Articles for Month: March 2004

NAMPULA, Mozambique, March 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Brazilian nun responsible for exposing a human organ trafficking ring in Mozambique has been murdered. Doraci Edinger, a Sister of the Servants of Mary Immaculate, was found strangled and beaten in her home in the northern city of Nampula on Friday.  The traffickers are said to harvest sex organs from children to be sold as charms for the practice of witchcraft in ceremonies said to increase wealth or sexual vigour.  Authorities Tuesday claimed they had found no evidence of the human organ trade; the sisters, on the other hand, said they have […]

Passed legislation to conform with "UN Child's Right Convention"

Critic says "left-leaning, Bush-bashing newspaper engaged in distortion"

Great News for Pro-lifers in BC Conservative Party Nomination Races

CLC instead endorses "dozens and dozens of individual pro-life candidates" in ridings

VATICAN, March 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II said Saturday that it was an “opportune” time to remind lawmakers, especially Catholic lawmakers, that they may never vote in favour of laws attacking life or attacking the family.  The Pope made his comments in a speech to Argentina’s new ambassador to the Vatican.  The Pope urged the building of a society “worthy of man” which must therefore be based on “fundamental and irrevocable values” which include life and family.  He said laws must protect life “from conception to natural death” and marriage – the “pillar of society . . […]