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Friday, 18 March 2022

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Revamped Online Safety Bill still a serious threat

The Government’s changes to its Online Safety Bill in response to major concerns about freedom of speech do not go far enough, The Christian Institute has said.

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‘Canada’s online regulation Bill will threaten free speech’

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House of Lords rejects assisted suicide

The House of Lords has rejected the latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales.

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Teen denied kidney transplant due to autism wins appeal

CI: ‘Family privacy at risk from NI hate crime proposals’

The Christian Institute has criticised the Stormont Executive for proposing sweeping changes to hate crime legislation which could profoundly restrict religious liberty and free speech.

MSPs backing for ‘conversion therapy’ ban fuels religious freedom fears

MSPs overwhelmingly spoke in favour of a ban on so-called conversion therapy during a Holyrood debate yesterday.

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Three CofE bishops support a ‘conversion therapy’ ban that would jail their own clergy

Sir Keir Starmer: ‘Trans women are women’

The leader of the Labour Party has been criticised for claiming that the legal definition of ‘woman’ includes men who identify as members of the opposite sex.

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MP: ‘We must be clear about the definition of women’

Police Commissioner: MP used ‘transphobia’ slur to silence me on women’s safety

JK Rowling: Gender self-ID Bill ‘will harm the most vulnerable women in society’

The Scottish Government’s plans to allow people to change their legal sex based on self-declaration “will harm the most vulnerable women in society”, JK Rowling has warned.

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‘Many trans people’ oppose Scot Govt’s gender self-ID Bill

Dr Dermot Kearney and Amrita Kaur with her daughter

Doctor who saved children from abortions acquitted by GMC

The General Medical Council (GMC) has dropped sanctions against a doctor who saved the lives of over 30 children from abortion, despite a protracted campaign by abortion giants.

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MLAs back abortion ‘buffer zones’ despite overwhelming public opposition

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Judges uphold definition of marriage for Bermuda and Caymans

Betting industry and regulator ‘indifferent’ to gambling suicide misery

FEATURE: On this day: Christian couple arrested for Islam conversation

On 20 March 2009, a Christian couple were arrested and accused of committing a ‘hate crime’ for allegedly criticising Islam in a discussion with a guest at their hotel.

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