Articles for Month: October 2003

DENVER, CO, October 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian mother of a young child, is appealing a court decision which ordered her to “make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic.”  The natural mother, Dr. Cheryl Clark, converted to Christianity and left a lesbian relationship with Dr. Elsey McLeod, but the courts awarded shared parenting responsibilities to McLeod, who has no legal relationship to the child or the mother and is still a practicing homosexual,.  The Colorado Court of Appeals will hear the appeal […]

WASHINGTON, October 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League, the nation’s largest pro-life educational organization, held a press conference today in front of the White House encouraging President Bush to keep Iraq abortion-free.  “As Congress debates the $87 billion Iraq funding bill, we are urging President Bush to ensure that not one dime of that money will go to the pro-death vultures who seek to impose the Western immorality of abortion and contraception on the recently liberated Iraqi people,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.  The group’s concerns are well founded since re-building missions headed by the United […]

TORONTO, October 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of groups warning against UNICEF and donations to the organizations through Halloween boxes has grown.  The pro-life movement in Canada and the United States has warned against such donations for years.  However in recent years the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute at the United Nations has warned against UNICEF as has the World Youth Alliance and most recently Focus on the Family.  In an alert from Focus on the Family Canada today, the organization suggests: “If your child has brought home a UNICEF collection box from school, you may want to […]

PM hints at early exit – the Globe and Mail reports Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appears to be setting the stage for an early exit, signalling for the first time that he may give up his determined plan to stay until February.  https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031029.wprim1029/BNStory/Front/  Halloween banned in Moscow schools https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_833100.html?menu=news.latestheadlines   Globe and Mail Poll asks: Parliament has approved the use of human embryos in some scientific research. Do you believe human embryos are human beings? Vote here:  https://www.globeandmail.ca   First-Ever Meeting Between Catholic Bishops and Irish Prime Minister Concerns Embryos and Euthanasia https://www.rte.ie/news/2003/1029/bishops.html   Hard-Core Harm: Why You Can’t Be […]

VANCOUVER, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It has been revealed that the renegade Anglican Bishop of the BC diocese of New Westminster has appointed a commission of inquiry into the conduct of seven priests who are charged with disloyalty to their bishop.  The disloyalty stems from their objections to Bishop Michael Ingham’s decision to contravene the worldwide Anglican hierarchy by blessing homosexual unions.  The report of the committee is due back to the bishop the next few weeks and the priests face penalties of simple censure to excommunication, although some have suggested that the latter is highly unlikely.  Lesley Bentley, […]

CASTRIES, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Caribbean-island country of St. Lucia saw the abortion debate heat up last month.  The 90% Catholic nation of 160,000 was shocked in early September with the government’s introduction of a bill to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest or for the health of the mother.  Pro-life legislator and cabinet Minister Sara Flood Beaubrun joined a large demonstration of over 2500 against the proposed bill.  Beaubrun, Home Affairs Minister, fended off charges of breaching cabinet unity saying, “In all true democracies that I know of, there are certain subject matters that ministers of […]

Uses double talk to dismiss one world government and yet promote global governance

SALEM, OR, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute has just released the largest-ever study looking at the lives of over 7,000 adults from across the United States who were home educated during their elementary and secondary school years.  “For nearly 20 years, critics and the curious have been asking about the homeschooled: But how will they do in the “real world” of adulthood? As a corollary, they have also asked: What about socialization?,” said Ray.  The study entitled, Home Educated and Now Adults, answers those questions.  A summary of the […]

COPENHAGEN, October 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that has greatly concerned pro-lifers in the European Union, Denmark has given permission for scientists to undertake destructive research with human embryos 'left over' from fertility treatments. The Scientist reports that a law to allow such research came into effect September 1. The Scientist reports that the bans on both reproductive and therapeutic cloning remain in effect. The news is particularly troublesome for the European Union since it was at the insistence of Denmark last year that the European Union postponed funding of embryonic stem cell procurement until 2003. Denmark which […]

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