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RICH COUNTRIES THAT LET INEQUALITY RUN RAMPANT MAKE CITIZENS UNHAPPY, STUDY FINDS Countries that allow economic inequality to increase as they grow richer make their citizens less happy, a new study shows. Until now, researchers have believed that inequality was largely irrelevant to levels of life satisfaction, according to Dr David Bartram at the University of Leicester. But his study of 78 countries spanning four decades – the largest longitudinal research of its kind – punctures that myth, he said. ‘When inequality increases, people with high incomes don’t benefit much from their gains – many rich people are focused on those who have even more than they do, and they never feel they have enough,’ Bartram said. ‘But people who earn little really suffer from falling further behind – they feel excluded and frustrated by not being able to keep up even with people who receive average incomes’… This link between higher inequality and lower life satisfaction is repeated elsewhere, Bartram said… India’s life satisfaction declined from 6.7 in 1990 to 5.8 in 2006 as inequality rose. By 2012 it was still lower than in 1990, despite the country’s prolonged economic boom. The US and Australia also both saw pronounced falls in life satisfaction, but those countries where inequality had fallen were generally happier, such as Poland, Peru [and] Mexico. The Guardian
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CHURCH TRASHED BY ISIS HOLDS SERVICE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 8 YEARS Easter was extra special for one Christian community in Iraq … as it opened for services for the first time since being desecrated by Isis militants eight years ago. St Kyriakos’s Chaldean Catholic Church, Batnaya, was attacked by Isis in 2014. Militants decapitated statues, smashed the altar and used sacred images as target practice… After the defeat of Isis… the church and Chapel of the Immaculate Conception received €200,000 towards their restoration. Work is still ongoing but was temporarily paused during Holy Week to allow Easter services to be held – the first services to take place in the church since August 2014.
Rev Helen Cameron has been inducted as the moderator of the Free Churches Group and takes on the role of the CTE [Churches Together in England] president representing those national member churches. Rev Helen succeeded Rev Dr Hugh Osgood who held both those positions since 2014. The new moderator was inducted … at Wesley’s Chapel in London. In her address she said: ‘My deep desire is that we do more than coexist or tolerate each other, but that actually in a generous engagement with one another, we learn from each other and we see each other as gift and not threat.’ Rev Helen Cameron is a Methodist presbyter who currently serves as Chair of the Northampton District.
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YOUNG CHOOSE NOT TO FIGHT THE OLD SCIENCE V RELIGION BATTLE, RESEARCH SUGGESTS Hostility towards religion in favour of science is declining, new research suggests. The youngest adult respondents to a new survey are more likely to value the place of religion in the modern world than older generations… The report is largely based on a fieldwork study of 5,153 UK adults conducted by YouGov… Sixteen years ago, at about the time of the publication of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, ComRes found that 42 per cent of UK adults polled agreed with the statement: ‘Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.’ The new research tested the same proposition. The proportion now agreeing is 21 per cent… Generation Z were also in stronger disagreement with the statement ‘you can’t be a good scientist and be religious’ (67 per cent) than any other generation... A similar proportion of Generation Z … also agreed that ‘it is possible to believe in God and in evolution’. Church Times
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