UK school children are set to be taught about homosexual issues in maths, science and geography lessons, under controversial new plans funded by a taxpayer-backed quango. The lesson plans, which are optional, include considering in geography why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities and using same-sex characters in maths problems. One Conservative MP described...
Mothers and fathers who share caregiving for their preschool children may experience more conflict than those in which the mother is the primary caregiver, a new study suggests. The study, ‘Relations between coparenting and father involvement in families with preschool-age children’, showed that couples had a stronger, more supportive co-parenting relationship when the father spent...
A health worker who faced the sack after giving an NHS colleague a booklet about the potential dangers of abortion has been allowed to return to work. Margaret Forrester, 39, said yesterday that she has now been offered a better job at the same NHS trust. Christian campaigners yesterday hailed it as a ‘victory for...
A school in Co. Leitrim under fire from the parent of one of its pupils has said that its Catholic ethos is “an integral part of the curriculum and day-to-day life of the school”. In a statement, school principal David O’Farrell said this ethos “includes a short prayer at the start and the end of...
Ireland’s first Christian radio station, Spirit Radio, was launched today. The new station will broadcast today in Dublin on 89.9FM, Cork (90.9), Limerick (89.9), Galway (91.7) and Waterford (90.1). It will launch across Ireland on AM by July 2012. The new station, which is funded by the listeners, will play contemporary Christian music alongside a...
Adult children whose parents have divorced are more likely to have seriously considered suicide than their peers from intact families, according to new research from the University of Toronto. The paper, Suicidal ideation among individuals whose parents have divorced: Findings from a representative Canadian community survey, published online in the journal Psychiatry Research, examined...
A Scottish Catholic bishop has criticised Prime Minister David Cameron (pictured) for surrounding himself with religiously illiterate, secularist advisers. The Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Devine, said the coalition’s attitude was a continuation of that of previous Labour Government, which forced people to act against their conscience or face punishment from the state. The Bishop likened...
Same-sex couples have bombarded a Christian-run guesthouse with demands for double rooms, in an apparent bid to destroy the business. It comes in the wake of a high profile court ruling last week which ordered Peter and Hazelmary Bull (pictured) to pay £3,600 in damages to a homosexual couple who sued because double rooms were...
The State has “by far the greatest say in what goes on in Catholic and in all other schools”, according to the Chair of the Catholic hierarchy’s Council for Education, Bishop Brendan Kelly. Speaking yesterday in Waterford at the launch of Catholic Schools Week, he said, “The control [by the Church] card has been vastly...
Growing levels of alcohol abuse and obesity continue to undermine the wellbeing of Irish children, a children’s rights organisation has said. A report by the Children’s Rights Alliance for 2011 has given the Government a grade of D minus for progress on its commitments to children in the areas of education, health, material wellbeing and...
