Genital mutilation on the NHS

Sep 15, 2019 by

by Ann Farmer, The Conservative Woman: THE NHS is setting up support centres for victims of female genital mutilation. Eight walk-in centres where women aged over 18 ‘will be offered expert care’ are to be located in Birmingham, Bristol,...

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Victoria passes law forcing confessors to report child abuse

Sep 12, 2019 by

by Jules Gomes, Church Militant: Priests who fail to report child abuse revealed in the confessional will be jailed, according to a new law passed by the government of Victoria on Tuesday. The Children Legislation Amendment Act...

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Hundreds of grooming gang victims are suing Yorkshire authorities

Sep 8, 2019 by

by Chris Burn, The Christian Post: Hundreds of grooming gang victims in Yorkshire are suing the authorities that failed them when they were being abused. Seven Yorkshire councils are currently facing compensation claims from child sexual...

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What Jeffrey Epstein Got Right

Aug 21, 2019 by

by Rev Ralph Smith, Theopolis: Jeffrey Epstein called our bluff. Writing in the New York Times, James B. Stewart reports Epstein’s opinion that “criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history...

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Suffer the little children: Guarding Children and Young People against Spiritual Abuse

Jul 31, 2019 by

by Robin Barfield, Church Society: Children and young people are the most likely to be spiritually abused, since spiritual abuse is most likely to occur in a relationship between a significantly more powerful individual (most likely an...

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American College of Pediatricians Urges Surgeon General to Investigate Medical Transgendering of Children

Jul 22, 2019 by

by Quentin van Meter: The American College of Pediatricians was joined today by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Catholic Medical Association, and the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice in urging the Surgeon General...

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