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News Bulletin 15 March 2013

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has been accused of ‘wavering’ over Government plans to redefine marriage after saying that he would be ‘open to discussions’ on how gay marriage could work in a way that is acceptable to the Church — The Government has said that it will look at the need to protect public sector chaplains following the case of Revd Brian Ross, a chaplain at Strathclyde Police who lost his job after he expressed support for traditional marriage on his personal internet blog — A pensioner who pulled down a 5 foot Easter cross and threw it into a duck pond, got away with it because he’s an ‘atheist’, says Ann Widdecombe — A proposal to restrict abortion provision in Northern Ireland to the NHS has been defeated following a lengthy and impassioned debate at Stormont — A Tory peer claims that David Cameron wants to legalise drugs, but won’t admit it because he’s too scared of the press — And a man from Edinburgh with locked-in syndrome says it ‘is’ possible to ‘find meaning’ despite being in a ‘shell of a body’.

News Bulletin 8 March 2013

A judge at Teesside Crown Court has said that a teenage rapist who attacked a 14 year-old girl wanted to ‘experiment’ after browsing through online pornography — Sue Berelowitz, the Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England is worried that some ‘Head Teachers’ are failing to take action to tackle sexual exploitation over fears that the reputation of their school could be damaged — The BBC has broadcast an Easter lecture by Benjamin Cohen which compares the way Britain treats gay people with the crucifixion of Jesus — President Obama has called on the Supreme Court to overturn the decision of 7 million Californians to support traditional marriage — In Finland, a Bill to introduce ‘gender-neutral’ marriage will not progress to the full parliament after it was rejected by their Legal Affairs Committee — The University of Birmingham Christian Union has been re-affiliated to the student’s union, seven years after it was expelled for refusing to have non-Christians in leadership — Supermarket giant Tesco had agreed to stock the Real Easter Egg, which explains the Christian understanding of Easter, in 450 of its largest stores — And a mother of quadruplets, who resisted pressure to abort two of her children, has celebrated all four babies’ first birthday.