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Parliament "must intervene" in the debate on the future of the seal of confession in the Church of England by changing civil law to introduce mandatory
reporting, a former diocesan chancellor has said.
China is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to new research.
Some faith schools have been awarded money from the school nurseries capital fund, which creates school-based nursery places for disadvantaged children.
A paralysed man who wants the right to an assisted death has applied to the High Court to try to change UK law. The application comes in the week Parliament
debated assisted dying for the first time in four years.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable MP, says it is time to update the law on assisted dying, with great care to ensure that there are safeguards
to prevent abuse.
A dying man from Perth has said he will spend his remaining weeks campaigning to make assisted dying legal in Scotland. Local politicians have not backed his
campaign.
The Church of England is to tell husbands and wives they are free to change gender and stay married. But the established church still does not allow same-sex
marriage.
As more doctors' groups consult their members on assisted dying and parliament debates the issue, Dr Antony Lempert says the challenge to the status quo,
which is propped up by religious interests, is welcome.
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