An American mega-church leader has resigned from his
position because of an ‘inappropriate’ relationship with a woman. Doug Phillips’
ministry was very family-oriented, but was criticised for its teaching on Biblical
patriarchy, which effectively made women inferior to authority to men (and preached
that the God-ordained ‘sphere of dominion’ for a woman was running a home).
A Hungarian man and British woman, both aged 25, are under
arrest for running a human trafficking and prostitution operation from their
Internet café in central Croydon. Police have established the identity of 50
victims, all from Hungary, but fear there may be more. The pair were caught
when the man’s car was stopped and found to contain two Hungarian girls, along
with adverts giving contact details for one girl and listing sex acts. Three
other Hungarian men are also on trial, two in their absence after they fled
from justice.
In southern Jakarta, there have been protests from Muslim
groups because a Christian woman has been appointed as city governor over a
largely Muslim district. The Muslims argue that it is offensive for them to be
ruled by a Christian, and that she cannot take part in the district’s
traditional religious ceremonies; she has replied that she was not invited to
take part, and was advised not to do so. The regional governor has so far refused
to relocate or replace her.
The Scottish Secular Society has made a Freedom of
Information request to every school in Scotland, asking 24 questions about their
chaplaincy services. The questions included whether material disagreeing with
homosexuality has ever been distributed in the school; whether a humanist speaker
has visited the school within the last year; and whether external service providers
(i.e. chaplains and visiting speakers) are monitored by staff.
Britain won five medals including two gold sin the World
Track Cycling championships. The best performance came from the four-woman 4km
pursuit team; having broken the world record when winning in Holland last
month, they broke it again in their qualifying heat, and again in the final.
Their winning time was so fast that they would almost have qualified for the
final of the men’s event.
In the Rugby League World Cup, England lost their opening
game to Australia 28-20, and must now beat Ireland and Fiji to qualify for the
next stage. Fiji beat Ireland using “battering ram” tactics; New Zealand
defeated France 48-0; the USA won their first ever Rugby League World Cup
match, against the Cook Islands; and Scotland surprisingly defeated Tonga,
26-24.
And finally, a British man in his 50s and a British woman in
her 60s have been temporarily banned from Facebook for enthusiastically
discussing faggots. The woman posted a picture of the traditional British
food dish, which resembles a large cheap hamburger, and the man responded that
he liked them. Facebook has said that the word had been misinterpreted.
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