HALIFAX GRACE MATERNITY HOSPITAL TO OPEN ABORTION WARD

NOVA SCOTIA, Oct 31 (LSN) – Grace Maternity Hospital, the renowned Nova Scotia centre for birth and premature care, has just announced that it has begun construction of an abortion ward on the sixth floor. Until two years ago, when it became a government facility, it was run by the Salvation Army. Women in the area are distressed that the only hospital in the area to go to for deliveries will now be killing babies on the floor above the delivery ward. The new ‘‘Well Womens Health Clinic’’ project, as it has been called was kept secret until the beginning […]
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NO PUNISHMENT FOR RAPE AND PEDOPHILIA

TORONTO, Oct 31 (LSN) – Shock and horror at the minimal sentence given to the man who had raped him drove Martin Kruze to suicide this week. Other victims of Gordon Stuckless, the former Maple Leaf Gardens equipment manager, stormed out of court noting that the judge had hurt them just as much as did the attacks. Stuckless received two years less a day for sexually abusing about two dozen young boys. In a related case, pedophiliac rapist Robert Noyes, conviceted in 1986 for 19 sex offences, has been granted unescorted day passes from a Montreal-area jail, Global TV News […]
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U.S. COURT SAYS UNBORN COVERED BY CHILD ABUSE LAWS

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CWN) – South Carolina’s state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the child abuse conviction of a woman who took drugs while she was pregnant. The court ruled that Cornelia Whitner’s conviction for child neglect in 1992 is valid because child abuse laws do apply to unborn children if they can survive apart from their mother. Whitner was sentenced to eight years in prison after her newborn tested positive for cocaine, but a judge freed her 19 months later, saying child abuse laws do not apply to prenatal actions. The state’s highest court had already upheld the sentence […]
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FLORIDA SUPREME COURT – SHOOTING TO KILL NOT MURDER

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct 31 (LSN) – The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a mother who shot her child in her womb could not be prosecuted for killing the fetus. In 1994 Kawana Ashley, then 19, fired a .22 caliber bullet into her abdomen attempting to kill the 25 week old child in her womb. She claimed she could not afford to pay a doctor to kill the baby for her. The baby, named Britanny, was delivered by emergency Caesarean section with a bullet wound in the wrist. Brittany died 15 days later of complications brought on by the shooting. […]
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SUPREME COURT OF CANADA DENIES UNBORN PROTECTION

OTTAWA, Oct 31 (LSN) – The Supreme Court of Canada today, in a 7-2 decision, denied children in the womb protection from harm caused by their mothers. The case involved a glue-sniffing mother who was ordered by the Children’s Aid Society in Winnipeg to receive treatment for her addiction for fear of harm to the five month old child in her womb. The Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench upheld the agency’s right to force the woman into a program, but the ruling was overturned by the Manitoba Court of Appeal, which said the law is clear on the issue and […]
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KEVORKIAN CHALKS UP ANOTHER VICTIM

ROMULUS, Mich., Oct 30 (LSN) – John O’Haria, 54, a former probation officer who had been living in a New York City nursing home, was discovered dead in a Michigan motel room. Nearby was a note identifying O’Haria as a Kevorkian patient and ordering police to not investigate. Police investigated the body for fear of Kevorkian’s promise to harvest organs from his victims but found no identifiable tampering. A spokesman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office said an autopsy would be performed Thursday.
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MORE ON THE LATIMER CASE

BATTLEFORD, Sask., Oct 30 (LSN) – Jurors in the case against Robert Latimer heard more today from Latimer’s written confession to police. RCMP Sgt. Ken Lyons testified that Latimer considered shooting his daughter in the head and calling in Jack Kevorkian before deciding on the poisoning method he used to kill his daughter.
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A WARNING TO PARENTS ABOUT UNICEF

Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute New York City (October 29)- Citing UNICEF promotion of abortion overseas, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute today alerted parents concerning the annual children’s collection for the UN agency. “We urge all parents not to give to UNICEF this year and not to allow their children to assist in UNICEF’s annual Halloween collection,” said Austin Ruse, Deputy Director of the Institute. Long, a supporter of UNICEF’s legitimate mission, said last year the Holy See removed its annual donation to the agency citing four concerns about UNICEF and family planning
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PROTESTS MARK CLINTON’S VISIT FROM JIANG

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (LSN) – Hundreds of protesters gather daily at the sites where US President Bill Clinton entertains visiting Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Protesters decry the Chinese torture of Christians, the practice of forced abortions (within the one-child policy), and the selling of organs from executed prisoners. Rep. Christopher Smith, recounted the Chinese government recent history of “Torture, mass public executions, forced abortion and sterilization, the arrest and imprisonment of democracy advocates and religious.’’ Critics noted that Clinton rolled out the red carpet for Jiang, while Jiang’s regime rolled out the tanks at Tiananmen Square. Demonstrators criticized not only […]
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ORGAN HARVESTING COMING TO CANADA

TORONTO, Oct 29 (LSN) – Canadian centres for organ transplants are seriously looking at the proposal of organ harvesting. CTV news reported today, that the controversial procedure being performed in the US is being carefully studied by Canada’s transplant centres with the need for organs in the country now double the number of available donors. Under the new procedure, doctors ‘‘trigger’’ the death of the patients, by removing life support, and wait two minutes for the heart to stop beating, then remove the organs. Doctors supporting the mehod produced financial and compassionate reasons for the procedure. Pro-life leaders feel that […]
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LATIMER TRIAL UPDATE

BATTLEFORD, Saskatchewan, Oct 29 (LSN) – Evidence was presented in court today regarding Latimer’s written confession to police of the murder of his daughter. Latimer informed police in stark detail how he carried 12 year old Tracy out to a shed on the family farm, put her inside a pick-up truck and ran a hose from the exhaust pipe into the cab. He then sat and watched for half an hour until his daughter was dead.
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PRO LIFE ACTION ITEM FROM AFA

INTERNET, Oct 29 (LSN) – The American Family Association and the Christian Family Network have alerted pro-family internet users to an MSNBC online poll about homosexuality in the schoolroom. At 9:00 AM today, out of 1,350 votes, the ‘no’ votes outweighed the ‘yes’ votes in answer to both questions 80% to 20%. This poll is in response to a decision by the Nebo School District (just South of Salt Lake City, Utah) to remove Wendy Weaver from her job as volleyball coach after she divorced her husband and chose to pursue a lesbian relationship with another woman. The school officials, […]
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DUTCH TO ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE, ADOPTION & BENEFITS

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct 29 (LSN) – A parliamentary committee this week approved a bill enshrining in federal law the right of gays and lesbians to adopt children and would also sanction same-sex marriages. The legislation, said to have broad backing in Parliament and a good shot at passage early in 1998, also would give gay couples the same pension, inheritance and social security rights as normal married couples.
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CHRISTIANS ASKED TO PRAY FOR RIGHTS

EDMONTON, Oct 28 (LSN) – On November 4th and 5th Canada’s Supreme Court will hear the case brought by a homosexual worker against his former employer, a Christian college that objected to his teaching regarding homosexuality. Delwin Vriend was fired in 1991 by The King’s University College in Edmonton, Alberta. Vriend had sued, saying that the province’s human rights act violated the federal Charter of Rights because it does not ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The court agreed and ordered the provincial legislature to include protection for homosexuals in the human rights act. But the Alberta Court […]
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CANADA PUSHES WORLD CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL

EDINBURGH Oct 28 (LSN) – Prime Minister Chretien urged the implementation of an international criminal court at the meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Scotland today. The proposal received support from the 52 government leaders at the conference. A UN meeting to discuss terms of reference has been set for Rome next June. The Commonwealth leaders said an international criminal court would deal with war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and international acts of terrorism. Critics fear the international courts would supercede national laws and thus allow for seizure of citizens or global police enforcement of UN values.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

‘‘Now can you think of a worse way of recruiting. I’m sure they were lined up at the exits trying to get out of the building. I couldn’t have said it better myself. For just a moment I thought he had switched sides. We need to encourage this man to do more ‘recruiting’.’’ (Pro- Life leader John Hof, President of CLC BC commenting on abortionist Garson Raomalis’ attempt to recruit abortionist. See below.) Romalis told his listeners that, ‘‘Abortion has always been viewed as kind of a subterranean thing. [Children] don’t walk around saying, ‘My father is an abortionist.’ ‘’ […]
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BRITISH DOCTORS PROPOSE ANESTHETIC FOR BABIES TO BE ABORTED

LONDON, Oct 27 (LSN) – Last Friday a British medical panel advised abortionists to administer anethetic to babies in the womb who are to be aborted. The working group of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which delivered the recommendations, admitted that unborn children experience pain by 24 weeks. The panel failed, however, to decry the untold pain of the children murdered in their mothers’ wombs. Of the 177,225 abortions carried out in Britain last year, 653 were performed at 23 or 24 weeks. Ninety-two were committed even later. Moreover, other research shows that children in the womb sense […]
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KEVORKIAN PLANS TO EXPERIMENT WITH SUICIDE PATIENTS

DETROIT, Oct 27 (LSN) – Calling his recent offer to donate his victims’ organs only one stage of his plan, pro-suicide activist Jack Kevorkian revealed plans for experimentation on his victims. Giving credit for his ideas to his victims, Kevorkian said, ‘‘Several of my patients wanted … to be put under irreversible anesthesia and instead of donating organs, they want an experiment done on the disease that’s killing them’‘. Kevorkian first outlined his proposal in a book he wrote in 1991, ‘‘Prescription: Medicide,’’ in which he described his mission as consisting of three phases. First, help terminally ill people end […]
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DOCTOR FINDS NEW WAYS TO BE KILLED

SYDNEY, Australia, Oct 27 (LSN) – Dr. Philip Nitschke, an Australian pro-euthanasia activist announced his development of a new suicide device last week. Nitschke offered his latest killing apparatus, after the example of John Hofsess, a Canadian promoter of euthanasia whose is notorious for offering specialized plastic bags as suicide devices. Nitschke’s device uses a gas mask with a plastic bag attached, and a filter to absorb carbon dioxide. Before it was overturned by Australia’s federal parliament the Northern Territoy’s permissive assisted-suicide law was used to justify four killings using Nitschke’s ‘‘death machine’‘, which delivers fatal injections after users tap […]
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ABORTIONIST CHARGED WITH MURDER

LOS ANGELES, Oct 24 (LSN) – Abortionist Bruce Saul Steir, 66, was arrested at his home in San Francisco on Wednesday for the murder of Sharon Hamptlon, 27, of Barstow, who bled to death shortly after Steir aborted her last December 13. The medical examiner concluded that Hamptlon died of gross negligence and ruled the death a homicide.
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‘MERCY’ KILLER ON TRIAL AGAIN

BATTLEFORD, Sask., Oct 27 (LSN) – Robert Latimer, the father who killed his 12-year-old disabled daughter Tracy in 1993, goes back on trial today charged with second-degree murder. He was tried three years ago on first-degree murder charges and was convicted of second-degree murder. The Supreme Court ordered a re-trial because of allegations the RCMP, acting on Crown orders, questioned potential jurors in the first trial about their views on euthanasia, abortion and religion. The case pits pro-euthanasia and assisted-suicide advocates against those who value the right to life of the disabled, according to Mel Graham of the Council of […]
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WOMEN BELIEVE ABORTION TOO EASY

LONDON, Oct 27 (LSN) – The results of a Gallup Poll commissioned by the London Telegraph were released yesterday revealing that almost 70% of women believe abortion is too widely available in England. The study, which was undertaken to mark the 30th anniversary of the Abortion Act which legalized the killing of children in the womb, sent shock waves through the pro-abortion movement. According to the poll of 1,416 men and women aged 16 and over, more than half of those surveyed, and 59 per cent of women, want the limit for legal abortions to drop from 24 weeks to […]
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UN PROMOTES SEX ED FOR CHILDREN TO COMBAT AIDS

Catholic World News 22-Oct-97 GENEVA (CWN) – On wednesday, the United Nations’ AIDS agency called on governments to institute and expand sexual education programs for children as a way to combat the spread of AIDS. While recognizing opposition from religious groups against institutionalizing sex education, UNAIDS claimed its data shows so-called “safe sex” education does not encourage sexual activity. The group also claimed that it found higher contraceptive use among teenagers with sex education, in addition to lower pregnancy rates. UNAIDS singled out Brazil and Zimbabwe as examples of countries doing a good job in sex education. Brazil begins teaching […]
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ABORTIONIST ATTEMPTS TO RECRUIT KILLERS

VANCOUVER, BC, Oct 23 (LSN) – Abortionist Garson Romalis, a hero of the pro-abortion movement since his being shot in the leg in 1994, spoke to University of British Columbia medical students Sunday, looking to recruit abortionists. The province’s first medical symposium on abortion was held at the university under heavy security. The event was kept highly secret and only open to those of anti-life mentality. Betty Green, president of the Vancouver Right to Life Society, was saddened that UBC students heard only pro-abortion arguments. She noted that the education that medical students receive about the humanity of unborn children, […]
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NEW SURGEON GENERAL SUPPORT PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (LSN) – US president Bill Clinton’s choice for new Surgeon General, Dr. David Satcher, was confirmed yesterday by the senate,inspite of his support for partial-birth abortion. The Surgeon General is the nations chief medical officer. The Family Research Council, in a press release, noted that Dr. Satcher departs from thousands of his colleagues in the medical profession who emphatically declare that there is no medical reason to puncture the skull of a partially delivered child and vacuum the child’s brains out. “Appointing an advocate of infanticide to the bully pulpit on our country’s health would send an […]
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DR. DEATH OFFERS VICTIMS’ ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANT

EUTHANASIA MASS KILLING IN COPENHAGEN   COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct 23 (LSN) – In the biggest mass killing in modern Danish history, police charged a nurse and a doctor on Tuesday with killing 22 people at a nursing home for the elderly. Police statements used a term that translates as “active euthanasia,’’ implying that they considered the deaths could be the result of so-called mercy killings. Authorities said the 32-year-old woman allegedly killed the victims with a morphine-based drug. She was also charged with theft and embezzlement from nursing home patients of $108,000 Cdn. The doctor was charged with breach of […]
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DR. DEATH OFFERS VICTIMS’ ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANT

NEW YORK, Oct 23 (LSN) — Infamous euthanasia champion Jack Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death, announced on Wednesday that he plans to begin offering organs harvested from his victims. Kevorkian said the organs would be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Attempting to put a positive twist on his morbid activity the suicide activist said “Up to this point, when someone dies, it’s negative… but then you give organs back. So here’s a case where we can end the suffering of a patient and get organs back to save lives’‘. The news conference was held to promote an upcoming Home […]
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SOUTH AFRICA’S SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT CONTINUES

CAPE TOWN, Oct 22 (LSN) – In June of this year South African Health MinisterNkosazana Zuma proudly announced that there had been 7,069 abortions between February and June 1997. South Africa’s STAR newspaper reported this morning that the number of abortions has climbed to almost 13,000 since February 1, when abortion on demand was legalized. The conscientious objection of many doctors and nurses in the country has caused delays in the implementation of the ‘‘Termination of Pregnancy Act’’ in at least three provinces. Zuma told reporters in June that ‘‘Travelling teams of staff that terminate pregnancies are being considered to […]
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MAYOR PROTESTS DISCRIMINATION CHARGE

LONDON, ON, Oct 22 (LSN) – Mayor Dianne Haskett of London is taking a three-week unpaid leave of absence from her job as mayor to protest anOntario Human Rights Commission ruling she discriminated against London’s gay and lesbian community. For refusing to proclaim gay pride week, the mayor was charged and found guilty of discrimination. She called the decision wrong and an attack on freedom. Rights to freedomof religion and freedom of expression have come into question with the OHRC’s ruling. “I will not bow down to the ruling of the human-rights commission and I am willing to bear any […]
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MAKER OF CHILD PORN GETS SLAP ON WRIST

BURNABY, B.C., Oct 22 (LSN) – Last week, B.C. Provincial Court Judge William Kitchen gave 52-year-old child pornographer William Bennest a slap on the wrist for his crimes. Kitchen was given a two-year suspended sentence. A former Burnaby school principal, Bennest made child pornography and recruited children from his school to participate. He was also charged with sexually touching a boy under age 14. A total of 43 videotapes, five audio cassettes, and assorted photos, posters and magazines were seized from the former principal’s home and school offices. Lillian Fuller of Langley, a B.C. director of a Canadian anti-violence group, […]
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JAPAN WANTS UN TO FORCE PAYMENTS OF DUES

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (LSN) — In light of US reservations about paying so-called ‘debts’ to the UN, Japan recommended Monday that the General Assembly consider forcing UN members to pay their bills. The Republican-controlled Congress is withholding up to $1.4 billion in USarrears, partly because of the UN’s push for global abortion on demand. The abortion issue is likely to become blurred with economic considerations as the US attempts to have its share of the UN burden decreased. Without mentioning the US by name, Hisashi Owada, Japanese Ambassador to the UN said the U.N. financial crisis was due to […]
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CIDA GIVES CONTRACTS TO MAJOR LIBERAL CONTRIBUTORS

OTTAWA, Oct 22 (LSN) – The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) was accused by opposition MPs yesterday, of granting millions of dollars worth of federal government contracts to companies which had made large donations to the Liberal campaign. Population control is one of CIDA’s primary goals and the foreign aid agency is responsible for funding and promoting abortions the world over. The Montreal-based accounting firm, Raymond Chabot Martin Pare and Associates, received $20 million in contracts from CIDA after having donated $87,201 to the federal Liberal Party last year in addition to another $10,000 to individual cabinet ministers. CIDA also […]
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UNFPA PROPAGANDA ON REDUCING ABORTIONS

COLOMBO, Oct 20 (LSN) – One of the world’s foremost promoters of abortion, the UN’s Population Fund, asserted that its new $7.6-million reproductive health care programme is aimed at trying to cut Sri Lanka’s abortion rate. At a news conference in Columbo, the organization’s director, Nafis Sadik, proffered that legalizing abortions in some cases and providing access to family planning information and services would reduce the number of abortions in the country which she ‘estimated’ to be 500 per day. Capitalizing on the popular rhetoric about unsafe abortions Sadik urged officials to allow safe legal abortions in the country.
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HEADLESS HUMANS TO BE MANUFACTURED

LONDON, UK, Oct 20 (LSN) – Scientists at Bath University in Britain announced yesterday that they had created a headless frog embryo. The Sunday Times of London reported that the researchers hope the technique will result in the production of human spare parts such as organs, made from cloned cells in laboratories. A lead researcher and embryologist at the University, Jonathan Slack says human embryos could be grown in a similar fashion since the same genes perform similar functions in both frogs and humans.
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HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA AT WORK IN ONTARIO

TORONTO, Oct 20 (LSN) – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and three of its Ottawa staff have challenged the Income Tax Act’s definition of spouse in the Ontario Court of Appeal. The Act defines a spouse as a heterosexual couple and thus the federal government need not dish out pensions to ‘partners’ of homosexuals. A band of 13 homosexuality promoting groups including the National Action Committee on the Status of Women is backing the venture. The appeal will be heard at Osgoode Hall. The courts decision, without the accountability of elected representatives, may usurp the electorate by forcing […]
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SUPREME COURT REFUSES LOUISIANA ABORTION CONSENT LAW

WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) – The US Supreme Court decided in an 8-1 vote on Monday not to consider an appeal of a lower court order that declared a Louisiana abortion parental-consent law unconstitutional. The lower court ruling, upheld by the Supreme Court’s decision not to take action, said the 1995 law would make it too difficult for some underage girls to obtain abortions without having a parent’s permission. Under the law, girls could ask a trial judge to give permission in the absence of parental consent, but the courts said the law made it too easy for judges to reject […]
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US UNDERMINES INTERNATIONAL BAN ON HUMAN CLONING

American Life League Although President Clinton has said the United States would work with other nations to ban human cloning, American officials are actually working to prevent any such ban. When the UNESCO general conference meets in Paris next week, its members will consider a genetics document that is deliberately ambiguous about human cloning. The American position came to light during a meeting of President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission, when Noelle Lenoir, a French jurist, thanked the Americans for opposing a German proposal to ban human cloning. Lenoir is a member of the French Constitutional Court. She also chairs […]
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AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM REPORTS BLASPHEMOUS STATUE STOLEN

SYDNEY (CWN) – A Sydney art museum reported on Friday that a controversial sculpture of the Virgin Mary encased in a condom was stolen less than a week after a photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine was damaged in a Melbourne gallery. The Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art said investigators are looking for a link between the disappearance of the statue from the museum and the attack on Andres Seranno’s “Piss Christ’’ at the National Gallery of Victoria. The Serrano exhibit was closed after two days of attacks on the image following an unsuccessful court battle to prevent the […]
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NORTH KOREA ACCUSED OF BANNING ABORTION TO INCREASE ARMY ROLLS

16-Oct-97—EWTN News Brief SEOUL (CWN) – Stalinist North Korea has banned both contraception and abortion to increase birth rates in order to maintain the country’s huge army, a North Korean defector was quoted as sayiing in a Seoul newspaper on Thursday. Min Byong-kyun, 48, a former North Korean trading official in Russia, told a news conference at the Agency for National Security Planning that Pyongyang is desperate to increase the country’s population of 24 million. “North Korean women have been banned from surgical operations for contraception or abortion since last year to maintain future army troops,” the English-language Herald quoted […]
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SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION RAMPANT IN CHINA

BEIJING, Oct 17 (LSN) – At the 23rd General Population Conference, delegates were told that abortion of girls is rampant in China. Ms. Luo, a delegate to the conference revealed the situation in China saying: “Quite a number of people, even very poor ones, would pay for tests so that they could abort their female offspring if they needed to’‘. Private clinics and laboratories have sprung up everywhere to offer sex detection tests, even though doctors are supposedly forbidden by law from disclosing the sex of children in the womb. Zhu Chuzhu, a professor at the Center for Women Studies […]
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AL GORE LAUDS HOMOSEXUAL ABC SHOW

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct 17 (LSN) — Vice President Al Gore was accused today of “craven pandering to Hollywood’’ when he praised the controversial show ‘Ellen’. Gore, delighted with Ellen’s coming out episode, said, “when the character Ellen came out, millions of American were forced to look at sexual orientation in a more open light’‘. The move was praised by the homosexual lobby and by ABC but criticized by Christians. Randy Tate, executive director of the Christian Coalition, said Gore was “way out of the mainstream’’ and that most Americans see homosexuality as morally wrong. Political analysts see it as […]
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CANADA CATERS TO CHRISTIAN PERSECUTORS

OTTAWA, Oct 17 (LSN) – Not even one month after Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed into law a bill set to cause havoc for loyal Christians, Canada announced a strengthening of economic relations with Russia. On October 10th International Trade Minister Sergio Marchi announced that Canada and Russia have agreed to hold talks on measures that will facilitate and increase two-way trade and examine measures to accelerate Russian integration into world markets. Persecutions of Christians based on the new law have already been reported. The Keston News Service reported that the Evangelical Lutheran Mission of Khakassia (ELMK), which has been […]
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SUPREME COURT REJECTS EUTHANASIA LAW CHALLENGE

Catholic World News Oct 14, 1997 WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, without comment, rejected a lawsuit that challenges Oregon’s law permitting euthanasia, just months after the court upheld state laws banning the practice. The ruling upholds a lower court ruling that threw out a lawsuit filed by a terminally-ill woman and two doctors, saying that the plaintiffs lacked the proper legal standing to sue. The doctors had contended that the woman, Janice Elsner, suffers from clinical depression which often makes her want to end her life and the Oregon law violates equal-protection rights by treating terminally […]
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VOTE AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS PROMOTING THEIR AGENDA ON PRIME TIME

Canada Family Action Coalition Alert According to the American Family Association (AFA), pro-homosexual email lists are asking people to vote in favour of lesbian kissing. So far (as of midnight MST), they have been able generate a vote 66.5% in favour.  This may possibly be due to the lack of restrictions on multiple votes if browser MagicCookies are set aside after each vote. Well now it is our turn to show what the majority of us think! Protect our children! Send a signal straight to the ABC executive offices. Go to (link now delete) and cast your vote! The poll […]
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UN ATTEMPTS TO OUTLAW SPANKING WORLDWIDE

GENEVA, Oct 15 (LSN) – The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded its sixteenth session on October 10. The Committee issued recommendations to six countries: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Australia, Uganda, Czech Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, and Togo. Recommendations included making spanking illegal even in the home. Reminding the countries of their obligations to follow the Convention the Committee requested that… “the Government initiate a comprehensive review of existing legislation with a view to undertaking adequate legislative reform to ensure full conformity of its legislation to the Convention.”“plans be envisaged on reproductive health measures designed to […]
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US TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS IN BRAZIL

BRASILIA, Oct 15 (LSN) – Outspoken abortion advocate Hillary Rodham Clinton, presided over a signing ceremony in the US embassy in Brazil at which the US agreed to fund abortions and other so-called family planning initiatives in the northeastern states of Bahia and Ceara. “Brazil is at the cutting edge of efforts to see that all women and men have access to the whole range of quality reproductive health services,” she told a small gathering of dignitaries and reporters. One does well to recall that Brazil is one of the countries targeted in the US population control agenda, outlined in […]
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CHINESE AUTHORITIES ARREST CATHOLIC BISHOP

VATICAN (LSN) – In what the Vatican called a ‘grave episode’, Catholic Bishop Su Zhimin of Boading, a city south of Beijing, has been arrested by Chinese authorities. Bishop Zhimin, is known for his fidelity to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and his refusal to enter the government-sponsored `Patriotic Church’ has led to his many arrests. In total he has spent 20 years in prison.
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NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO SPEAKS ON ABORTION

CHICAGO, Oct 15 (LSN) – Cincinatti Right to Life reported in their October News that Chicago Archbishop, Francis George, has redefined the approach to dealing with abortion. Rather than equating the importance of abortion with as many as 12-16 social issues, the Archbishop gave the abortion holocaust priority over all other social issues. He stated: “Abortion is no more a single issue than was slavery. It is instead a defining issue—one which shapes the future of the nation. The present legal policy of abortion-on-demand, which permits even the killing of infants being delivered, weakens the social contract that has kept […]
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POPULATION CONTROL QUOTABLE QUOTES

On September 24, Prof Michael Healey, an aquatic ecologist at the University of B.C., released a study on the Fraser Basin Ecosystem … (speaking on the vastly underpopulated country of Canada) “The federal government should adopt a population policy for Canada that is consistent with the principles of sustainability…I recognize that this is an emotional subject that many people don’t want to hear about…But we have to talk about it if we are going to work toward a population the environment can sustain…We might not be able to avoid a one-child policy …China gets a lot of criticism, but we […]
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US TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS IN BRAZIL

BRASILIA, Oct 15 (LSN) – Outspoken abortion advocate Hillary Rodham Clinton, presided over a signing ceremony in the US embassy in Brazil at which the US agreed to fund abortions and other so-called family planning initiatives in the northeastern states of Bahia and Ceara. “Brazil is at the cutting edge of efforts to see that all women and men have access to the whole range of quality reproductive health services,” she told a small gathering of dignitaries and reporters. One does well to recall that Brazil is one of the countries targeted in the US population control agenda, outlined in […]
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SUPREME COURT REJECTS EUTHANASIA LAW CHALLENGE

Catholic World News Oct 14, 1997 WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, without comment, rejected a lawsuit that challenges Oregon’s law permitting euthanasia, just months after the court upheld state laws banning the practice. The ruling upholds a lower court ruling that threw out a lawsuit filed by a terminally-ill woman and two doctors, saying that the plaintiffs lacked the proper legal standing to sue. The doctors had contended that the woman, Janice Elsner, suffers from clinical depression which often makes her want to end her life and the Oregon law violates equal-protection rights by treating terminally […]
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CHINESE AUTHORITIES ARREST CATHOLIC BISHOP

VATICAN (LSN) – In what the Vatican called a ‘grave episode’, Catholic Bishop Su Zhimin of Boading, a city south of Beijing, has been arrested by Chinese authorities. Bishop Zhimin, is known for his fidelity to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and his refusal to enter the government-sponsored `Patriotic Church’ has led to his many arrests. In total he has spent 20 years in prison.
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NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO SPEAKS ON ABORTION

CHICAGO, Oct 15 (LSN) – Cincinatti Right to Life reported in their October News that Chicago Archbishop, Francis George, has redefined the approach to dealing with abortion. Rather than equating the importance of abortion with as many as 12-16 social issues, the Archbishop gave the abortion holocaust priority over all other social issues. He stated: “Abortion is no more a single issue than was slavery. It is instead a defining issue—one which shapes the future of the nation. The present legal policy of abortion-on-demand, which permits even the killing of infants being delivered, weakens the social contract that has kept […]
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POPULATION CONTROL QUOTABLE QUOTES

On September 24, Prof Michael Healey, an aquatic ecologist at the University of B.C., released a study on the Fraser Basin Ecosystem … (speaking on the vastly underpopulated country of Canada) “The federal government should adopt a population policy for Canada that is consistent with the principles of sustainability…I recognize that this is an emotional subject that many people don’t want to hear about…But we have to talk about it if we are going to work toward a population the environment can sustain…We might not be able to avoid a one-child policy …China gets a lot of criticism, but we […]
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CHINA DISPLAYS ITS MURDEROUS APPARATUS

BEIJING, Oct 14 (LSN) – At a population conference in Beijing, China unveiled a new device for expediting the crime of abortion. A mobile abortion clinic was presented with pride, complete with bed, body clamp and suction pumps. China plans to send 600 such white vans around the country to kill their children. At the conference, with some 1,400 delegates from around the world, Western experts reported that China commonly used coercion to force mothers to abort their children. Yves Blayo, a French researcher at the Institut National D’Etudes Demographiques, said that family planning officials scoured neighbourhoods to find pregnant […]
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CLINTON VETOES ABORTION BAN, CONGRESS MAY WAIT ON OVERRIDE

Catholic World News Oct 13, 1997 WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) – President Bill Clinton vetoed a proposed ban on partial-birth abortions on Friday as he had promised, and congressional supporters of the bill said they plan on waiting for an override until next year. The reason for the delay is that the proximity of the 1998 congressional elections could force some representatives and senators who might be on the fence about the override to contemplate the backlash possible on the politically-charged issue. The House voted for the ban with a large enough margin to win an override, but the Senate was […]
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A SAD MILESTONE REACHED IN CANADA

Common-law couples increase: census OTTAWA (CP) – Statistics Canada today released its report on marital status, common-law unions and marriages. Figures from the 1996 census show that single-parent families exceeded the one-million mark for the first time. Moreover, in the last 5 years, the number of common-law families increased 28 per cent and families headed by a single parent grew by 19 per cent. One in four families is now said to be either common-law or single parent. This brought the percentage of children living in a household with unmarried parents up a staggering 52 percent.
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CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ANTI CHRISTIAN?

VANCOUVER – Oct 10 (LSN) – Michael Horowitz, senior fellow at the prestigious Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is a zealous defender of persecuted Christians worldwide. Although of Jewish heritage and faith, Mr. Hotowitz has learned of horrendous persecution of Christians the world over and works to inform the public about the totally under-reported facts. In a recent visit to Vancouver sponsored by the Catholic Civil Rights League, Horowitz accused the Canadian government of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses of Holocaust-like proportions —abuses that involve Christians. Horowitz gave examples of China’s documented abuse of the 100 million Chinese […]
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CHOICE OF SCHOOLING OFFERED TO PARENTS

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (LSN) – The US House of Representatives approved a Republican plan to provide about 2,000 federally funded vouchers to help low income Washington, D.C., children attend private schools. Although Clinton and the Democrats opposed the measure, it was passed today by a 212-197 vote. The bill would provide federally funded scholarships of up to $3,200 that low income students could use to pay for private schools or public schools in outlying suburbs. The Senate has opposed the voucher system thus far.
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PRI RESPONDS TO VILLAGE VOICE ARTICLE

I suppose congratulations are in order to Peter Kostmayer and Zero Population Growth (ZPG) for finally admitting that the population control movement has a “dark underside” [Billionaire Boys Cause, 1 October 1997]. Honesty compels me to point out, however, that Kostmayer’s admission only reiterates what the Population Research Institute has been saying for years. It has been PRI, not ZPG, which has investigated, researched and exposed population control abuses across the developing world. We are the ones who have publicized, as widely as possible, the facts of coercive sterilization programs, abandoned baby girls in China, and the use of acid […]
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PRO-LIFE GROUP ACCUSED OF XENOPHOBIC HATE

LOS ANGELES, Oct 10 (LSN) – Village Voice published an article in their Oct 7th issue which quoted Peter Kostmayer of Zero Population Growth accusing the pro-life organization Population Research Institute (PRI) , of “xenophobic hate’‘. Kostmayer, a raving population control fanatic, associated PRI with the “dark underside of the population movement’‘. Please see the next article – a letter from PRI in response to Kostmayer. The Village Voice article also included information on the monetary support of population control coming from three of the richest men in the US. Noting Ted Turner’s 1 billion dollar donation to the UN […]
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KEVORKIAN HELPS KILL YET AGAIN

DETROIT, Oct 9 (LSN) – The Associated Press reported this morning on another dead body found in a hotel room. The Oakland County Medical Examiner’s office said Lois Carol Hawkins Caswell, whose body was found Wednesday morning, died of a lethal intravenous injection. The victim had consulted with Kevorkian prior to her death, A woman who suffered from nerve damage that left her in constant pain had consulted with Dr. Jack Kevorkian before her body was found in a motel room, according to published reports. Geoffrey Fieger, Kevorkian’s lawyer told The Oakland Press of Pontiac that Mrs Caswell was one […]
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CONDOM CO LACKEY FONDA FIGHTS ABSTINENCE PROGRAMS

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (LSN) – A British condom manufacturer Durex, which made nearly $50 million in profits last year largely from the sale of condoms,has decided to fund Jane Fonda in her campaign against the American government efforts to teach children about sexual abstinence rather than contraception. Congress voted last year to spend $50 million a year over the next five years on sexual education programmes that focus exclusively on abstinence. This action was undertaken since the simple message of saying “no” to sex is confused if children are simultaneously told about the pill, condoms, and other contraceptives. Fonda appeared […]
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US HOUSE PASSES ABORTION BAN AGAIN

WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 9 (LSN) – The US House of Representatives voted 296-132 to approve the partial-birth abortion ban. A slightly different version was passed by the House in March, but had to agree to changes adopted by the Senate before the measure could be sent to President Clinton. The Senate’s changes were accepted which would prohibit the controversial procedure except in cases where the woman’s life is in danger. President Clinton has vowed anew to veto the measure. Clinton has favored including another exception for women’s health problems which pro-lifers charge would not halt any abortions since most anything […]
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“So when a television station in our home State gives a Senator a rough time, maybe we should call the Marines instead of the news director.” (Senate – October 07, 1997) Sen. Roberts talking to President Clinton about mission creep in Bosnia, and the US (NATO) attacks on TV stations in response to Bosnian TV political smears on a UN tribunal judge.
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD DIRECTOR GUILTY OF ABORTIONS WITHOUT CONSENT

BUFFALO, NY, Oct 8 (LSN) – Buffalo news reported yesterday that Dr. Rafael G. Cunanan Jr., director of Planned Parenthood of Niagara County was find $1,000 by the state of NY for two unasked-for abortions and one mistaken sterilization. Cunanan, who was the chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, has been placed on probation for four years, during which another physician must monitor his work by the NY State Board for Professional Medical Conduct. Investigators revealed that “Cunanan performed a dilatation and curettage, and a suction curettage on a patient in 1991’’ but “failed to […]
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PRO-LIFERS WIN SUPREME COURT BATTLE FOR FREE SPEECH

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (LSN) – Yesterday, the US Supreme Court let stand a ruling widening the boundaries of campaign advertising not subject to control by the Federal Election Commission. In 1995 the commission restricted pro-lifers from using ads saying “vote pro-life’‘, along with a list of candidates supporting life and those not. The regulation was challenged by the Maine Right to Life Committee, and a U.S. appeals court struck it down for violating First Amendment free-speech guarantees under the Constitution. The Federal Election Commission tried to appeal the case but the justices denied the government’s appeal Monday without any comment […]
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ARGENTINE PRESIDENT AFFIRMS RIGHT TO LIFE

Catholic World News for Oct 7 VATICAN (CWN)—Argentinian President Carlos Saul Menem offered a strong public defense of the right to life in Buenos Aires yesterday, as he prepared for a visit to Rome and a meeting with Pope John Paul II. Speaking from his national capital just before he traveled to Rome to open a new transplant unit at an Argentine medical facility there, Menem said, “We have joined with the Catholic Church in defending human life from time of conception.” He noted that Argentine law prohibits abortion, and promised to oppose any change. President Menem is scheduled to […]
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US HOUSE VOTES TO RESTORE MEXICO CITY POLICY

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (LSN) – Rep. Steve Largent’s motion to instruct House conferees to maintain the so-called “Mexico City” policy in HR 2159 1998 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, was approved by the House. The Mexico City policy, was created by former President Ronald Reagan and prohibited U.S. population assistance to foreign organizations that perform abortions in foreign countries, violate the abortion laws of foreign countries, or lobby for changes in such laws. Earlier President Clinton did away with the Mexico City Policy. The prohibition still allows exceptions in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is […]
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CATHOLIC CHILD PLACED IN HOMOSEXUAL FOSTER CARE

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (LSN) – USA Today reported the Supreme Court rejection of an appeal by a Massachusetts man whose son was placed in foster care with two homosexual men. The unnamed family asserted that their religious freedom was violated because their raising of their child in the Catholic faith was compromised by the state Department of Social Services decision to place the boy in the foster home of two gay men. On Monday, the court, rejected the case without comment. The 4-year-old boy was removed from his parents’ home in suburban Boston in June 1996 after alleged abusive discipline. […]
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US SUPREME COURT DECIDES ON HILL CASE

FLORIDA, Oct 6 (LSN) – On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Paul Hill, who had received the death sentence for his shooting of an abortionist and his escort in July of 1994. Hill, a former minister claimed the judge at his trial had violated his constitutional rights by allowing him to represent himself and by barring him from using justifiable homicide as a defense.
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ALL CITIZENS TO BE FINGERPRINTED

QUEEN’S PARK, Oct 7 (LSN) – Two members of Ontario’s provincial parliament presented petitions in the legislature yesterday requesting the Harris government to refrain from enacting legislation to fingerprint all Ontario residents. MPPs Frank Miclash and Pat Hoy both presented petitions from their constituents which say that the proposed fingerprinting is a gross invasion of privacy, the members also affixed their names to the petitions. Premier Mike Harris revealed plans in 1995 to create a new Ontario ID card which would include the holders fingerprint. The ID cards are set to be used for getting health care, a driver’s licence […]
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DR DEATH ASKS FOR HELP WITH DEAD BODIES

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Oct 7 (LSN) – Macomb County Prosecutor Carl Marlinga met with the infamous Dr. Death, Jack Kevorkian, to discuss “dignified’’ ways of dumping the bodies of Kevorkian’s victims. The Associated Press reported that the forty minute interview was held at Kevorkian’s request. Marlinga has said he won’t prosecute Kevorkian. The county is considering assisting the ‘doctor’ but must first check into legal complications related to conspiracy to assist in suicide.
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PROMISE KEEPERS GATHER TO PRAY, ASK FORGIVENESS IN DC

Catholic World News WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) Hundreds of thousands of Christian men gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday for a six-hour rally in which they pledged to become better husbands, fathers, and neighbors and asked forgiveness of God and their families for the past sins of omission and commission. In a moving display, speakers touched on issues from abortion to workaholism to racism, not from an abstract viewpoint, but mainly from personal experience. Time after time, the enormous crowd went down to its collective knees to confess personal sinfulness, rose to its feet to cheer and sing, […]
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CAMBODIA LEGALIZES ABORTION

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Oct 6 (LSN) – Cambodia’s parliament passed a law today legalizing abortions during a woman’s first three months of pregnancy. The law maintains that a women under 18 years old must have parental consent before killing the child in her womb. Until now, Cambodia had no laws governing abortion.
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POPE CONDEMNS ABORTION IN RIO

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 6 (LSN) – According to the London Times at least two million people crammed on to a three-mile-long beach in Rio de Janeiro yesterday to attend Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II. The Pontiff is in Brazil for the World Meeting with Families where he promoted a greater sense of involvement in the protection of authentic family life. In his message the Pope condemned abortion in very explicit terms. He called on families to, “Take care of your children with responsible love. Defend them as a gift of God, from the moment they are conceived.’’ […]
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CATHOLIC LEADERS SEE CONSPIRACY AGAINST FAMILY

Vatican Update from Catholic World News for October 2, 1997 VATICAN (CWN)—As the world encounter with families opened in Rio de Janeiro, and awaited the arrival of Pope John Paul II, one Vatican official spoke of a “conspiracy” against family life, while a leading Latin American prelate accused the United States of engaging in a crusade to promote abortion. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, spoke at the opening of the Rio congress. He told an audience of 2,500 official delegates from all across the world that families play the crucial role in the […]
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COURTS ORDER GOVERMENT TO CHANGE DEFINITION OF ‘SPOUSE’

TORONTO, Oct 3 (LSN) – In a precedent-setting case, judge N. Douglas Cook ruled in favour of a lesbian claimant for death benefits. Kelly Kane, 36, of Toronto was awarded a $25,000 insurance payment from the Axa Insurance Company. Moreover the attorney-general’s office was ordered to change the Ontario Insurance Act’s definition of ‘spouse’ from “either a man and a woman’’ to “either of two persons.’’ The Toronto Sun reports that no decision on an appeal has been made by the government or the insurance company. In similar cases involving court decisions of public concern, such as the court case […]
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GORE CHAMPIONS POPULATION CONTROL

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (LSN) – Vice President Al Gore spoke Monday at a White House global-warming conference. After submitting “evidence’’ of the much contested global warming theory, Gore warned that overpopulation was one of the main contributing factors to the environmental threat. The Washington Times reported Gore as saying, “Third World nations are producing too many children too fast… it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth…’‘. When asked how to go about this he suggested expanding birth control and abortion programs in developing countries.
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TED TURNER CONTROL OF MEDIA SUSPECTED

NEW YORK, Oct 3 (LSN) — The Associated Press reported yesterday that the Ted Turner owned Cable News Network (CNN) ordered two ads objecting to a potential global warming treaty off the air Thursday. Reacting to the biased censorship, Richard Pollock, a spokesman for the group which paid for the ad, said: “This is Ted Turner pulling views that he personally doesn’t like. He has decided to act as an information czar.’‘ CNN spokesman Steve Haworth said he couldn’t “confirm or deny’’ the involvement of Turner. The ads, paid for by the chemical, automobile and oil industries, warn that proposed […]
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CATHOLIC REGISTER PRAISES ‘NOTHING SACRED’

TORONTO, Oct 3 (LSN) – The Catholic Register, thought to be Canada’s premiere Catholic newspaper, has published an article praising the controversial show ‘Nothing Sacred’. In its Sept 29th edition, the Register, a publication of the Archdiocese of Toronto, lauded the show saying, “In a world of ‘dumb,’ tabloid put-down and exploitation, it glows with the glimmer of the momentary presence of the divine.’‘ A number of readers are expressing dismay that the Register would take a favourable stand on this program which delivers a serious attack on the Church. The Catholic Register’s position on the matter stands in stark […]
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US BISHOPS’ LETTER MISINTERPRETED

WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 2 (LSN) – The US Catholic bishops issued a new pastoral letter yesterday which has been widely misinterpreted by the secular media. The letter is addressed to parents of homosexual children encouraging them to love their children. Headlines from News Services like the following AP report from Desert News Service: ‘‘Catholics advised to put love for gay kids above doctrine’‘, demonstrate the misconstruing of the bishops’ letter. The letter, titled “Always Our Children” clearly states that “it is not to be understood as an endorsement of … a ‘homosexual lifestyle’‘’. The letter is available on the internet […]
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COMPLAINTS TO ADS ON ‘NOTHING SACRED’ EFFECTIVE

NEW YORK, Oct 2 (LSN) – The Sears company’s withdrawl announced today marks the sixth advertiser to pull sponsorship of the blasphemous show ‘Nothing Sacred’. Last week the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, who has headed up the fight, reported that K-Mart, Isuzu Motors, Weight Watchers, DuPont’s Corian, and Benckiser’s Electrosol Tabs have all told the Disney Company’s ABC network that they would no longer sponsor the show following consumer complaints. Moreover, they noted that twenty-nine Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, and Jewish groups have joined in the boycott of the television show.
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PRO-LIFE PRO-FAMILY REFORM MP RESIGNS

OTTAWA, Oct 2 (LSN) – Honourable Sharon Hayes, the pro-life, pro-family Reform MP tendered her resignation yweterday to look after her husband who is recovering from a stroke and heart attack. Mrs. Hayes, who was the major force behind Reform’s family policy, was first elected in 1993 in the riding of Port Moody-Coquitlam BC. Although the pro-life community is sad to see this defender of the family leave the political arena we admire her in this her authentic witness to the supremacy of family life.
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CHRETIEN APPOINTS OLD COLLEAGUE TO SUPREME COURT

OTTAWA, Oct 2 (LSN) – Prime Minister Jean Chretien caused a stir inthe House of Commons by appointing Michel Bastarache to the Supreme Court of Canada. Bloc MP’s were enraged that Chretien had appointed a prominent federalist campaigner to the high court. Reform MP Jack Ramsey noted the appointment of the former law partner of Chretien’swas inappropriate. MP Bellehumeur charged that “The Prime Minister is using the Supreme Court for political purposes and he is damaging his credibility’‘. But Chretien is no stanger to nepotistic appointments. His political manouvering of old friends and even relatives into positions of power is […]
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UN COERCION ON ABORTION FOR REFUGEES EXPOSED

OTTAWA, October 1, 1997 (HLI Canada), U.S. Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Chairman, House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, has exposed an ongoing project by at least three UN agencies “for the large-scale performance and promotion of abortions among refugees, displaced persons, and other poor and vulnerable women around the world.”  The agencies named are United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and World Health Organization (WHO). Rep. Smith stated that UNFPA and UNHCR are about to finalize an “Inter-Agency Field Manual” entitled “Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations.”  A companion document by the WHO, […]
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QUESTIONABLE PRIVACY FOR CANADIANS

OTTAWA, Oct 1 (LSN) – Solicitor General Andy Scott told the Associated Press this morning that the Federal Court and Ottawa have routinely approved past requests by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service for warrants allowing the agency to conduct extensive wiretaps on phone lines. The CSIS warrant is different from those granted to police in that the agency can listen in on other people without approval for the extra bugs. CSIS spokesman Marcia Wetherup noted that similar applications have been granted “numerous times” in the past.
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POPE TO PROMOTE THE FAMILY IN BRAZIL

VATICAN CITY, Oct 1 (LSN) – Pope John Paul II will travel to Rio de Janeiro for the 2nd world encounter with families from October 2 to October 6. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo told reporters that “the Holy Father wants to mobilize consciences in favor of the decisive cause of the family. In Rio he will make a sort of universal convocation for the family.” The timing of the trip is particularly poignant as the Brazilian government is considering the abortion issue. The family, the basic building block of society, is in grave need of support. The pope realizes this […]
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POPULATION CONTROL MADNESS IN INDIA

HYDERBAD, India, Oct 1 (LSN) – The Andhra Pradesh state commissioner for family welfare, told The Associated Press that this Southern Indian state has decided to train more than 250,000 barbers as health workers and use their shops to distribute free condoms in villages.
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IMPORTANT US PRO-LIFE ACTION ALERT

Partial-birth abortion ban up for U.S. House vote. The House sponsor of the ban on partial-birth abortion, pro-life Rep. Charles Canady (R-FL) has announced that the Partial-Birth Abortion BanAct (HR 1122) will be taken up by the entire House during the week of October 6. The House must approve a slightly amended Senate version and voted last March to approve the ban 295-136. (The Senate made minor changes to the bill in order to receive the endorsement of the American Medical Association). Once the House passes the ban, it will then be sent to the President – who has indicated […]
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NATO PUNISHES BOSNIAN TV FOR CRITICISING UN TRIBUNAL

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Oct 1 (LSN) – In response to Serb TV broadcasts suggesting that the U.N. war crimes tribunal is anti-Serb, U.S. and other NATO-led troops yanked Bosnian Serb television off the air today. Bosnian Serb TV edited a tape of a news conference given by Canadian U.N. tribunal prosecutor Louise Arbour which they asserted was anti-Serb. Even though the motive in this case may have been a noble one. Having NATO forces actively insure favourable appraisals of UN activities sets a dangerous precedent. Certain UN activities such as the implementation of global access to abortion on demand or other […]
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OUTSTANDING PRO-LIFE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT RESIGNS

OTTAWA, Oct 1 (LSN) – Sharon Hayes, Reform MP for the British Columbia riding of Port Moody- Coquitlam, announced today that she is resigning her seat because of the need to care for her sick husband. Mr. Hayes suffered a serious stroke during the June election campaign. Mrs. Hayes has been among the strongest and most outspoken defenders of life and family in Canada’s federal Parliament. Her influence in Parliament will be greatly missed by like-minded fellow MPs and by the members of Canada’s pro-life, pro-family movement.
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