Articles for Month: November 2004

KWANGJU, South Korea, November 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 37-year-old South Korean woman, paralysed 20 years ago as a result of a spinal injury, is walking again. Hers is the first recorded recovery of a spinal injury from the use of stem cells – her doctors used umbilical cord-blood stem cells. The AFP reported that Hwang Mi-Soon shed tears as she took her first steps before a group of reporters Thursday, using the help of a walker. “This is already a miracle for me,” Hwang said. “I never dreamed of getting to my feet again.” She stood up out of […]

GENEVA, November 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A United Nations committee has urged two of the five countries in the world which prohibit all abortions to legalize abortion.  Chile and Malta were before the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, earlier this month.  The committee ruled on Friday, that the countries should allow abortion in cases of rape and incest.  The committee is set up to monitor compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).  Like all other UN documents, the CESCR does not officially contain clauses requiring the legalization of abortion. Nonetheless, in […]

DOHA, Qatar, November 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the Vatican’s highest-ranking prelates said at a conference today, “An ideology hostile to the family is spreading” in governments around the world. Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, spoke at the International Conference on the Family organized in Doha, the capital of Qatar by the World Congress of Families. The Cardinal’s address was called, “The Complementarity of Men and Women – Building on the Strengths of Mothers and Fathers.”  In many countries the push for same-sex “marriage” has caused confusion among Catholics who are often […]

ADELAIDE, November 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian euthanasia campaigner, Philip Nitschke, has invented another scheme to help suicidal people kill themselves: he plans to teach a class of “students” how to manufacture their own suicide pills. He is recruiting participants for his workshop, planned for April.  Nitschke claims to have 12 people already interested, and hopes for 30. Each participant will come away with a lethal 10g dose of a barbiturate-based poison. Interested individuals must have already completed one of Nitschke’s earlier workshops, which discussed legal aspects of assisted suicide. Nitschke plans to host more classes later in 2005.  “Many […]

OTTAWA, November 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The current controversy over Immigration Minister Judy Sgro’s alleged issuance of an exotic dancer visa to a campaign worker from Romania has led to serious concerns that Canada may be complicit in human trafficking.  It has been revealed that last year alone, 601 foreign women received temporary work permits for exotic dancing; 582 of them from Romania.  The Future Group, a Canadian-based NGO that works on the frontlines of human trafficking in Southeast Asia, is demanding that the Immigration Minister take personal responsibility to address a growing global consensus that exotic dancer visas promote […]

Activist: "Thank you for being pro-life." Bush: "You bet." and "I appreciate that."

US Officials Excited About New Progress in Battle Against Aids https://allafrica.com/stories/200411301613.html   More Canadians choosing to live common-law instead of getting married https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1101752621646_97161821/?hub=TopStories   Murder … So What? Film Reveals Growing Callousness to Abortion https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/222004d.asp   Texas bill would let pro-life pharmacists refuse service https://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/10294272.htm?1c   Canadians who declare they have no religion are now second-largest group—at 17 per cent—after Catholics https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041129/FAMILYRELIGION29/National/Idx   Newborn girl found at Vancouver bus stop https://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=ebdef9d2-e323-4c2b-b564-b04d5cdf931d   Christians Persecuted in Saudi Arabia   https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1978 Doctor: Stem Cell Bill, Media Blowing Smoke in Public’s Eyes https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/222004c.asp   Austria has new bishop after seminary porn scandal https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Austria%20Seminary%20Porn […]

Babies killed not because they are going to die, but because they are going to live

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PRETORIA, South Africa, November 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The South African Supreme Court of Appeal has issued a ruling that may end with the country being forced to accept homosexual marriage. In a method that has proved itself successful in Canada, homosexual activists in South Africa have by-passed legislatures and used the courts to force the government to change laws defining marriage. A lesbian “couple” sued to have the common-law definition of marriage changed from being a “union between a man and a woman” to a “union between two persons.” A spokesman for the organization that staged the effort said […]