Articles for Month: July 2001

OTTAWA, July 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – After years of wrangling with federal regulators in Canada, the Catholic television station, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), has finally received approval to be broadcast in Canada. On Friday the Canada Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released its decision allowing EWTN. The CRTC had turned down the Catholic station in previous years, while allowing the playboy channel and other pornographic fare. CRTC spokesperson Denis Carmel told LifeSite that previous decisions against EWTN were based on not allowing “single-faith” programming. That decision changed, said Carmel, with a larger market of channels available and the assurance […]

Another family questioned AYLMER, ON, July 16, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The case of the Aylmer family whose 7 children aged 6 to 14 were taken from their home by the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) and police on July 4, because the parents might use corporal punishment in the future, has exploded. Other large families have fled from their homes fearing more CAS-directed abductions of children. The National Post reports today that one hundred members of the Church of God, 74 children and 26 mothers, have fled Canada fearing their children may be seized by CAS workers since they hold to […]

The number of recorded abortions taking place in Minnesota last year was 14,450, 118 more than in 1999. The report notes that only 57 abortionists were responsible for all these deaths. The reason women cited most often—by 5,608 women—was that they did not want children “at this time.’’ The next most common reasons given were economics and that the woman believed her emotional or physical health were at stake. AP reports that only 124 women said they were having the abortion because they were raped and six because they were victims of incest and one third of the women refused […]

DUTCH GOVERNMENT DOUBLES ITS FUNDING TO INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD The Netherlands Foreign Ministry has sent a letter to the world’s largest abortion provider, IPPF, stating that they have increased their funding to IPPF to 45 million Guilders over the period January 2001 to December 2003. https://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=1253 Wesley J. Smith, author of “Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America” has written two excellent articles regarding embryonic stem cell research for National Review Online at:  https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith070901.shtml https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith071201.shtml Catholic World News reports that Bishop Kevin Dowling said on Wednesday the Southern African Catholic bishops’ conference is considering a proposal to […]

BOSTON, MA, July 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Massachusetts state Senator Brian A. Joyce turned his back on his Catholic faith by abandoning his pro-life stance after opinion polls demonstrated voters in his area supported abortion by a 3-1 ratio. Rev. Thomas Foley, parish priest at St. Mary of the Hills, where Joyce was an altar boy and has attended all his life, condemned the move. The Boston Globe reports that in a handout to parishioners last Sunday, Fr. Foley reprinted an opinion column from diocesan newspaper, which accused Joyce of demeaning the Catholic faith by suggesting that ‘‘deep consideration’’ allowed […]

MARKHAM, ON, July 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The pro-life community in Ontario is mourning the passing of Jerry Young (1933-2001), a pro-life leader long involved with the Family Coalition Party of Ontario (FCP), the provinces only pro-life party. According to current FCP president Giuseppe Gori, Jerry has been on the Executive of the party as Vice President, President and Past President for some 13 years. Mr. Gori relates that what kept Young going in that seemingly impossible struggle was that “no other voluntary work was more important to him than doing his best to reverse the atrocity of abortion, camouflaged […]

DUBLIN, July 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Ireland’s largest Catholic paper, the Irish Catholic, has exposed the government’s complicity with the European Union in endorsing a document called the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, intended for passage at the United Nations Conference on HIV/AIDS. Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reports that the Irish government supported the document even though its provisions countered Irish law in calling for worldwide recognition of homosexual marriage, the legalization of prostitution and “safe and legal” abortions. Irish Catholic editor David Quinn was told by the Irish government that when the EU accepts […]

NEVADA, IA, July 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Lutherans For Life, an inter-Lutheran, pro-life educational organization, has released a paper on its opposition to “destruction of embryonic children” which results from embryonic stem cell research. The Lutheran group calls on all Christians who believe in the Bible to uphold the teachings of the Word of God regarding the sanctity of human life and oppose such destructive research. Basing its main argument on the fact that “embryonic stem cell research necessarily involves the intentional destruction of a human life (and that) human life begins at conception”, the group notes Christians must oppose […]

AYLMER, ON, July 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The case of a Christian family whose 7 children aged 6 to 14 were taken from their home by the Children’s Aid Society and police on July 4 because of spanking has sent shockwaves throughout Canada. Pro-family groups – Canada Family Action Coalition and REAL Women spoke with the press to condemn the tactics of the CAS, which in this case seem extreme. New developments in the case include the setting up of a website, for the family’s case as well as a defense fund for their support. Moreover, famed Canadian author William […]

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has again donated millions to population control in the third world. Second-quarter grants for 2001, included a total of $26 million to groups working in “reproductive health”. The money also targeted American youth with a $600,000 grant to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation “to promote a more informed discussion about the role of sex education in America’s classrooms.” https://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=1252 The Associated Press admits that it erroneously reported that pro-life leader Randall Terry of Operation Rescue advocated killing abortion doctors. https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010710/us/summer_of_mercy__corrective_2.html A gathering of Muslims in the United States, called the Islamic Circle of […]