Citizenlink: Despite the nation’s atheism and suspicious nature, China’s Yunnan education ministry has embraced Focus on the Family’s abstinence and marriage education materials, to help manage the country’s shifting sexual mores and skyrocketing divorce rate. Nevertheless, “safe sex” advocates, including the U.S. State Department, the United Nations and liberal sex groups are pouring millions into China to implement “safe-sex” programs and media messaging to sway teens away from the abstinence courses. Read more here
ARPA Note: 28 Days on the Pill is filmed and produced by TNL Productions, an independent Canadian producer. The film does a good job of discussing a topic that few Christians dare talk about: does the birth control pill cause abortions? Although the answer is still debated by many in the Reformed community, many more aren’t even aware that there is an issue. Please consider watching this with some friends to encourage biblical worldview thinking on sexuality.
ARPA Note: Redeemer UC was not founded by the Christian Reformed Church as mentioned below, but by people form the Reformed tradition.
By Patrick B. Craine – ANCASTER, Ontario, September 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Redeemer University-College (RUC), an undergraduate liberal arts college founded by the Christian Reformed denomination, is scheduled to host a lecture in January by Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 Proposed Budget, the president recommends that Congress eliminate funding for abstinence education and instead pour funds into condoms and contraceptive-based sex education.