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.
Announcements, Abortion, Euthanasia, Access to Justice, Bioethics, Church & State, Crime, Education, Employment, Family Values, Islam, Media,
CCFON Announcement:
CCFON: The Human Fertilisation Embryology Bill (HFE Bill) Information and Action Pack
Download our updated HFE Bill Information and Action Pack for the latest on the Bill and how to lobby your MP.
http://www.ccfon.org/docs/HFEBriefingPack_Oct2008.pdf
Join the “1,000 Crosses for Life” Procession on Behalf of the Unborn Child. 18th October 2008
For an end to the killing of 547 children daily in our country and to uphold the sanctity of life. This is a Euro-Prolife Initiative. A peaceful procession supported by CCFON, Christian Medical Fellowship, Family Life International UK, SPUC, Good Counsel Network, Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, Catholic Medical Association, Choose Life and Catholic Bishops Conference. To download the flyer for event: http://www.ccfon.org/docs/procession18oct8.pdf.
Date: 18th October 2008
Time & Location: 1 p.m. at Westminster Cathedral, London, crossing Lambeth and Westminster bridges and finishing at Westminster Abbey.
Contact Information:
Telephone: (020) 8857 9950 or (07885) 760723.
E-mail: support@europrolifeuk.org or europrolife.uk@flionline.org
Websites: www.europrolifeuk.org and www.flionline.org.
To download the flyer, please visit our website:
http://www.ccfon.org/docs/procession18oct8.pdf.
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute: The abortion lobby is planning a ‘Universal Right to Abortion’ petition for the 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10th December 2008. Please sign a counter international pro-life petition and forward it to all your contacts:
http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.95/default.asp
Abortion
Times: Catholic senator in Lisbon panel set to ensure Irish policy on abortion and stem-cell research will not be overridden by the European courts.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4838020.ece
The Guardian: Catholics must mobilise against abortion reforms, says archbishop in leaflet to parish priests.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/30/catholicism.religion
Euthanasia
Daily Telegraph: Euthanasia campaigner Debbie Purdy vows to take fight to House of Lords.
Andrea Minichiello Williams, director of Christian Concern For Our Nation commented: “The law is there to protect innocent people. Someone who has been assisted to commit suicide will no longer be able to give an account of whether coercion was involved. If people are vulnerable they may feel under pressure to die and the fear is that the right to die could all too soon become a duty to die”.
Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship comments on the case: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7647704.stm
See the Care Not Killing press release:
http://www.carenotkilling.org.uk/?show=443
Further reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7644094.stm
Times: RTE to screen footage of Craig Ewert's assisted suicide.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4837919.ece
CCFON: Dr Peter Saunders (Care Not Killing) comments on Debbie Purdy's court fight to clear Husband "being able to assist" her choose suicide in advance of the occasion
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=125&avap=1
CCFON: Dr Adrian Rogers GP & Dr Tony Cole, Care Not Killing on Euthanasia Phone In (Selected clips from hour long programme)
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=124&avap=1
Access to Justice
Times: Lawyers Desert Legal Aid: Access to Justice Gap Widens.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4833185.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=989864
Bioethics
Daily Telegraph: Embryo-free stem cell method means treatments are nearer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/ 2008/09/25/scistem125.xml
BBC News: Fertility doctor 'failed patient', GMC hears.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/health/7645635.stm
Daily Telegraph: Faith in God really can relieve pain, according to the results of a scientific experiment at Oxford University.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3096743/Belief-in-God-really- can-relieve-pain.html
Number 10: Prime Minister Responds Negatively to ‘Need for a Father’ in IVF Petition.
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16947
Church & State
Family Research Council: The FRC has produced a detailed voter guide of McCain and Obama’s positions on family issues.
http://www.kitchentableblog.com/EF08H02.pdf
Daily Mail: The Church of England has been accused of hypocrisy over its attacks on 'bank-robbing' stock market traders.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1062353/Practise-preach-Church-England- accused-short-selling-attack-bank-robbing-traders.html?ITO=1490
Guardian: Downing Street proposals would allow first-born daughters and Catholics access to throne, opening the way for a non protestant member to head the Anglican Church.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/25/anglicanism.catholicism1
Crime
Daily Mail: Doctors warn of new 'powdered Ecstasy' risk as police urge against downgrade.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1062497/Doctors-warn-new-powdered- Ecstasy-risk-police-urge-downgrade.html
Education
Guardian: X Factor fills vacuum left by God in schools, says Head.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/30/schools.publicschools
Daily Telegraph: Teachers are 'being turned into social workers' say head teachers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/3099325/Teachers- are-being-turned-into-social-workers.html
BBC News: Religious leaders say new school transport policy in Wales discriminates against youngsters in faith-based education.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/wales/7643530.stm
Employment
BBC News: Vicars 'are not employed by God'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7642787.stm
Family Values
BBC News: Delay urged on age of consent law reform.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/scotland/7646934.stm
Channel 4: The Hidden World of Lap Dancing, Which Presents Itself as Mere Public Entertainment.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/the+hidden+world+of+lap+ dancing/2483062?intcmp=rss_news_itnnews
Daily Mail: Children of hands-on dads who read and play with them grow up brighter and more successful says study.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1065400/Children-hands-dads-read-play- grow-brighter-successful.html
Daily Telegraph: Transgender students force lavatory change.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/10/01/noindex/ student.xml
BBC News: A future Conservative government would offer counselling to couples about to get married, shadow schools secretary Michael Gove has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7643535.stm
Daily Mail: The number of married couples has dropped to fewer than half the adult population for the first time since records began.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029725/Married-couples-minority- number-single-divorced-people-soars.html
Daily Mail: Labour MP becomes first female politician to 'wed' in civil partnership ceremony.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063302/Labour-MP-female-politician- wed-civil-partnership-ceremony.html
BBC News: Gays 'have a duty to vote Tory'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7644851.stm
Islam
Times: Salman Rushdie unrepentant about Satanic Verses.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/ clive_james/article4856150.ece
Independent: Thomas Sutcliffe: Intolerance and incitement to murder—courtesy of the BBC.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/ thomas-sutcliffe/thomas-sutcliffe-intolerance-ndash-courtesy-of-the-bbc-946136.html
Independent: The making of a fatwa: How did the words of an unknown Texas academic lead to a potentially lethal firebomb attack in London?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-making-of-a-fatwa-946117.html
Daily Telegraph: Speaking after a firebomb attack on the home of the “child bride” book's London publisher, Anjem Choudhary, a one-time member of the extremist Islamist group al-Mujaharoun, says: "It is clearly stipulated in Muslim law that any kind of attack on his honour carries the death penalty."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/30/dl3002.xml
Independent: Arson attack on publisher of book on Prophet’s wife
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/arson-attack-on-publisher-of-book- on-prophets-wife-945283.html
Daily Telegraph: British children as young as nine are being forced to marry against their will by their Muslim families, campaigners have warned.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063605/Nine-year-old-brides-saved- authorities-married-Muslim-weddings.html
BBC News: Council U-turn over Muslims-only burial rule.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7642701.stm
Guardian: A Muslim said he is suing Tesco for religious discrimination because he was asked to handle crates of alcohol in a warehouse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/7833819
Media
Daily Mail: Channel 4 to screen detailed reproduction education series during morning programmes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1065217/Channel-4-screen-explicit- sex-education-series-morning-programmes.html?ITO=1490
Daily Telegraph: BBC must help heal broken society, say Tories.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/3096831/ Tory-Party-Conference-Tories-tell-BBC-to-heal-Broken-Britain.html
BBC News: A new internet watchdog, the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), has been launched to help protect children from "harmful" web content, such as cyber-bullying and violent video games.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7638492.stm
by kind permission of Christian Concern For Our Nation
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