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New EU constitution ignores Europe’s Christian history https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002076094_eurocon29.html   Homosexuality Dispute: African Priests Will No Longer Train in the West https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=ForeignBureausarchive
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Toronto Cardinal Endorses Right to Life Pamphlet Initiative

TORONTO, October 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Toronto and Area Right to Life has distributed pro-life flyers and posters to the Catholic parishes of Toronto with the endorsement and blessing of the Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto, Aloysius Ambrozic. The Cardinal who is likely to retire in January, was quoted in the flyer saying, “Only if we are alive can we live out any other human right.” The Right to Life Association of Toronto told LifeSiteNews.com they are “delighted” to have received the Cardinal’s blessing for their project. “It is a tremendous privilege to have received his endorsement,” said Natalie Hudson, Executive […]
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CFAC Urges Canadians of Faith to Pray for a Victory for George W. Bush

CALGARY, October 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada Family Action Coalition Executive Director, Brian Rushfeldt, is urging all Canadians of faith to pray for the re-election of US President George W. Bush. “As neighbours of the United States, Canada is significantly influenced by everything that happens in that nation,” Rushfeldt says, in an urgent prayer action alert sent out Thursday. “We are also greatly impacted by the direction they go, especially in the political realm.”  CFAC is issuing a call to pray for the November 2nd election in the US’s northern neighbouring nation. “The two leading presidential candidates have very divergent […]
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REAL Women of Canada Alert: Stop the Proposed National Day-Care Program

TORONTO, October 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – REAL Women of Canada (Realistic, Equal, Active, for Life) has sent out an alert, warning of the impending fiasco of a massive government-subsidized national day care plan. During this year’s June election, Prime Minister Paul Martin projected that a federally-funded day care program would cost Canadian taxpayers $5 billion over five years. “This is ludicrous,” the REAL Women alert says. “In 1986, a federal government’s study of a proposed national day care plan indicated that such a programme will cost a minimum of $11.3 billion annually.”“If this programme is implemented, Canada will turn into […]
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Bishop of Arlington Reminds Voters of Fundamental Life Issues

ARLINGTON, October 29, 2004 (LifeSitenews.com) – Bishop Paul S. Loverde of the Catholic diocese of Arlington, Virginia has issued a letter to his flock in which he asserts, “To be a faithful Catholic necessarily means that one is pro-life and not pro-choice.” Bishop Loverde joins a growing group of Catholic bishops in the US who are reminding Catholic voters of the ‘fundamental’ nature of the life issues in the upcoming Presidential election. He writes in the weekend edition of the Catholic Herald, the diocesan newspaper for Arlington, “The foundation for these principles is the first, the protection of human life, […]
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Provincial Governments can override charter rights in cases of Financial Constraint, Supreme Court rules https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=1&u=/cpress/20041028/ca_pr_on_na/scoc_pay_equity   LA Times Writer Upset that Bishops Are Demanding Catholic Vote Pro-Life https://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-carlson28oct28,0,4456782.story   Marriage Amendments In 11 States All Expected To Pass https://www.washtimes.com/national/20041028-122226-1459r.htm   Experts: Web searches for sex declining https://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-10-27-sex-search-down_x.htm?POE=TECISVA   Illinois Abortionist Dies at 69 https://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2480687   Big Media have gone over the top with this election Alternative media is the future https://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20041026-090700-4455r.htm   Stem Cell Proponent Arrested for Stealing Bush Signs   https://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=26517   Martin Will no Longer Allow Nomination Challenges to Incumbent MPs https://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=43bf1fd8-e337-47a9-bc51-a8e409ec7194   Fingerprints to become compulsory for […]
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South Australian Victims of Late-Term, Partial-Birth Abortions are Mostly Healthy

ADELAIDE, South Australia, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Advertiser, a South Australia newspaper, has revealed that most babies killed late in pregnancy are healthy, normal children, aborted most commonly for reasons of so-called maternal mental health.  The article showed that of 377 late-term abortions—defined as beyond 20 weeks—committed there between 1998 and 2002, the mother’s mental state was cited as the most common reason for the abortion in more than half of the cases. The mother had developed a medical problem in 10 cases, and fetal abnormality accounted for an additional 171 late-term abortions. Sixteen babies were aborted at […]
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UK Seeks to Eliminate Mandatory Sentence for Euthanasia

LONDON, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s home secretary, David Blunkett, announced Wednesday a proposal to eliminate mandatory sentencing for euthanasia, which is currently included with other types of homicide. The proposed change would be the first review of murder law in the UK since 1957.  A Home Office spokeswoman told The Guardian that they propose to reclassify euthanasia, now considered murder, into a new lesser category, authorizing judges to decide on sentencing. The current mandated sentence for murder is life in prison. The review would propose that those homicidal acts classified in the lower category receive a sentence […]
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Court Grants Disabled Terri Schiavo Right to Life till November 29

CLEARWATER, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Florida Supreme Court has granted a stay of the order allowing brain-disabled Terri Schiavo’s estranged husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo, to remove her feeding tube. The court gave Florida Governor Jeb Bush until November 29 to appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court. Bush was denied a revisit of the September Supreme Court decision that ruled Terri’s Law, a law enacted by the Florida legislature to prevent her death, as unconstitutional.  Meanwhile, George Felos, the euthanasia activist lawyer acting on behalf of Michael Schiavo, asked Circuit Judge George Greer to allow Michael […]
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Vatican Intervenes in Minneapolis Catholic “Gay Pride” Parish

MINNEAPOLIS, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic parish in Minneapolis Minnesota has been ordered by the Archdiocese and the Vatican to remove Gay Pride material from its website and cease inviting non-Catholic speakers to Masses. St. Joan of Arc pastor, Rev. George Wertin, said that the Gay Pride pages would be removed from the parish’s website but, although the references to the parade have been removed, the parish’s ‘Gay and Lesbian’ ministry page still remains active.  For many years, local Catholics have complained to diocesan officials about activities at St. Joan of Arc, but it was complaints sent to […]
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Fetal Tissue Transplant for Eye Repair a Dangerous and Unethical Practice

LOUISVILLE, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers have again risked the use of fetal tissue in human trials for treating a degenerative eye disease. Elisabeth Bryant, who suffered from Retinitis Pigmentosa and was completely blind, has had her sight partially restored by a transplant of eye tissue derived from an aborted baby. In total, six patients with the disease have been treated by fetal transplants. “We have shown the way,” says Robert Aramant who led the experiment at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. “It is possible to reverse these incurable diseases.” One concern of the researchers is that there […]
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Leading Vatican Cardinal Says Cloning Worse Threat than Weapons of Mass Destruction

ROME, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church’s second most powerful prelate, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has said at a public debate that cloning poses a greater threat to humanity than weapons of mass destruction. Ratzinger was speaking on the rise of secularism in the European Union when he made the comments. He was debating Ernesto Galli della Loggia, a professor of history of political doctrines and writer for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Monday evening.  “Man is capable of producing another man in the laboratory who, therefore, is no longer a gift of God or of nature. […]
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Pope’s Representative to Canada Warns Bishops of Threat to Religious Freedom

OTTAWA, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to the Bishops of Canada during the annual plenary assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Papal Nuncio to Canada warned of the threat to religious freedom posed by the redefinition of marriage.  Archbishop Luigi Venture told over 80 assembled bishops that the “redefinition of marriage . . . remains a subject of major preoccupation for us all.”  In his October 19 address, the nuncio encouraged the bishops to continue to speak out on the issue noting that their “pertinent interventions on this subject, in particular to the Supreme Court of […]
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IRS Prohibits Churches from Praying for the Re-Election of President George Bush

WASHINGTON, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Internal Revenue Service says churches praying for God to grant President Bush four more years as President, during their church services, is a violation of the federal tax code.  The IRS issued their ruling in response to a formal request from the Christian Defense Coalition seeking clarification on this issue.  The Christian Defense Coalition is being represented on this issue by the American Center for Law and Justice. Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, commented on the ruling saying, “This decision by the IRS is a tragic crushing of […]
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Mel Gibson Speaks Against Human Embryo Cloning Research on ABC

HOLLYWOOD, October 28, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California ballot measure, proposition 71, which would see 3 billion in taxpayer dollars go to support human embryonic stem cell research, has met an enemy in Hollywood star and famed director Mel Gibson.  Speaking on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ today, Gibson explained that while he is in favour of adult stem cell research he opposes destructive research on embryos and cloning of human embryos for research. “I’m very concerned with the stem cell question.  I’m for stem cell research, I think it can do a lot of good.  When I heard about proposition […]
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Irish Catholic Bishop Reportedly has No Problem with Homosexual ‘Civil Unions’  https://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=52094&pt=n   Pennsylvania bishops Q&A on Human Sexuality Answers Why Not to Homosexual ‘Marriage’ and ‘Civil Unions’  https://www.pacatholic.org   Bush Stance on Civil Unions Upsets Groups   https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_el_pr/bush_civil_unions   Concerned Women for America Presidential and State Voter Guides https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6591/CWA/misc/index.htm   More Countries Support Total Ban on Cloning   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6593/CWA/nation/index.htm   Philadelphia Chooses ‘Gays’ Over God   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/6592/CFI/family/index.htm   Springfield Bishop attacks school condom plan for grades 6-12 https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/10/26/bishop_attacks_school_condom_plan/  Rehnquist Health Battle Is Jolting Reminder to Voters https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR04J07&f=PR04J07&t=e   Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence https://www.washtimes.com/world/20041027-121030-7792r.htm   Bush […]
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Moving Letter from Child of Ex-Lesbian: “Why this sperm bank child opposes same sex marriage”

October 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A child born from a mother involved in a lesbian relationship through a gay sperm-donor father has written a letter titled “Why This Sperm Bank Child Opposes Same Sex Marriage” to describe her confusion and heart-break.  The author describes her confusion of having a lesbian mother and being fathered by a sperm donor. Now 28, married, and the mother of two children, she writes, “I had an emotional breakdown a couple of months ago when my daughter started asking me where my father was. Until now, I’ve had everything buried. I avoided the subject for […]
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Conservative MP Fights Liberal Government for Fair Treatment for Stay-at-Home Parents

OTTAWA, October 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Canada, where the Liberal government provides generous handouts to parents who send their toddlers to daycare so both parents can work, families who choose to have one parent stay at home to raise their children are doubly penalized.  Beyond the sacrifice of a second income, these families are penalized by deliberate government policy.  Not only are they denied the childcare handouts, they are penalized by Canadian tax regulations for their decision.  In the House of Commons yesterday Calgary Conservative MP Jason Kenney presented the case for fairness for parents who choose to have […]
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Diocesan Lawyer who Advised U.S. Bishops Against Pro-Life Voters’ Guide ‘Outed’ as Pro-Abortion

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, October 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lawyer for the Catholic diocese of La Crosse has been exposed as having made substantial contributions to pro-abortion political candidates. James G. Birnbaum was one of two US lawyers employed by Catholic dioceses who refused to allow distribution of the Voters’ Guide produced by the lay apologetics organization, Catholic Answers. Birnbaum claimed that the “listing of issues is too narrow to pass legal muster” according to the provisions of the US tax code and would threaten the Catholic Church’s non-profit tax status.  Now, just days before the US presidential election, it […]
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Italy Sticking With Buttiglione Despite EU Rejection of Pro-Family Commissioner

ROME, October 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian government is retaining Rocco Buttiglione to represent Italy on the European Commission despite Commission president Barroso’s cave-in to Buttiglione’s opponents by postponing today’s scheduled vote on the new appointees. “Italy is maintaining Rocco Buttiglione,” said Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to reporters in Rome today. Buttiglione’s comments about the sinfulness of homosexuality and the nature of marriage have aroused a storm of protest from the powerful socialist bloc in the European Parliament. Buttiglione was the choice of Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and has filled the post of Italian European Affairs minister since […]
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Jane Roe, of Roe vs. Wade, Endorses Bush

WASHINGTON, October 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norma McCorvey, the former plaintiff in the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion, has endorsed President Bush for re-election. McCorvey became a pro-life Christian in 1995 and renounced her role in the landmark Court decision. She now works full-time to get that decision reversed. In 1998, she was received into the Catholic Church.  “In 2000, I voted for the first time, because I wanted to vote for President Bush,” said McCorvey. “I am the former ‘Jane Roe’ of the Supreme Court’s abortion decision Roe vs. Wade, and I am writing this […]
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Prince Philip Said to Back UK Euthanasia Bill

LONDON, October 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has allegedly sent a letter to euthanasia campaigner, Baroness Flather, supporting her bid to legalize euthanasia for the UK. A private members bill tabled by Lord Joffe, currently under review by a House of Lords committee, seeks to make doctor-assisted suicide legal.  Flather, claiming to know of the 83 year-old Duke’s support for euthanasia, sent him a Hansard record of the Lords debate. He replied to the debate with a letter to her. She acknowledged receipt of the letter, but would not reveal its contents. A source familiar […]
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John Kerry was an altar boy—so was Adolf Hitler https://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kralis/041025   Russia against complete ban on human cloning https://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/26/content_2140923.htm   Japan Health Ministry To Ban Import Of Abortion Drug Without Prescription https://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=316745   Roe, from Roe v. Wade, Endorses President Bush https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/26/132127.shtml   Kerry’s ‘Explosive’ Charges Baseless and Ironic https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/26/102237.shtml   Attorneys Charge Oregon Officials Conspired Against Traditional Marriage https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/252004a.asp
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Catholic University Employees Overwhelmingly Support Kerry

MANASSAS, Virginia, October 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Newman Society published a review Thursday of key university employee records on political contributions, revealing a decided bias in favour of senator John Kerry. The Society reviewed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) report, which lists donors to either the Bush or Kerry presidential campaigns, revealing that employees at 10 leading Catholic universities gave $196,025 to the Kerry campaign, and only $21,200 to help President George Bush’s campaign for re-election.  The author of the Cardinal Newman society report said, “The overwhelming support for Kerry among Catholic university employees stands in contrast to […]
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Pat Buchanan Endorses Bush for President

ARLINGTON, Virginia, October 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Syndicated national newspaper columnist, host of MSNBC’s daily news program, “Buchanan & Press,” former advisor to three presidents, and former nominee for the leadership of the Republican Party, Pat Buchanan, is endorsing US President George W. Bush for re-election.  In an opinion article in the November 8 edition of The American Conservative, Buchanan writes, “If an authentic conservatism rooted in the values of faith, family, community, and country is ever again to become the guiding light of national policy, it will have to come through a Republican administration.”  Buchanan warns of the judicial […]
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Canadian Council of Churches Will Not Speak out Against Homosexual “Marriage”

OTTAWA, October 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) which includes Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Evangelical churches, has officially decided it will not take a stance on the issue of homosexual ‘marriage’. CCC President Professor Richard Schneider writes in a release on the subject, “Canadian Christians might hope for a statement of position about same-sex marriage from the Canadian Council of Churches. But our only statement can be that at present no such pronouncement is possible, and none will be made.”  Schneider explains that the CCC requires total consensus on issues before statements are made from the […]
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Two-Thirds of Canadians Support Legal Protection for the Unborn

OTTAWA, October 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Focus Canada poll, conducted by Environics Research in September and October 2004, shows that 68% of Canadians polled said Canadian law should protect human life before birth. One-third, 33%, of the 2,027 Canadians polled said legal protection should begin at conception. Almost one-quarter, 24%, said it should begin after three months of pregnancy and 11% said after six months of pregnancy. Only 28% of those polled agreed that legal protection should begin at birth, the current situation in Canadian law. Women were more likely to favour protection before birth than men, 71% versus […]
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“Catholics for a Free Choice” Calls IRS on Denver Archbishop Chaput

DENVER, October 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-abortion, anti-Catholic and fraudulent Catholics for a Free Choice has complained to the US tax watchdog, the Internal Revenue Service, about Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput. CFFC, a strong supporter of John Kerry, is complaining about what it calls partisan comments in a column the Archbishop published in The New York Times Friday.  “If we believe in the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, we need to prove that by our actions, including our political choices,” the Archbishop said. “Anything less leads to the corruption of our integrity.” Archbishop Chaput “has repeatedly […]
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Report: Thousands in Florida may be registered to vote elsewhere https://www.newscoast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041022/APP/410220547   Possible Bush win has Canadians ‘scared stiff’  https://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/OttawaSun/News/2004/10/25/683890.html   Attorneys Charge Oregon Officials Conspired Against Traditional Marriage https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/252004a.asp   Canadian Muslims look to spread sharia to the West https://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=302   New Program Unmasks Truth About Abortion—Also, Conservative Catholics Decry Kerry’s Contradictions https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/252004c.asp   Same-sex couples still ‘husband and wife’ in Nova Scotia https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/25/gay_marriage_ns041025.html   Fear itself: Most people can get along just fine without a flu shot https://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20041025-1148-flu-realitycheck.html   Promotion of Abortion concealed by Reproductive Health Rights Talk in Council of Europe https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60882   Murder/Suicide Likely Sparked by […]
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Birth Control Pill Heart Disease “Study” Unreliable

October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Beginning early last week hundreds of news outlets around the world reported that a new study had shown that using oral chemical contraceptives reduced the risk of heart attack. The UK’s Telegraph wrote, “Women who take the Pill are protecting themselves against cancer and heart disease.” The Hindustan Times of India reported,  “new research claims that the tablets, on the contrary, reduce chances of heart attacks.” Health 24.com of South Africa ran the headline, “Pill cuts heart disease risk.”  One BC pharmacist, Christina Alarcon of Canada’s Pharmacists for Life called one manufacturer of the drugs, […]
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Vatican Releases New Social Doctrine Compendium: Abortion a “Horrendous Crime”

ROME, October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican has published the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.” In a press release today, the Catholic teaching that abortion is a “horrendous crime” is again reiterated. The current hot topic of Catholics voting for pro-abortion politicians was left alone and Vatican officials deflected questions about it. Vatican spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls said that individual bishops could comment on campaign issues to, “illuminate the consciences of the faithful with ethical elements so they can make a judgment.” But he declined to comment when asked […]
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Christians Have Right to Apply Religious Principles to Political Involvement Says Sydney Cardinal

SYDNEY, October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – George Cardinal Pell, the outspoken head of the Catholic archdiocese of Sydney, Australia has called for Christians to become fully responsible in public life. In his editorial in Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph, Cardinal Pell responds to accusations of ‘interfering’ in politics often leveled at the Catholic bishops. He says, “Sometimes a bishop has a moral duty to speak.”  Pell writes that Christians have a right to involve themselves in party politics and defend and promote the issues important to them. “Recently, I was interviewed on radio about the role of religion in public life. The […]
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More Details Released in Revenue Canada Threat to Calgary Bishop Henry

CORNWALL, Ontario, October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Calgary Roman Catholic Bishop Fred Henry revealed more information Friday about a conversation he had with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. After writing a letter to his diocese in June, rebuking Prime Minister Paul Martin for his bad example as a so-called devout Catholic, the CCRA threatened to have the Church’s charitable status revoked. LifeSiteNews.com first reported on this issue on September 29.  Bishop Henry spoke with the Globe and Mail Friday, while attending the annual meeting of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in Cornwall. According to the Globe, the CCRA […]
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Anti-Christ Wannabe, Occult ‘Masters’ Endorse John Kerry for President

HOLLYWOOD, October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Kerry can now add a New Age Messiah group to his list of endorsing groups that include the racist, anti-people Planned Parenthood, the fraudulent Catholics for a Free Choice and almost all of the liberal U.S. news and entertainment establishments. Benjamin Crème, one of the ‘Esoteric’ (occult) movement’s most renowned speakers has been traveling the globe for nearly 30 years claiming to be the mouthpiece of the “Ascended Masters”.  Crème has attracted attention not only from occult followers but also from wary Christians as he has claimed to foretell the imminent appearance of […]
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Clinton using Kerry to Promote Himself for Top Post at U.N.?

WASHINGTON, October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former US President Bill Clinton has his heart set on the United Nations top job, according to an insider who tipped off United Press International Wednesday. Based on analysis offered by the same UPI report, Clinton’s hopes depend on support at home—from the U.S. government.  Thus, out of apparent self-interest, Clinton has joined the campaign to help promote Senator John Kerry to the office of US president. With Kerry in the oval office, Clinton’s nomination to Kofi Annan’s position at the end of his term in 2006 would be likely, as international support is […]
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Florida Governor Bush Appeals Schiavo Case to US Supreme Court

CLEARWATER, October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida Governor Jeb Bush is appealing a Florida Supreme Court decision to overturn the Florida electorate-created Terri’s Law. The Florida high court ruled last month that the Florida legislature overstepped its authority by creating the Law, enacted last year to halt brain-damaged Terri Schiavo’s euthanasia by her estranged husband, Michael. At the same time, Terri’s parents are appealing a separate ruling by a local court, to examine Terri Schiavo’s true wishes to be kept alive in her current condition.  “This case is not only about Terri Schiavo, but also about the role of the […]
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U.N. Debate on Human Cloning Ban Delayed Till November 10

UNITED NATIONS, October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations General Assembly legal committee debate over a ban on human cloning took place Thursday and Friday.  Originally a vote on the measure was planned for this coming Friday.  However that date has been delayed to November 10.  The United States and some 60 other countries were co-sponsors to Costa Rica’s proposal to ban all human cloning.  Belgium’s proposal to allow human cloning for research was supported by about 20 countries.  LifeSiteNews.com sources at the debate recounted that the countries which opposed a total ban on human cloning realized that they […]
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From American Life League Oct. 22 Communique:  The Milwaukee Archdiocesan Priests Alliance has written to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, asking that bishops refrain from telling priests to withhold Holy Communion from known pro-abortion public figures, adding, “We do not think it is wise to ask us to make on the spot judgments about the worthiness of any recipient.” The Milwaukee Catholic Herald reported on the letter without comment. American Life League is asking why Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan has been silent on the issue.  Report Details Hostility to Religious Expression in America https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/212004a.asp   Bishops call on Fox to ensure Mexico […]
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St. Louis Bishop Burke Regrets it Took Him so Long to Become Outspoken

PEWAUKEE, Ohio, October 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the annual dinner for Trinity Academy in Pewaukee earlier this week, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond L. Burke expressed regret that is took him so long to take the bold stands in favour of life for which he has recently become renowned. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal reports that Burke told the 200 people at the dinner, “People have asked me if I regret having taken the action that I did, and all of the publicity that has resulted, especially people who know that by nature I’m not very fond of controversy.” He […]
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Schiavo’s Life at Risk: Gov Bush Denied Appeal to Save Her

CLEARWATER, Florida, October 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s appeal to the state Supreme Court to reconsider striking down Terri’s Law was rejected Thursday. Terri’s Law was created as a last-ditch effort to save brain-damaged Terri Schiavo’s life in 2003, when a court-approved measure instigated by her estranged husband, Michael Schiavo, mandated that her feeding tube be removed. The court ruled the law “unconstitutional” in September this year, paving the way for Michael to follow through with euthanasizing Terri.  Earlier this month, Bush’s lawyer said he may appeal the case to the US Supreme Court if the Florida […]
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Vatican Publishes Statement Opposing Embryonic Stem Cell Research

VATICAN CITY, October 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican permanent observer at the United Nations commented Thursday on current attempts to have the UN endorse embryonic stem cell research, calling the practice “disrespectful to human dignity.” Archbishop Celestino Migliore, speaking before a committee reviewing the UN’s International Convention Against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, said, “. . . so-called therapeutic cloning, creating human embryos with the intention of destroying them, even if undertaken with the goal of possibly helping sick patients in the future, seems very clearly incompatible with respect for the dignity of the human being, making one […]
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Virginia Bishop Calls Abortion ‘Greatest Evil of Our Age’

WHEELING, West Virginia, October 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishop of Wheeling-Charleston issued a pastoral letter Wednesday in anticipation of the November presidential election, warning parishioners of his diocese that “abortion is the greatest moral evil of our age.”“As the deliberate killing of an innocent human being, there is ‘no circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever’ that can justify or excuse abortion,” Bishop Bernard W. Schmitt wrote, quoting from Pope John Paul II’s document, Evangelium vitae. “It is contrary to the Law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church.”“All […]
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Brazilian High Court Rules Against Abortion for Anencephaly

RIO DE JANEIRO, October 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal in a 7-4 vote, has outlawed abortions for anencephalic babies which had become legal in July. The killing of children with underdeveloped brains was introduced to expand the existing abortion laws that allow abortion for women whose pregnancy is the result of rape, or if a pregnancy endangers the mother’s life. There is no medical evidence showing any threat to the mother of a child suffering from anencephaly. The move was opposed by the Attorney General as well as the Brazilian bishops who said the child “must […]
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Luring by pedophiles on the Internet is a worldwide problem that keeps growing exponentially https://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2004/102104.html#1   Mormon Church Voices View Against Gay ‘Marriage’  https://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4562922,00.html   Federal Court Rules Kentucky Judicial Candidates Can’t be Punished for Speaking about Issues that may come before the Courts including Abortion https://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/state/9963752.htm
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Second Utah City Within Five Months Wins Ten Commandments Monument Fight

ANN ARBOR, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a ruling released Tuesday, Federal District Judge Dee Benson held that Duchesne City, Utah, acted constitutionally when it sold land on which a Ten Commandments monument sits to keep from having to remove it. This is the second case within the past five months in which two public interest law firms, the Thomas More Law Center and the American Center for Law and Justice, have collaborated as co-counsel to prevent the removal of Ten Commandment Monuments in Utah. The Duchesne decision comes within five months after another federal judge ruled in favor […]
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Faith Takes Back Seat to Politics for Left-Leaning U.S. Catholic Clergy and Detroit Bishop Gumbleton

DETROIT, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Several liberal priests and a Detroit bishop have come out against so-called “one-issue” voting, namely voting based on a politician’s pro-abortion or pro-life record. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, pastor of St. Leo’s parish in Detroit, and two liberal priests groups, the Milwaukee Archdiocese Priests Alliance, and a group of 50 priests from Pittsburgh, argue that the Catholic Church should advocate the so-called “seamless garment” view of political policy. Proponents of the garment view argue that all life issues, including such issues as war, capital punishment, poverty and health care should be considered on […]
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Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Again Reported by Cancer Researchers

KENTVILLE, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another study of has shown that pregnancy-related factors, especially those related to a first pregnancy, significantly influence women’s risk of breast cancer. A group of 2,500 women who developed breast cancer after their first pregnancy were compared with 10,000 cancer-free mothers of single children. The research indicates, “extremely premature delivery” is included in the risk factors for a two-fold increase in the cases of breast cancer. The researchers report in the International Journal of Cancer, “Extreme prematurity has been characterized by high maternal estrogen levels, which could increase breast cell proliferation.” Such cell proliferation […]
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African Doctors Warn Condom Failures are Common

CAPE ARGUS, South Africa, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors in South Africa are warning that condoms are an unreliable way to prevent sexually transmitted disease and most notably, HIV infection. The warning appears in the latest issue of the official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care—South African Family Practice. Authors, Professor Gboyega Ogunbanjo and Dr Donna Knapp van Bogaert said, “Many condom users just don’t know” that condoms have a high failure rate. “So the right message should be: it is better to use condoms than not, but to be aware that a condom does […]
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New Brunswick Parents Upset over Explicit Sex-Ed Program for Schoolchildren

WOODSTOCK, New Brunswick, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents of grade 6 to 8 schoolchildren being subjected to explicit sexual education curricula were up in arms Monday night at a public forum debate of the issue. Over 400 parents attended the forum, according to a CBC report, upset that the curriculum will arguably stimulate greater interest in sex among their children, rather than the intended consequence of reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases through so-called safe-sex education.  Tracy Taylor, whose daughter is in Grade 7 at Woodstock Middle School, said the curriculum is aimed at children who are not […]
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Teresa Heinz Kerry Takes a Swing at Stay-At-Home Moms

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) says Teresa Heinz Kerry’s comments undervaluing first lady Laura Bush’s investment in her children as a stay-at-home mom should enlighten American women to the stark contrast between the wives of the presidential candidates.  “Mrs. Heinz Kerry’s comments are disturbing,” says Dr. Janice Crouse, spokesperson for CWALAC. “Her comments indicate disapproval of those American women who sacrifice a career and all of its benefits in order to care for and train their children at home. A potential first lady of the United States should not demean the […]
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U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Stem Cell Ads Nationwide

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) this week launches a nationwide two-week ad campaign highlighting the issue of stem cell research. The ads draw a clear distinction between embryonic stem cell research, which requires the destruction of human life at the embryonic stage, and adult stem cell research. “Stem cell research is one of the most important moral issues of our day, but it is also one of the most distorted,” said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., Director of Planning and Information for the USCCB's Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. “In the public debate, […]
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35 Catholic Leaders Sign Open Letter to John Kerry

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An open letter to John Kerry from over 35 of the brightest and most influential non-clergy Catholic leaders in the United States has been published in major newspapers across the country.  The letter calls Kerry to account for his claim to hold the Catholic faith while he continues to support abortion.  Beyond the signatures from two Catholic Republican Senators, the signatures represent an eclectic group of theological, intellectual, military and even entertainment giants. Signatures include those of famed Catholic evangelist Scott Hahn, a Professor of Theology and Scripture at Franciscan University in Steubenville Ohio; […]
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UK Scientists Go Ahead with Human Cloning While UN Debates

NEWCASTLE, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the debate goes on at the United Nations whether to prohibit only some cloning, or all of it, scientists in the UK are moving forward. Prof Alison Murdoch and Dr Miodrag Stojkovic of the Centre for Life at Newcastle-upon-Tyne have received permission to go ahead with cloning experiments and have done the preparatory work. Dr Stojkovic is using spare eggs, left over from IVF treatments. “I have done the first manipulation with human eggs,” he said.  The British government has assured the scientists that their work will continue no matter what the UN […]
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United Nations Commences Debate on Human Cloning Ban – U.S. Remains Firm

UNITED NATIONS, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations General Assembly legal committee launched official debates on a Costa Rican proposal to ban all forms of human cloning.  A competing proposal put forward by Belgium would allow for euphemistically labeled “therapeutic” cloning which involves the creation of human clones who would be used for experimentation and killed, rather than allowed to be born. Costa Rican representative Roberto Tovar introduced his country’s comprehensive ban on human cloning noting that all human cloning was an affront to human dignity.  He pointed out moreover that such research is totally unnecessary, especially given […]
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United Nations Chief Kofi Annan Endorses Human Cloning

UNITED NATIONS, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Breaking with customary neutrality on highly contested issues, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has come out publicly in favour of human cloning for research purposes just as the General Assembly commenced two days of critical hearings on the issue. “Obviously it is an issue for the member-states to decide, but as an individual and in my personal view, I think I would go for therapeutic cloning,” Annan told reporters today.  While the partisan comment from the Secretary General came as a surprise to many, pro-life leaders on the international scene saw it […]
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United Nations Chief Kofi Annan Endorses Human Cloning

UNITED NATIONS, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Breaking with customary neutrality on highly contested issues, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has come out publicly in favour of human cloning for research purposes just as the General Assembly commenced two days of critical hearings on the issue.  “Obviously it is an issue for the member-states to decide, but as an individual and in my personal view, I think I would go for therapeutic cloning,” Annan told reporters today. While the partisan comment from the Secretary General came as a surprise to many, pro-life leaders on the international scene saw it […]
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Chicago Cardinal Thanks Young Adult Pro-Lifers for Witness

CHICAGO, October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago was driving past an abortion facility one day, and saw a group of young people praying. He has sent a letter thanking the group of young adult pro-life activists from St. Mary of the Angels Young Adult Group who for years have done sidewalk counseling and prayer vigils outside Chicago’s Planned Parenthood abortion facilities. Tessa, a member of the parish-based group describes their work. “There are usually about ten (pro-lifers) praying while one or two try to hand potential Planned Parenthood clients information about abortion. We also offer them […]
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Diocesan Lawyers continue to Ban Voting Guides

WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 20 (Culture of Life Foundation/CWNews.com) – According to documents obtained by the Culture of Life Foundation, officials of the Dioceses of San Bernardino, California, and La Crosse, Wisconsin, have instructed pastors and parish administrators not to allow the distribution of “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics,” published by Catholic Answers. With two weeks remaining before election day, the dioceses’ actions are another episode in the political drama surrounding the question of the Catholic vote.  In an August 20 letter from Diocese of La Crosse attorney James G. Birnbaum to pastors and administrators, Birnbaum said the “Voter’s Guide” ought […]
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Infertile Woman Pregnant Due to Tissue Transplant from Twin Sister

ST. LOUIS, October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another advance has been made in fertility treatment that would allow infertile women to conceive naturally. Stephanie Yarber, 25, has received a transplant of her twin sister’s ovarian tissue and has conceived a child. Doctors at St Luke’s Hospital in St Louis, Missouri, think this may be a first where a tissue match was found from an identical twin. Melanie Morgan who has three children, donated her ovaries after her sister spent over US $10,000 on unsuccessful fertility treatments. Stephanie had been unable to conceive previously because of early-onset menopause at the age […]
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Governor Schwarzenegger Supports Massive Grant for California Human Cloning Research

SACRAMENTO, October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, former movie star and one who claims to be a devout Catholic, has announced his support for California’s Proposition 71, the Embryo Cloning and Stem-Cell Research Bond Act. The act would allocate $3 billion for unethical stem cell research that would allow the creation of cloned human beings for experimental research. Schwarzenegger, in supporting the Proposition, is acting against strongly emphasized Catholic teaching on the stem cell research and against Republican Party policies that focus on ethical and far more productive adult stem cell research. Proposition 71 would also […]
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Theresa Heinz-Kerry Promises Acceptance of Gays Top Priority as First Lady

October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with the homosexual activist web-site, planetout.com, Theresa Heinz-Kerry promised that promoting acceptance of homosexuals would be a top priority for her as the new First Lady, if her husband John F. Kerry were elected US President in November.  Heinz-Kerry spoke with planetout.com’s senior political correspondent, Chris Bull, Friday. She reiterated the ideology often perpetrated by homosexual activists—that sexual orientation is never chosen and cannot be changed and that homosexual activity is therefore moral: “A lot of people, particularly those of the more fundamentalist view, think of homosexuality as a sex thing rather […]
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Excommunicated or Not, Kerry is not Permitted to Receive Communion

WASHINGTON, October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The controversy over the Catholic lawsuit against Presidential candidate John Kerry, and the denial by Vatican personalities of having been involved in it in any way has generated confusion about Kerry’s status within the church. Apart from the question of whether or not Kerry is “automatically excommunicated”, recent authoritative Vatican statements have made clear that he is, by virtue of his support for abortion, not permitted to receive communion.  The Catholic penalty of excommunication is to be distinguished from inadmissibility to receive communion which comes with being in a state of serious sin.  The […]
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Canadian Health Minister Promises to Support Comprehensive Cloning Ban at U.N.

OTTAWA, October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh indicated in the House of Commons today that Canada would be supporting the United Nations proposal to ban all forms of human cloning.  Pro-life lobbyists at the UN remain cautious however about relying on Canadian support, remembering Canada’s similar promise and then abstention on a crucial vote on the same issue last year.  Conservative MP Rob Merrifield noted in the House today that “the government says it is opposed to human cloning but last year at the United Nations Canada abstained from a vote on the issue. This […]
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EU Undermines US Embargo by Awarding UN Population Fund $75m

UNITED NATIONS, October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Union has earmarked $75 million US for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) undermining Washington’s on-going embargo of contributions to the UN agency.  US President George W. Bush has refused the $34 million normally given annually to UNFPA since his election to office in 2000, because of the UNFPA’s support for China’s one-child and coerced abortion policy which violate US foreign aid restrictions.  The US$75 million from the EU is in addition to US$233 million it has already contributed to the UNFPA budget.  US delegate to the UN, Sichan Siv, ignoring […]
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Canadian Gay ‘Marriages’ Get Recognition in New York

ALBANY, New York, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York State officials have decided to allow same-sex partners of public employees “married” in Canada access to full spousal benefits.  State Comptroller Alan Hevesi said, “We recognize all legal determinations from a foreign country, and they recognize ours,” in an advisory released Wednesday, according to a newsday.com report.  Spokesman for the state Catholic Conference, Dennis Poust, said the state’s bishops worry Hevesi’s ruling “will be one more piece of evidence to bolster the legal case for anyone bringing suit to challenge the state’s marriage laws.”  tv
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U.S. Journalism School Accreditation Body adds “Sexual Orientation” to Accreditation Criteria

LAWRENCE, Kansas, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC)—the body which accredits journalism schools at 104 colleges in the U.S.—has revamped its accreditation criteria to include compliance on issues of “sexual orientation.” Executive Director of the ACEJMC, Susanne Shaw, told Focus on the Family’s Family News in Focus that “. . . we look at course syllabi to see how they’re talking about diversity or how they’re preparing students to cover stories in a diverse world.”  One way the ACEJMC will judge compliance is evidence that the school is teaching a […]
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Nova Scotia Residents Vote No to Sunday Shopping

HALIFAX, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a rare victory for conservative Canadians, in a province-wide plebiscite held Saturday, the residents of the province of Nova Scotia have voted No to a proposal to allow Sunday shopping. Whereas Prince Edward Island allows Sunday shopping only during the Christmas season, Nova Scotia is the only Canadian province to ban Sunday shopping year round. Dare to be Different was the slogan used by the No side to oppose the materialist status quo, while promoting the idea that Sunday shopping meant a strain on family life and a slackening of general quality of […]
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Vatican’s Martino Defends Buttiglione Against Anti-Catholic “Lay Inquisition” at Euro-Parliament

ROME, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Italian minister Rocco Buttiglione continues to struggle in the European Parliament for the right to hold his Catholic views on marriage and homosexuality, a senior Vatican diplomat has called the crisis an example of anti-Catholic bigotry. Cardinal Martino, the head of the Vatican’s Council for Justice and Peace, in an interview with Reuters on Monday said, “It looks like a new inquisition.” A 200-member socialist bloc of MEPs – out of the 731-member Parliament – are moving against the senior Italian politician’s appointment as civil liberties and home affairs commissioner at the EP. […]
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Canadian Private Member’s Bills Seek to Define Marriage, Ensure Informed Consent for Abortion

OTTAWA, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill has been introduced into Canada’s Parliament that would address the current crisis in Parliament and the courts over the definition of marriage. Bill C-213 calls for the Liberal government to live up to its unanimous promise in 1999 to defend the institution of marriage as it is currently defined in Canadian law. David Chatters, CPC Member for Battle River, said on Friday that C-213, “is an essential step in upholding the promise to protect marriage that Parliament made in 1999, and that the Liberals campaigned on in the 2000 election.”  Chatters went […]
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Britain’s Chief Medical Officer Ordered to Investigate Illegal Late-Term Abortion Referrals

LONDON, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Reid, the UK’s Health Secretary has ordered Britain’s Chief Medical Officer to open an investigation into illegal referrals by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) of women for late-term abortions in Spain. An investigation by the Telegraph newspaper found the organization is referring women to a late term abortion facility in Spain where abortion is also illegal after 22 weeks. The Telegraph revealed last week what it calls an “horrific underground industry” for late term abortions on healthy babies. Sir Liam Donaldson, Britain’s Chief Medical Officer, was contacted by Dr Reid, after he […]
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Catholic Bishop Prays to Martyred Politician for Kerry Conversion

WILMINGTON, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishop of Wilmington Del. has asked Catholics to pray to St. Thomas More for the conversion of pro-abortion “Catholic” politicians. Bishop Michael Saltarelli has composed a litany to St. Thomas More for his intercession to make politicians “courageous and effective in their defense and promotion of the sanctity of human life.” Thomas More, a layman and lawyer, was the Chancellor of England to King Henry VIII. When he refused to ratify the king’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and the king’s establishment as head of a new religion, More was beheaded. He was […]
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U.S. Bishop: “No Injustice is of a Greater Magnitude than the Injustice of Abortion”

WASHINGTON, October 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Colorado Springs Bishop Michael J. Sheridan was the homilist at the Mass concluding the International Week of Prayer and Fasting October 11.  The Mass and concluding prayer vigil were held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.  The International Week of Prayer and Fasting’s three goals of the conversion of nations, an end to abortion, and world peace “are all intimately connected and related to the others”, pointed out Bishop Sheridan. There will be “no true and lasting peace in the world unless justice prevails. No injustice is […]
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UK Mother Demands Parents be Informed of Minors’ Abortion

MANCHESTER, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Manchester mother has given the British health authorities two weeks to review their policy of not allowing parental consent for minors seeking abortion. Sue Axon, 50, from Baguley, Manchester is launching a judicial review in High Court of the Department of Health rules that would allow a twelve-year-old to obtain an abortion through the assistance of a school nurse without her parents’ knowledge or consent. Mrs. Axon had an abortion herself 20 years ago and says she is not trying to make abortion illegal for minors. She said, “Whether you believe in abortion […]
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Pope Warns of “Threatening Shadows” in Sunday Opening of Eucharistic Year

ROME, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II warned of ‘threatening shadows’ hanging over humanity in his anniversary address. The Pope thanked the many thousands of well-wishers Sunday in his regular weekly greeting. Without specifically naming abortion, cloning or related biotechnologies, the Pope warned, “scientific research (is) sometimes put to the service of the selfishness of the strongest.” He asked, “What stronger aspiration is there than that of life?”  Catholic criticisms of the direction taken in biotechnological research are founded upon the dangers of utilitarian philosophies in current bioethics. The Pope’s reference to ‘the selfishness of the strongest,’ […]
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Second Proposal to Sell Teens Morning-After Pill without Prescription Considered by FDA

CHICAGO, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Food and Drug Administration has re-opened the case to approve non-prescription sales of the abortifacient morning-after pill to girls 16 years of age or older, after a new proposal was submitted by the manufacturer, Barr pharmaceuticals.  An earlier proposal to sell the drug without a prescription was rejected by the FDA in May; subsequently, Barr re-applied, because the earlier FDA decision left a loophole saying they might reconsider if Barr could show some way of guaranteeing that the drug will only be sold without prescription to girls and women over 16. Allowing […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

WASHINGTON, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court has denied the request of three plaintiffs to hear their case against Planned Parenthood. The women accuse Planned Parenthood of refusing to educate women about the link between abortion and breast cancer. The original lawsuit was launched in August, 2001, by Agnes Bernardo of Chula Vista, Pamela Colip of Loma Linda, and Sandra Duffy-Hawkins of Sacramento. The women simply wanted Planned Parenthood to begin providing women with accurate information about the overwhelming evidence that abortion raises breast cancer risk; they were not suing for monetary damages.  The Supreme Court dismissed […]
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President Bush Chides Kerry on Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage

WASHINGTON, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US President George W. Bush, in a radio address Saturday, renewed his commitment to the pro-life life and traditional marriage cause, in anticipation of the November 2 presidential elections. “In this time of change, some things do not change,” he said. “Those are the values we try to live by—courage and compassion, reverence and integrity. I stand for a culture of life in which every person matters and every being counts. I stand for marriage and family, which are the foundations of our society. I stand for the appointment of federal judges who know […]
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Conservative MPs Rob Merrifield and Vic Toews Address National Pro-Life Conference

WINNIPEG, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Justice Critic Vic Toews and Conservative MP Rob Merrifield addressed the National Pro-Life Conference Thursday and Friday respectively.  Toews focused his comments on the abuse of the Charter by the Supreme Court while Merrifield concentrated his remarks on the recently passed Canadian human reproductive legislation. Toews quoted from conservative American legal scholar Robert Bork, noting that in his book “Coercing Virtue” Bork reports how US courts are imposing a set of values upon American people.  Toews also quoted Abraham Lincoln, speaking 150 years ago in his first inaugural address, “the candid citizen must […]
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Polish Omnibus Bill Would Legalize Abortion on Demand, Same-Sex Marriage

WINNIPEG, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lech Kowalewski, the spokesman for the Polish Federation of Pro-life Movements, told LifeSiteNews.com about new legislation proposed in Poland that seeks to legalize abortion on demand, same-sex ‘marriage’, embryonic stem cell research and sex-education from grade one.  Kowalewski, in Canada for the National Pro-Life Conference held October 14-16, said that the legislation was before the constitutional commission to determine if its provisions are constitutional. He suggested that there is little chance of the passage of the bill in its current state.  The pro-life leader was concerned however that the commission may remove some of […]
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Sen. John Kerry “Excommunicated,” According To Vatican Response

SANTA MONICA, CA, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Los Angeles based expert in Canon Law, the legal code used by the Catholic Church, announced Friday on EWTN’s the World Over Live with Raymond Arroyo that an important Vatican congregation has given an unprecedented boost to his case for heresy against presidential candidate John Kerry. Marc Balestrieri, JCL who has filed a formal case for Heresy against Kerry for his support of the right to abortion, revealed that he has received a written response prompted by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, affirming that Catholic politicians who […]
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Friend of Evelyn Martens Testifies she Felt “Surreal” at Suicide of Duncan Woman

DUNCAN, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A witness for the Crown has testified in the Evelyn Martens trial that she felt disconnected from the suicide of Monique Charest at her apartment in Duncan BC on Jan. 7, 2002. Brenda Hurn told the jury she felt the experience was “surreal.” She said, “I was there and then part of the time I was kind of far away. It was kind of a strange feeling. Surreal. There, but not there.”  Hurn, 82, testified that she was in the 64 year old Charest’s apartment when the woman was committing suicide. She said she […]
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Latest Poll Shows Increasing Majority of Canadians want Limits on Abortion

WINNIPEG, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest pro-life polling was released at the National Pro-Life Conference yesterday by Joanne Byfield, president-elect of LifeCanada.  Byfield told the assembled crowd that although the polling firm Leger Marketing had conducted their polls in both 2002 and 2003, they refused to do so in 2004 saying, “we aren’t doing controversial issues.”  Leger does however do polls on same-sex ‘marriage’.  The polling firm Environics conducted the poll – commissioned by LifeCanada – finding 68% of Canadians favored some legal protection before birth, most of those, 33%, believed that protection should be from conception forward.  […]
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United Nations Cloning Ban Debate October 21-22 – Prayers Requested

UNITED NATIONS, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations debate on banning all forms of human cloning is to take place October 21-22.  Samantha Singson the International Affairs Officer for Campaign Life Coalition will be there to lobby delegates to support the ban. Singson told LifeSiteNews.com that the final vote on the ban is expected on October 29.  The debate centers around a motion put forward by Costa Rica which asks for a comprehensive ban on cloning humans as opposed to competing suggestions which would see human cloning permitted but those cloned human beings killed for research before birth […]
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Royal Bank of Canada Rescinds Gay Pride Rainbow Sticker Plan after Boycott

OTTAWA, October 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has reversed a decision advocating that employees, as a sign of solidarity with their homosexual coworkers, display gay-pride rainbow stickers at their workstations. The action may have been the result of a Canadian Family Action Coalition-initiated boycott.  In a company newsletter in September, RBC launched a sexual orientation campaign requesting its employees to “be supportive” of “gay, lesbian and bisexual issues,” by displaying a rainbow coloured triangle at their workstations. The first issue of the company’s “Rainbow Space” newsletter, suggested their purpose was to “highlight the importance of […]
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Florida Court of Appeals Reverses Abortion Consent Law

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, October 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Florida Appeals court has upheld an earlier decision to strike down a law requiring doctors to outline risks of abortion before committing the procedure. The “Women’s Right to Know Act” required that, prior to obtaining an abortion, women be provided with information on the procedure and other options available to them, such as adoption. The flier the abortionists would have been required to give to women also highlighted that services such as housing and health care would be provided if this would help a woman to carry a baby to […]
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Bishops Not Playing Politics When they Protect the Flock from the Wolves

TORONTO, October 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the date of the US election draws closer, opposition from the Catholic Church to Kerry’s stance on abortion garners more attention from the press. The incoherence of the ‘personally opposed but…’ position popular with politicians who want to appear Catholic but still support abortion on demand, has come under fire from a number of US bishops, most prominently Archbishop James Burke of St. Louis. But other dioceses and individual parishes around the country are distributing pamphlets and voters’ guides supporting the Catholic teaching and urging Catholics not to vote for Kerry.  It was […]
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Vatican Observer Criticizes UN Weakness in Philosophy

PARIS, October 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, October 8, the Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO) gave a speech in Paris at the UNESCO Executive Council meeting where he emphasized the need to respect the fundamental dignity of the human person. Msgr. Francesco Follo criticized the lack of philosophical rigor in the organization’s attempts to find a system of ethics that could be called truly universal. Philosophy “as a discussion on realty and meaning” is, he said, a means of “debating the validity and universality of (ethical) norms.”  The problem of […]
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Martens Pleads Not Guilty in Two Counts of Assisting Suicide

VICTORIA, October 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evelyn Martens, former head of the Right-to-Die Network of Canada, is denying in court that she ‘helped’ two women commit suicide. The 74 year old Martens entered her plea of not guilty in her Victoria trial on two counts of aiding and abetting suicide. The two deceased women are Monique Charest and Leyanne Burchell. Martens admitted to an undercover police officer, who posed as Charest’s god-daughter, that she was present at the woman’s suicide. The Crown told the court that although Charest, 64, had numerous medical problems, she was not terminally ill, and had […]
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Man’s Organs Donated Before he was Dead

DENVER, October 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Denver coroner is charging that a man whose organs were removed for the purposes of donation was killed by doctors before being clinically dead. The coroner has recorded the death as a homicide. Montrose County Coroner Mark Young told the Associated Press that William Rardin, a 31 year-old man who shot himself in the head, was killed by the “removal of his internal organs by an organ-recovery team.”  Young said the two hospitals that removed Rardin’s organs did not follow “acceptable medical standards” to determine that the man was indeed dead.  Doctors transplanted […]
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Catholic Advocacy Group Tells U.S. Voters “Five Issues Matter Most”

CARLSBAD, California, October 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than 25 days remain before Americans cast their votes in the general presidential election. A Catholic advocacy group, Catholic Outreach, is asking voters: “. . . do the majority of Americans, particularly Catholics, understand the real issues?”  The group highlights the issues that strike most Americans first: “. . . the violence in Iraq, tax cuts, aid to foreign nations, health care, terrorism. But are those the issues that matter most?” Catholic Outreach, self-described as an advocacy group of politically concerned Catholics, is offering a “concise, easy-to-read question-and-answer book examining the issues […]
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Pro-Abortion NAACP given Green Light For Washington’s Catholic U. Chapter

WASHINGTON, October 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic University of America Tuesday reversed its decision made earlier this year, to prohibit a NAACP chapter on campus. The decision came after assurances from the group they would not advocate or campaign for abortion rights, as the national body does.  An earlier application in April was denied because the university argued that other groups with similar goals already met the needs of minorities at the school. The university also said that NAACP advocating for abortion rights was contrary to Catholic teaching, which factored into the refusal.  National Association for the Advancement of Colored […]
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Belfast Appeal Court Orders Health Department to Draw up “Guidelines” for Abortion

BELFAST, October 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Belfast Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a ‘family planning’ organization that has been demanding abortion in Northern Ireland since 2001 in court challenges. Under current laws abortion is legal in Northern Ireland but with more restrictions than in England. Last year 76 legal abortions were committed in Northern Ireland and about 1500 women travel annually to England for abortions. On Friday October 8th, the court ordered the Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Security and Public Safety to draw up guidelines for abortions in Northern Ireland. The Irish Family Planning […]
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Pro-Life Canadian MPs Commend Abortion-Damaged Women For Speaking Out

OTTAWA, October 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – – Canada Silent No More is a growing group of women whose lives have been torn apart following an abortion. These courageous women are holding a rally and press conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba Friday in conjunction with the national pro-life conference, “Alive and Loving It”.  “With 1 in 4 pregnancies being aborted, there are potentially millions of silent victims in this country who fear talking about their pain because there are no support systems for women who have been damaged by abortion,” says Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus Co-chair, Paul Steckle (Liberal, Huron-Bruce). “It takes tremendous […]
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Italian Pro-Life EU Member’s Nomination Rejected Because of His Conservative Values

BRUSSELS, October 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A European Union panel has refused to endorse the nomination of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, because of his conservative values. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso named Buttiglione to the post, along with 24 other new commissioners, in August. During his confirmation hearing last week, Buttiglione said that homosexuality is sinful. “Many things may be considered immoral which should not be prohibited . . . I may think that homosexuality is a sin, this has no effect on politics unless I say that homosexuality is a crime,” he […]
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Kerry and Bush Debate Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Abortion

ST. LOUIS, October 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Friday’s U.S. presidential election debate between Democratic nominee John Kerry and President George W. Bush highlighted the deep divide between the two camps on two major life issues—abortion and embryonic stem cell research. The debate, held at Washington University in St. Louis, was a town-hall style forum, with both candidates taking questions from the audience.  An audience member asked Kerry: “Thousands of people have already been cured or treated by the use of adult stem cells or umbilical-cord stem cells. However, no one has been cured by using embryonic stem cells. Wouldn’t it […]
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British Organization Referring Healthy Babies to Spanish Late Term Abortion Facility

LONDON/ BARCELONA, October 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), is responsible for nearly 50,000 abortions annually in Britain. Most of the abortions provided are legal and covered by the National Health system, but it has been uncovered that some of its activities are illegal and may leave the organization open to prosecution under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 and the 1967 abortion law. An investigation by the Telegraph newspaper found the organization is referring women to a late term abortion facility in Spain where abortion is also illegal after 22 weeks. When the […]
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Christopher Reeve’s Death Mourned as is His Stand on Destructive Research on Embryos

EDMONTON, October 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Disabled rights activist Mark Pickup, who has a debilitating case of progressive multiple sclerosis, commented yesterday on the death of Christopher Reeve.  While he shared many of Reeve’s sufferings, Pickup is an activist on the other side of the embryonic stem cell research debate.   “Along with millions of other people, I mourn Christopher Reeve’s passing and extend my sincere condolences to his family,” wrote Pickup.  Outlining his similarities with Reeve, Pickup wrote:  – Christopher Reeve and I were close in age.  – Both Christopher Reeve and I had careers cut short by disability […]
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CFAC Action Update on Royal Bank Boycott Because of Banks Gay Activist Pressure on Bank Employees “To date, this Rainbow program has already incited divisiveness, fear, mistrust and feelings of duress among employees. CFAC has received communication from several RBC employees who fear losing their jobs or loss of future promotions, and are concerned about their reputations. One person would not provide their name due to fear of reprisals. The program raises issues of discrimination regarding those who choose not to apply the sticker. ”  https://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/sexuality/rbc-action-update.htm   Pope Says States Should Not Fear Religious Symbols France last month began applying […]
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UN Institutes Same-Sex Benefit Plan: Entitlement based on Laws in Country of Origin

NEW YORK, October 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations instituted its same-sex benefit package last Friday.  Partners of employees in same-sex arrangements are now eligible for pension and health benefits if their country of origin also recognizes their cohabitation as either a civil union or a “marriage.” A number of Islamic and African nations spoke vehemently against the measure noting that their nations objected to funding such measures. The Organization of the Islamic Conference, a 57-country-strong lobby, said it was “seriously concerned about extending the scope of the family,” according to an AP report. “A legally recognized domestic partnership […]
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One-Child Policy Opponent Tortured in Chinese Labour Camp

BEIJING, October 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese woman imprisoned for activism against China’s restrictive one-child rule is a victim of inhuman torture in prison, according to a civil rights organization. According to the New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) report, Mao Hengfeng was fired from her job a Shanghai soap factory in 1988, after becoming pregnant with her second child, in contravention of China’s one-child policy. Her managers at the factory tried to force her to have an abortion—when she resisted they bound her and took her to a psychiatric hospital, where she was forcibly admitted and injected […]
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Even Elimination of Poverty Cannot Justify One Abortion Says Bishop Sheridan

COLORADO SPRINGS October 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of the Catholic diocese of Colorado Springs has again written on the near impossibility of finding a legitimate reason to vote for a pro-abortion politician. In a column in today’s edition of the diocesan newspaper, Sheridan writes that it is “virtually inconceivable” that an evil greater than abortion could exist that would justify voting for a politician who supports it. He says that even the elimination of poverty, an issue often compared to abortion as being proportionate, cannot justify “the direct murder of just one human being.” The misunderstanding […]
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Alberta Argues Against Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Before Canadian Supreme Court

OTTAWA, October 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the Supreme Court of Canada, presentations by lawyers arguing for and against allowing same-sex “marriage” will begin wrapping up today. Both Quebec and Alberta oppose the move. Lawyer for Alberta, Robert Leurer, argued that the constitution defines marriage as between a man and woman, therefore any legislation that seeks to change the definition of marriage would necessitate a change to the constitution itself. According to a Canadian Press account, newly appointed Justice Rosalie Abella countered Leurer: “You don’t look at 1867 as the end of the story”.  Leurer maintained that the courts should […]
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US Bioethics Expert Warns Children May be Created from Artificially Created Parts

October 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of a series of articles in the National Post on “Extreme Babymaking” has alarmed a US bioethics expert who warns that the creation of children from corpses is only the beginning if current research is allowed to continue. Dr. Dianne Irving, PhD, a graduate of the Kennedy Center for Bioethics at Georgetown University, told LifeSiteNews.com that research is moving forward to create cloned children out of left-over body parts from aborted babies and ‘spare’ IVF embryos. The September 29th Post article quotes Dr. Gulam Bahadur, head of fertility and reproductive medicine for University College […]
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One-Child Policy Opponent Tortured in Chinese Labour Camp

BEIJING, October 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese woman imprisoned for activism against China’s restrictive one-child rule is a victim of inhuman torture in prison, according to a civil rights organization. According to the New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) report, Mao Hengfeng was fired from her job a Shanghai soap factory in 1988, after becoming pregnant with her second child, in contravention of China’s one-child policy. Her managers at the factory tried to force her to have an abortion—when she resisted they bound her and took her to a psychiatric hospital, where she was forcibly admitted and injected […]
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Vatican Replaces Bishop Who Downplayed Homosexual Activity Scandal at His Seminary https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3723638.stm   Indiana Woman arrested for buying gun for suicide victim https://www.newslinkindiana.com/news/00000004152.html   Law and Moral Disorder – Toronto Police Chief, a Supposed Catholic, Appears on Cover of Gay Fab magazine https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1097099409712&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845   Sen. Tom Daschle Fudges on Abortion Issue—Again https://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/10/06/news/local/top/abortion.txt   Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he wants the Health Department to inspect a Jackson abortion clinic   https://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/9845734.htm   Christian Group Asks IRS If They Can Pray For Bush’s Reelection https://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/october/1005_churches_pray_bush.shtml   Mississippi AG wants abortion clinics inspected https://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041006/NEWS01/410060362/1002   More Evidence of Huge Influence of […]
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Russian Orthodox Church Condemns Contraception, Abortion, Promiscuity as Reasons for Population Cris

MOSCOW, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Assembly of Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church condemned abortion, contraception, pre and extra-marital sexual activity as reasons for the collapse of the Russian population Wednesday. Church leaders said the pervasive use of so-called “family planning” by women—contraception, sterilization, and abortion—is “a pernicious practice that leads not only to the reduction of the country’s population but also to its moral degradation,” according to an Information Telegraph Agency of Russia report.  Orthodox officials also met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the issues. When asked about Russia’s most severe population decline, as experienced […]
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New Film on St. Thérèse the Latest Christian Film to Hit Theatres

PORTLAND, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the advent of Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’, the film industry and theatre outlets have woken up to the untapped massive market for Christian films. The latest Christian foray into the secular movie market is THÉRÈSE, an inspirational story on the life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, which opened in a modest 32 theaters throughout the U.S. on October 1st.  Just prior to the DVD release of Gibson’s blockbuster, 20th Century Fox contacted LifeSiteNews.com to arrange for promotion for The Passion and to also explain its new outreach to the Christian […]
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Politics Leads Royal College of OB/GYNs to Cover Up Abortion-Cancer Link

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following political pressure, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG) has reversed its admission in 2000 that the overwhelming research demonstrating a link between abortion and breast cancer “could not be disregarded.” The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has condemned a new statement from the RCOG saying, “Induced abortion is not associated with an increased breast cancer risk.”“Five months after the 2000 guidelines were published,” said Karen Malec, president of the coalition, “some left-leaning journalists, unconcerned about escalating breast cancer rates, turned up the political heat. The RCOG quietly removed the offending […]
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Swedish Pastor Sued For So-Called Hate Speech Says Church Must Preach Gospel Unashamedly

UPPSALA, Sweden, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swedish evangelical pastor Ulf Ekman spoke out Tuesday against the censorship of Christians, urging listeners to become active politically and to resist efforts by government and other groups who wish to suppress free speech and the criticism of homosexual practices.  Ekman was sued in August for so-called “hate speech against homosexuals,” after criticizing the homosexual lifestyle in a homily at the Uppsala Word of Life Church (UWLC), which he founded in 1983. Charges were dropped three days later. “There is a deliberate political move in all of Europe toward restricting the freedom of […]
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Court Sides Against Parents: Resuscitation Not in Interests of Infant Girl

LONDON, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK High Court Justice ruled on the value of life for Charlotte Wyatt, the eleven month-old with serious heart and lung problems being cared for at St. Mary’s hospital in Portsmouth. Today the justice sided with the hospital that decided Charlotte’s ‘quality of life’ would be so poor that she ought not to be resuscitated should she experience another medical emergency. Charlotte was born three months premature and her chance of survival was estimated to be only be 50% at birth.  Saying that he was convinced there was nothing medical science could do […]
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Dobson, Keyes to Highlight Massive Pro-Marriage Rally in Washington

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “Mayday for Marriage” march, on October 15 at the National Mall in Washington, will include a host of Christian leaders who will call on the government to uphold the meaning of marriage. Speakers will comprise representatives from various pro-life and pro-family organizations, including Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Towards Tradition a conservative Jewish lobby, former US Ambassador Alan Keyes and Dr. James Dobson from Focus on the Family.  “Mayday for Marriage” is a consortium of groups and individuals fighting for the traditional meaning of marriage as being between one man and one woman for […]
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US Supreme Court Refuses Appeal of Catholic Charities on Employee Contraceptive Coverage

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a decision handed down Monday, October 4th, the US Supreme Court is allowing to stand a March ruling by the California Supreme Court that Catholic Charities of Sacramento does not qualify as a religious organization according to the legal definition and must include prescription contraceptives in its employee health insurance. Catholic Charities is the official charitable arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of California.  When the Women’s Contraceptive Equity Act (WCEA), was passed in 2000, it was over the objections of the Catholic bishops’ conference of California who said the definition of ‘religious […]
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Conservative Party Stifles Democracy: Prohibits Nomination Challenges to Current MPs

OTTAWA, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative MPs will not face nomination challenges for the next federal election if the election is held soon, according to the party’s Interim Council. A report in today’s Globe and Mail indicates the decision was taken by the Interim Council this past weekend as a result of pressure from worried MPs. Conservative Party President Don Plett is quoted in the Globe: “With the precarious situation that we have in the House, we want to make sure that our MPs are concentrating on running the affairs of the country and are available in Ottawa, as […]
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Canadian National Pro-Life Organization Makes Urgent Appeal For Financial Contibutions

The October 2004 CLC National news is now on the Campaign Life Coalition website. The issue includes many reports on current important developments on the life and family issues in Canada.  In his letter accompanying the News, CLC president Jim Hughes notes that the organization is currently dangerously low on funds needed to continue its national work. Hughes appeals for special assistance from supporters at this time.  See the complete October CLC National News at https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/national_news/2004/news_1004.html
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Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando https://www.local6.com/politics/3785861/detail.html   To find stem cells, scientists focus on fat https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6116024/  Judge modifies publication ban in B.C. assisted suicide trial https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20040930/ca_pr_on_me/craft_assisted_suicide_1   98-Year-Old Maintains Vigil Outside Abortion Center to Save Lives https://www.newhousenews.com/archive/hallman100404.html   The U.S. House of Representatives voted late Tuesday to restrict some of the most deceptive forms of spyware https://news.com.com/House+approves+spyware+legislation/2100-1028_3-5397822.html?tag=nefd.top   Canadian Groups spar over same-sex marriage https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041005.wsamesex1005/BNStory/National/  The ‘Peak Oil’ cult https://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=05539024-57d5-4ee1-96af-836566a9da11   From a Slippery Slope to an Avalanche https://www.townhall.com/columnists/chuckcolson/cc20041005.shtml   The Islamization of Europe   https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/4/223944.shtml   Judge Rejects Louisiana’s Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/5/151523.shtml
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Three Members of US Bishops Review Board on Scandals Donated to Kerry Campaign

WASHINGTON, October 6, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Three of the 12 members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Review Board (NRB) have donated to Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign, according to records released by the Federal Election Commission. A year before joining the board, one of the three, New York attorney Pamela D. Hayes, contributed to Emily’s List, a political action committee whose sole purpose is to elect pro-abortion women candidates.  NRB member Robert S. Bennett, an attorney with the Washington law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, has donated $7,000 to the Kerry campaign.  Since June […]
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Mel Gibson to be Awarded Producer of the Year at Hollywood Film Festival

HOLLYWOOD, October 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Hollywood Film Festival’s Board of Advisors, co-chaired by Paula Wagner, has announced that this year’s festival will honor Oscar-winning producer/director Mel Gibson with its “Hollywood Producer of the Year Award.” The award will be bestowed upon Mr. Gibson as part of the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony on Monday evening, October 18, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  Gibson has earned numerous honors for his work as a producer, director and actor, including winning Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards and a Best Director Golden Globe Award for “Braveheart” (1995), among many other awards […]
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Pope Chides West for Failing to Procreate

VATICAN, October 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a general audience today in St. Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II noted the West’s failure to beget future generations. Speaking on Psalm 44 the Pope told the crowd of 13,000 that the psalm made reference to fertility.  “It speaks about ‘children’ and ‘generations’,” said John Paul II. He continued, “It is a relevant theme in our days, in the West so often incapable of entrusting its own existence to the future by generating and caring for new creatures that they might continue the civilization of peoples and fulfill the history of salvation.”  […]
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National Post Series on Fertility Omits Crucial Information

TORONTO, October 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Beginning September 25th, The National Post has run a series of articles on in vitro fertilization, cloning and related issues titled, Extreme Babymaking: The Brave New World of Science and Conception. The articles focus on what can be achieved with medical intervention but carefully omit the ethical arguments being made against such procedures. In the first installment, doctors remind women that IVF is not a miracle cure for infertility and warn them not to wait until their thirties to try to conceive. One doctor complained that the new law restricts sperm donors and says, […]
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EU Socialists Seek to Bar New Commissioner for Christian take on Homosexuality

BRUSSELS, October 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A newly appointed European Union Commissioner was criticized for statements he made during his confirmation hearing, including that homosexuality is sinful. Italian Rocco Buttiglione, commissioner-designate for justice, freedom and security, said Tuesday that “Many things may be considered immoral which should not be prohibited . . . I may think that homosexuality is a sin, this has no effect on politics unless I say that homosexuality is a crime,” he said, as reported by Reuters news.  “After he has judged homosexuality as immoral, how can I trust this man to protect homosexuals against discrimination?” […]
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Canadian Supreme Court Judges Question Being Used to Bypass Parliament on Gay ‘Marriage’

OTTAWA, October 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reuters reported this afternoon that “In a surprise twist, several of Canada’s Supreme Court judges suggested on Wednesday that the government was trying to use the court to do the politically charged work of introducing gay marriage across the country”.  The court began hearings today on questions submitted to the court on the marriage issue. The most significant question the Liberal government has asked to the court to answer is whether it is unconstitutional not to allow same-sex marriage.  Justice Michel Bastarache told the government’s lawyers the government’s request “seems to be a description […]
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Gorbachev Calls for “New World Order”

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va., October 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who has promoted one-world government under the guise of “global governance”, called Tuesday for a “new world order” that will be based on strong adherence to international law.  Gorbachev, speaking to the 91st annual Insurance Leadership Forum, said the new world order he is advancing should adhere to international law, rely heavily on the United Nations and not seek to impose the views of one country or a group of countries on others. He said the new order should be more stable, more just and […]
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Saskatchewan Pro-Life Leader Relieved That Some Bishops Finally Serious on Abortion

WEYBURN, Saskatchewan, October 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Weyburn, Saskatchewan lawyer Tom Shuck has for the past few decades been a dedicated pro-life activist. In response to recent, unprecedented actions by some Canadian and especially American bishops, Schuck was compelled to write an article for the October, 2004 issue of Canada’s National Pro-life, Pro-Family newspaper, The Interim, about his reaction to this long awaited development.  Schuck states that “For the first time, Catholic bishops have spoken out on the incompatibility of the Catholic faith and a politician’s position that supports abortion. It has been a long time in coming. One cannot […]
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UN Signs Agreement with International Criminal Court

NEW YORK, October 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations signed a pact with the International Criminal Court Monday, to advance “greater cooperation and consultation” between the two bodies. The agreement was signed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and ICC president, Judge Phillipe Kirsch of Canada.  The UN General Assembly approved the agreement last month, despite U.S. protest. To date, 97 countries have ratified the court, which was created in 1998, with the supposed purpose of trying war criminals. The Bush administration fears the court would be used to prosecute U.S. soldiers involved in operations in Iraq.  U.S. representative Stuart […]
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Kevorkian Hits Silver Screen: Euthanasia Activist Featured in Movie Documentary

LOS ANGELES, October 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s life story is to be the subject of a new feature-length documentary. Directed by Oscar winner Barbara Kopple, the film is expected to portray Kevorkian in a favorable light. The movie will depict Kevorkian’s work as written by him and his two close associates, Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie. Kevorkian has been working on the autobiography, aptly named The Life of Dr. Death.  Kevorkian, 76, is serving a term of 10 to 25 years for a second-degree murder conviction for killing Thomas Youk, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. Jack Kevorkian […]
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Vatican Representative Addresses United Nations on the “Right to Life” and Cloning

NEW YORK, October 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, secretary for the Holy See’s Relations with States, spoke at the general debate of the 59th session of the United Nations General Assembly Friday.  While he focussed his talk on the Holy See position on several of the themes on the agenda of the General Assembly, he concluded with remarks on the right to life, calling it the most basic of all rights.  “Among the fundamental rights, or rather foremost among them, as the Universal Declaration explicitly states, is the right to life of every individual,” said Archbishop Lajolo.  Recalling […]
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School Ordered to Pay $100,000 for Censoring Christian Student over Homosexuality

DETROIT, October 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Detroit Federal District Judge Gerald E. Rosen has ordered the Ann Arbor Public Schools to pay $102,738 in attorney fees and costs to the Thomas More Law Center because school officials in that Michigan community prevented student Betsy Hansen from expressing her religious views against homosexuality during her high school’s annual “Diversity Week” program.  Robert Muise, the Law Center attorney handling the case, commented: “If the Ann Arbor Public School District wants to continue to promote the homosexual agenda at the expense of the rights of Christian students, then this will be the cost […]
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Toronto Star Columnist Powerfully Warns Against Any Acceptance of Assisted Suicide https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1096841409693   Kerry Promotes Expanded Stem Cell Research https://apnews.myway.com/article/20041004/D85GMHNG1.html   Are we rearing a nation of neurotic kids who believe the world revolves around them?  https://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/reallife/story.html?id=1fe9d424-3566-4b85-bebb-adb8c58209e6   Bush makes significant gains in two polls of Catholic voters https://www.washtimes.com/national/20041004-123844-3867r.htm   Abortion Lobby Uses AIDS to Extend “Reproductive Rights” at UN   https://www.c-fam.org/FAX/Volume_7/faxv7n41.html   Gay leaders to fight proposed Washington ballpark https://www.washtimes.com/metro/20041004-123832-8311r.htm   House-Passed Bill Includes 49% Increase in Abstinence-Only Sex Education Funding https://washingtontimes.com/national/20041004-123842-3078r.htm   Canadian Opposition Could Bring Down Government Over Throne Speech https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041004.wxconfidence04/BNStory/Front/  Why President Bush Doesn’t go to […]
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Royal Bank Coerces Employees to Display Gay Pride Symbol

TORONTO, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) launched a sexual orientation campaign to request its employees to “be supportive” of “gay, lesbian and bisexual issues,” in a company newsletter published in September. The Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) is calling the move an abuse of power by the employer, foisting their “misguided morality” on their staff. The Bank opened the campaign with the first edition of a regular newsletter, “Rainbow Space,” with its purpose to “highlight the importance of sexual preference as one of RBC’s primary diversity elements.” The RBC makes a strong appeal for […]
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A Twelve Step Program for Bishops to Deal with Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians

CORPUS CHRISTI, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Rene Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi Texas, has submitted to LifeSiteNews.com his twelve step program for bishops to deal effectively and charitably with the problem of pro-abortion Catholic politicians.  Bishop Gracida describes his Twelve-Step Program as “clear, coherent with the Faith, and in accordance with the requirements of canonical equity.”  He notes that if church penalties “are now to be dusted off and brought out of the cupboard within which they have lain dormant for almost half-a-century, it is because the balm of mercy and discretion of measure have failed […]
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Loyola and USCCB at Odds over Early Inducement of Disabled Unborn

CHICAGO, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chicago’s Catholic hospital, Loyola University Health system, continues to argue that it policy of inducing early labour is in accord with United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) guidelines and Catholic moral teaching. Jill Stanek has written again about the issue in the Illinois Leader. She says that the hospital sent her a copy of its policy. Stanek was criticized and accused of overstatement when she accused Loyola of, in effect, performing abortion on children with severe disabilities such as anencephaly. Loyola’s policy says in part, “Early induction is performed at LUHS only if […]
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Spain Legalizes Homosexual ‘Marriage,’ Delays Abortion Vote to 2005

MADRID, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s ruling Socialist government approved a bill to legalize same-sex “marriage” Friday. Approval of the measure by parliament is expected in January, which would make Spain the third European country to legalize homosexual nuptials. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, criticized the proposition on Vatican Radio, calling it a “sad step.” He said, “They present it as if it were a conquest of modernity and of democracy, but really they are falling into deep dehumanization”. “The Church has nothing to say about it,” Beatriz Gimeno, president of the […]
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Conservative MP Urges Politicians to Halt Supreme Court’s Destruction of Conscience Rights

OTTAWA. October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the past few days, marriage commissioners have begun to surrender their right to solemnize marriages because of court rulings legitimizing same-sex ‘marriage’. Manitoba marriage commissioners were sent a letter by the director of vital statistics for the province telling them they would be expected to ‘marry’ gay and lesbian couples – or resign. As a result, two marriage commissioners in Manitoba have already resigned. One Conservative MP has had enough.  Maurice Vellacott, the Member of Parliament for Saskatoon-Wanuskewin Saskatchewan said, “Canada’s renegade courts are tearing up the constitution as they make decisions which […]
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Kerry Campaign Funded with Partial Birth Abortion Fees

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Right to Life Committee in the US has revealed that Martin Haskell, George Tiller, and Warren Hern, three abortionists notorious for committing and defending the practice of late-term abortion, have contributed financially to the Kerry campaign fund. Haskell admitted at an abortion conference in 1992 to having committed over 700 partial birth abortions and claimed to have coined the term ‘Dilation and Extraction’ as the euphemism of choice to describe the gruesome killing of late term babies. George Tiller is notorious for offering at his late-term specialty practice, a bizarre pseudo-religious ceremony […]
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U.S. House Fails To Reach Supermajority For Marriage Amendment

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of representatives in the US House voted last Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but failed to reach the necessary two-thirds supermajority required by the Constitution.  The House voted 227-186 in favour of the amendment. Most supporters of the amendment had already acknowledged that the outcome was foreordained, as it was in a similar Senate vote this past summer, but that it put lawmakers on the record on the issue before Election Day. Voting in favour of the amendment were 191 […]
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Bush Once Again Blocks US Funds to Pro-Abortion UNFPA

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the fourth consecutive year of his presidency, U.S. President George W. Bush has refused the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, its designated annual US government contribution. The $25 million normally earmarked for the organization was diverted by the president into a State Department initiative against human trafficking and prostitution.  The UNFPA support for coerced abortion contravenes a U.S. law that prohibited any funding of abortion supporting organizations. The UNFPA has been actively supporting, through funding and training, China’s one-child policy, which involves forced abortion. Read the related LifeSiteNews.com reports:  U.S. House Maintains Blockade […]
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