(The Christian Institute) — Traditional marriage vows would be better replaced by a fixed-term contract, an author and academic has claimed. Jeanette Winterson entered a same-sex “marriage” in 2015, despite previously being “unsure about gay marriage.” Writing in The Guardian, Professor Winterson claimed that a lifelong commitment is “too long for most of us” and […]

(The Christian Institute) — Scotland has become the first part of the UK to approve a controversial gay lifestyle drug. This week, the Scottish Medicines Consortium approved the routine use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a drug mainly intended for men who do not have HIV but are at risk of contracting it through homosexual activity. […]

(The Christian Institute) — Powerful arguments against euthanasia and assisted suicide have been put forward by a new campaign group ahead of an attempt to change the law in New Zealand. The “16,000 voices” campaign focuses on people who made submissions to the New Zealand Parliament Health Select Committee on assisted suicide. The committee was […]

Scotland (The Christian Institute) — Alcohol-related harm accounts for 22 deaths in Scotland a week, a shocking new report has found. Figures released by the country’s chief medical officer, Dr. Catherine Calderwood, also revealed that alcohol causes an average of 674 hospital admissions per week. The news comes shortly after a Scottish charity warned that […]

(The Christian Institute) — The remarkable story of Christian missionary Jim Elliot has been told afresh by his daughter in a BBC feature. Elliot was killed in 1956 by members of a previously unreached tribe in Ecuador. He had traveled there with a group of other missionaries in order to share the gospel. Elliot’s daughter Valerie […]

(The Christian Institute) — A national landmark representing one million answered Christian prayers is set to be built in the UK. The Wall of Answered Prayer will be built with a million bricks, each representing a prayer believed to have been answered by God. The monument will be exclusively Christian rather than a multi-faith wall. […]

(The Christian Institute) — Expectant parents can now see their child in the womb in incredible detail thanks to a technological breakthrough. While ultrasound has been commonplace in maternity clinics since the 1980s, a new MRI scan captures footage of the unborn child in clear, high-quality imaging. The technique has come to the public’s attention […]

(The Christian Institute) — Marriage is “associated with more family stability for children across the globe,” and cohabitation “typically associated with more instability,” a new study has found. The report by the Social Trends Institute also stated that there is a “growing consensus” that children are more likely to thrive in a stable family than […]

(The Christian Institute) — Since abortion was first legalized in the former Soviet Union in 1920, there have been over one billion babies killed worldwide. The appalling figure was presented in a new report by the Global Life Campaign (GLC). The report’s authors called it “the Greatest Genocide in history.” The report is the first […]

(The Christian Institute) — Campaigners have called on the Scottish government to introduce a ban on drug-driving following the publication of an alarming new study. Research in the Forensic Science International journal found there were as many motorists’ deaths relating to cannabis use as alcohol use between 2012 and 2015 in Scotland. One in five […]