News Bulletin 21 December 2012

Conservative MPs have made renewed calls to David Cameron in an effort to get him to drop his plans to introduce same-sex marriage — Over 50 cross party MPs say that a Plymouth Brethren group in Devon have been unfairly treated by the Charity Commission. The Commission refused to give them charitable status, but MPs want the decision reviewed — Belgium is considering widening its euthanasia threshold to include children, and alzheimer’s sufferers — Ministers at Westminster have rejected calls for ISPs to introduce an automatic pornography block, they favour prompting parents to set computer filters — A Scottish Government Committee has decided to look into ‘presumed consent’ for organ donations — And there’s the second part of our Review of the Year, looking at some of the important issues which have impacted on Christians in 2012.