Religious Freedom
- Russia’s new draft law barring pastors trained overseas from preaching deals ‘powerful blow’ to religious freedom
– Barnabas Fund - Protestant pastor shot dead in Indonesia
– UCA News - Seeking a viable alternative to Indonesia’s blasphemy laws
– The Diplomat - Abduction of girls from minority communities continues in Pakistan
– ZEES News - Germany’s newest crime: Quoting the Bible
– Conservative Woman
Marriage & Family
- Government abandons plans to let people change gender without medical checks
– Sky News - UK: NHS to hold review into gender identity services for children and young people
– Guardian - Polish town votes to stay ‘LGBT-free zone’ despite global criticism
– Reuters - South Africa: Home Affairs commits to addressing transgender-related issues
– Devidiscourse
Sanctity of Life
- Forced to abort, tortured: Indian women continue to face violence over obsession with male children
– Vice - Malawi: Evangelical pastors to hold demos against legalising abortion, religious pro-choice movement emerges
– Nyasa Times - ‘This is genocide’: China’s Uighurs ‘being wiped out with forced abortions’
– Sunday Times (£) - Vatican steps up opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide
– Reuters
