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November 7, 2019

Bishop calls on public to keep the environment pressure on MPs

Catholics must continue to remind politicians of the responsibility they owe to the world’s most vulnerable, the Bishop for the Environment has said. His call comes as a new survey suggests that more than half of people say climate change will influence the way they vote in the next general election. “The way that people... Read More
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May 9, 2019

Current UK law on assisted suicide is safest, say pro-lifers

A pro-life group has insisted that the UK’s current law on assisted suicide is the safest, as it described a new legal challenge to change it as “a pointless exercise”. Paralysed former builder Paul Lamb has vowed to start a new legal fight to change the law on assisted suicide after he lost a ‘right-to-die’... Read More
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December 10, 2018

Woman dumps acid on priest hearing confessions

A 24-year-old woman dumped sulphuric acid on a priest while he was hearing confessions in the Managua cathedral. Fr Mario Guevara, 59, was immediately taken to the hospital on 5th December and treated for burns. The Archdiocese of Managua asked for prayers for the priest, who has diabetes and hypertension. A Nicaraguan church source told... Read More
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November 6, 2018

Asia Bibi’s acquittal of blasphemy challenged in Pakistan Supreme Court

The acquittal of a Pakistani Catholic woman sentenced to hang for blasphemy is to be challenged in the country’s Supreme Court, according to her husband. Three judges of the court ordered on 31st October that the death sentence against Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was to be set aside and she was to be... Read More
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October 10, 2018

Kim Jong Un ‘wants the pope to visit North Korea’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants Pope Francis to visit his country, South Korean officials have said. Mr Kim told South Korean president Moon Jae-in during their summit last month that the pope would be “enthusiastically” welcomed in North Korea, South Korea’s presidential office said. The North Korean leader has been engaged in intensive... Read More
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October 9, 2018

Unprecedented action needed to curb global warming

Countries must take ‘unprecedented’ action to slash carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and limit dangerous global warming, a key report has warned. Impacts of climate change, from droughts to rising seas, will be less extreme if temperature rises are curbed at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels than if they climb to 2C, the UN-backed study... Read More
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October 4, 2018

Shut door on essay mills, Leeds Trinity tells Government

The Vice-Chancellor at Leeds Trinity University is calling on the Government to shut down so-called ‘essay mills’. As many as one in seven recent graduates may have cheated by using ‘essay mills’ during the last four years, according to a recent study. Students who get caught face punishment by their university, including possible disqualification, although... Read More
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March 7, 2017

Government under pressure over unaccompanied child refugees

Ministers have been pressed to go further in their commitments to detail the capacity of English councils to house unaccompanied child refugees, amid a potential Tory rebellion. Education minister Edward Timpson said the UK Government is happy to publish regular updates on the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children transferred to or resettled in the... Read More
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