Christian Weekly News 26/03/10

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. Click on titles for full stories     Election 2010, Conference Report, Religious Freedom, Bioethics, Education, Islam, Sexual Orientation, Social, Family   Election 2010   How Public Policy Affects Social Action     CCFONtv, 25 Mar 2010 (5m 35s)     Conference Report     CCFON: Awake, Arise O Church- Conference Report   DVDs of the conference will be available soon. For details, please email kathryn.wakeling@ccfon.org     Religious Freedom   CCFON: 6,000 Christians, including Church Leaders, Petition Government to Drop Civil Partnerships Amendment to Equality Bill.   The Catholic Herald: Technicality halts efforts to reverse adoption agency ban   The Times: Churches quit religion forum over atheist articles of faith.   Daily Telegraph: New code allows religious pharmacists to opt out of prescribing contraception.   LA Times: Attacks on Christians intensify in Malaysia.     Bioethics   European Lung Foundation: Stem cell trachea transplant success in UK child.   Calgary Herald: Banking on the future: Newborn's umbilical cord blood could save a life.   WDSU New Orleans: Groundbreaking stem cell research being done on Northshore.   Top News: $10.2 million donated by Robertson’s Foundation for umbilical cell research.     Education   Daily Telegraph: Children’s Commissioner: Parents should care more about young people’s happiness than success.   BBC News: Truancy in schools in England reaches record high.     Islam   CCFON: Charges against MP of incitement to racial hatred dropped.   The Times: Conservatives would cut ties with Muslim Council of Britain over Daud Abdullah.   Daily Telegraph: Baroness Deech: Risks of cousin marriage not discussed for fear of offending Muslims.   Daily Mail: Islamic TV show ‘backed marital rape' and promotes extremist groups, claims Muslim think tank.   Daily Telegraph: Islamic social worker ‘told Muslim mother to move to Bangladesh or lose children to Christianity’.   Daily Mail: Muslim school ‘unlawful’ for giving priority to Sunni pupils over Shias.   This is London: UK’s Muslim TV: Wives must not refuse sex with spouse.   Europe News: Muslim Brotherhood to construct new mosque in Warsaw.   CBN News (Video): New mosque rattles small Austrian town.   Fox News: Death threats for Saudi woman who blasts Muslim clerics on live TV.   Spero News: Pakistan: Christians treated like animals by Muslims.     Sexual Orientation   CCFON: Homosexual couple turned away from Berkshire Bed and Breakfast.   BBC News: Guernsey homosexual age of consent lowered to 16.   Daily Telegraph: Government insists vicars will not be sued for refusing homosexual 'marriages’ in churches.   The Times: Prom ban violated lesbian’s rights, Mississippi judge rules.   Daily Telegraph: Homosexual soldiers attack US general who claimed homosexuals were to blame for Srebrenica.     Social   CCFON: Music 'is replacing religion' says academic.   Daily Mail: Middle-class cocaine users are like 'crack addicts on street corners', say Government's chief drug advisor.   Braintree and Witham Times: Teen pregnancy one of worst in Essex.   Yorkshire Evening Post: Commentary: Sex education won’t cut pregnancies.     Family   Daily Telegraph: Marriage more stable than living together, Office for National Statistics finds.