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Schools must teach children about explicit sex acts and promote abortion, a US state has said.New Jersey’s sex education curriculum presents abortion as a ‘healthy pregnancy option’, and requires that children as young as thirteen learn about “anal sex”. Earlier this year, parents in New Jersey expressed outrage at Department of Education plans to introduce gender identity lessons for six-year-olds under the same programme. ContentBetween 13 and 14 years of age, according to the new standards, children are expected to be able to define “vaginal, oral, and anal sex”. For “pregnancy options”, including abortion, the document requires that: “Healthy individuals...

Police investigating claims of child abuse by Belgian clergy have told the BBC they are probing death threats against witnesses and magistrates. Last month police raided a meeting of Belgium's Catholic bishops as part of their investigation, seizing computers and documents. They even searched the tomb of at least one cardinal, prompting an angry response from the Vatican. The country is one of several where the Church has been shaken by abuse claims. The investigation into child abuse allegations in Belgium's Catholic Church has already prompted extraordinary scenes, says the BBC's Dominic Hughes in Brussels. But now the investigation has...