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ROME, May 14, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian pro-life activists have high hopes that the extraordinary turn-out and the youthful enthusiasm of the 15,000-strong crowd of this weekend’s March for Life in Rome, will bring the abortion issue…

CARDIFF, May 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An anti-Christian lobby group is cheering the Welsh government this week, after the education minister threatened Catholic Schools for having asked students to oppose the government’s gay “marriage”…

ROME, May 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Against a backdrop of institutionalized opposition to Catholic teaching in much of American Catholic academia, Pope Benedict XVI has told visiting U.S. bishops that Catholic colleges need to return to being…

LONDON, May 8, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the world’s oldest and most venerated scientific institutions has joined the chorus of the population control movement, calling for a “stabilisation” of the human population, “reduction of…

LONDON, May 8, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexualist activists say they are disappointed today after the Cameron government’s proposed “gay marriage” plans were not included in this morning’s Queen’s Speech in Parliament. Meanwhile,…

BRIGHTON, May 8, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andrew Stephenson, head of the pro-life activist group Abort67, said today that he and his rapidly expanding group are grateful to Britain’s rabidly pro-abortion national news media, and even to the…

GABORONE, Botswana, May 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An editorial in the Botswana Gazette this week, notes that there has been a mass escalation by international NGOs pushing to legalise abortion in answer to the country’s many woes. The call…

Lithuania considers constitutional amendment supporting natural family

VILNIUS - The Lithuanian parliament is considering amending the country’s constitution to confirm the definition of the family as based on marriage or parenthood. After a…

LONDON, May 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Euthanasia campaigners are jubilant today as a landmark high court ruling will allow a man with motor neuron disease to commit suicide. The 67-year-old, who is not being named in the press, cannot write or…

VATICAN CITY, May 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a carefully worded diplomatic document, the Secretariat of State, the Vatican’s highest authority under the pope himself, announced this afternoon that Caritas International, is receiving a new…

LONDON, May 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A British woman has told the Daily Mail that Internet pornography has turned her 11 year-old son into a shell of the boy he was. The mother, who is not named, said her son, “Charlie, ” changed “beyond…

LONDON, April 30, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After months of complaining that the British pro-life movement is importing U.S.-based advisors, abortion industry leaders, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has recruited the assistance of…

DUBLIN, April 30, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Irish Justice Minister has evoked outrage from the Catholic Church by proposing 5-year prison sentences for priests who fail to report sex abuse of minors if they hear about it in the confessional.… Continue Reading »

LONDON, April 27, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite government assurances to the contrary, concerns continue to grow that religious institutions will be forced to participate in “gay marriages” in the UK under soon-to-be issued rules.…