. 
Philosophical beliefs such as Humanism will also be covered according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
The Equality Bill has been spearheaded through Parliament by Harriet Harman, the Labour Minister for Women and Equality. 
The Bill has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peer attacks bishop in civil partnership row</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/peer-attacks-bishop-in-civil-partnership-row/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/peer-attacks-bishop-in-civil-partnership-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A homosexual Labour Peer has accused a senior bishop of misleading the public about the consequences of an amendment to allow civil partnerships in churches. 
Lord Alli&#8217;s amendment to the Equality Bill would allow, but not compel, churches to hold civil partnership ceremonies.
But senior church leaders have warned that it could lead to legal action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parent voices fury at explicit sex ed video</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/parent-voices-fury-at-explicit-sex-ed-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/parent-voices-fury-at-explicit-sex-ed-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A mother has removed her seven-year-old daughter from school after pupils were made to watch a graphic cartoon showing a couple having sex.
The Christian Institute has a copy of this video but has deemed its content too graphic to show on this website.
The controversial Channel 4 sex education DVD, Living and Growing, is recommended by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trans man wants law to treat him as both sexes</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/trans-man-wants-law-to-treat-him-as-both-sexes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/trans-man-wants-law-to-treat-him-as-both-sexes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transsexualism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A transsexual man wants to be recognised as a man in the marriage system and a woman in the pension system. 
Christopher Timbrell, who has changed his name to Christine, was in the Court of Appeal yesterday with a case against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Mr Timbrell says he should have the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids as young as five could   be added to &#8216;hate registers&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/kids-as-young-as-five-could-be-added-to-hate-registers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/kids-as-young-as-five-could-be-added-to-hate-registers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate crimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Children as young as five will be added to compulsory ‘hate registers’ for using playground insults under new plans by Government ministers.
Earlier this week it was revealed that a ten-year-old schoolboy called Peter Drury was added to his school’s hate register for calling his friend “gay boy” outside school.
Traditionally teachers have been able to curb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s charities back alcohol minimum pricing</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/childrens-charities-back-alcohol-minimum-pricing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/childrens-charities-back-alcohol-minimum-pricing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A consortium of children’s charities in Scotland has backed the Scottish Government’s plans for minimum pricing on alcohol.
The group is urging the Government to put “children’s interests at the heart of alcohol policy”.
Last March ministers announced that a minimum price is to be set on a unit of alcohol in a bid to tackle Scotland’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPs blast equality body for wasting public cash</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mps-blast-equality-body-for-wasting-public-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mps-blast-equality-body-for-wasting-public-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EHRC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A powerful equality quango has been slammed by MPs for squandering taxpayers’ money, including wasting £1 million making staff redundant and then rehiring them.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was formed by the Government in 2006 at a cost of almost £40m.
But a committee of MPs has said the Commission&#8217;s formation was beset with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corrie set for Christian character&#8217;s lesbian kiss</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/corrie-set-for-christian-characters-lesbian-kiss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/corrie-set-for-christian-characters-lesbian-kiss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Coronation Street character known as a &#8216;born-again Christian&#8217; is set to have an on-screen lesbian kiss next month with a friend from her Bible study group. 
Last year when the plotline was revealed it was said that TV bosses were attempting to make the soap more &#8220;representative&#8221; of modern life.
Now it has been reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clergy may face court over civil partnerships</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/clergy-may-face-court-over-civil-partnerships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/clergy-may-face-court-over-civil-partnerships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senior church leaders and politicians fear that clergy might be taken to court if they refuse to allow homosexual civil partnership registrations to take place in church.
The warning comes after the House of Lords voted to back an amendment to the Equality Bill that allows, but does not compel, churches to host civil partnership registrations.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss make extra small condoms for 12-year-olds</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/swiss-make-extra-small-condoms-for-12-year-olds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/swiss-make-extra-small-condoms-for-12-year-olds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teenage pregnancy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve-year-old boys in Switzerland will soon be able to buy packets of extra small condoms, and the controversial contraceptives may soon be on their way to the UK. 
The Hotshot condoms, manufactured by Lamprecht AG, have been produced after research by the Swiss Government revealed that an increasing number of twelve to 14-year-olds are having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lords: Christians pushed to bottom of equality pile</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/lords-christians-pushed-to-bottom-of-equality-pile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/lords-christians-pushed-to-bottom-of-equality-pile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay adoption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christians are being pushed to the sidelines of public life because Labour has put homosexual ‘equality’ before religious liberty, the House of Lords has heard. 
Addressing the issue of Roman Catholic adoption agencies, Peers heard they did exceptional work but that in the face of the Government’s homosexual rights legislation they had been forced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danish paper says sorry for Mohammed cartoon</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/danish-paper-says-sorry-for-mohammed-cartoon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/danish-paper-says-sorry-for-mohammed-cartoon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the eleven Danish newspapers that controversially reprinted a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed has apologised as part of a settlement with a Saudi Arabian lawyer.
In 2008 the Islamic world reacted furiously to Danish newspapers reprinting a cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb-shaped turban. The furore sparked an international debate about the liberty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality quango revives 80s &#8216;loony Left&#8217; policies</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/equality-quango-revives-80s-loony-left-policies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/equality-quango-revives-80s-loony-left-policies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political correctness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The “startling” claim last week that school skirts may break equality rules shows that the ‘loony Left’ policies of the 1980s have been embedded at the powerful new Equality Commission, a columnist has warned.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Leo McKinstry ripped into a raft of measures unveiled by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>65 per cent rise in number of kids addicted to cocaine</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/65-per-cent-rise-in-number-of-kids-addicted-to-cocaine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/65-per-cent-rise-in-number-of-kids-addicted-to-cocaine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of children in England being treated for cocaine addiction has increased by 65 per cent since 2005, according to new official figures.
And a report by MPs has revealed that lines of the class A drug can now be bought for as little as £2 each, less than the price of a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims help lift library ban on Christian poster</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/muslims-help-lift-library-ban-on-christian-poster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/muslims-help-lift-library-ban-on-christian-poster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political correctness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Church poster has been banned from a public library because townhall officials claim it could ‘offend’ other faiths, but local Muslims and Sikhs have blasted the move. 
Kayll Road Library staff in Sunderland stopped a member from St Gabriel’s Church putting up a poster advertising the Women’s World Day of Prayer, claiming council policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homosexual unions allowed in churches</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/homosexual-unions-allowed-in-churches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/homosexual-unions-allowed-in-churches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Churches will be allowed, but not compelled, to register homosexual civil partnerships following a late night vote in the Lords yesterday.
However, critics fear the change in the law could open the way for litigation against churches that refuse to register such unions.
And others oppose the move because it makes civil partnerships more like full homosexual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fury at plans to air condom ads before 9pm watershed</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/fury-at-plans-to-air-condom-ads-before-9pm-watershed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/fury-at-plans-to-air-condom-ads-before-9pm-watershed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Condom adverts are set to be aired on national television before the 9pm watershed, according to press reports.
However, a separate proposal to allow abortion adverts has been put on hold by the UK’s advertising watchdog.
The rules will be relaxed to allow condom adverts following a proposal by the Government&#8217;s Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis users are still   escaping prosecution</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/cannabis-users-are-still-escaping-prosecution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/cannabis-users-are-still-escaping-prosecution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cannabis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Five out of six people caught with cannabis escape prosecution despite the fact that the Government has reclassified it as a more serious drug, according to new figures from the Home Office. 
The figures reveal that while 160,000 people were caught with cannabis in 2008-09, a mere 27,500 were taken to court.
Cannabis, a class B [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: big majority say family life crumbling under Labour</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/poll-big-majority-say-family-life-crumbling-under-labour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/poll-big-majority-say-family-life-crumbling-under-labour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family breakdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A massive 72 per cent of readers of a national newspaper say there has been a breakdown of family life in recent years. 
The survey, for The Sun newspaper, shows 43 per cent blame Labour’s benefits system while over a third say the reason is the lack of stigma now attached to being a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last remaining RC adoption agency battles for survival</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/last-remaining-rc-adoption-agency-battles-for-survival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/last-remaining-rc-adoption-agency-battles-for-survival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Orientation Regulations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last remaining Roman Catholic adoption agency in England and Wales is fighting for its life in a legal battle against Labour’s homosexual equality laws. 
Of the eleven Roman Catholic agencies operating in 2007, all but this last remaining one have either closed down or ditched their religious ethos because of sexual orientation regulations.
Leeds-based Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carey: Christians are &#8216;bullied&#8217; by politicians</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/carey-christianity-is-marginalised-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/carey-christianity-is-marginalised-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has condemned Britain&#8217;s marginalisation of Christianity and has called on believers to stand up for their faith.


Download The Christian Institute&#8217;s &#8216;Marginalising Christians&#8217; report


Speaking at an event organised by the Christian Broadcasting Council Lord Carey said: &#8220;It is clear that we must stand up against the marginalising of faith. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Death set to visit the UK and Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dr-death-set-to-visit-the-uk-and-ireland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dr-death-set-to-visit-the-uk-and-ireland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An assisted suicide advocate known as Doctor Death is planning to hold public meetings and suicide ‘workshops’ in both the UK and Ireland later this month.
The ‘workshops’ focus on “practical end-of-life strategies” and include an in-depth exploration of different ways to commit suicide.
Attendance at the controversial workshops, due to be held in London and Dublin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: media blamed for sexualisation of children</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-media-blamed-for-sexualisation-of-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-media-blamed-for-sexualisation-of-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Children are being harmed by exposure to sexual and violent images in the media and parents have limited opportunities to prevent it, a Home Office commissioned report has said.

Media blamed for sexualisation of children


The report, released today, recommends selling games consoles with parental controls already switched on and that adult content should be filtered out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over 30 Britons die in Swiss suicide facilities</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/over-30-britons-die-in-swiss-suicide-facilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/over-30-britons-die-in-swiss-suicide-facilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 30 Britons travelled to Swiss suicide facilities to end their lives last year, The Daily Telegraph has reported.
Figures obtained by the national newspaper revealed the number of people that had died in Dignitas or Ex-International in 2009.
Pro-lifers said recent media coverage of the issue had fuelled the numbers.
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, chairman of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland named as drug crime capital of the world</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scotland-named-as-drug-crime-capital-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/scotland-named-as-drug-crime-capital-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rate of drug-related crime in Scotland was six times that of the global average in 2006, making it the drug crime capital of the world, a UN report has revealed.  
The nation topped the list with Iran in second place and the USA fourth.
Critics have labelled Scotland’s efforts to combat its drug problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home school fury at   Ishaq abuse smears</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/home-school-fury-at-ishaq-abuse-smears/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/home-school-fury-at-ishaq-abuse-smears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home schooling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Home schoolers have expressed outrage after Ed Balls and council officials suggested that home education was involved in the tragic death of a severely abused girl. 
Seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq, who was imprisoned in her own home by her mother and step-father, starved to death in May 2008.
She was withdrawn from school in December 2007, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to admit the real cause of teen sex crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/time-to-admit-the-real-cause-of-teen-sex-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/time-to-admit-the-real-cause-of-teen-sex-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenage sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pandering to the ‘sexual rights’ of children to combat teen pregnancies didn’t work in the past and won’t work in the future, according to a national newspaper columnist and a University professor. 
Their comments follow figures which show the Government’s £280 million Teenage Pregnancy Strategy is set to fall desperately short of its target to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DPP&#8217;s assisted suicide guidance now issued</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dpps-assisted-suicide-guidance-now-issued/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dpps-assisted-suicide-guidance-now-issued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pro-lifers have voiced their concern over new assisted suicide guidelines, published today, which say prosecutions are unlikely if the act was &#8220;motivated by compassion&#8221;.

Watch Keir Starmer explain his new guidelines


Dr Peter Saunders, of the Care Not Killing alliance, criticised the new rules: “Anyone who takes part in an assisted suicide is going to claim they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tories: we’ll block home school plans</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/tories-well-block-home-school-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/tories-well-block-home-school-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children, Schools and Families Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home schooling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party yesterday vowed that it would halt the Government’s controversial plans to clamp down on home-schooling families.
Michael Gove, the Shadow Children’s Secretary, promised home educators that the proposals, which have been described as “aggressive” and “deeply sinister”, will never become law.
Home-schooling parents yesterday expressed delight at the assurances.
The Tories have the power to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Govt: Teens should see more &#8217;safer sex&#8217; on TV</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/govt-teens-should-see-more-safer-sex-on-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/govt-teens-should-see-more-safer-sex-on-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage pregnancy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Teenagers should see more ‘safer sex’ scenes in their favourite soaps in order to encourage the use of contraception, a Government report is set to recommend.
A third of young people look to TV for guidance on sex and relationships, the study is expected to show, and the Government says new measures could help viewers’ sexual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil partnerships fall but marriage rates hold in NI</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/civil-partnerships-fall-but-marriage-rates-hold-in-ni/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/civil-partnerships-fall-but-marriage-rates-hold-in-ni/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of new civil partnerships in Northern Ireland has declined for three years in a row, but the number of people marrying has remained steady.
Civil partnerships were legalised in December 2005, but the number of people entering into them has fallen for three successive years since their introduction.
In 2006, 2007 and 2008 the numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State benefits fuel ‘lifestyle choice’ of lone motherhood</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/state-benefits-fuel-lifestyle-choice-of-lone-motherhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/state-benefits-fuel-lifestyle-choice-of-lone-motherhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family breakdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lone parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage and the family]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One in four mothers is now a lone parent, with many making a “lifestyle choice” to rely on state benefits instead of a male partner, according to a sociologist.
Geoff Dench, who revealed his findings during a presentation on family policy, said: “It seems that lone motherhood is less a result of relationship breakdown, more a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen pregnancy strategy falling desperately short</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/teen-pregnancy-strategy-falling-desperately-short/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/teen-pregnancy-strategy-falling-desperately-short/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage pregnancy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A £280 million Government plan to slash the number of teenage pregnancies is set to be a spectacular failure, according to official statistics released yesterday.
Although the rate has dipped, it is falling woefully short of the Government’s stated target, and critics have called the Government’s plan a “disaster”.
In response, ministers have promised to &#8216;refresh&#8217; their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple purges some sexual content from the App store</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/apple-purges-some-sexual-content-from-the-app-store/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/apple-purges-some-sexual-content-from-the-app-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple has removed more than 5,000 applications with “overtly sexual&#8221; content from its online App Store following complaints from customers.
However, the Corporation has also been accused of hypocrisy after it continued to allow sexually provocative Apps from certain companies to remain in its store. 
And press reports indicate that Apple may be preparing to launch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown speaks out against assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/gordon-brown-speaks-out-against-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/gordon-brown-speaks-out-against-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister has issued a stark warning that any change to the law on assisted suicide would put pressure on “the frail and the vulnerable” to end their lives.
Gordon Brown’s warning comes a day before Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), will release his final guidance on assisted suicide prosecutions.
Writing in today’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Cardinal scoffs at Labour plea for faith voters</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/labour-must-respect-faith-voters-values-to-be-elected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/labour-must-respect-faith-voters-values-to-be-elected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Orientation Regulations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has slammed attempts by the Labour Government’s Scottish Secretary to court religious voters.  

Watch a BBC report on the story


Cardinal Keith O’Brien attacked the Westminster Government’s record on religious liberty, homosexual adoption and civil partnerships. 
He said the Government had “ignored” the views of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Muddled&#8217; sex education plans pass in Commons</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/muddled-sex-education-plans-pass-in-commons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/muddled-sex-education-plans-pass-in-commons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children, Schools and Families Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Government’s controversial sex education plans were forced through the Commons yesterday, but critics slammed a faith schools amendment as an “incoherent muddle”.
Labour used its control of the chamber to rush the Children, Schools and Families Bill through, but the Tories and the Lib Dems opposed it as centralising and bureaucratic.
Under the Bill, sex education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC accused of &#8216;zealous&#8217; drive for assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/bbc-accused-of-zealous-drive-for-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/bbc-accused-of-zealous-drive-for-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC faces allegations of pursuing an “incredibly zealous” campaign in favour of assisted suicide from a coalition led by Lord Carlile, the Government’s anti-terror adviser.
The Care Not Killing Alliance has accused the BBC of providing “biased” coverage on the issue, after it broadcast Sir Terry Pratchett’s lecture encouraging “euthanasia tribunals”. 
Lord Carlile, chairman of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lap-dancing clubs increase while library numbers drop</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/lap-dancing-clubs-increase-while-library-numbers-drop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/lap-dancing-clubs-increase-while-library-numbers-drop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lap dancing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lap-dancing clubs, casinos and betting shops are increasing in number in the UK, while the number of libraries and schools is falling, new figures show. 
The statistics have been called a modern day Domesday Book, with critics saying it shows the “decline of traditional Britain”.
The number of lap-dancing clubs has increased from 24 to 300 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect those who need it most, says Bishop Nazir-Ali</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/protect-those-who-need-it-most-says-bishop-nazir-ali/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/protect-those-who-need-it-most-says-bishop-nazir-ali/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church of England]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People at the end of their lives need support from families and hospices, not assisted suicide, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has said. 
His comments come as Christopher Graffius, writing in The Catholic Times, said that hospices can help to “overcome pain” and “preserve dignity”.
Dr Nazir-Ali, in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, also praised the hospice movement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children sexualised from an increasingly early age</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/children-sexualised-from-an-increasingly-early-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/children-sexualised-from-an-increasingly-early-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Children are being sexualised by computer games, easily accessible pornography and sexual slogans at an increasingly early age, according to a report due to be issued later this month. 
The report, written by Dr Linda Papadopolous, will reveal that girls feel pressurised to please boys, while boys feel pressurised to sleep with multiple girls.
Dr Papadopolous, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal bishops want civil partnerships in churches</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/liberal-bishops-want-civil-partnerships-in-churches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/liberal-bishops-want-civil-partnerships-in-churches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Homosexual couples should be able to have civil partnership ceremonies in churches, a group of liberal bishops and academics have said in a letter to The Times.
The bishops are backing a proposed amendment to the Equality Bill which would open the door for churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship, to carry out civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DPP’s final guidance on assisted suicide due soon</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dpps-final-guidance-on-assisted-suicide-due-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/dpps-final-guidance-on-assisted-suicide-due-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Director of Public Prosecutions is preparing to issue his final guidelines on when cases of assisted suicide will be prosecuted.
Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for England and Wales, issued draft guidelines last year, explaining the circumstances under which he would be likely to prosecute a case of assisted suicide.
Press reports indicate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer helps us fight crime claims top cop</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/prayer-helps-us-fight-crime-claims-top-cop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/prayer-helps-us-fight-crime-claims-top-cop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prayer is helping police in Devon and Cornwall to tackle crime, a police Inspector with the force has said.  
Inspector Roger Bartlett said that an increase in local crime detection rates and the capture of a prolific burglar are a result of local churchgoers praying. 
Mr Bartlett said: &#8220;Clearly, many who do not have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family-friendly actor dies at the age of 83</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/family-friendly-actor-dies-at-the-age-of-83/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/family-friendly-actor-dies-at-the-age-of-83/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The actor, Lionel Charles Jeffries who is best known as Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has died at the age of 83 years old. 
Mr Jeffries, who appeared in more than 100 films, was a prolific actor, screenwriter and director.
And when more explicit and violent movies began to replace family feature films Mr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School skirts may    violate equality</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/school-skirts-may-violate-equality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/school-skirts-may-violate-equality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transsexualism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Making girls wear skirts as part of their school uniform is “potentially unlawful”, equality bureaucrats have said.
It may discriminate against female pupils who have gender dysphoria and believe themselves to be boys, according to a 68 page report.
Officials at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have released their guidance in expectation that the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice threatened by Whitehall sex ed grab</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/choice-threatened-by-whitehall-sex-ed-grab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/choice-threatened-by-whitehall-sex-ed-grab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children, Schools and Families Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Government plan to centralise control of sex education in Whitehall will threaten parental choice and may squeeze Christian teachers out of their jobs, a top lawyer says.
John Bowers QC, a leading employment barrister, says the plans will shift control of sex education away from school governors, making it harder for parents to have any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Married parents &#8216;four times&#8217; more likely to stay together</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/married-parents-four-times-more-likely-to-stay-together/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/married-parents-four-times-more-likely-to-stay-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cohabitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family breakdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Married parents are four and a half times more likely to stay together than cohabitees, according to a new report.
The study also shows that marriage has become more stable for children in recent years, as fewer married couples separate.
Three quarters of couples in 2006 who were married when they had their first child were still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young mothers reject full time work in favour of kids</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/young-mothers-reject-full-time-work-in-favour-of-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/young-mothers-reject-full-time-work-in-favour-of-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage and the family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young mothers are increasingly turning their backs on high profile careers and looking to men as the main breadwinners, according to a leading sociologist.
Geoff Dench, who revealed his findings during a presentation on family policy, said: “Women with young children are going back to the very traditional division of labour in which they want the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith schools should not have sex lesson freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/faith-schools-should-not-have-sex-lesson-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/faith-schools-should-not-have-sex-lesson-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children, Schools and Families Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Humanists and the Lib Dems have both attacked a Government bid to protect the freedom of faith schools to teach sex education in keeping with their beliefs.
Faith schools are at risk because the Government&#8217;s plans for sex education are so radical, but its attempt to offer reassurance has come under attack from all sides.
The British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call to shrink parental choice over sex lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/call-to-shrink-parental-choice-over-sex-lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/call-to-shrink-parental-choice-over-sex-lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children, Schools and Families Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A parent&#8217;s right to decide whether their child is ready for sex education should be given to schools instead, a parliamentary committee says.
Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has been examining the Children, Schools and Families Bill, which contains the Government’s radical plans on sex education.
Apart from the basic biology of reproduction, parents may currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councils aren’t using binge drinking powers</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/councils-arent-using-powers-to-curb-binging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/councils-arent-using-powers-to-curb-binging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[24 hour drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Powers given to local authorities to crack down on disorder caused by binge drinking have not been used at all since being introduced two years ago, figures show. 
Alcohol Disorder Zones (ADZs) force pubs and clubs in alcohol-related trouble spots to stump up the cash for extra policing to combat the problem.
But according to information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of severely disabled man: protect the vulnerable</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mother-of-severely-disabled-man-protect-the-vulnerable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mother-of-severely-disabled-man-protect-the-vulnerable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My son will appear “expendable” if the law on assisted suicide is changed, the mother of a severely disabled man has said. 
In an emotional interview with the Daily Mail, Elisabeth Shepherd also warned that people like her son, James, could feel pressurised into ending their lives if the existing law is relaxed.
During the interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll results differ using &#8216;gay&#8217; than &#8216;homosexual&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/poll-results-differ-using-gay-than-homosexual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/poll-results-differ-using-gay-than-homosexual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the phrase “gay men and lesbians” rather than the term “homosexuals” can achieve a difference of 17 per cent in poll results, US news shows.
A poll by CBS News and the New York Times asked 1,084 people about homosexuals serving in the US military.
When the word “homosexuals” was used in the question, only a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Cameron speaks out against child sexualisation</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-cameron-speaks-out-against-child-sexualisation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/video-cameron-speaks-out-against-child-sexualisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child sexualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kids should be allowed to enjoy their childhood and be protected from increasing sexualisation, the Tory leader has said. 

Watch David Cameron speaking on GMTV


Mr Cameron laid out Tory plans to penalise companies who market their products inappropriately to children.
And while he said that children cannot be cut off from the commercialised world completely, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tory frontbencher lays out plans for more &#8216;gay rights&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/tory-frontbencher-lays-out-plans-for-more-gay-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/tory-frontbencher-lays-out-plans-for-more-gay-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Gay rights’ would be entrenched and moved forward under any future Conservative Government, a Tory Shadow Cabinet member has said.  
Speaking to a libertarian think-tank in the USA, Nick Herbert, who is openly gay, said that he backed gay couples adopting children. 
Mr Herbert said that there has been a &#8220;definite change&#8221; in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth club to breathalyse kids in bid to cut drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/youth-club-to-breathalyse-kids-in-bid-to-cut-drinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christian.org.uk/?p=2681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Oxfordshire youth club is set to breathalyse children in a desperate bid to combat underage binge drinking which has blighted the club.
Leaders at the Sweatbox youth club were forced to close the facility in December after persistent problems with children as young as twelve turning up drunk. 
Youth worker Garry Kingett said: &#8220;We could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RC Archbishop: marriage is foundation of stable society</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/rc-archbishop-marriage-is-foundation-of-stable-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/rc-archbishop-marriage-is-foundation-of-stable-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage & family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marriage is the foundation for building a stable society and politicians must support it if they are serious about pursuing the good of all, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has said.
Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, said there could be no solutions to social problems caused by family breakdown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police continue Ray Gosling probe, but story is doubted</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/police-continue-ray-gosling-probe-but-story-is-doubted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A BBC presenter who claimed on TV to have killed his terminally ill gay lover is being questioned by police for a second day, but some have doubted his &#8220;vague tale&#8221;.

Watch Ray Gosling&#8217;s confession


Police arrested Ray Gosling yesterday on suspicion of murder following his confession that years ago he used a pillow to smother his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trans ‘man’ to give birth for third time</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/trans-man-to-give-birth-for-third-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/trans-man-to-give-birth-for-third-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman who underwent sex change surgery to look like a man is pregnant for the third time. 
Thomas Beatie was called Tracey Lagondino, but she chose to undergo a sex change.
However, during the sex change she opted to keep her reproductive organs and a US website has recently announced that she is now expecting [...]]]></description>
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