Page 1, 27th May 1977

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Call For Re Inquiry Rejected

LORD DONALDSON, Minister of State for Education and Science, has rejected the suggestion that there should be a independent inquiry into religious education in maintained......

Scottish Colleges Reprieved

PLANS to close Craiglockhart College of Education, Edinburgh, have been dropped by Mr Bruce Milian, Secretary of State for Scotland, who announced in the House of Commons last......

Argentine Reply To Bishops' Attack

GENERAL JORGE VIDELA, Argentina's Head of State, has made a conciliatory reply to the criticisms levelled against his regime by the Argentinian Bishops' Conference, who issued a......

Jesuit Memorial

The Jesuit Missions are to establish a memorial to the four Dominican nuns and their three Jesuit colleagues who were murdered at Musami Mission, Rhodesia, in February. Money......

Signs Of Thaw On Communists

THE VATICAN may be starting to accept the idea that the Communist Party will have to join the Christian Democrats in governing Italy. Cardinal Antonio Poma, president of the......

Abortion Bill Refu Sed Time

THE Abortion (Amendment) Bill has no chance of becoming law during this parliamentary session. Mr William Benyon, MP, the Bill's sponsor, has received official notification from......

One In Three Claim Mystical Experience

AT LEAST a third of British Adults claim to have had a direct mystical or spiritual experience, and the proportion could exceed 60 per cent, according to the preliminary......

Doctors Oppose Proposed Law On Mercy Killing

r— By Alex Cosgrave THE PROPOSAL to create a new offence of mercy killing, separate from that of manslaughter or murder, would amount to the legalisation of euthanasia, Dr......

Church Warning On Namibia

THE FIVE Western nations of the United Nations Security Council have been warned that an interim government for Namibia, as planned by the Turnhalle conference, "should not be......

, The Warning Is Given By Representatives Of Several...

in Namibia in a memorandum presented this month to representatives of the five nations. They make it clear that their representations are made in the interests of the whole......

The Herald Says

MANY of those committed to the preservation and protection of human life were caught un awares by the 1987 Abortion Act. Is euthanasia, or 'mercy killing as some of its......