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The US based Discovery Institute, which promotes as scientific the theory of intelligent design, has hit back following the Council of Europe decision (reported in the last issue of BCN) to label explanations for origins - like intelligent design and creationism - as a threat to human rights.

A Christian magistrate is to ask the Court of Appeal to rule on how far people with deeply held religious convictions can rely on the law of the land to uphold their rights and conscience against a growing secularist agenda. (See BCN 26 October)

Reform, a large Anglican network, told members that they must prepare for courageous action as the Church of England becomes driven by an increasingly liberal agenda said the Rev Rodney Thomas, the new Reform chairman on 22 October.

The majority Free Church of Scotland has announced that the Moderator of its 2008 General Assembly will be the Rev Kenneth M. Ferguson, minister of Cross Free Church, Ness, on the Isle of Lewis.

Government Higher Education Minister, Mr Bill Rammell, has recommended that all University students should have a compulsory course in Islamic theology. He claimed that the measure was required to break down divisions between British society and the Muslim community...

Research published by the Ministry of Justice in September, concludes that pornography is harmful and that there is now a substantial body of mutually corroborative evidence of the harm effects of extreme - or other - pornographic material...

Late at night on 23rd October, Narkis Street Baptist Church, Jerusalem, also known as The Baptist House, suffered an arson attack. Arsonists broke in and fires were set in three different places, no one was harmed though thousands of pounds worth of damage was done. There would have been greater damage if Jewish neighbours had not swiftly called the emergency services. If this happened to a synagogue abroad, everyone would shout anti-Semitism, a neighbour told Israel Today. What can only be described as a religious hate crime has been roundly condemned by Israeli officials...

The Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is a living fossil, said to be the worlds oldest tree, being the only survivor of a group which flourished in geological time and was thought to be extinct. However it was found growing in Eastern China and was later planted in Japan. Ginkgo was imported into this country where scattered specimens can be found. Our illustration shows one growing outside the Department of Botany in the University of Bristol.