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March 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pakistan’s only Christian government minister, who was assassinated by Islamic extremists yesterday, discussed his possible demise and offered his sufferings for the protection of the nation’s Christians and other…

ISLAMABAD, March 2, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pakistan’s only Christian government minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, has been shot dead by Muslim extremists in apparent reprisal for opposing the nation’s “blasphemy law,” according to international media…

MANILA, March 2, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Filipino legislators are on the verge of voting on a population control bill that would impose abortifacient contraceptives on private medical facilities and that critics say could silence opponents for…

March 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The government of Chile has received the International Protect Life Award for its strong pro-life policies, which are accompanied by the lowest maternal mortality rate in Latin America.

The International Protect…

February 28, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) has removed a webpage that advertised its sponsorship of a pro-abortion organization, but continues to block LifeSiteNews’ Freedom of…

BANGKOK, February 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fourteen Vietnamese women have been rescued from what appears to be sexual slavery in the compound of a surrogate baby trafficking ring in Thailand, according to local media reports.

Nine of the…

February 23, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Vatican legal consultant Edward Peters has made international headlines by saying that New York governor Andrew Cuomo should be denied holy communion because of his open and consistent support for legal…

WASHINGTON, February 23, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Barrack Obama has announced that he will no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court, while at the same time claiming that he continues to oppose…

GERMANY, February 23, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A mother of twelve has been sentenced to 43 days in jail in the German town of Salzkotten for refusing to enroll her children in the sex education program in a local elementary school, according to two…

February 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican has refused to allow Caritas General Secretary Lesley-Anne Knight to submit her name for reelection to her position, citing the need to strengthen the organization’s “Catholic identity,” among other…

QUEBEC, February 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide for “extreme cases” is a slippery slope to the widespread killing of newborn infants, the elderly, the depressed, and the mentally disabled, an expert…

MEXICO CITY, February 18, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An eminent Mexican geophysicist says that despite predictions of global warming based on computer models, the world may be on the verge of an eighty-year cold period similar to the “little ice age”…

LIMA, February 18, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lima’s Cardinal Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani is accusing the U.S. and leftist billionaire George Soros of seeking to impose a pro-abortion and homosexualist “agenda” on Peru.

“Sometimes I hear and read…

LIMA, February 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite the aspirations of major presidential candidates to legalize abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’ in Peru, the vast majority of Peruvians say they are opposed to both ideas, according to a new poll.… Continue Reading »