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PrintCANADIAN TV NETWORKS BEGIN RATING SYSTEM
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CANADA, Sept 29 (LSN) - Canadian Television Networks commence this week with a rating system for TV shows similar to that of the US. Viewers will be warned as to content of the program by a symbol appearing on the screen. Most Canadian shows will open with one of six ratings symbols. A "C" symbol means the program is supposedly suitable for all ages.
American pro-life and pro-family associations have warned that parents should not trust the rating systems and should be responsible themselves to guard their children from harmful influences in various shows. Further, they note that these ratings have opened the flood gates of vice on TV since viewers have been warned.
Please remember that the Canadian government was sorrowfully lacking in their estimation of need for ratings of TV shows. The March 27, 1996 issue of the Globe and Mail quoted CRTC head Mr. Spicer as saying, ''Violence in programming is considered a matter affecting the mental health of children... the CRTC decided to disregard the language and sexuality issues because it did not want to become involved in religious or moral questions, he added."
Back to TopPOPE EQUATES TOTALITARIAN MASSACRES AND ABORTION
ITALY, Sept 28 (LSN) - On Sunday, Pope John Paul II said mass for some 250,000 people in the outskirts of Bologna Italy where he attended a music concert in his honour the night before. In his homily the Pope compared abortion to the totalitarian massacres of regimes such as the Nazis.
"This century has seen, on a planetary scale, grave attacks on man and the truth of his existence...Millions of human lives have been sacrificed this century in the name of totalitarian ideologies and lies...In the name of free choice, called freedom, innocent human beings who are not yet born continue to be suppressed."
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION TO BEGIN AGAIN IN RUSSIA?
MOSCOW, Sept 26 (LSN) - The Kremlin issued a statement on Friday indicating that Russian President Boris Yeltsin had signed the law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations". Catholic World News reported that The law gives legal status only to religions that were active in the country for more than 15 years, essentially meaning Russian Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam since all other religions were outlawed by the officially atheist Soviet Union.
PRO-ABORTIONISTS PUSH ABORTION IN BRAZIL PRIOR TO POPE'S VISIT
BRASILIA, Sept 26 (LSN) - Brazilian pro-abortion groups launched a campaign Friday, supporting a controversial abortion bill approved by the lower house of the Brazilian Congress in August. If approved the bill would mandate all public hospitals to commit abortions on women who claim to have been raped whose health is at risk. Pro-life groups in Brazil warn that the bill is phrased in such a way that it will automatically legalize abortion on demand.
Reuters News reported that the feminists and other anti-life groups involved want get their message to the pope during his upcoming visit. It is hoped that John Paul may encourage the Brazilian President to veto the bill.
PRO-ABORTIONISTS PUSH ABORTION IN BRAZIL PRIOR TO POPE'S VISIT
BRASILIA, Sept 26 (LSN) - Brazilian pro-abortion groups launched a campaign Friday, supporting a controversial abortion bill approved by the lower house of the Brazilian Congress in August. If approved the bill would mandate all public hospitals to commit abortions on women who claim to have been raped whose health is at risk. Pro-life groups in Brazil warn that the bill is phrased in such a way that it will automatically legalize abortion on demand.
Reuters News reported that the feminists and other anti-life groups involved want get their message to the pope during his upcoming visit. It is hoped that John Paul may encourage the Brazilian President to veto the bill.
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