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WATCH: A General Election will take place on 4 July. This short video offers some help in understanding why you should vote and biblical priorities to consider when you do, along with some practical advice.
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Revd Dr Ian Paul expresses astonishment at a report by a group of bishops which recommends CofE churches offer “prayers of dedication, thanksgiving and for God’s blessing” for people who have been through a same-sex civil ceremony.
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"It’s terribly sad. No amount of dancing on pinheads can hide the fact that the truth of Scripture has been ditched in favour of the culture of the day."
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Daniel McArthur speaks outside
@UKSupremeCourt
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“I want to start by thanking God. He has been with us during the challenges of the last four years. Through the Bible and the support of Christians, He has comforted us and sustained us.
"He is our rock and all His ways are just."
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‘No one should be forced to hold or express an opinion which they do not believe’
#Ashers
#gaycake
@uksupremecourt
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#Ashers
family considers appeal after losing case. RT to show you
#SupportAshers
http://t.co/MMw4mXZUSZ
http://t.co/PaHoksl6KW
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"We're delighted and relieved at today's ruling. We always knew we hadn't done anything wrong in turning down this order. After more than four years, the Supreme Court has now recognised that and we're very grateful. Grateful to the judges and especially grateful to God."
#Ashers
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Rowan Atkinson on free speech. The Christian Institute spearheaded the Reform Section 5 campaign to get the word ‘insulting’ removed from Section 5 of the Public Order Act, as part of the Crime and Courts Bill. Full video:
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BREAKING: 'No proper data to support church closures'. This is an astonishing admission from Sir Patrick Vallance & Prof Chris Whitty.
#lockdown
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Baroness Caroline Cox warns that women in the UK are being discriminated against under
#sharia
law.
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@carlalockhart
MP laments legislation which could expand abortion services in Northern Ireland:
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Forstater told The Christian Institute: “We think that the only reading of the Equality Act that is consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights is one which maintains biological sex as a clear protected characteristic.”
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Christian MP Miriam Cates blasts Scotland’s vetoed ‘sex swap’ Bill:
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BREAKING: Lloyd Russell Moyle’s ‘Conversion Practices’ Bill faced strong opposition in the House of Commons and will not proceed.
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Equality law does not compel people to say something with which they profoundly disagree.
#SupportAshers
#Ashers
#gaycake
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“The idea that being a boy or a girl is unrelated to one’s biology is pure madness.”
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@_KateForbes
says fear must not push those with religious beliefs out of politics:
#Christian
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The comprehensive ruling upholds free speech and prevents the law forcing businesses to express views with which they profoundly disagree.
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“Only a few people acknowledged Jesus when he was born. Now billions follow him”. Her Majesty speaks of the enduring significance of Christ.
#Christmas
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"We stand with Christians everywhere, in solidarity, and we will defend your right to practice your faith.”
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Pro-life peer .
@Lord_ofWarwick
urges the House of Lords to reject liberal
#abortion
regime for Northern Ireland:
#chooselife
#bothlivesmatter
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@Obianuju
and other African women speak out against Western governments’ ‘cash for abortions colonialism’ in
@COLAfrica
documentary Strings Attached:
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"This hate crime bill is flawed because it threatens to hand vocal minorities a tool with which to bash their opponents by alleging hatred."
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"Police cars are painted in rainbow colours. It is a political move. Taking part in the parade of campaigning groups who are involved in political activism. The police should be divorced from political activism.”
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"I don’t feel I’m in a position to just pick and choose what I believe is truth or not".
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“I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind.”
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@PeterTatchell
, writing in The Sun: I’ve campaigned for LGBT rights my whole life – but you shouldn’t force Christian bakers to make a gay marriage cake
#SupportAshers
#GayCake
#Ashers
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He devoted his life to persuading Christians that their beliefs had to go further than personal piety, church life and evangelism – they should influence our families, our work, our local communities and our nation.
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“We could blow one another up, but you don’t love one another. That’s the strongest thing on earth. Love is stronger than death."
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‘This court holds there was no discrimination on political opinion or religious belief’
#Ashers
#gaycake
@uksupremecourt
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“Concerns about the Equality Commission’s impartiality were expressed by the Court of Appeal and now the Supreme Court has done the same. Serious questions need to be asked about their role in all of this.”
#Ashers
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BREAKING: High Court rules Christian fostering agency can keep recruiting evangelical carers.
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5 billion copies printed.
Translated into 349 (and counting) languages.
Contains stories, songs, poetry, letters and history.
The world's "best-selling and most widely distributed book".
The Bible is the book we love.
#BookLoversDay
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Sir Keir Starmer is criticised over his apology for visiting a church that upholds biblical teaching on marriage and sexual ethics:
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@DaveGobbett
raises concerns over
@WelshGovernment
decision to close churches to combat
#COVID19
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“If anyone is intolerant it is the young woman who seeks to see a middle-aged man deprived of his income and publicly humiliated simply for expressing views with which she disagrees.”
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“He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High…” Luke 1:32-33.
Like & share this to celebrate the incarnation of Christ.
#RealChristmas
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19-year-old Lloyd Martin becomes the youngest known person with
#DownSyndrome
to complete a marathon:
#EndDownrightDiscrimination
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“Evidence for how cannabis, especially in higher concentrations, impacts mental health is growing and stronger, especially on how it relates to psychosis and schizophrenia-like symptoms.”
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The Christian Institute’s Ciarán Kelly laments the Church of England’s vote to “welcome” plans to allow churches to bless same-sex partners.
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Supreme Court judgment: "It is deepy humiliating, and an affront to human dignity, to deny someone a service because of that person's race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or any of the other protected personal characteristics. But this is not what happened in this case".
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"Unborn babies exposed to toxic air pollution", said today's
@guardian
front page.
Great to see the newspaper recognising that life before birth is still life.
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"...she has been courageous and bold in speaking out about transgender ideology, knowing she’s going against the flow.”
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International rugby star
@IzzyFolau
responds after his contract is terminated for quoting the Bible on social media:
#ChristianInfluence
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Dismissed by the Red Cross over traditional marriage: Support Mr Barkley
http://t.co/jVn2l8l9Qm
#RedCrossed
http://t.co/syTx2OUxYi
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Kate Forbes: 'Silent prayer is an important freedom to uphold'
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Miriam Cates MP warns of the “extreme danger” of social acceptance for men to be allowed to access the safe spaces of women and girls.
#sexmatters
#SingleSexSpaces
#genderID
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Christians shouldn’t be ‘condemned’ for practising their faith, Britain’s top counter-terrorism police officer says.
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“If I get pressure from Hollywood to show two men getting married because we’ve all decided it’s right and correct, my pushback is: ‘No, I won’t. Because that’s not what I believe is best for kids’”.
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“Are we trying to override science by saying it is possible for males to become females and females to become males?”
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“God sent his Son, born of a woman..." Galatians 4:4-5.
Like & share in celebration of the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.
#RealChristmas
#Messiah
#GodtheSon
#Saviourofthelost
#Galatians4
#Bible
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“I just literally went to a church and just started hearing the word of God, and something about the word of God began to change me from the inside out.”
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Deputy Director Simon Calvert says there must be freedom to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Simon Calvert explains how the landmark Ashers Baking Company ruling will benefit all kinds of people.
#SupportAshers
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The unborn “have as much a right to life as those whom we are seeking to protect in our response to COVID-19”.
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Christian MP calls on Westminster to recognise the importance of marriage to society:
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Lord Taylor of Warwick says in a House of Lords debate that abortion is a distortion of the right to life.
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“Young children should be allowed to have a childhood free from sexualisation. Parents can best decide what and when to discuss such things with their children”.
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Warwickshire County Council ditched an explicit and error-strewn sex-ed policy following a legal threat from The Christian Institute.
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“I subscribe to the biblical view that human life is sacred from conception and that marriage is the union of one man and one woman for life” - Lord Curry
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“I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone--for kings and all those in authority” 1 Timothy 2:1-2
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@HeidiCrowter95
vows to continue the battle to stop babies with Down’s syndrome being aborted up to birth:
#DownrightDiscrimination
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“No one should be required to wear a political symbol with which they disagree."
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“Presenting abortion as somehow ‘beneficial’ for poor women is disgraceful from anyone, but particularly from a publicly-funded broadcaster.”
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"Biological sex is real, it is immutable and it matters. So no to new pronouns. Then no to puberty blockers. No to a lifetime of medication, complication, misery and regret."
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A pro-life campaigner who was arrested for silently praying in a censorship zone around an abortion clinic will go to court for a clear verdict after the CPS dropped charges.
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“I’m uneasy about that and I’m uneasy about children being told in schools there are more than 100 different genders and it’s possible for someone to change gender overnight."
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“The Christians at Jesus House are guilty of nothing more than holding traditional Christian beliefs."
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Nine ex-transgender people tell the US Supreme Court that affirming transgenderism is ‘abuse’:
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“Let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: all children – born and unborn – are made in the holy image of God.”
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"The United Kingdom has a long and proud tradition of free speech and today’s ruling is a resounding reassertion of that tradition."
#Ashers
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“It is not easy to accept that your own Party would, in effect, not only rather you had never been born, but that it is actively trying to ensure that, in 2020, you could not be.”
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“The Bible’s message is clear. Marriage can only ever be between one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, for life.”
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"I know a lot of people will be very glad of this ruling today, because this ruling protects freedom of speech and freedom of conscience for everyone."
#Ashers
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