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        <title>Warning issued to governing bodies over fairness in women’s sport</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Parkrun and nine other sporting organisations have been warned to stop men competing in women’s events or face legal action.
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        <title>Five Brits per month consider assisted suicide at Swiss clinic</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Around five Brits per month enquire about ending their lives at a Swiss clinic, it has been revealed.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Cohabiting couples push for marriage rights</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/cohabiting-couples-push-for-marriage-rights/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Cohabiting couples are calling for legal rights equal to those of marriage.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;Buying babies from strangers has become normalised – without thought for women&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Society must start taking the ethical questions around surrogacy seriously, a journalist has urged.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>AI-made child abuse videos see 260-fold increase</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The number of AI-generated sexual abuse videos rocketed by nearly 26,000 per cent in 2025, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Evangelicals report confident faith amid growing social pressure</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Most Evangelical Christians in the UK feel confident in living out their faith, despite reporting concerns over increased social pressure.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Pastor Clive must wait as court reserves judgment</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pastor Clive Johnston must wait to discover the outcome of his legal case, after the judge announced he is reserving his judgment until Thursday 7 May.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Free speech protections to be enforced in UK universities</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/free-speech-protections-to-be-enforced-in-uk-universities/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Universities will be required to protect free speech or face fines of up to £500k, the Education Secretary has announced.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Manx assisted suicide Bill stalls over human rights concerns</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Royal Assent has been withheld for a Bill to legalise assisted suicide on the Isle of Man over concerns about safeguards.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>US Govt &#039;monitoring&#039; Pastor Clive Johnston case</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The US State Department has said it is “monitoring” the “concerning” prosecution of Pastor Clive Johnston, who is accused of breaching an abortion &#8216;Safe Access Zone&#8217;.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Belfast City Council restricts prime rental site to pro-trans tenants</title>
        <link>https://www.christian.org.uk/news/belfast-city-council-restricts-prime-rental-site-to-pro-trans-tenants/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Applicants for a prominent and iconic city centre rental must be ‘LGBT compliant’, local government officials have said.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Ten crimes a day committed against UK churches</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An average of ten crimes a day took place against churches last year, new figures have revealed.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;Joining OnlyFans at 18 left me broken with a drug addiction&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A young woman who was &#8220;depressed and broken&#8221; after joining OnlyFans as an 18-year-old has warned teenagers that there is nothing &#8220;empowering&#8221; about pornography.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Illegal gambling sites targeting people trying to quit</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Illegal gambling sites are preying on people trying to protect themselves from gambling harm, The Guardian has revealed.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>BBC urged to address in-house religious illiteracy</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A former BBC editor and executive has called on the Corporation to educate its journalists on the importance of religion.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>‘The Boast of The Cross’ – Andrew Randall</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We find in Galatians 6:14 the boast that should be on the lips and in the heart of every Christian.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Jesus Defeated Death – Josh Howerton</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Celebrating the foundational truth upon which our faith is based.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>The Resurrection of Christ – Michael Reeves</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When the glory of Christ blazes forth from the tomb, the darkness is dispelled and sinners spring to life.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;The death to end all deaths&#039; – Raymond Brown</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The events surrounding the death of the Lord Jesus Christ are full of dramatic irony: The man who is mocked as the king, is the King; the man who is utterly powerless as he hangs dying on the cross, is the most powerful man the world has ever known; and the man who does not save himself, saves others.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>One in ten prescriptions of medicinal cannabis from single source</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Eleven per cent (172,755) of all ‘cannabis medicines’ prescribed in the UK since 2019 have been issued by a single prescriber, The Times has reported.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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