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July 20, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When it comes to the supposed “right” to abortion in international law, promoted by the international abortion lobby, the rhetoric is far removed from the reality, according to the Buenos Aires based Center for…

SWITZERLAND, July 20, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following a successful petition drive by pro-life groups, the Swiss government will be forced to hold a national referendum on the public funding of abortion, after deciding in April to continue…

BUENOS AIRES, July 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Although the American Convention on Human Rights protects the right to life “from the moment of conception,” the court assigned to enforce the treaty does not regard abortion as a violation of the…

SAN SALVADOR, July 14, 2011 (LifeSIteNews.com) - Pro-family groups in El Salvador have mounted an organized protest against the current United States ambassador to the country, after she published a controversial article in a local newspaper…

GUATEMALA CITY, July 14, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nine out of eleven of Guatemala’s presidential candidates recently attended a forum held by the country’s Catholic bishops, where the candidates unanimously rejected the decriminalization of…

SANTIAGO, July 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Chile’s president Sebastian Piñera, who bills himself as a social conservative and is known for his defense of the right to life, is preparing to introduce a bill in the nation’s congress instituting…

July 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The lower house of Italy’s parliament has voted to prohibit the starvation and dehydration of patients in a move that is seen as a response to the killing of Eluana Englaro in 2009.

In a 278-205 vote recorded in…

July 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Spanish diocese of Getafe has removed a parish priest after finding evidence of a homosexual relationship with a seminarian, according to Spanish media sources.

Fr. Andrés García Torres, pastor of Our Lady…

NOVARA, Italy, June 30, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 68-year-old man from the town of Novara who suffocated his 91-year-old mother to death has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a local judge.

Angelo Massobra says he killed his mother, Natalia…

SÃO PAULO, June 28, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Brazilian judge approved the conversion of a same-sex couple’s civil union into a legally recognized “marriage” on June 27th, making it the country’s first homosexual “marriage.”

Sao Paulo state…

BARCELONA, June 29, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Under increasing pressure from negative media coverage and ongoing protests, the Archdiocese of Barcelona has issued a statement denying that abortions have ever taken place at the Santa Creu i Sant Pau…

June 28, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - LifeSiteNews.com is publishing sworn affidavits by two experts and another eyewitness who testify to evidence of trauma suffered by ex-lesbian Lisa Miller’s daughter, Isabella Miller, following court-ordered visits…

BARCELONA, June 28, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Protesters gathered outside of the Santa Creu and Sant Pau Hospital on Saturday to protest the institution’s practice of killing the unborn, as well as its ongoing relationship with the Catholic…

MONTPELIER, VT, June 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lisa Miller, a Christian and an ex-lesbian who fled the United States with her daughter in 2009 before a court could transfer custody to her former lesbian partner, is being hotly pursued by…