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Friday, 18 February 2022

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Kenneth Ferguson

The CEO who was unfairly dismissed by Scotland’s largest grant-making trust over his church’s views on marriage has shared how The Christian Institute helped him through the ordeal and secure an important legal victory.

 
 

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Man in church

Campaign group Let Us Pray has defended the Christian belief in the existence of hell following an article in Scottish daily The Herald which challenged the freedom to preach the Gospel.

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Church leaders present ‘conversion therapy’ letter to Downing Street

Presbyterians warn of dangers to churches from ‘conversion therapy’ ban

 
 
Office

US firms such as Google and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are antagonistic to Christians, a prominent figure in the technology sector has said.

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Wrecking amendment sees Australian religious liberty Bill shelved

 
 
Tony Blair

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for common-sense in the debates on biological sex, trans rights and free speech.

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House of Lords ditches Stonewall scheme following ‘pregnant people’ row

Doc accused of transphobia for announcing ‘it’s a girl’ at birth

 
Mother and daughter

Parents do risk being arrested if they give their child a gentle smack, the Welsh Government has confirmed.

 
 
Crowd

A legal challenge to questions on sex and gender in the upcoming census in Scotland has been thrown out by the Court of Session.

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Teens crowdfunding to pay for ‘sex-swap’ surgery

Teachers told to go ‘gender-free’

 
Holding hand

A collaboration of over 100 organisations has criticised Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide Bill for using the term ‘assisted dying’.

 
Caius College

A Cambridge college will no longer fly the multicoloured LGBT flag, after senior academics said the college flag is the only one which “speaks for all of us”.

 
 
Drugs

Substance misuse is placing unsustainable pressure on resources in Northern Ireland, a Stormont Committee has said.

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‘We will not condone drug-taking’: Minister slams calls for Scot drug rooms

 
 
Baby

A mother who refused to abort her daughter when she was diagnosed with a brain condition said her story is “proof there is always hope”.

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Thousands of babies alive as a result of Texas ‘heartbeat’ protections

CofE against extension of DIY abortion scheme

 
 
Kenneth Ferguson

In July 2021, an Employment Tribunal ruled that Kenneth Ferguson was unfairly dismissed by multimillion-pound grant-maker The Robertson Trust and subjected to religious discrimination by the Trust and its Chair, Shonaig Macpherson.

 
 

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