Coalition for Marriage launched : Letting gays marry would be wrong, Carey tells Cameron : Doctors warn over alcohol deaths : Church concern over fake vicars : The politically correct only tolerate safe Christianity : Christians who hate Jews : England – number of RC seminarians doubled in past decade
Coalition for Marriage launched
Christian Institute – A grassroots campaign group against the redefinition of marriage in the United Kingdom has been launched. The Coalition for Marriage (C4M) is a group of organisations and individuals who support the current definition of marriage and opposes any plans to redefine it. The petition can be signed online here: www.c4m.org.uk Leading public figures including politicians from the Conservative and Labour parties, lawyers, academics and religious leaders, have already signed affirming that marriage is between one man and one woman for life. Read more – http://www.christian.org.uk/news/coalition-for-marriage-launched/
Letting gays marry would be wrong, Carey tells Cameron
Mail Online – A powerful denunciation of David Cameron’s plans to legalise gay marriage is made today by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey. In an article for the Daily Mail, Lord Carey says the proposal to change the status of marriage ‘constitutes one of the greatest political power grabs in history’. He is backing a new grassroots organisation, the Coalition For Marriage (C4M), which opposes the redefinition of marriage to include same sex couples. Read more – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103583/Lord-Carey-tells-David-Cameron-Letting-gays-marry-wrong.html#ixzz1mv1NIofL
Doctors warn over alcohol deaths
BBC – Failure to reform alcohol laws could lead to 210,000 preventable deaths in England and Wales in the next 20 years, doctors warn.
Read more – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17073816
Church concern over fake vicars
Leader online – There is growing concern among church members in the area about people claiming to be Church of England vicars and carrying out “weddings” and “wedding blessings” when they are not officially recognized or qualified for the task. At a recent annual synod of the Church of England chaplaincies in Spain and Portugal which met at Orihuela Costa synod members were told about people who claimed to be vicars and able to do Church of England weddings in Spain, when in fact they were not even priests.
Read more – http://www.theleader.info/article/33046/spain/costa-blanca/churches-concern-at-fake-vicars/
The politically correct only tolerate safe Christianity
Christianity Today – Opinion – Christians need to ask why politically correct leaders in Parliament and the media are backing Christian prayers in council meetings. The answer lies in a real practical distinction between hard and soft political correctness. Hard core PC activists, such as the National Secular Society which brought the High Court action against Bideford Town Council to get Christian prayers off the municipal agenda, want Christianity out of the public square. But moderates in politically correct terms are prepared to allow houseroom to the ‘faith sector’. They are therefore happy to allow Christian prayers in the council chamber and in Parliament.
Read more – http://www.christiantoday.com/article/the.politically.correct.only.tolerate.safe.christianity/29321.htm
Christians who hate Jews
Y net news – Op-ed: Church of England’s ongoing hostility to Israel and Zionism rooted in deep dislike for Jews. A few weeks ago a highly influential Church of England vicar, Stephen Sizer, promoted a website that supports Holocaust denial and warns of a Zionist conspiracy controlling the world. Reverend Sizer just received the support of the Bishop of Guildford Sizer, Reverend Christopher Hill, a former chaplain to the Queen, following calls for him to be suspended for linking to the site. Sizer used his Facebook page to link to the piece on American website The Ugly Truth, which claims to highlight “Zionism, Jewish extremism and a few other nasty items making our world uninhabitable today.” The site also runs cartoons of Holocaust deniers and supports Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Bishop of Willesden was suspended in 2010 after using his Facebook page to make inappropriate gossip remarks about the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. But in the face of such blatant anti-Jewish hatred, the Church of England took Sizer’s side.
Read more – http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4191509,00.html
England: number of RC seminarians doubled in past decade
Catholic Culture – The number of seminarians in England and Wales has increased from 26 to 51 since 2001. Father Christopher Jamison, director of the National Office for Vocation in London, attributes the rise to the formation of discernment groups. “It’s not about straightforward recruitment into the religious life. It’s about helping both men and women work out what’s right for them in their lives.”
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