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  Zurich Reformed Church members narrowly approve binding climate targets for church buildings

  Members of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich have voted to write climate targets into the church's constitution, including net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from church buildings by 2035.

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  Pope Leo warns against 'false compassion' as assisted dying laws spread

  Pope Leo XIV told sick pilgrims and health care workers in Lourdes, France, on Sunday (Sept. 27) that they "must reject the temptation to cause death under the guise of false compassion," Vatican News reported.

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  [Book review] She Needs: Women Flourishing in the Church

  Why does an enthusiastic, passionate, gifted teenage Christian leader lose confidence and stop being able to lead? In what ways have churches drifted a long way from the teaching and practice of Jesus and Scripture, whilst justifying this drift theologically? The research, conversation, reading and personal experience that lie behind this book provide some answers.

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  Eddie Lyle dies at 73; persecuted church loses 'elder statesman'

  Tributes have been paid to Eddie Lyle, former chief executive and president of Open Doors UK & Ireland and later a consultant for Open Doors International, who has died at 73 following complications from heart surgery.

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  Swiss court upholds withdrawal of accreditation from theology school STH Basel

  Switzerland's Federal Administrative Court has rejected an appeal by STH Basel, a private Protestant theological university, against the loss of its accreditation as a university-level institution, the Swiss evangelical news portal Livenet.ch reported.

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  After decades of appeals, Spain’s retired evangelical pastors will have right to pension

  On Tuesday, 22 September, the Council of Ministers of the Spanish government approved the Royal Decree that sets out the procedure for recognising the work undertaken by evangelical pastors prior to their inclusion in the General Scheme in 1999 as Social Security contributions.

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  New chair of Jersey’s Assisted Dying Service previously said 'assisted suicide does harm others'

  A new chair appointed to oversee the implementation of Jersey’s Assisted Dying Service previously argued that allowing doctors to prescribe medication with the intent of causing death would fundamentally change the relationship between doctors and their patients.

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