CCFON Announcements – Time to Act on Embryology Bill, Abortion, Bioethics, Church & State, Crime, Economic Crisis, End of Life, Family, Islam
CCFON Announcements
Further to our Urgent Action email two days ago, please watch this two minute Newsflash Video and play in your Churches, Home Groups and Christian Gatherings.:
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=127&avap=1
Destructive Embryology Bill: Final Commons Date Set
The final stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HFE Bill) will take place on 22nd October. This Bill is one of the most destructive pieces of legislation that we will see in our lifetime. It is anti-life, anti-family and anti-God. It will liberalise abortion law, create animal-human hybrids and create fatherless families unless we pray and act to stop it. Will you do so? Each person’s contribution counts.
Get informed and involved by joining with us in the following:
Get informed with our Information and Action Pack on the Bill: http://www.ccfon.org/docs/HFEBriefingPack_Oct2008.pdf
Attend Rally for Life on 18th October:
http://www.ccfon.org/docs/procession18oct8.pdf
For those in Northern Ireland, attend Abortion Rally on 18th October:
http://www.preciouslife.com/
Attend Lunch time Prayer Rally on 22nd October at 1.00pm – 2.00pm to campaign outside Parliament, Old Palace Yard, Westminster, on the day the Bill is being debated in the House of Commons. Please come. If you are in London, please use your lunch hour to come and pray with us: http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=146
Find out where your MP stands on life issues:
http://www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/mp/searchmp.php
Contact your MP about the Bill. You can download our Information and Action Pack which provides information on all the relevant issues within the Bill to contact your MP. It also provides guidance on contacting your MP and contains example letters for you to use: http://www.ccfon.org/docs/HFEBriefingPack_Oct2008.pdf
Send a Passion for Life postcard to your MP about the Bill. For more information visit Passion for Life: http://www.passionforlife.org.uk/how-to-get-involved
Sign the Alive and Kicking Petition:
http://www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/petition/
Watch Video Clips on HFE Bill
We have a number of video clips on the HFE Bill on our Mediacentre web pages, including news reports featuring CCFON staff and colleagues from other Christian organisations. Watch the videos here: http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avpl=1
Help fund the campaign: http://www.ccfon.org/donation.php
UN Abortion Petition
The UN will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this December 10th. To celebrate this occasion, radical pro-abortion groups intend to present the UN General Assembly with petitions calling for a universal right to abortion. This must be stopped. Please sign a petition calling on UN Members States to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child from abortion.
http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.95/default.asp
Abortion
The Telegraph: The campaign to lower the abortion time limit is like the battle to abolish slavery, according to CARE.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3153520/Abortion-time-limit-fight-is-like- battle-to-abolish-slavery-Christian-charity-claims.html
Irish Times: NI abortion campaigners lobby British MPs.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1008/breaking92.htm
BBC News: Scientists say they have developed a safer blood test that can tell women if their unborn baby has Down's syndrome.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7654201.stm
Bioethics
Daily Mail: IVF boom - the number of women having successful IVF treatment in the UK has topped 10,000 for the first time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1074029/IVF-boom-British-births- 10-000-year-time.html?ITO=1490
Economic Crisis
The Times: Iain Duncan Smith: In times of financial downturn the cancer of debt spreads through society, ruining adults and children as it goes.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/ article4909343.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2270657
The Times: Pope says world financial system "built on sand" and that only the works of God have "solid reality".
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4893190.ece#cid=OTC- RSS&attr=797093
End of Life
Daily Mail: Euthanasia expert dubbed Dr Death 'to teach British pensioners how to commit suicide'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1073073/Euthanasia-expert-dubbed- Dr-Death-teach-British-pensioners-commit-suicide.html
Daily Mail: Revamp for controversial 'living wills' law after year of chaos.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1072334/Revamp-controversial-living- wills-law-year-chaos.html?ITO=1490
The Times: Baroness Warnock: Euthanasia abroad would mean a 'two-tier death service'.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4877973.ece#cid= OTC-RSS&attr=989864
Family
The Telegraph: Plan to ban parents from smacking children fails.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3160639/Plan-to-ban-parents-from- smacking-children-fails.html
Daily Mail: 'How I weaned my son off Ritalin and proved discipline is better than drugs'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1074175/How-I-weaned-son-Ritalin- proved-discipline-IS-better-drugs.html
Church and State
Video: The Record: Rev Ian Paisley prays that UK will turn in repentance at start of new parliamentary session.
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=126&avap=1
BBC News: Members of the Church in Wales are still deciding who will be the new bishop of Bangor. One of the more controversial names in the running is the openly homosexual Jeffrey John.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7655283.stm
Islam
Daily Express: Muslims Get £1.3m Hotline to Cabinet.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/65063
BBC News: UK terror strategy to be updated to focus more on preventing the radicalisation of Muslims.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7649763.stm
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