New Year Update and Embryo Bill Rally

Christian Concern For Our Nation
4th January 2008

We hope you had a blessed Christmas and we wish you peace and happiness for 2008. There are many challenges ahead this year, but we know that with the Lord all things are possible and so we continue with boldness and courage seeking God’s wisdom to pursue justice and righteousness with the knowledge that He is with us.

Headlines

• Embryo Bill Rally
• Updates from 2007

Embryo Bill Rally

The House of Lords is meeting on 15th January for the first day of the Report stage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to vote on the proposed amendments to the Bill. This Bill strikes at the very heart of our civilisation and questions what it means to be human - for more information about the Bill, please use the link below to read our update, House of Lords to vote on Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill amendments.

The issues the Lords will be voting on include:

• The creation of animal-human hybrid embryos
  
  
• Tissue typing to create ‘saviour siblings’
  
  
• The ‘need for a father’ consideration in IVF treatment

While the Lords are meeting on 15th January, we will be holding a rally outside the House of Lords in Old Palace Yard, SW1P 3JY at 2.00pm – 3.30pm, to make a stand to protect the family, the unborn child/the embryo and human dignity.

This rally will be the first in a series of rallies called ‘Time To Stand’. We hope to hold rallies on each of the days that important votes are taken on issues that strike at the heart of God’s purposes for our society, in the Lords or the Commons. It is important that as many people as possible attend Parliament for the rallies on the days when votes are being taken on these issues. We need to send the message that these issues cannot be swept under the carpet, and that the dignity of the human embryo, and the family are things that the public care deeply about and will have a massive future impact on the well being of the Nation.

Please put this date in your diary. It would be helpful for us to have an idea of numbers that are coming and we would be grateful if you would contact Simone Lamont at simone@ccfon.org or call 020 7407 6157 if you would like to attend. Below is a link to a poster about the rally which you can use to put up wherever possible to encourage people to come.

Links

House of Lords to vote on Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill amendments

http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=224

Poster about the rally

http://www.ccfon.org/docs/HFERallyPoster.pdf

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:9

Updates from 2007

Don’t forget to read our updates sent the week before Christmas. These updates contain important information and action points, and we are aware that the week before Christmas is an extremely busy time when they may have been overlooked. For your convenience we have provided links to these updates on our website below:

Islam Update

• New website launched opposing the East London mega-mosque
  
  
• LCF/CCFON day conference on Islam in January
  
  
• Oxford mosque seeks permission to broadcast call to prayer

http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=225

House of Lords to vote on Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill amendments

• More information on the Bill

• How to write to Peers

http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=224

Religious Freedom Update

• New homosexual hatred amendment protecting freedom of speech

• Government tries to extend protection of transsexualism

http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=222