QUOTES FROM THE MEDIA
DOCTORS URGE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT TO REJECT ASSISTED SUICIDE LEGISLATION
NEARLY HALF A MILLION IN GRANTS BRINGS CHRISTMAS CHEER TO DOZENS OF CHURCHES
Dozens of junior doctors have written to MSPs urging them to vote against legalising assisted suicide in Scotland… The legalisation of assisted suicide has been proposed in a bill introduced to the Scottish parliament by Lib Dem MSP Liam MacArthur. Christopher Marshall, a 24-yearold palliative care worker … and Ed Tulloch, a 30-year-old trainee GP … have co-authored a letter of opposition that has been signed by [more than] 30 other junior medics. ‘As junior doctors in Scotland, we oppose any form of legislation which seeks to promote assisted suicide and will not participate if it becomes legal,’ they say… ‘Legalising assisted suicide will undoubtedly place untold pressure on people who are vulnerable, disabled or elderly to end their lives prematurely. Some may even feel it is their “duty to die”. These are the people we have gone to such lengths to protect and support during the pandemic,’ the doctors said. ‘The implication of assisting suicide is that some human life is not worth continuing and would be better cut short. This is a dangerous precedent’… The doctors are backed by the Care Not Killing Alliance, which is spearheading opposition to the bill, and Our Duty of Care, a group of medical professionals who have spoken out against the bill.
Grants totalling £473,000 for urgent building works arrived in time for Christmas for 47 churches across the UK. The National Churches Trust (NCT), in partnership with the Great Universal Stores family charity, the Wolfson Foundation, is behind the … funding package. This [was] the third and final grants round from the NCT and Wolfson in 2021. During the year the two funders gave churches 273 grants totalling £3.67 million. NCT vice president, the broadcaster Huw Edwards, said the latest funding ‘is a much-needed lifeline for churches and chapels, many of which are struggling to raise money to keep their buildings in good repair. ‘The grants will safeguard unique local heritage and provide a real boost to the people who look after and use churches and chapels for worship and for many important community activities.’
The failure of wealthy nations to vaccinate the world is a ‘stain on our soul’ according to the former prime minister Gordon Brown. He’s been a vocal advocate of the need for countries with plentiful supplies of vaccines to donate them to poorer nations who are struggling to protect their populations from coronavirus. The UK, European Union and the US have received more vaccine doses in the [past] six weeks than African countries [did] in the whole of 2021… Fionna Smyth is head of global policy and advocacy at Christian Aid. She tells Premier she agrees... ‘The world’s failure to vaccinate the world is a great moral failure. In the UK, everyone has had access to not one, not two, but three vaccines each. Yet, at the same time, 90 per cent of African health workers remain unprotected.’
Christian Today
Premier
A 2,700-year-old ancient Judean seal impression, which probably belonged to the prophet Isaiah, has been discovered just 50 metres south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. It is, therefore, potentially the first archaeological confirmation of Isaiah’s existence and status. Until now, the only early ancient references to him have been in the Bible… The clay seal impression was found just two metres away from a second seal impression – issued by none other than the prophet’s royal colleague, the ruler of Judah, King Hezekiah… It is known that Isaiah was a court prophet, active and conceivably resident for much of the time in Hezekiah’s palace. He acted as a close political adviser.
Christian Today
Church Times
SALVATIONIST
ANCIENT SEAL DISCOVERED NEAR TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM MAY HAVE BELONGED TO THE PROPHET ISAIAH
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