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Street preacher vindicated after wrongful arrest ([link removed])
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A Christian street preacher has been paid £4,000 plus costs from Cumbria Police in settlement after pursuing a claim for being wrongfully arrested and detained for six hours.

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Anglicans oppose decriminalisation of abortion ([link removed])
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Hundreds of Anglicans have called on Church of England bishops to speak out against proposals to decriminalise abortion.


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Royal College risks ‘squeezing out’ medics who question abortion ([link removed])


My Body is Me!: Children’s book counteracts gender ideology ([link removed])
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A children’s author and poet has written a new book helping young children to accept the body they were born with.

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Poll: Fewer than one in three Scots support sex changes for 16-year-olds ([link removed])



Universities launch free speech societies ([link removed])
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A free speech society set up by a student at the University of Buckingham now has over 100 members, and has led to copycat societies in five other top universities.


Rugby Australia settles with Israel Folau over sacking ([link removed])
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Israel Folau has reached a settlement with Rugby Australia (RA) after he was controversially sacked over posts on social media.


NHS Chief: Gambling figures a ‘stark reminder’ of betting prevalence ([link removed])
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New research showing that over half of adults in the UK gamble has been described by the head of the NHS as a “stark reminder” of the prevalence of gambling in society.


‘Boy with no brain’ continues to defy expectations ([link removed])
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A seven-year-old from Cumbria who is paralysed from the waist down has recently moved his foot after undergoing pioneering therapy.


PODCAST: Transgenderism ([link removed])
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Dr Sharon James and Michael Taylor discuss the recent rise in people identifying as transgender, where this has come from, and how Christians can respond with compassion and sensitivity.


FEATURE: ‘Why don’t you campaign on…?’ ([link removed])
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We’re occasionally asked why we don’t campaign on such and such a topic – most frequently poverty and the environment.



FEATURE: Oppression and Toleration: Charles II and William of Orange ([link removed])
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By 1660, the British people were crying out for a king. Most had never fully taken to the Cromwellian vision of a republic. A return to a monarchy was inevitable, but not without opposition.



FEATURE: Escape from Reason ([link removed])
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Fifty years ago the great Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer wrote Escape from Reason.




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