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Friday, 21 February 2025

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CI cautions Stormont to tread carefully with ‘standardised’ equality law

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

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

Diane Abbott: ‘Leadbeater Bill is pernicious, mishandled and deeply flawed’

Top psychiatrists warn staff shortages could render Leadbeater Bill unworkable

Guardian columnist: ‘Leadbeater dismisses anyone who questions her Bill’

Secular alternative to Christian school assemblies debated in House of Lords

A Bill to scrap Christian assemblies in non-faith schools has failed to secure Government support.

Parents fight to stop sex-change treatment for minors

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

Kate Forbes ‘unequivocally’ supports same-sex spaces for women

Stormont: ‘Gambling Wild West damaging society’

MLAs from across the political spectrum have urged the Northern Ireland Executive to do more to tackle gambling.

Half of all murders drug-related for fifth year in a row

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’

UK to spend over £30m in foreign aid towards ‘LGBT+ rights’

The UK Government plans to use more than £30 million on promoting “LGBT+ rights” across the world.

Muslim MP: ‘Prayers in Parliament part of nation’s Christian heritage’

Muslim MP Shockat Adam has defended the use of Christian prayers before each sitting of the House of Commons.

Gospel proclaimed in Holyrood: ‘God’s love never runs out’

Death and disease cannot separate Christians from God’s “everlasting love”, the Scottish Parliament has been told.

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Ciarán Kelly
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