Religious Freedom
- Persecution of Christians intensifying across Northern Africa
– Christian Today - India: Christians forced to ‘reconvert,’ banished from village
– Morning Star News - ‘The situation is very vulnerable’: Christianity faces extinction in once multicultural Iraq
– Telegraph (£) - ‘It’s time to be real: what happens in Iraq is ethnic cleansing’
– World Watch Monitor - Pakistan court frees pastor charged with blasphemy
– UCA News
Marriage & Family
- German family still in custody, homeschooling limbo
– Baptist Press - Israeli education minister faces calls to resign for defending therapeutic help for unwanted same-sex attraction
– Jewish Chronicle - Japan: LGBT community hopes Upper House election will spur debate and advance ‘gay-rights’ legislation
– Japan Times - UK: Experts tell of fears for children as number seeking sex change rises
– Mail - UK: Warning changing divorce laws puts family support system at risk
– Scotsman
Sanctity of Life
- Indian minister says families with more than two children should not be able to vote
– Telegraph - UK House of Lords will attempt to prevent abortion being forced on Northern Ireland
– Right to Life - Author of UK 1967 Abortion Act: there are ‘too many’ abortions
– Christian Institute - Legalizing assisted suicide is causing more people to kill themselves in suicides
– Life News