Christian Concern for Our Nation  12/09/08

Every Friday CCFON will bring to you stories of fundamental significance to Christians and our Nation. To equip you to pray and act. To put the hope of Christ at the centre of our Nation.

 

 

 

 

BBC News: NI Abortion Act campaign began on 9th September 2008.

 

Scotland on Sunday: Scots schools to get sexual health clinics for children as young as 13.

 

 

 

The Thomas More Legal Centre has issued a press release announcing they successfully represented a Roman Catholic Trainee Doctor, who was threatened with dismissal and was reported to the General Medical Council (GMC) because he refused to participate in abortion advice or the prescribing of the "morning after pill". The doctor was told that unless he changed his views he would be marked down as failed in his training to be a GP and he could also be reported to the GMC and potentially struck off the medical register. He was being pressurised to leave general practice altogether when he contacted the Thomas More Legal Centre, who advised him of his rights and drafted letters to his employers accordingly.

 

The GMC eventually confirmed the Centre’s opinion that the doctor was acting in accordance with medical professional rules.

 

For further information contact the Thomas More Legal Centre via their website: www.thomasmorelegal.org.uk.

 

 

Decision Released in British Columbia “Bubble Zone” Freedom of Speech Case

The British Columbia Court of Appeal released its decision on 4^th September in the Spratt case, finding that freedom of expression can be suspended within the “bubble zone” around abortion clinics without violating the Charter.

 

To view the decision handed down by the British Columbia Court of Appeal click here: http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/CA/08/03/2008BCCA0340.htm

 

For background information and to view written legal arguments of the CRFA, visit the interventions page of the Christian Legal Fellowship website at: http://www.christianlegalfellowship.org/legal_issues/interventions.htm.

 

 

Daily Telegraph: Stem cell research institute and cord blood bank opens.

 

Daily Mail: Mother becomes the first in Britain to donate stem cells from her baby’s umbilical cord.

 

BBC News: Cord blood bank 'will save lives'.

 

Daily Telegraph: Oh baby you're amazing: Zoologist Desmond Morris is in awe of the power and potential of the human infant.

 

BBC News: Down's signs 'seen in stem cells'.

 

 

BBC News: Street pastors hand out flip-flops and advice to bring peace to our streets.

 

Daily Mail: 'I have a hotline to God': Desmond Tutu calls on British churches to do more to fight global poverty.

 

 

BBC News: More than half of nursing home patients are being prescribed inappropriate levels of calming drugs, a new study suggests.

 

 

Daily Telegraph: Credit crisis blamed for rising number of adulterous wives.

 

Daily Mail: Government minister to enter a civil partnership.

 

Guardian: Cameron's party on abortion, marriage issues, tax and Europe.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/sep/09/taxandspending.tax

 

Daily Mail: Labour's obsession with long hours could spell death knell for the traditional family.

 

Scotsman: First Scottish judgment on financial costs of separating cohabitants concentrates on contributions.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/First-findings-on-financial-costs.4467006.jp

 

BBC News: 'Dozens' of under-16s have STIs.

 

Guardian: Soaps have long been used as an often willing tool of lobby groups and government agencies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/08/television?gusrc=rss&feed=media

 

BBC News: Government advisor blames a decline in Christian values for rising gang violence in Birmingham.

 

 

Mega-MosqueNoThanks.Com: Mega-mosque promoters Tablighi Jamaat's links to airline terror plot raise new security concerns for 2012 London Olympics.

 

Daily Mail: Ministers should review plans to build a "mega-mosque" in the East End in the wake of the airline bomb plot trial, the Tories urged today.

 

 

Daily Mail: Ofcom flooded with complaints over Channel 4's 'obscene' show before the watershed.

 

 

Daily Mail: Woman TV executive 'sacked by Al Jazeera for being a white, Christian, British female'.

 

Daily Telegraph: Faith schools 'sow seeds of terrorism', claims criminal psychologist.

 

BBC News: Belfast City Council's Good Relations Unit is to draw up an action plan to tackle hate crime in the city.

 

Anglican Mainstream: Unions call for removal of Evangelical Christian from equality commission.

Andrea Minichiello Williams

Christian Concern for our Nation