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				<title>03 Sept 10 Waters warns of growing attack on religious freedom</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Increasing intolerance of religion in Irish public life is “an indication of an incipient totalitarianism that would obliterate the most fundamental freedom there is,” according to one of Ireland's leading commentators. Writing in the Irish Times, John Waters said that Irish culture “has decided that the declaration of religious conviction is always ‘offensive'”. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:05:31 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>04 Sept 10 Majority of Britons believe religion is a force for good</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A majority of Britons believe that religion is a force for good, according to a new survey carried out on the eve of the Pope's visit to the UK. In addition, 49 percent versus 28 percent believe faith-based schools have a right to exist. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:58:54 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>06 Sept 10 The growing marriage and religion gap</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Dr Brad Wilcox of Virginia University, (he spoke at an Iona Institute event last year), and Johns Hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin have a thought provoking column in the Wall Street Journal. The column points out that widening marriage and religion gap between the American working and middle classes and the hugely harmful effect of this on the working class. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:34:52 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>03 Sept 10 Northern Ireland society breaking down says think tank</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Society in Northern Ireland is breaking down, with soaring levels of unemployment, family splits, mental illness and addiction, a leading UK think-tank has warned. A report from the influential Centre for Social Justice says that the Stormont government needs to get past the issue of the Troubles and begin mending the fractures in communities across the region. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:16:08 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>02 Sept 10 The recession and marriage</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The latest unemployment figures confirm once again that two-thirds of the 450,000 people who are without a job in this country are men. The same phenomenon has been found in other countries. Basically, the recession has disproportionately hit construction and manufacturing, traditional male industries. This is why some commentators have called the recession a ‘mancession’. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:22:10 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>02 Sept 10 Women’s ‘double shift’ of home and work duties a myth finds new research</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Feminists who claim that men should do a larger share of the housework and childcare are ignoring the fact that on average, men and women already do the same number of hours of productive work, according to new research.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:47:42 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>02 Sept 10 Controversial Equal Treatment directive held up by disagreements</title>
				<link>http://www.ionainstitute.eu/index.php?id=1039</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ A controversial EU Directive, which many Christians fear will undermine free speech and freedom of religion, is being held up in negotiations between European member states. The Directive seeks to outlaw discrimination on grounds including sexual orientation and religion in the provision of goods and services, and includes a harassment provision which threatens free speech. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:43:13 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>1 Sept 2010 Euro parliament passes motion targeting religious groups  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A non-binding motion targeting EU funding of religious groups that provide health care services in Africa but are pro-life in ethos has been passed by the European Parliament.
A bid to delete the motion was led by Dublin Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell, but was defeated.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:05:13 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>31 Aug 10 Is race a relevant factor in adoption decisions?</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A story in the British press over the weekend relates how a couple were refused permission to adopt a black or Asian child because they are both white. The local authority in question objects to inter-racial adoption. The authority obviously believes that the race of a couple is a relevant factor in deciding which couples get to adopt what children. They obviously believe that it can have an adverse effect on a child’s life to be adopted out of his or her race. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:01:46 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>31 Aug 10 Couple told they were “too white” to adopt</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A local council in London have told a couple looking to adopt a child in need have been told they were “too white” to adopt, according to The Daily Mail. Francesca Polini and her husband Rick offered to adopt a black or Asian child, who wait longer for adoption because of a national shortage of ethnic minority couples looking to adopt. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:30:40 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>31 Aug 10 HPV vaccine scientist warns Government as programme is rolled out in schools</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The use of the controversial Gardasil cervical cancer vaccince on girls as young as 12 by the Government is a "public health experiment", according to the leading researcher in its development. Dr Diane Harper, who carried out safety studies to get Gardasil approved, warned of "serious adverse events including death" associated with it, and said that parents should be properly advised of the risks. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:54:03 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>28 Aug 10 Money scruples obscure real moral issue in AHR debate</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Box office figures from the US suggest that Jennifer Anistion's latest comedy, The Switch, which is about a forty-year-old single woman who wants a baby and chooses to be artificially inseminated has flopped, at least in its first week. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:21:15 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>27 Aug 10 Increase in fees for UK egg donors proposed</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The fees for egg donors in the UK could be dramatically increased to as much £800 under proposals to tackle shortages in supply, it has been revealed. Critics have blasted the proposed move. Josephine Quintavalle, from Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: “We would be absolutely outraged if the HFEA increases the payment limits above £250. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:13:09 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>27 Aug 10 Britain’s failed teenage pregnancy strategy</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ New numbers from the UK suggest that their teen pregnancy rate, already the highest in the EU, is on the rise again among under 16s after some years of remaining steady. This is despite the Labour Government spending 13 years and hundreds of millions of pounds in concerted effort to halve pregnancies among under-18s by this year. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:46:14 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>27 Aug 10 Christian student loses legal battle with college over moral beliefs</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A student at a US University who was told to change her beliefs on sexual ethics or leave her course has lost a legal challenge against the University, although she is now set to appeal. Jennifer Keeton, who is studying for a degree in counselling at Augusta State University in Georgia, was told she must undergo re-education training to change her beliefs on traditional sexual morality, training which could include attending gay pride marches. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:40:33 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>26 Aug 10 Persecution of Christians in West inevitable says Archbishop</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Systematic persecution of Christians by the State is now almost inevitable in the West, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has said. Speaking  in Slovakia this week, Archbishop Chaput said that Christians faced “an aggressively secular political vision and a consumerist economic model that result - in practice, if not in explicit intent -- in a new kind of state-encouraged atheism”. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:48:08 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>26 Aug 10 Legal battle looms over conscience rights of health workers</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has threatened to sue a branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) if it tries to force religiously affiliated hospitals to perform abortions against the conscientious objections of their doctors and nurses.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:32:38 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>25 August 2010 Is Ireland really the most expensive for day-care?</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Is Ireland the most expensive place for child-care in the developed world? According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the answer is yes. 
Taking a two-income couple with two young children in day-care as its mark, it finds that we are indeed the most expensive country, that such a couple will pay a whopping 45 percent of their net income towards day-care. In Poland the equivalent figure is only 5 percent. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:33:57 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>25 Aug 10 Couple tell story of false accusation of child abuse   </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ In a landmark decision, a British couple falsely accused by social services of abusing their 3-month-old son have won the right to tell their story breaking the normal seal of silence that applies to family law cases. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:14:06 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>24 Aug 10 Ireland most expensive place for child-care: OECD</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Ireland is now the most expensive country in which to get child-care, according to a new study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:40:07 +0100</pubDate>
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