(The Christian Institute) — The number of drug deaths registered in England and Wales has reached its highest level since records began in 1993, official figures have revealed. The Office for National Statistics found a total of 4,859 drug-related deaths recorded in 2021. That is a rate of 84.4 deaths per million people, more than […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — Over 120 Anglican bishops have reaffirmed the denomination’s adherence to the Bible’s teaching on marriage and sexuality. The Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) urged bishops at the Lambeth Conference 2022 to reaffirm the Lambeth 1.10 resolution from 1998. The resolution “upholds faithfulness in marriage between a man and a […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — NHS Scotland’s gender clinic for children should be closed, campaigners have said. The calls follow the announcement that the Tavistock gender clinic in England will close next spring, after the independent Cass Review’s interim report found it was not a “safe or viable long-term option.” Former Tavistock clinician Dr David Bell […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — A pair of Brazilian twins with fused brains have become the oldest children in the world with the condition to be successfully separated, with the help of virtual reality. The family of three-year-olds Bernardo and Arthur Lima were originally told that surgery would not be possible, but UK charity Gemini Untwined […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — Parents have raised fresh concerns over “highly inappropriate” drag queen story time sessions for children as young as three. Drag Queen Story Hour UK’s summer tour is set to start next week, with organizers hoping to perform to as many as 3,000 three to eleven-year-olds at more than 60 public libraries […]
Continue reading … (The Christian Institute) — A 17-year-old girl has shared her traumatic experience of “sex swap” hormones and surgery and why she subsequently “de-transitioned.” Chloe Cole was given puberty-blocking drugs at the age of 14 before going on to cross-sex hormones and undergoing a double mastectomy when she was just 15. Speaking at a public […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — A judge has ruled that exclusively Christian RE lessons in Northern Irish primary schools are unlawful. Currently, provisions in the Education and Libraries (NI) Order 1986 mean that RE lessons and daily collective worship (CW) such as assemblies must focus on Christianity. But a legal challenge was launched against the NI […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — Gender confused girls as young as 15 should be allowed to have double mastectomies, a global pro-trans organization has recommended. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (Wpath) is an unofficial group which recommends “standards of care” for transgender people. Other advice includes cross-sex hormones for children as young as 14 […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — A conservative member of U.K. parliament has called on the government to produce stronger guidance to end the “plethora of deeply inappropriate” Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) materials being used in schools. Miriam Cates, a Christian, explained that when RSE was made compulsory in secondary schools from September 2020, it “opened […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she intends to trial censorship zones around abortion clinics in Scotland. Speaking at a summit on abortion in Edinburgh, the First Minister backed MSP Gillian Mackay’s Bill seeking to create 150m buffer zones around hospitals and abortion centers. In similar zones in other countries, people have […]
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