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TORONTO, May 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life activist, writer, and editor Father Alphonse de Valk, CSB, has won the Catholic Civil Rights League's winner of this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life.

FREDERICTON, NB, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Organizers of the March for Life held in Fredericton said they were thrilled by the turnout of pro-lifers from across the province at this year's event on May 16.

"It was a great success", Peter…

LONDON, May 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Following an undercover investigation by the Daily Telegraph that exposed doctors willing to abort children based on their sex, the UK's Department of Health has concluded that sex-selective abortion does…

COLOGNE, May 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, says that immigration is not the answer to Germany's demographic crisis; the answer, he said, lies in increasing the birth rate.

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VANCOUVER, Washington, May 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The smallest surviving baby ever born at a Vancouver, Washington hospital is on her way home after spending her first five months struggling for life in the neonatal intensive care unit of…

TALLINN, Estonia, May 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Estonian pro-family organization delivered over 38,000 signatures opposing same-sex "marriage" to the country's parliament last week. 

Spokesman for the Estonian Foundation for Defense of…

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Jamaican Minister of Education, the Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has given a resounding "No" to a proposal to have condoms freely distributed in schools.

The suggestion was made by the chairman…

CANADA, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While an estimated 25,000 pro-lifers gathered in the nation's capital on May 9 for the Canadian National March for Life, thousands more took to the streets on that day in cities from coast to coast to…

OTTAWA, May 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In its quarterly examination of the economic outlook for the world's major economies, the Conference Board of Canada identifies rapidly aging populations coupled with well-below-replacement-level birth…

BATHURST, New Brunswick, May 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A judge at the Court of Queen's Bench in Bathurst, New Brunswick has thrown out a request for a permanent injunction to bar Bathurst pro-lifers from holding their annual 40 Days for Life…

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TORONTO, May 9, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a grade 7-8 teacher in Toronto posted graphic “safe sex” pamphlets in his classroom, at least one of which was originally designed for “mature” venues…

OTTAWA, May 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For the third year in a row the mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, has proclaimed that the day of the Canadian National March for Life be honored as ‘Respect for Life Day’ in the nation's capital.

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TBILISI, Georgia, May 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has said his government will debate legislation to ban abortion. The announcement follows an appeal by the Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church for…

OTTAWA, May 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past Friday the Supreme Court of Canada upheld an appeals court decision that ordered a new trial for a Mississauga woman who was originally acquitted of a charge of concealing the body of her baby…