Some more big questions

Some headlines from the Church Times—big questions for us all. What do you think?

  • The tiny Christian community in Iran, and other minorities in the country, "have reason to feel cautiously optimistic about the future" after the outright victory of the lone moderate candidate Hassan Rowhani, in the first round of the presidential election, a European diplomat in Tehran said.
  • The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Tim Stevens, has moved an amendment to the Government's Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill to prevent the forcing of local-authority registrars with a "sincerely held religious or other belief" to officiate at same-sex marriages against their wishes.
  • The Prime Minister won guarded praise from campaigners recently after securing a deal at the G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, to clamp down on tax evasion.
  • The "reckless" mismanagement of a bank should be a criminal offence, carrying a prison sentence, the final report from the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards says.