Francis Schaeffer looked like the hippies he debated with. But that was style, not content, says an expert forty years after his death. Schaeffer said that everybody had a belief, even an atheist.

The Norwegian government has tabled a bill for a new abortion law. In that proposal, the word “woman” is replaced by “the pregnant one”. And it is unclear about sex-selective abortions. The bill in six questions.

How archaic! When I first attended a church service and saw women veiling, I vowed to myself never to do that. Wearing a hat has disappeared in my country. Veils are for Muslims now. But I have learned to see the covering as a shield for which to be grateful.

For decades, Mats Selander has advocated for the unborn in Sweden. Although he is used to getting jeered in the streets, he did not expect his bank to end his 30-year customer relationship.

All was quiet outside Norway's Russian embassy in Oslo until a pedestrian crossing was painted in rainbow colours.