The student’s father Bill Kunkel told CNN affiliate WLWT that they are against the vaccine as they believe it’s derived from “aborted fetuses”.

He added: “And of course, as Christians, we’re against abortion.”

According to the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), there are a number of vaccines made in descendent cells of aborted fetuses dating back to the 1960s.

However, health authorities and drug manufacturers insist no new human cells have been used since then to produce vaccines.

The lawsuit argues that the vaccine is “immoral, illegal and sinful”.

Kunkel, who is in his senior year said he was particularly upset about the impact the ban will have on the basketball team he captains.

“The fact that I can’t finish my senior year of basketball, like our last couple games is pretty devastating,” he said.

“I mean you go through four years of high school, playing basketball, but you look forward to your senior year.”

The Northern Kentucky Health Department banned unvaccinated pupils on 14th March. They announced that all students at the school who don’t have “proof of vaccination or proof of immunity against chickenpox will not be allowed to attend school until 21 days after the onset of rash for the last ill student or staff member”.

A statement from the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life issued in 2005 states that “grave reasons may be morally proportionate to…

Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) minister Rev Richard Ross said parents and carers should be within their rights to discipline their children with a “gentle” smack.

He said: “Scots law is based on moral law, which is the word of God – and a bill to ban smacking would substitute man’s law for God’s law.

“Many thousands – perhaps millions – of Scots believe that the scriptures give a good, solid foundation for life, not only for children but for parents.

“As we understand it, the Bill is an open attack on the authority of God to tell us how to live, and it will smash the very foundation of Scottish society.”

Rev Ross was addressing a meeting of the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee on the Isle of Skye.

They discussed a proposed new law which would remove the defence of “justifiable assault” for adults who physically discipline their children. It has been tabled by Green MSP John Finnie.

Scottish church leaders are divided over the issue. The Church of Scotland has previously spoken out in favour of a ban, saying it would “offer equal protection to children”.

Church of Scotland minister Rev Peter Nimmo of the Church of Scotland said the Bible does not offer a clear stance on smacking.

He added: “We do not use violence against criminals. We do not do it to schoolchildren any longer.

“It seems wrong and strange that we still allow that defence…

According to the North Wales’ Daily Post, Rev David Parry has written to Conwy Town Council saying chimes from the 19th century clock at St Mary’s church may also be disturbing other residents, businesses and tourists.

In response, the town council – which maintains the clock – hand-delivered a questionnaire to 400 residents and businesses asking for their views about the clock chiming every 15 minutes from 12.15am to 6.15am.

The questionnaire asked if the clock chimes were “annoying and unnecessary” or were part of the town’s character.

It also asked if they affected local businesses.

Mr Parry said he was pleased the council had decided to canvass opinion.

He said: “If it was me in charge of the clock I would have switched the chimes off overnight, as they aren’t necessary and do cause a disturbance to my family as we live very close by.

“I’m also concerned as Conwy relies so much on tourism that if tourists can’t sleep at night, they will not come back to the town.

However, Conwy resident Audrey Barker told the Daily Post: “The questionnaire is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever see.

“I don’t know anyone in the neighbourhood, living within the town walls or anyone that I know of is in favour of silencing the chimes during night-time hours.”

The Conwy Town clerk, Natasha Flint, revealed 200 questionnaires have been returned, and she believes more than 95 per…

Sadiq Khan will be asked why officers detained 64-year-old Oluwole Ilesanmi and why they changed their version of events.

The questions have been tabled by London Assembly member David Kurten. A Christian, Mr Kurten said he was “concerned” by footage appearing to show the evangelist being handcuffed and led away.

The UKIP politician said: “I’ve received a lot of comments about this video and they’re all supportive.

“Even people who aren’t Christians say ‘this is terrible, that someone seems to be having their freedom of speech impinged'”.

Premier has learned Mr Ilesanmi plans to attend tomorrow’s ‘Mayor’s Question Time’, alongside representatives of the Christian Legal Centre which has been supporting him.

Mr Kurten continued: “I want to raise attention to Sadiq Khan about Olu’s case.

“I want to highlight what’s happened and I want to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen again to street preachers who are within their rights of freedom of speech.

The Metropolitan Police said Mr Ilesanmi was arrested outside Southgate Underground station in North London on Saturday 23rd February after concerns were raised about a man’s behaviour.

A Christian preacher this afternoon was arrested at Southgate station London N14 for preaching about Jesus . @CConcern the police told him it’s because public had said he was being…

Speaking to German radio station DRF about the short extension to Brexit, Jean-Claude Juncker said: “Those months would have to produce, as an end result, an agreement from the British Parliament to the (Agreement) text which is before them.

“If that doesn’t happen, and if Great Britain does not leave at the end of March, then we are, I am sorry to say, in the hands of God.

“And I think even God sometimes reaches a limit to his patience.”

Any request for extra time is subject to unanimous approval by leaders of the remaining 27 EU states at a meeting in Brussels on Thursday.

While Mr Juncker said he had not received Mrs May’s letter, he said he was hoping for “clarity” from the UK on the way forward.

In a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on Wednesday, Theresa May is believed to have asked for a three-month extension to 30th June in the hope of securing approval from MPs for her Withdrawal Agreement.

A Number 10 source said: “PM won’t be asking for a long extension.

“There is a case for giving Parliament a bit more time to agree a way forward, but the people of this country have been waiting nearly three years now.

“They are fed up with Parliament’s failure to take a decision and the PM shares their frustration.”

Mrs May’s move comes exactly 1,000 days after the referendum of 23rd June 2016, which delivered…

It is alleged that Caroline Farrow, who is also a mother and social commentator, made a transphobic comment during a heated exchange on Twitter last year.

Posting on Twitter, she said: “I now need to inform my children that Mummy is in trouble with the police because there was this girl, who was born in a boy’s body, whom I might have inadvertently referred to as a boy.”

Surrey Police has been investigating whether a hate crime was committed under the Malicious Communications Act. Such an offence carries a sentence of up to two years in prison.

A row on social media erupted following the 44 year old’s appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain show last September.

Mrs Farrow appeared with the transgender rights campaigner Susie Green to discuss a Girl Guides policy of not informing parents if a transgender youngster joins.

It is in the row which followed that Mrs Farrow allegedly misgendered Ms Green’s transgender daughter, Jackie.

Commenting on Twitter, she said: “I probably said ‘he’ or ‘son’ or something.

“I have pointed out to the police that I am a Catholic journalist and commentator and it is my religious belief that a person cannot change sex.

If anyone is interested Susie Green is going to be discussing her complaint and my ‘distressing spiteful transphobia’ on @vicderbyshire this morning. I was invited on the show but declined.

— Caroline Farrow…