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	<title>eChurch Blog &#187; Law Moral Ethical</title>
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	<description>I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.</description>
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		<title>High Court rules prayers at formal Council meetings unlawful</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/10/high-court-rules-prayers-formal-council-meetings-unlawful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from the National Secular Society: The High Court today ruled that &#8220;The saying of prayers as part of the formal meeting of a Council is not lawful under s111 of the Local Government Act 1972, and there is no statutory power permitting the practice to continue&#8221;. The judgement follows a Judicial Review initiated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget mobile libraries the Dutch will have mobile death units</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/10/forget-mobile-libraries-dutch-mobile-death-units/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this with disbelief frankly. The Daily Mail is reporting that as of next month the Dutch will have the world’s first mobile team to administer euthanasia in patients’ homes. But even more worrying, this team will administer euthanasia in cases where the medical profession refuse to do so on ethical grounds. They will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Should doctors be required to show women pictures of her unborn child before she can have an abortion?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/09/poll-doctors-required-show-women-pictures-unborn-child-abortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a question being asked on a poll over on the Telegraph. Should doctors be required to show women pictures of her unborn child before she can have an abortion? And this is a question I&#8217;ve asked myself, especially given the de-humanising terms employed by pro-abortion folk to describe the unborn baby. I sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responsible Capitalism and Moral Markets</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/08/responsible-capitalism-moral-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I recently keep happening upon the terms: &#8220;Responsible Capitalism&#8221; and &#8220;Moral Markets&#8221;, which to my untrained ears sound somewhat oxymoronic, I was determined to find out a little more. I think the best piece I have read on this so far is written by Catholic economist Philip Booth, and is worth a read if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Threat of legal action against me</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/07/stuart-charles-bishop-announces-intention-pursue-legally/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/07/stuart-charles-bishop-announces-intention-pursue-legally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I received notice of an intent to pursue me legally for this blog post which would presumably come under the law of defamation and specifically libel. This was part of the correspondence I received: I have referred the rest of your grossly inaccurate comments about the situation with [names forum] to my legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/01/quote-day-135/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the obvious question, “How could the banks make the same mistake twice?” the obvious answer is, “What mistake?”  The actions of the banksters were and are quite rational, given the system we have, and they have profited handsomely from both the bubble and the bust.  In truth, the only ones who profited from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are lawyers involved in assisted suicide cases breaking the law?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/01/lawyers-involved-assisted-suicide-cases-breaking-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an an intriguing legal conundrum. The crux is this: Encouraging or assisting suicide is an offence under section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961, carrying a maximum penalty of 14 years’ imprisonment.  On a literal reading of the Act, even obtaining information about euthanasia for someone who plans to commit suicide could constitute a breach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesley Pilkington and the gay conversion controversy</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/30/lesley-pilkington-gay-conversion-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received an email from Christian Concern entitled: Lesley Pilkington Appeal. I originally blogged about this a year ago, but if you don&#8217;t know the details, it revolves around Lesley Pilkington, a Christian psychotherapist, who currently faces being stripped of her accreditation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) after treating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Euthanasia must ALWAYS be prohibited</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/26/parliamentary-assembly-council-europe-pace-euthanasia-prohibited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a non-binding resolution (Resolution 1859) stating  in section 5: Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit, must always be prohibited. I&#8217;m no expert, but this sounds like good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Christians support the vigilante hacking group Anonymous, in their upcoming attack on Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/26/christians-support-vigilante-hacking-group-anonymous-upcoming-attack-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that I was one of the folk cheering from the sidelines when the hacktivist group Anonymous attacked, took down, and defaced the website of the hate group: The Westboro Baptist Church &#8211; The nasty &#8220;God hates fags&#8221; folk who like to picket funerals for some unknown reason. I was amused when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/25/good-links-53/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Future Shape of Church &#8211; Ecumenical Matters Parchment and Pen &#8211; When God Does Not Show Up Center for Law and Religion &#8211; Can the State Order a Church to “De-Baptize” Someone? Chelliah Laity &#8211; Bishops Accused of Not Being So Christian Slate &#8211; That’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countering the misconception that the Christian preoccupation with abortion is a modern phenomenon.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/23/countering-misconception-christian-preoccupation-abortion-modern-phenomenon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to be encountering a growing misconception that the Christian &#8220;obsession&#8221; with the evils of abortion is a modern construct. Here&#8217;s an example of such thinking: &#8230;.the Catholic church has decided to make abortion its cause célèbre in its battle for social and moral relevance. I&#8217;d like to point anybody labouring under this misconception to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tyranny of Niceness</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/21/tyranny-niceness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great post by the Grain of Sand on the modern tyranny of niceness, which is in the same spirit as a fab little article on ‘niceness’ by the Anchoress – Elizabeth Scalia – entitled: The Shushing Tyranny of “Be Nice!” I am not a nice person. I have no wish to be a nice person. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion clinics cleared to advertise on UK TV and radio</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/21/abortion-clinics-cleared-advertise-uk-tv-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As from 30th April this year, nestled amongst adverts featuring sweet meerkats and tasty morsels from M&#38;S, we will be treated with adverts from abortion clinics. Of course, the new rules issued by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) and The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) are couched in friendly terminology, as according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: 3 Muslim men (Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan Javed) first to be found guilty under new laws of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/20/uk-3-muslim-men-ihjaz-ali-kabir-ahmed-razwan-javed-guilt-laws-stirring-hatred-grounds-sexual-orientation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting development. I wonder if we&#8217;ll eventually see the day when Christians are prosecuted under these laws. For a little background on this law, click here. Three Muslim men have been found guilty of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation after distributing a leaflet that said Islam called for anyone caught committing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US: Judge ruled Catholic mentally ill woman must have abortion and sterilisation</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/19/judge-ruled-catholic-mentally-ill-woman-abortion-sterilisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story is absolutely disgraceful and thoroughly disturbing. Thankfully sense prevailed in the appeals court. But worryingly, as PsychCentral commented: Here’s the real kicker though… This is just the one story we know about because the records — which are usually sealed — were unsealed on appeal. In most state cases where this sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Midwives Mary Doogan &amp; Concepta Wood go to court over abortion conscientious objection</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/17/catholic-midwives-mary-doogan-concepta-wood-court-abortion-conscientious-objection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scotland&#8217;s largest health board has been taken to court by Catholic staff who claim conscientious objections over abortion procedures were disregarded. Midwifery sisters Mary Doogan, 57, and Concepta Wood, 51, say being forced to supervise staff taking part in abortions violates their human rights. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde claims conscientious objections do not give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s ‘Sanctity of Life Day’ in the US</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/15/sanctity-life-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Jim West alerts us to &#8220;Sanctity of Life Day&#8221; in the US: So, many Churches across the SBC will be thinking about the value of human life and the holocaust called abortion. In America – on average – there are 1,210,000 abortions performed annually.  That means that in less than a decade more people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Ponderings: Stem Cell Research Causing Me Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know this is obvious to say, but I&#8217;m no biologist, neuroscientist, or what have you, and so please forgive my ignorance. I&#8217;m looking for your input. I know from my reading that some serious metal illnesses are suspected to be the result of a shrunken hippocampus. It would seem that a drug has just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Calling the Disabled &#8216;Scroungers&#8217; #spartacusreport</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/10/stop-calling-disabled-scroungers-spartacusreport/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I totally support the campaign against the proposed cuts in Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and will break the habit of a lifetime and link to an important document held on the Ekklesia website: A Report on the proposed changes to Disability Living Allowance (PDF) Chelliah Laity tells us of a vigil outside Parliament tomorrow. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/09/good-links-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: CIFwatch &#8211; Was Moses a colonizer? The Guardian’s Nicholas Lezard uncovers why us Jews are kleptomaniacs pmphillips&#8217;s posterous &#8211; The Way of Death is paved with&#8230; Left Foot Forward &#8211; 2012 – the year the world must wake up to Christian persecution NewScientist &#8211; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHOCK: The Commission on Assisted Dying &#8211; A group of Pro-Euthanasia experts find in favour of euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/05/shock-commission-assisted-dying-group-proeuthanasia-experts-find-favour-euthanasia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC are leading this morning with the totally impartial headline: Assisted suicide: &#8216;Strong case for legalisation&#8217;. This of course refers to the findings of the pro-euthanasia panel of &#8216;experts&#8217;: The Commission on Assisted Dying. This commission was chaired by pro-euthanasia supporter Lord Falconer and funded by pro-euthanasia supporter Terry Pratchet and set up by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baroness O’Cathain&#8217;s proposed amendment to ban civil partnerships in religious premises withdrawn in House of Lords</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/15/baroness-ocathains-proposed-amendment-ban-civil-partnerships-religious-premises-withdrawn-house-lords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this afternoon a motion was successfully defeated in the House of Lords which would have banned the celebration of civil partnerships in religious premises. The ‘wrecking motion’ was introduced by Conservative peer Baroness O’Cathain. It would have meant that the ‘Alli amendment’ that Stonewall secured to the 2010 Equality Act last spring would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/05/good-links-45/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Thirsty Gargoyle: L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier: Third Thoughts on Redefining Marriage Daydreamer: The truth about depression Church Mag: The 5 best toys of all time Countercultural Father: Mass on Saturday Evening or Sunday Morning? The Atlantic: Is Iran already under attack? BioLogos: The miracle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers banned from Gloucestershire County Council meetings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually highlight these all too frequent prayer bans and controversies at council meetings, but as I live in Gloucestershire, I will make an exception: PRAYERS have been banned from full council meetings at Shire Hall – causing fury from Gloucester&#8217;s Sheriff. For years, Gloucestershire County Council has observed a one-minute prayer at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same-Sex Marriage and the Just War</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/30/gay-marriage-war/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are a few random thoughts on the fly and another blog post within which I raise questions and ultimately answer nothing. Although the sources I pick up on in this post are US focused, I think they have relevance here in the UK. Timothy Dalrymple highlights a piece in The Weekly Standard written by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Nohad Halawi sacked from Heathrow Airport suing for unfair dismissal alleging bullying by Muslim colleagues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d put this new &#8216;Christian sues employer&#8217; article on, as it differs from most in that it brings Islam / Muslims into the mix. Nohad Halawi was sacked from her job based in Heathrow Airport as a result of five Muslim colleagues complaining she was being anti-Islamic following a heated conversation in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance Sunday Parade, Pacifists and the Political Poppy</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/13/remembrance-sunday-parade-pacifists-political-poppy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just returned from my local Remembrance Sunday parade and it was moving and fabulous as usual. On an aside, I heard the police commander say: &#8220;My people are ready to shut down all the streets&#8221;, wouldn&#8217;t you love to able to say that; just once! It was this time last year that I got into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Inquiry &#8211; Clearing the Ground &#8211; Investigates whether Christians are badly treated by the law</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/12/parliamentary-inquiry-clearing-ground-investigates-christians-badly-treated-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Parliamentary inquiry called, Clearing the Ground, began on Tuesday to hear evidence on whether Christians are badly treated by the law and if they are being pushed out of society. It&#8217;s being run by Christians in Parliament, is chaired by Conservative MP Gary Streeter, and supported by the Evangelical Alliance. The first session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/10/quote-day-104/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This quote comes from a sobering and thoughtful blog post written by Cranmer, which is well worth a read in its entirety. Pope Benedict XVI observed a few years ago that the global financial crisis ‘shows the futility of money and ambition’. He said: ‘He who builds only on visible and tangible things like success, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>76% London finance professionals don&#8217;t want Church interference #occupylsx</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/08/76-london-finance-professionals-church-interference-occupylsx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kicking back and letting the excellent British Religion in Numbers (BRIN) website take the strain and sort through the stats, is becoming something of a habit for me. I must repent of my sloth, I know. Anyway, following on from my earlier post, if you followed the link to +Nick Baines, you would be aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lucid and comprehensible Christian response to #occupylsx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it comes courtesy of Revd John Richardson and can be read here. UPDATE: Ah, just spotted +Nick Baines post on this topic and also well worth a read.]]></description>
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		<title>83% Christians oppose Conservative proposal to legalize same-sex marriages</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/06/83-christians-oppose-conservative-proposal-legalize-samesex-marriages/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[And of that 83%, three-quarters were &#8216;strongly opposed&#8217;. British Religion in Numbers have all the details. Overall the Conservative Party risks losing 57% of Christian votes, if they go ahead with legalizing gay marriage, and not one respondent claimed this move would predispose them to vote Conservative. Here are some of the concerns raised: 85% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Office publishes draft regulations to allow civil partnership registrations in religious premises.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/02/home-office-publishes-draft-regulations-civil-partnership-registrations-religious-premises/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, I don&#8217;t have a link to these draft regulations, but have learned today from the blog Changing Attitude: The Home Office has today published the draft regulations to allow civil partnership registrations to take place in religious premises. The document summarises the responses received to the consultation process to which Changing Attitude contributed. Lynne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic mental health nurse fired for abortion literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the details we have so far, which I&#8217;ve lifted from Richard&#8217;s blog: In brief, a Catholic mental health nurse has lost her job because, in a professional discussion with a colleague, she made available a booklet providing case histories of the mental health consequences of abortion. The booklet was deemed to be religious&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock. Surprise. Catholic Church is not anti-science anti-stem-cell after all</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/21/shock-surpise-catholic-church-antiscience-antistem-cell/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said in the past: It&#8217;s all in the phraseology. There&#8217;s an article in the Los Angeles Times entitled: Vatican signs deal to collaborate on adult stem cell research. So far so good. The second heading reads: The unusual agreement with NeoStem allows the church, which opposes embryonic stem cell use, to be seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion as a modern form of child sacrifice</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/14/abortion-modern-form-child-sacrifice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Datechguy and Stacy both have blog posts conflating the practice of child sacrifice with abortion. I made the following comment on Stacy&#8217;s blog: I&#8217;ve often thought of abortion in terms of human sacrifice to the modern god of convenience. In response to this Rome said: I do not understand how abortion could be considered a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police tell Salt &amp; Light Coffee House owner Jamie Murray to stop displaying Bible texts in his cafe</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/25/police-salt-light-coffee-house-owner-jamie-murray-stop-displaying-bible-texts-cafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police have requested that a cafe owner in Blackpool  &#8211; Jamie Murray, Salt &#38; Light Coffee House &#8211; stop displaying Bible texts on a video screen, because it breaches public order laws. Apparently the police told him that displaying offensive or insulting words is a breach of Section 5 of the Public Order Act, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/22/quote-day-91/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Bendict&#8217;s address to the German Parliament</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/22/pope-bendicts-address-german-parliament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr President of the Federal Republic, Mr President of the Bundestag, Madam Chancellor, Mr President of the Bundesrat, Ladies and Gentlemen Members of the House, It is an honour and a joy for me to speak before this distinguished house, before the Parliament of my native Germany, that meets here as a democratically elected representation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/21/good-links-41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really can&#8217;t summon the will to blog today, so I&#8217;m simply linking to a few bits and pieces that I found interesting: Theos &#8211; Nearly half of people are prepared to change their vote for moral reasons. io9 -Why Intuition Makes People More Likely to Believe in God Maverick Philosopher &#8211; Could the Mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay marriage briefly revisited &#8211; A few thoughts</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/20/gay-marriage-briefly-revisited-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;I don&#8217;t give a crap about gay marriage&#8221; was a bit of a Marmite blog post, but it did spark some good debate on Twitter. I thought I&#8217;d briefly flesh out &#8211; and clarify &#8211; a few of my thoughts on this matter. The first is that I feel us Christians are at risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve got email</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An email just received in response to this post: &#8220;I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth&#8221; It is extremely unfortunate that instead of your misleading caption above, You are out of your mind and frothing at the mouth with disingenuous pontifications to sabotage true Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government to grant full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/17/government-grant-full-marriage-rights-gay-lesbian-couples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the government is to press ahead with legislation to permit &#8216;gay marriage&#8217;. Christian keyboards are ablaze. And I don&#8217;t give a crap. Every single day I read news of slaughtered, raped, murdered, tortured, intimidated, terrified, abducted, imprisoned, threatened with hanging, forced to convert, brutalised, Christians. I really don&#8217;t give a crap if gay folk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris: Public prayer banned to combat Muslims taking over streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been an ongoing problem in Paris with Muslims shutting down entire major streets to perform their prayers, as a result, legislation has been passed banning ALL street prayer. This law may be extended to other Mediterranean cities. This from the Mail caught my attention: Public funding of places of worship has been banned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Shatter, Ireland’s Minister for Justice, climbdown over breaking seal of confession</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/13/alan-shatter-irelands-minister-justice-climbdown-breaking-seal-confession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good: Alan Shatter, Ireland’s Minister for Justice, has admitted that despite voicing his adamant commitment in July to force priests to break the seal of confession that legislation released this autumn will not include any reference to the sacrament of Confession. &#8230;.continue]]></description>
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		<title>Early Christian Church Fathers views on abortion</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/10/early-christian-chuch-fathers-views-abortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of the Orthodox Christianity blog, I discovered another blog called Early Christians on Abortion, which features just one post majoring on Jewish and early Christian thought relating to abortion. In terms of Jewish thought, I was particularly interested to note that 1 Enoch 68:18 avers that an evil angel taught humans how to perform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marie Stopes Dyslogy</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/08/marie-stopes-dyslogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is lifted from David Lindsay&#8217;s blog: [....] Or Marie Stopes, author of extravagant, versified love letters to Hitler? Marie Stopes, who disowned her own son because he married a woman who wore glasses. Marie Stopes, who campaigned for the compulsory sterilisation of &#8220;the C3 population&#8221;, of &#8220;half-castes&#8221; and of &#8220;revolutionaries&#8221;, among numerous others. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Koran and The God Delusion are equally disgusting to Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some intriguing research over at the Epiphenom blog, gauging moral disgust by measuring physical disgust &#8211; the two are apparently linked. Christian students were asked to taste-test two identical drinks; however, in between the first and second tasting, they were asked to copy out a passage of text. Some had to copy out a passage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pathetic: Guardian censors Peter Saunders comment even though the article mentions him.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/03/pathetic-guardian-censors-peter-saunders-comment-article-mentions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has an article entitled: Anti-abortion bid in disarray as critics rally, in which they seek to identify the organisations that support Nadine Dorries, and how they are funded. Within the article Peter Saunders is mentioned: Dorries confirmed that her campaign was being advised by Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Commission Issues New Guidance On Exceptions For Religious Charities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Britain&#8217;s Charity Commission announced the issuance of new, more detailed guidelines under the Equality Act 2010 clarifying when charities may restrict their benefits to persons on the basis of their religion, gender, age and various other protected characteristics. The Guidance (full text) has special rules for charities that limit their benefits to members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacy makes the mistake of blogging about a gay public display of affection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago Stacy &#8211; Accepting Abundance &#8211; blogged about an incident that revolved around a gay couple engaged in a public display of affection, entitled: Can&#8217;t Even Go to the Park. I knew nothing of this post until I noted comments arriving on one of Stacy&#8217;s posts that I&#8217;d linked to, entitled: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion: Mini war breaks out over Nadine Dorries MP &amp; Frank Field MP proposed amendments to the Health Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that a war of words has broken out over proposed amendments to the health bill put forward by Nadine Dorries MP &#38; Frank Field MP. As these amendments relate to abortion, which continues to be such a contentious issue in our society, one can be forgiven for expecting a backlash when abortion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Czech government commission and church agree on compensation package for church property seized by Communist regime</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/28/czech-government-commission-church-agree-compensation-package-church-property-seized-communist-regime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prague Daily Monitor and Czech Position both report on the agreement reached on Aug. 24 between a Czech government commission and church representatives on compensating churches for property seized by the former Communist regime of Czechoslovakia. The agreement, which must now be approved by the Czech parliament, caps some 20 years of negotiations. Opposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality and Human Rights Commission reverses position on religious cases intervention</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/25/equality-human-rights-commission-reverses-position-religious-cases-intervention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Wagner of the UK Human Rights Blog has the details.]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/24/quote-day-69/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I will point out that among the oldest Health and Safety regulations we have is this from Dt 22:8 &#8220;When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.&#8221; SOURCE]]></description>
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		<title>Draft Transitional Libyan Constitution Makes Islam the State Religion. But Protects Non-Muslims</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/23/draft-transitional-libyan-constitution-islam-state-religion-protects-nonmuslims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Journal reported yesterday that even though Libya&#8217;s Transitional National Council is not fully in control of the country, a draft constitution has appeared online. The Draft Constitutional Charter for the Transitional Stage includes this provision regarding religious rights: Article (1) &#8230;Islam is the Religion of the State and the principal source of legislation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Believe TV punished by Ofcom for claiming televangelist Paul Lewis &#8216;Miracle Olive Oil Soap&#8217; cures cancer</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/22/believe-tv-punished-by-ofcom-for-claiming-televangelist-paul-lewis-miracle-olive-oil-soap-can-cure-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon notifies us on Twitter of a rather depressing case involving Believe TV, a &#8216;Christian&#8217; channel broadcasting on the Sky platform. You can find all of the details on this PDF link and this particular case is dealt with on pages 11-24. This is the nub of the case: In January 2011 the Advertising Standards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Barrister Neil Addison successfully represents two Catholic nurses legal right to refuse to participate in abortion.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is great news and Neil Addison even used the Equality Act to defend the nurses right to conscientious objection. All the details are here and Neil concludes: Personally I hope that this use of the Equality Act will be of assistance for pro-life Doctors and Nurses and Pharmacists who find themselves being pressurised to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/11/united-nations-affirms-human-blaspheme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So called &#8216;blasphemy laws&#8217; are used in Islamic nations to persecute, subjugate and intimidate religious minorities &#8211; such as Christians &#8211; and so I read with interest about a UN Human Rights Committee statement on freedom of speech, which states: Laws restricting blasphemy as such are incompatible with universal human rights standards. Although this will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to begin a blog post and grip your readers from the get-go</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/06/blog-post-grip-readers-getgo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought the following by the CounterCultural Father a fine example of how to grip your readers from the get-go: As I got to my office, on the 42nd floor at Canary Wharf, I noticed the window was open. Slightly surprised, I looked out. There was a young chap stood on the narrow ledge. &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani awaits execution decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pastor in Iran found guilty of leaving Islam awaits the outcome of a judicial investigation into his spiritual background to see if he will be executed or, if possible, forced to become a Muslim, according to Christian groups with ties in Iran. The court-ordered investigation will take place sometime this fall to determine whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian midwife Hannah Adewole: Wearing dresses rather than trousers a mandatory requirement to adhere to Scripture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m saying nothing for once, let me know your thoughts: A midwife is suing hospital bosses for making her wear scrub trousers rather than a dress in the operating theatre. Devout Christian Hannah Adewole complains that wearing trousers goes against her religious beliefs. Mrs Adewole, 45, cites a command in the Bible that women should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiving the unrepentant and the death penalty, the conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst Guido&#8217;s hang &#8216;em high &#8216;Restore Justice Campaign&#8217; gets into full swing, he notes in favour of the death penalty those that have committed atrocities, spent years in jail, and yet &#8216;proved beyond rehabilitation&#8217;. I assume that what he means by &#8216;beyond rehabilitation&#8217; would contain an element of repentance and contrition. On an aside, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is simply no option for a priest – he must observe the seal of confession and, if necessary, go to prison</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/29/simply-option-priest-observe-seal-confession-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the Irish government&#8217;s proposal to introduce legislation that would make it mandatory for priests to reveal details of child abuse if it became known in the confessional, Fr. Tim Finigan has a superb blog post detailing why this will not be possible. There is also a proposed bill in Australia to force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kosovo: Muslims sue imam for hateful remarks about Mother Teresa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always good to cite the positive where possible: On July 21, the most respected Kosovo daily, Koha Ditore (Daily Times), reported that two lawyers, a writer, and an ordinary citizen of Pristina, capital of the territory, had commenced civil legal measures against Shefqet Krasniqi, imam of the city’s Grand Mosque, for his hateful remarks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating ‘cybrid’ &#8211; cytoplasmic animal-human hybrid &#8211; is legal in UK but seriously creepy</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/27/creating-cybrid-cytoplasmic-animalhuman-hybrid-legal-uk-creepy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story involving the creation of animal-human embryos in the UK is cropping up everywhere and although it&#8217;s perfectly legal, it&#8217;s seriously creepy. According to some reports I&#8217;ve read this procedure currently has no medical value and has been shrouded in secrecy. An apparently straightforward question to government last week (20 July) generated an apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand bans three sets of parents naming their child Lucifer</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/24/zealand-bans-sets-parents-naming-child-lucifer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m popping this one on for the sheer freakishness of it. Although New Zealand&#8217;s Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages has clamped down on naming a child &#8216;Lucifer&#8217; (requested three times), they&#8217;ve been more liberal in the past with names including: &#8220;Benson and Hedges&#8221; (for twins) &#8211; &#8220;Violence&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Number 16 Bus Shelter&#8221;. It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) doing a U-turn? Is it time to break out the champagne?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/15/equality-human-rights-commission-ehrc-uturn-rights-religious-believers/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days surprising and unexpected news broke over what appears to be a significant U-turn by the The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on religious rights. You can read the EHRC press release here. It begins thusly: Judges have interpreted the law too narrowly in religion or belief discrimination claims, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Government proposal for a new law to force priests to break the seal of confession for the crime of paedophilia</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/14/irish-government-proposal-law-force-priests-break-seal-confession-crime-paedophilia/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Children are all indicating that a proposed new law will require priests to break the seal of confession if someone confesses to them the crime of paedophilia. This would make us the one and only country in the Western world to have such a law. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should we avoid New International Version Bible as owned by Murdoch&#8217;s NewsCorp?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/14/avoid-international-version-owned-controlled-murdochs-newscorp/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, Rupert Murdoch publishes and controls great swathes of Christian literature, through HarperCollins Publishing -  a division of NewsCorp &#8211; who bought out Zondervan in 1988. This is quite an uncomfortable truth for some, given the recent NewsCorp allegations and their general standards of ethics and morality. The New International Version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrest warrant issued for Gadaffi. What about that monster Mugabe?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/27/arrest-warrant-for-gadaffi-well-what-about-that-monster-mugabe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self congratulatory headlines abound today, after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi and his cronies. Well whoopee. What about that murderous tyrannical despot Mugabe, who seemed able to swan through Europe recently, to attend the Vatican beatification ceremony of the late Pope John Paul II? All Mugabe needed was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Care&#8217;s latest appeal request is refused</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/21/catholic-cares-latest-appeal-request-refused/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous post here. Alison McKenna of the charity tribunal rules that the charity has not identified any errors of law in the decision not to allow it to discriminate against same-sex adoption couples &#8230;.continue Catholic Care are never going to win this legal battle. Bear in mind that over the weekend Trevor Phillips - Chairman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trevor Phillips chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Christian and Muslim integration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading headlines such as this one: Christians are more militant than Muslims, says Government&#8217;s equalities boss I went to all the effort of popping out and spending two quid on a Sunday Telegraph, to read for myself this&#8230;. &#8230;..wide-ranging intervention into the debate over the role of religion in modern Britain. Well, I needn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/13/good-links-39/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Assist News Service - Christian doctors to prescribe ‘spiritual healing’ for sickness Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion &#8211; UK Bill to Amend 1996 Arbitration Act Harry&#8217;s Place &#8211; Anglican vicar shills for Hamas support network in Malaysia Sultan Knish &#8211; The Rise of the Post-American Empires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC: Terry Pratchett Choosing To Die &#8211; Documentary to broadcast assisted suicide at Swiss euthanasia Dignitas clinic</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/07/bbc-terry-pratchett-choosing-to-die-documentary-to-broadcast-assisted-suicide-at-swiss-euthanasia-dignitas-clinic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back I blogged in support of the BBC&#8217;s decision to air the NATURAL dying moments of an 84-year-old cancer sufferer, as part of their ’Inside the human body’ series. I argued: The process of dying has become sanitised and detached from our experience as we relegate the process to hospitals. In the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt: Draft law proposal to overturn the Hamayouni Decree</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/04/egypt-draft-law-proposal-overturn-hamayouni-decree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will always endeavour to bring us positive news coming out of the Muslim world, no matter how slender the morsels. This is a case in point and revolves around the the Hamayouni Decree, which is a draconian law dating back to the Ottomon empire regulating Church construction and maintenance, which does not apply to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gallup 2011 Values and Beliefs poll: Moral Issues Dividing Americans</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/02/gallup-2011-values-beliefs-poll-moral-issues-dividing-americans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just posted on a new Gallup poll over at Theology in the News, which looks at American perceptions on moral issues. I&#8217;m not sure the results can be extrapolated for the UK, but I did find them interesting nonetheless: So the top 5 most contentious and divisive issues are: Doctor Assisted Suicide – Abortion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Care plans to appeal a fourth time over gay adoption ruling</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/31/catholic-care-plans-appeal-fourth-time-gay-adoption-ruling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 10:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous post here. The Leeds-based charity Catholic Care are to appeal to the Upper Tribunal in the hope of quashing the ruling forbidding them to exclude gay people when considering potential adoptive parents. &#8230;.continue reading]]></description>
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		<title>Do you think it legitmate for the media to report clergy adultery?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/29/legitmate-media-report-clergy-spousal-unfaithfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 10:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the question asked in a survey on behalf of The Sunday Times by YouGov. 64% of respondents affirmed the assertion that clergy spousal unfaithfulness should be reported by the media, with 23% Disagreeing and 13% unsure. Of the ten categories of individuals in the questionnaire, only politicians surpassed Clergy. Here are the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government appoints LIFE to new Sexual Health Forum in the stead of British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/25/government-announces-appointed-life-sexual-health-forum-stead-british-pregnancy-advisory-service-bpas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 14:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement that the government has appointed Life &#8211; opposed to abortion &#8211; to their new sexual health forum, replacing BPAS &#8211; abortion provider &#8211; is really positive news folks. Peter has all the details, including the controversy this has kicked up. UPDATE: The Christian Medical Fellowship have also picked up on this.]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/16/good-links-35/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 08:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: CNN &#8211; Religious belief is human nature, huge new study claims New Medical &#8211; Immortality only appeals to 15% of people: Study A Reluctant Sinner &#8211; Amnesty International attacks the Catholic Church whilst continuing to promote what Blessed Pope John Paul II called the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Care loses gay adoption appeal against the Charity Commission</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/26/catholic-care-loses-gay-adoption-appeal-charity-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background information here. A Catholic charity which wants exemption from equality laws which would force it to provide its adoption services to gay couples has had its latest appeal rejected. Catholic Care, which is based in the Diocese of Leeds, has spent more than two years arguing it will have to give up its work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ProLife  Alliance (PLA) wins high court battle with The Department of Health (DoH) for full disclosure of late abortion statistics</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/20/prolife-alliance-pla-wins-high-court-battle-department-health-doh-full-disclosure-late-abortion-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this is surprise result on a legal case which has been rumbling along for nearly a decade. The Department of Health has lost a court battle to keep secret some details on abortion statistics. The government was challenging an Information Tribunal decision but data on late abortions must now be disclosed. &#8220;Late abortions&#8221; are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Andrew Ryan jailed for 70 days for burning Koran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this a case of disproportionate sentencing? A man has been jailed for 70 days today after he burnt a copy of the Koran just over a month after a Muslim got away with a paltry £50 fine for a similar offence. Andrew Ryan, 32, stole a copy of the holy book from Carlisle Library [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Poll: 32% view Islamic terrorism as posing the greatest threat to the European Union.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/19/uk-poll-32-view-islamic-terrorism-posing-greatest-threat-european-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Religion in Numbers (BRIN) website points us to a new survey conducted by ICM Research for The Guardian. The poll covers five countries &#8211; Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Poland &#8211; with a sample of 5,023 adults aged 18-64, including 1,001 in Great Britain. The survey covers a wide spectrum of questions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian electrician Colin Atkinson in hot water for the small palm cross on the dashboard of his company van.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/17/christian-electrician-colin-atkinson-hot-water-small-palm-cross-dashboard-company-van/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK folks, tin hat time. Colin Atkinson, 64, from Wakefield, has been called to a disciplinary hearing at the housing association where he has worked for 15 years. His bosses at the publicly funded Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) have demanded he remove the eight inch long cross made from woven palm leaves that sits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>52% agree more preferable Britain be regarded as a Christian country than atheistic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ComRes have conducted a telephone poll on behalf of Christian Concern with a representative sample of 1,002 adults aged 18+. The poll seems to have been prompted by the legal case involving Eunice and Owen Johns who withdrew their application with Derby City Council to provide respite foster care. This action was taken because they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-thirds of Britons would like to see the burqa banned</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/15/twothirds-britons-burqa-banned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s cut through the guff, the burqa is awful. It&#8217;s unsociable, intimidating, and segregating, and frankly alien to British sensibilities. Is this however, a sound enough reason to ban it? I&#8217;m not so sure. Hot on the heels of the French Burqa ban the British Religion in Numbers website has revealed that according to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brief a Bishop &#8211; House of Lords debate: Libya, Operation Odyssey, UNSCR 1973, Egypt, Middle East and Peace Process</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/31/bishop-house-lords-debate-libya-operation-odyssey-unscr-1973-egypt-middle-east-peace-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (1st April) Peers in the House of Lords will spend the whole day debating recent events in Libya and the wider Middle East. Charles Reed &#8211; Church of England advisor on foreign policy issues &#8211; has the complex task of ensuring the Church of England Bishops are properly briefed. Happily for us, over the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/28/good-links-32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Epiphenom &#8211; Religion and conflict: cause or coincidence? British Religion in Numbers &#8211; Church Attendance in England, 1980-2005 Sultan Knish &#8211; The Second Time as Farce Psychology Today &#8211; 10 Things Not to Say to a Depressed Person Religion Law Blog &#8211; Church Volunteers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) drops pursuit of U.N. Human Rights Council Defamation of Religion Resolution</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/26/organisation-islamic-conference-oic-drops-pursuit-human-rights-council-defamation-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is absolutely super news folks. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) &#8211; comprising 57 Islamic nations &#8211; have been trying for years to introduce a &#8216;Defemation of Religion&#8221; UN resolution. They have now dropped this pursuit. This would have only favoured Islam and ushered in a dangerous global blasphemy law. I think we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crises of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/20/crises-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>European Court of Human Rights overturns ban on displaying crucifixes in school classrooms.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/18/european-court-human-rights-overturns-ban-displaying-crucifixes-school-classrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is breaking news and I can&#8217;t find anything online yet that I don&#8217;t have to pay for, except this link to the National Secular Society. Sorry about that. I&#8217;ll update this post as news becomes available from more friendly sources. UPDATE: Here&#8217;s the full judgement in PDF format This from the Associated Press: European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Commission defends decision forbidding Catholic Care Adoption Agency preventing gay people using its service at tribunal.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/14/charity-commission-defends-decision-forbidding-catholic-care-adoption-agency-preventing-gay-people-service-tribunal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For background information on this, please see my previous post. The Charity Commission has defended its decision not to allow the charity Catholic Care to prevent gay people from using its adoption service, at a charity tribunal hearing. During the hearing, which finished on Friday, the commission argued it would be a &#8220;serious and demeaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron wades into the case of the Christian foster carers Eunice and Owen Johns</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/09/david-cameron-wades-case-christian-foster-carers-eunice-owen-johns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been out most of the day and upon scanning my feeds on my return, there is one particular event that has prompted much ink to be spilt. This relates to comments made by Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday. Apparently, the Prime Minister was asked his thoughts on the outcome of the recent court case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Apologises to Christians</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/04/equality-human-rights-commission-ehrc-apologises-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the recent court case involving the Christian foster carers Eunice and Owen Johns, Derby City Council, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the EHRC have apologised to Christians and to Mr and Mrs Johns: Earlier this week the case of Johns v Derby City Council, in which the Commission had intervened, attracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian foster carers Eunice and Owen Johns lose high court judgement</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/28/christian-foster-carers-eunice-owen-johns-lose-high-court-judgement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous post here. A Christian couple morally opposed to homosexuality because of their faith have lost a landmark High Court battle over the right to become foster carers. Eunice and Owen Johns, aged 62 and 65, from Oakwood, Derby, went to court after a social worker expressed concerns when they said they could not tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Hans-Christian Raabe dismissed from Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs due to views on homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/07/dr-hanschristian-raabe-dismissed-advisory-council-misuse-drugs-due-views-homosexuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was so obvious that Dr Raabe was not going to last five minutes after the announcement of his appointment to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) last month. The sheer volume of aggressive vitriol levelled against him after the announcement was stunning. The ACMD hit the headlines back in 2009 when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Field MP: Early day Motion to force the Church of England to accept women bishops</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/31/frank-field-mp-early-day-motion-force-church-england-accept-women-bishops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I noted this article in the Telegraph: A group of influential MPs will tomorrow call for Parliament to intervene over the historic reform as fears grow that the Church will reject plans allowing female bishops. [.....] However, Mr Field has tabled an early day motion, which could abolish the Church&#8217;s current exemption [...]]]></description>
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