|  | In the news this weekThursday, 17 April 2025christian.org.uk/news
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                        | The terms ‘woman’, ‘man’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010) refer to biological sex, the Supreme Court has judged. |  |  
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                  | The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has criminalised prayer, preaching or pastoral advice seeks to convince others to live according to biblical sexual ethics. |  |  | 
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                        | Doctors at Tavistock’s gender identity clinic for adults have been told that objecting to men using the women’s toilets is akin to racism. |  |  
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                  | The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has urged the Canadian Government to stop euthanising patients based on “negative, ableist perceptions” of disabled people. |  |  | 
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                  | Academics at Stanford University have proposed the creation of ‘brain-dead humans’ in order to harvest their organs for transplant and research. |  |  | 
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                  | Universities should be mindful of sanctions imposed on the University of Sussex for its failure to uphold free speech, campaigners have warned. |  |  | 
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                  | Miriam Cates has called for society to rediscover that marriage matters and fathers are important. |  |  | 
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                        | Two unborn babies in the Republic of Ireland were misdiagnosed with a condition which led to their abortion, it has been reported. |  |  
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                  | The life of a Christian heroine of the Holocaust is to be honoured in a film for school children in Scotland. |  |  | 
          
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            |  | Yours in Christ,
 
   
 Ciarán Kelly
 Director, The Christian Institute
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