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DUBLIN, February 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Irish pro-life advocates are taking with a grain of salt a promise by one of the country’s front-running political parties, Fine Gael, not to change Ireland’s constitutional protection for unborn…

LONDON, February 9, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian medical doctor who had been appointed to a UK government drugs advisory panel has been sacked after complaints from homosexualists and others who objected to his comments connecting the…

LONDON, February 9, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill that proposes to make explicit sex education compulsory in British schools, put forward by a homosexualist activist Member of Parliament, will be going to second reading in the House of Commons…

ROME, February 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican is concerned about the increasingly anti-life direction of health care ethics, Bishop Jose L. Redrado told journalists at the Vatican while announcing upcoming health care guidelines for…

NOTTINGHAM, UK, February 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It is “puzzling” that government policy makers are still pushing the morning-after pill (MAP) on young people, when it has done absolutely nothing to reduce teen pregnancies, Professor…

ROME, February 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Did anyone else notice something odd about that article in the Telegraph? The one about the goings on in Cornwall, at a guesthouse owned by the beleaguered Peter and Hazelmary Bull, the Christian couple…

ROME February 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent American professor of Catholic medical ethics has said that in “brain death” criteria there is no “moral certitude” that a patient is really dead, a condition laid out by Popes John…

ROME, February 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry announced today that it will be hosting a one-day international conference on the care of AIDS patients May 28. It will also publish a handbook…

ROME, February 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Are the new stem cell technologies too good to be true? New research suggests this may be the case.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California say they have found…

February 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alliance of Romanian Families (AFR) is intervening in the case of Domenic Johansson, the Swedish boy who was abducted by Gotland social services in 2009, asking that he be returned to his family, as…

LONDON, February 2, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent conservative UK columnist has said she received death threats after she criticized plans to insert homosexual materials into all subjects in the curriculum in Britain’s schools. Writing…

LISBON, February 2, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, the Catholic politician who approved a law that led to the liberalization of abortion and another that instituted gay “marriage” in Portugal, has been reelected as…

LONDON, February 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today British media are reporting that the highly controversial European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is under intense scrutiny as it was revealed that British police are processing 20 times more international…

Every now and then I have to go out to the airport in Rome, usually either picking up or dropping off, and the trip out to Fiumicino is pretty tedious. For me requires a trip into the city, and then back out of it again, in more or less the same…