Teaching for today

Teaching for today

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  • CI News: 31 July 2026
    In CI News this week: The Prime Minister calls for palliative care to be prioritised over assisted suicide, the Institute urges the charities watchdog to reaffirm the value of faith-based groups, and a new report shows that marriage is strongly linked to family stability.
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    Featured stories
    • PM: ‘Assisted suicide should not be debated until palliative care is fixed’
    • Amnesty row: Charity Commission must reaffirm the value of faith-based groups
    • MSI set to launch UK’s first purpose-built ‘abortion factory’
    • Think-tank: ‘Family stability is strongly associated with marriage’
    • 6 min
    • CI News: 24 July 2026
      In CI News this week: Civil servants are threatened with discipline for ‘misgendering’ colleagues under draft guidelines, Government plans to overhaul wedding laws risk trivialising marriage, and three US newborns are rescued in a week through Safe Haven Baby boxes.
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      Featured stories
      • Civil servants face investigation over ‘misgendering’
      • Govt ‘ties itself in knots’ over 21st century wedding makeover
      • Millions in Britain still at risk from gambling
      • Three newborns rescued in one week through Safe Haven Baby Boxes
      • 6 min
      • CI News: 17 July 2026
        In CI News this week: Amnesty International is criticised for branding The Christian Institute and others ‘anti-rights’ organisations, Jersey becomes the first part of the British Isles to introduce euthanasia, and neonatal unit staff celebrate as a baby born at 22 weeks and three days is discharged.
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        Featured stories
        • Amnesty brands The Christian Institute ‘anti-rights’
        • Dark day as Jersey assisted suicide law receives Royal Assent
        • Coroner: ‘William Hill failings contributed to man’s suicide’
        • Celebrations as preemie born at 22 weeks arrives home
        • 6 min
        • CI News: 10 July 2026
          In CI News this week: Peers warn that plans to ban ‘conversion practices’ could criminalise parents, the Church of England reopens discussions on allowing same-sex weddings for clergy, and one-in-three babies are now aborted in England and Wales.
          You can download the video via this link.
          Featured stories
          • Govt reminds schools not to blindly allow kids to ‘change sex’ as guidance finalised
          • PSNI: ‘Carrying a Bible in hospital may be illegal’
          • Dawn French: ‘I worry that the poor will suffer most under assisted suicide’
          • Nurse vindicated after 2-year ‘witch hunt’ for ‘misgendering’ patient
          • 6 min
          • CI News: 3 July 2026
            In CI News this week: Peers warn that plans to ban ‘conversion practices’ could criminalise parents, the Church of England reopens discussions on allowing same-sex weddings for clergy, and one-in-three babies are now aborted in England and Wales.
            You can download the video via this link.
            Featured stories
            • Peers: ‘Westminster’s conversion practices Bill imperils the innocent’
            • NI conversion therapy plan criminalises opposition to ‘radical trans ideology’
            • CofE rebrands LLF with new same-sex marriage working groups
            • King elevates ‘multi-faith nation’ despite ‘Defender of the Faith’ role
            • One in three pregnancies end in abortion in England and Wales
            • 7 min
            • CI News: 26 June 2026
              In CI News this week: Parents and church leaders in England and Wales could be criminalised under a planned ‘conversion practices’ Bill, a parliamentary committee in Ireland backs liberalising the country’s drug laws, and Northern Ireland’s Civil Service has called a halt to official participation in LGBT Pride.
              You can download the video via this link.
              Featured stories
              • Govt publishes controversial draft ‘conversion practices’ Bill
              • Oireachtas committee pushes to decriminalise heroin and cocaine for personal use
              • NI Civil Service imposes staff ‘Pride’ parade ban
              • 4 min
              • CI News: 19 June 2026
                In CI News this week: Plans to legalise assisted suicide return to Westminster, cosmetics company Lush is under fire for promoting mastectomies for gender-confused women, and a German footballer prays with members of the opposing team at the World Cup.
                You can download the video via this link.
                Featured stories
                • Assisted suicide legislation set to return to Westminster
                • Lush slammed for ‘celebrating’ trans surgery
                • German footballer prays with opponents after World Cup win
                • ‘Smallest 22-weeker ever’ defies the odds
                • 4 min
                • CI News: 12 June 2026
                  In CI News this week: Government plans to introduce new legal rights for cohabitants risk undermining marriage; as the World Cup kicks off, campaigners spotlight the dangers of gambling; an abortion survivor speaks of the transforming power of the Gospel at work in her life.
                  You can download the video via this link.
                  Featured stories
                  • CI urges Govt to celebrate marriage not push cohabitation
                  • Judge: ‘Toilet policy at Scots primary school disadvantaged girls’
                  • Man who lost £100k warns of gambling harms ahead of the World Cup
                  • Abortion survivor: ‘Jesus changed the course of my life’
                  • 5 min
                  • CI News: 5 June 2026
                    In CI News this week: Lib Dems ‘betraying women’ by opposing single-sex spaces guidance, ‘Irresponsible’ gambling ads banned for featuring England captain, Ontario doctor given ‘slap on the wrist’ for botched euthanasia and ‘Historic’ moment as Bible translated into 800th language.
                    You can download the video via this link.
                    Featured stories
                    • Lib Dems ‘betraying women’ by opposing single-sex spaces guidance
                    • NI successfully avoids proposed smacking ban
                    • Ontario doctor given ‘slap on the wrist’ for botched euthanasia
                    • ‘Historic’ moment as Bible translated into 800th language
                    • 5 min
                    • CI News: 29 May 2026
                      In CI News this week: Pastor Clive Johnston will appeal his conviction for preaching the Gospel in an abortion buffer zone, two gambling adverts are banned for appealing to children, and Kent Council votes to use the Lord’s Prayer at the start of each meeting.
                      You can download the video via this link.
                      Featured stories
                      • John 3:16 preacher to appeal ‘deeply troubling’ ruling against religious liberty
                      • ‘Irresponsible’ gambling ads banned for featuring England captain
                      • ‘Great tragedy’ as abortions in Scotland hit record high
                      • Kent County Council reintroduces prayer at meetings
                      • 5 min

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