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   LATEST

• New Movie Release Spearheads Sa Anti-human Trafficking Campaign (2010-07-31)

• Please Write To Oppose Icasa Amendment Bill (2010-07-26)

• Warning To Exercise Caution When Replying To Ads (2010-05-28)

• Health Professionals Anti-abortion Defence Campaign Pays Off (2009-12-14)

• Workshop On Sexual Offences : Adult Prostitution (2009-06-23)

• Stop Legalised Prostitution In Sa! (2009-05-20)

• Is It True That A Vote For A Small Party Is A Wasted Vote? ... (2009-04-08)

• Sign Up And Switch Off For Earth Hour On 28th March 2009 (2009-03-24)

• Censorship By The Press (2009-01-26)

• Why Celebrate Christmas? (2008-12-11)

• Issues: Abortion | Education | Ethical issues | Homosexuality | Moral Regeneration | Pornography | Prostitution | Miscellaneous

   ABORTION

• Health Professionals Anti-abortion Defence Campaign Pays Off (2009-12-14)

• Censorship By The Press (2009-01-26)

• Abortion Clinic Offers Free Abortions To Victims Of Xenophobia (2008-06-03)

• 90% Of South Africans Oppose Abortion-on-demand (2008-04-13)

• Life Alerts - 31 March 2008 (2008-04-04)

• Dfl Press Release: Freedom Of Conscience For Health Workers Refused (2008-01-16)

• Legal And Illegal Abortions On The Rise In South Africa (2007-12-11)

• Life Alerts, 26 November 2007 (2007-12-04)

• Abortion Bill Fails To Pass In Parliament (2007-11-23)

• Why Is The Government Afraid To Debate Today's Abortion Bill? (2007-11-22)

• Does the Bible's prohibition on murder include abortion? (25 Feb 2005)

• DFL (Doctors for Life) launch legal proceedings (15 Nov 2004)

• Doctors for Life International takes Tshabala-Msimang to court (5 Nov 2004)

• Date fixed for hearing in Vereeniging Equality Court (26 Oct 2004)

• Parliament ignores nurses concerns on abortion law changes (26 Oct 2004)

• International Life Chain - Report (7 Oct 2004)

• Please lobby provincial legislatures (16 Sep 2004)

• Nurses angry at abortion vote (19 Aug 2004)

• Challenge to debate new abortion law (14 Aug 2004)

• Catholic Bishops Call to Action on Abortion bill (13 Aug 2004)

• 'Proposed abortion law changes will help no one' say evangelicals (3 Aug 2004)

• Parents, Minors and Secret Abortions (2 Jun 2004)

• Marie Stopes Abortions "Safe" and "Pain-Free" - Hearing on 7 April - Please sponsor, fast and pray (17 Mar 2004)

• Request for Testimonies and Prayer re Marie Stopes "Safe and Pain Free" Abortions (12 Feb 2004)

• Cardinal Napier on the Sanctity of Life to the SACLA conference in July 03 (2 Sep 2003)

• An overview of abortion in Africa (10 Jul 2003)

• Legal abortion in USA challenged by lady who started it (19 Jun 2003)

• Motivation: "hidden" goliath of abortion (14 Apr 2003)

• What most Christians don't understand about Abortion (5 Nov 2002)

• South African Nursing Council Recognises Conscientious Objection Rights (18 Oct 2002)

• Subject: Withdrawal of MRC statement on healthworkers and abortion (15 Oct 2002)

• MRC tries to reclassify pregnancy - Press Release (03 Oct 2002)

   EDUCATION

• Problems With Proposed Education Laws Amendment Bill (15 Nov 2004)

• Download a summary of the latest Religion in Education Policy (PDF file - 92K) (10 Sep 2003)

• Dept of Education promotes acceptance of African Traditional Religion (10 Sep 2003)

• Same problems in Religion in Education policy announced today (09 Sep 2003)

• Legal Comments on Policy on Religion in Education (03 Jul 2003)

• Policy for the oppression of religion in education (02 Jul 2003)

• Should each religion have its own public holidays? (22 May 2003)

• DA Statement on Religion in Education (5 May 2003)

• What happened when America banned prayer in schools (29 Apr 2003)

• Education Department Ignores Protests (20 Apr 2003)

• Education Issue Update - Statement By The Pestalozzi Trust (01 Nov 2002)

• WEB SITE ON RELIGION IN EDUCATION CRISIS
  Go to www.education.ChristianView.org to find the information you need to help defend the right to religious freedom in schools in South Africa:

  • Full text of Kader Asmal's proposed 'Religion in Education Policy' (March 2003) and the much better policy of the previous education minister Bengu
    

  • Submissions by leading Christian public advocacy organisations, the Federation of School Governing Bodies and legal analysis of the Values, education democracy policy.
    
  • Religious Freedom Petition to download and print out in English and Afrikaans
    
  • Christian Education pamphlets.
    
  • South African law and policy on education

   ETHICAL ISSUES

• Cloning, The Next Holocaust? (30 Jun 2003)

• Human Cloning Flawed due to Fluke of Biology (12 Apr 2003)

   HOMOSEXUALITY

• Why you should support the Marriage Alliance of South Africa (11 Apr 2005)

• Doctors for Life International submits evidence in Constitutional Court against the recognition of Same Sex Marriages (30 Mar 2005)

• Progress on Same-Sex Marriage Representation (20 Jan 2005)

• Judgement fundamentally flawed - recent SA court decison allowing same-sex marriages (2 Dec 2004)

• For those who want to study it, here is the recent SA court ruling on homosexual marriage:
  http://wwwserver.law.wits.ac.za/sca/files/2322003/2322003.pdf (1 Dec 2004)

• Statement by Bishop Bethlehem Nopece regarding consecration of gay bishop (9 Nov 2003)

• Court Application for Homosexual Marriages (20 Sep 2002)

   MISCELLANEOUS

• Definition of Marriage in the balance (25 May 2005)

• Why you should support the Marriage Alliance of South Africa (11 Apr 2005)

• Doctors for Life urges HIV testing for all (20 Feb 2005)

• Voice your Objections to the forthcoming movie "Saved" (2 Nov 2004)

• Should church and state be separated? (17 Feb 2004)

• Be Encouraged - Persevere in the Face of a Secular Onslaught (14 Aug 2003)

• Keep up the pressure on the BCCSA (31 Jul 2003)

   MORAL REGENERATION

• Insisting on condoms to stop AIDS an intelligent option? (14 Jul 2004)

• 1000 Doctors warn SA Government on Sexual Offence Act (18 Sep 2003)

• A Charter for Moral Communities - Ads for Prostitution & Drug Peddling (14 Mar 2003)

• LoveLife "One roll-on all women want" billboard - Appeal to the Advertising Standards Authority (21 Feb 2003)

• Moral Reneneration Movement - A report back by Cllr Colin Fibiger (ACDP) (27 Nov 2002)

   MORALS MATTER (Weekly column)

• Index of Columns

   PORNOGRAPHY

• Doctors Delighted at Child Porn Ruling (21 Oct 2003)

• Doctors Applaud High Court's Decision on Child Porn (30 Oct 2002)

   PROSTITUTION

• Against Legalisation of Prostitution - Submissions Needed (15 Oct 2002)

• Why Prostitution Should Not Be Decriminilized (25 Aug 2002)

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