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Friday, 21 February 2025
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CI cautions Stormont to tread carefully with ‘standardised’ equality law ([link removed])
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Consolidating existing equality laws in Northern Ireland is fraught with difficulty and must be handled very carefully to avoid undermining religious liberty, The Christian Institute has warned.




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Terminally ill could choose assisted suicide to save money under Leadbeater Bill ([link removed])
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Kim Leadbeater MP has refused to rule out the prospect of terminally ill people seeking help to kill themselves for fear of being a financial burden under her assisted suicide Bill.


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Leadbeater Bill ‘flying blind’ to consequences for Wales ([link removed])
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Diane Abbott: ‘Leadbeater Bill is pernicious, mishandled and deeply flawed’ ([link removed])
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Top psychiatrists warn staff shortages could render Leadbeater Bill unworkable ([link removed])
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Guardian columnist: ‘Leadbeater dismisses anyone who questions her Bill’ ([link removed])
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Secular alternative to Christian school assemblies debated in House of Lords ([link removed])
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A Bill to scrap Christian assemblies in non-faith schools has failed to secure Government support.



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Parents fight to stop sex-change treatment for minors ([link removed])
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Parents have accused a trans-affirming clinic of defying the Cass Review by giving irreversible sex-change drugs to teens.


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BBC drama slammed for using dementia as ‘political propaganda’ in trans storyline ([link removed])
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Kate Forbes ‘unequivocally’ supports same-sex spaces for women ([link removed])
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Stormont: ‘Gambling Wild West damaging society’ ([link removed])
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MLAs from across the political spectrum have urged the Northern Ireland Executive to do more to tackle gambling.



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Half of all murders drug-related for fifth year in a row ([link removed])
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At least half of all murders over the last five years in England and Wales were drug related, new figures have shown.


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Dublin heroin centre ‘facilitating poisoning’ ([link removed])
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UK to spend over £30m in foreign aid towards ‘LGBT+ rights’ ([link removed])
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The UK Government plans to use more than £30 million on promoting “LGBT+ rights” across the world.


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Muslim MP: ‘Prayers in Parliament part of nation’s Christian heritage’ ([link removed])
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Muslim MP Shockat Adam has defended the use of Christian prayers before each sitting of the House of Commons.


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Gospel proclaimed in Holyrood: ‘God’s love never runs out’ ([link removed])
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Death and disease cannot separate Christians from God’s “everlasting love”, the Scottish Parliament has been told.




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Director, The Christian Institute


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