The Possible Coming Censorship and Control of the Internet – In-Depth Report

August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The days are now numbered for surfing an uncensored, open-access Internet, using your favorite search engine to search a bottomless cyber-sea of information in the grandest democratic forum ever conceived by humankind. Instead you can look forward to Googling about on a walled-off, carefully selected corpus of government propaganda and sanitized information “safe” for public consumption. Indoctrinated and sealed off from the outer world, you will inhabit a matrix where every ounce of creative, independent thinking that challenges government policies and values will be squelched.”  – Eliot D. Cohen Ph.D. Is this true? Is this […]
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Toronto Gay Church to Celebrate Passage of Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Bill

TORONTO, Ontario, August 31, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Brent Hawkes of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, which serves a large homosexual congregation in the city, has planned a celebration to commemorate the recent passage of Canada’s same-sex ‘marriage’ Bill C-38. Scheduled for Sunday, September 18, Rev. Hawkes indicated in a press release that “We have noticed that, despite this extraordinary process with its remarkable result, there has really been no opportunity for Canadians to mark this achievement. A major event each year in our Church is “Homecoming Sunday.” We have decided to dedicate this year’s event to acknowledge the […]
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Pope Encourages Catholics to Have Large Families, Citing “Demographic Deficit”

ROME, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In remarks given during his weekly audience, during which he meets with pilgrims around the world, Pope Benedict XVI focused on the gift and the beauty of the large family, while citing a “demographic deficit” that he says is depriving Western nations of “freshness, energy, and the future incarnate in children.” “With the Lord,” said the pope, commenting on the text of Psalm 126, “there is prosperity and fruitfulness, a family rich with children and serenity, a city well supplied and protected, free from fears and insecurities.” “The father who had children in his […]
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Ten year old arrested for giving food to Terri Schiavo apologizes

TAMPA BAY, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ten year-old Joshua Heldreth, the eldest of eight children, was arrested on Good Friday of this year for trespassing while attempting to bring a drink of water to Miss Terri Schaivo. Days later Schiavo died of intentional dehydration. In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions. The boy whose arrest photo was splashed on front pages of newspapers across the nation wrote in his apology letter, “I was arrested on Good Friday for trespassing on the hospice center’s […]
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Abortion Law in Texas Could See Abortion Docs Charged With Capital Crime

AUSTIN, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new law in Texas could have the unforeseen effect of capital murder charges for doctors aborting babies in the third trimester or without the consent of the parents of the mother. While legislators have insisted that it was not their intent, the Texas District and County Attorneys Association has warned that the parental consent legislation to come into effect this week in conjunction with the 2003 fetal protection law may result in charges against doctors in a state that retains the death penalty. Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, who sponsored the parental consent measure, […]
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British Government Aims to Ban “Extreme” Internet Pornography

LONDON, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The British Government announced today plans to broaden laws against “extreme” pornographic material to the Internet. After an extensive, and still ongoing joint Home Office/Scottish Executive consultation, Home Office Minister Paul Goggins said the new law would outlaw possession of “extreme pornographic material which is graphic and sexually explicit and which contains actual scenes or realistic depictions of serious violence, bestiality or necrophilia.” While the law aims only to outlaw “extreme” pornography, experts in the field of sexual abuse note that all pornography is harmful. Such experts have long pointed to the relationship between […]
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UK School to Allow F-Word in Class, But Only Five Times

WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK secondary school has drafted a new policy for classrooms – pupils are now allowed to swear at teachers, and are allowed to use the f-word up to five times per class before being ‘spoken’ to. Weavers School contacted parents this week, in advance of next week’s resumption of classes. Assistant headmaster Richard White wrote in the letter to parents, “Within each lesson the teacher will initially tolerate (although not condone) the use of the f-word (or derivatives) five times and these will be tallied on the board so all students can […]
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Abortion Compared to 9/11 Terrorism, Holocaust, in New Helms Memoir

RALEIGH, N.C., August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired US Senator Jesse Helms compared the tragedy of abortion to the 9/11 terrorist strikes and to the Holocaust in his memoirs being published this week. Helms, who acted as a Republican Senator for North Carolina for 30 years, wrote that “I will never be silent about the death of those who cannot speak for themselves,” in his memoir, Here’s Where I Stand, scheduled for release Tuesday, according to an AP report. Responding to criticism about his comparison of abortion with the Holocaust, Helms wrote, “I reject that criticism because this is indeed […]
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Visit by UN Human Rights Observers to Communist China Likely to be Whitewash

BEIJING, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Louise Arbour, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and one of Canada’s most notorious pro-abortion judicial activists and a woman whose career was marked by a determination to deny the right to life of thousands of unborn Canadian children, is in Beijing today for talks with government officials. China has agreed to allow Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and an expert in torture allegations to visit next month. Nowak will, says the UN, have the mandate to make unannounced visits and un-monitored conversations with political prisoners. A spokesman for Arbour’s office […]
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Scalia Questions ‘Sanity’ of Important Moral Decisions like Abortion Being Decided by ‘Unelected Jud

ORANGE, California, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia denounced on Monday the use of “unelected judges” to decide morally-charged issues like abortion and same-sex “marriage.” Speaking after a Chapman University law school re-enactment of a 100-year-old law case, Scalia said, as reported by AP, “I am questioning the propriety – indeed, the sanity – of having a value-laden decision such as this made for the entire society … by unelected judges.” Scalia also voiced his consternation with a judicial appointment process that focuses on a potential candidate’s political leanings rather than their ability and qualifications. […]
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Second Indian State Drops Coercive Two-Child Norms

New Delhi, Aug. 29 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Another state in India—the central state of Chattisgarh—has announced that it will not enforce the controversial two-children-per-family norm designed to curb the nation’s population growth. Chattisgarh is the second state—after neighbouring Madhya Pradesh—to declare that it will no longer require adherence to the 2-child norm for candidates in local elections. Raman Singh, chief minister of Chattisgarh, gave this assurance on Sunday to Mani Shankar Iyyer, the federal minister in charge of village and municipal council matters. The change of heart by state leaders is a response to sharp criticism of the 2-child norm by […]
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Messianic Jewish, Moslem and Christian Leaders Join to Promote Life Chain in Canada

August 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Messianic Jewish, Moslem, and Christian leaders are joining forces to promote participation in this year’s Life Chain event to protest legal abortion in Canada. Messianic Jewish Rabbi Jack Farber from Congregation Melech Israel; Imam Abdul Hai Patel from the Islamic Council of Imams-Canada; and Roman Catholic leaders Aloysius Cardinal Ambrosic, Archbishop of Toronto, Most Reverend Marcel Gervais, Archbishop of Ottawa, and Most Reverend Nicola De Angelis, Bishop of Peterborough Diocese all support the Life Chain event. This year’s Life Chain will take place on Sunday October 2nd from 2:00 to 3:00 pm. “Join the life […]
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FDA Delays Decision on Abortifacient Morning-After Pill Approval

WASHINGTON, August 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will delay a decision on allowing sales of the abortifacient morning-after pill without a prescription. After a failed bid last year by the drug’s manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals, to have its Plan B approved for over-the counter (OTC) use, the company re-submitted its application with the provision that sales of the abortifacient would only be OTC for girls older than 15 years of age. An FDA release stated that the application from Barr presented the agency “with many difficult and novel policy and regulatory issues.” […]
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British Favour Tightening Abortion Restrictions

LONDON, England, August 29, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) -The BBC and the Daily Telegraph are both reporting that attitudes about abortion are changing. Britain’s 40 year old abortion law currently permits the procedure up to the 24th week of pregnancy. In a Daily Telegraph survey only 27 percent supported the restrictions as is. 58% favored a 20 week restriction and 33% of women favored a limit of 12 weeks or less. The BBC reports that “according to the latest available data, more than 180,000 women in England and Wales had terminations in 2003, and a further 9,100 were carried out on non-residents. […]
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Judge Rules Phoenix Sherrif Cannot Refuse to Transport Inmates for Elective Abortion

PHOENIX, Arizona, August 29, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Barry Schneider rejected arguments by County Sheriff Joe Arpaio defending his office’s refusal to transport women inmates to a medical facility for an elective abortion unless they first get a court order. Court documents indicate that the Sheriff’s arguments were based on: “(1) security of the inmates and others; (2) limiting liability exposure, i.e., liability to third persons who may have an interest in the unborn fetus or for complications related to the abortion; and (3) ensuring that Defendants do not violate the law prohibiting the use of […]
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Abortion Fraud Scandal no Bar to Senate Post According to Prime Minister Martin

OTTAWA, August 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Prime Minister Paul Martin announced today the appointment of Liberal insider Francis Fox to the Canadian Senate. The patronage appointment for the Trudeau-era cabinet member comes as little surprise to Canadians despite Fox’s scandal-plagued background. (See the appointment notice: https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=567 ) Fox’s former political career ended in disgrace in January 1978 when he resigned as solicitor general. At the time, Fox confessed to the House of Commons that he had committed fraud. He signed someone else’s name on a hospital document in order to procure an abortion for a woman with whom he was […]
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Intelligent Design to be Taught in Australian Schools – Opponents Furious

SYDNEY, August 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After decades of teaching the theory of Darwinian evolution as though it were established fact, school boards in Australia may rethink their approach. The Intelligent Design (ID) theory is making inroads with formerly skeptical members of the scientific community now that the mathematical improbability of the random and spontaneous generation of life has been more thoroughly analyzed. Australian Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson told reporters earlier this month that ID would have a place with Darwinism should parents or schools be interested. This announcement coincides with an attempt by researchers at Harvard University to […]
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China Expert Gives Astonishing Talk on His Exposure of Brutal Forced Abortion Policy

TORONTO, ON, August 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stephen Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), is one of the few North American academics that can legitimately boast the label of international spy. The one-time Stanford university doctorate candidate and internationally acclaimed population researcher has for years been on a blacklist of international spies by the Chinese government. His crime is his vocal criticism of China ‘s murderous, anti-human rights forced-abortion, forced-sterilization policy. In a talk this past Wednesday, aptly held at Chinese Martyrs Parish in Markham, Ontario, the soft-spoken anthropologist and sociologist related his experiences as the sole North […]
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Canadian physician says JAMA fetal pain study seriously flawed

OTTAWA, August 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) –– Canadian Physicians for Life president Dr. Will Johnston criticized a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association in which researchers concluded that a fetus likely does not feel pain before the third trimester, ruling out the need to administer anaesthesia to the fetus during second trimester abortions. “One serious flaw with this study is that the researchers failed to disclose conflicts of interest arising from their ties to the abortion industry,” Dr. Johnston said. The lead researcher of the study once worked for NARAL Pro-Choice America, Knight Ridder reported […]
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Phoenix Bishop Defends Right of Church to Prohibit Speakers at Odds With Church Teachings

PHOENIX, August 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishop of Phoenix Arizona, Thomas J. Olmsted, angered politicians and the local newspaper editors earlier this month by implementing a US Conference of Catholic Bishops decision to prohibit pro-abortion and other dissident Catholic speakers from Phoenix parishes. LifeSiteNews.com reported that the Phoenix diocese was frustrated with media representation of the decision as an attempt to squash freedom of speech. Now, Bishop Olmsted has responded in an editorial appearing in the weekend edition of the Arizona Republic. In the August 21 column titled, “Church Must Defend its Basic Beliefs Against All,” Bishop Olmsted, […]
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Parents Lose Appeal For Right to Have Their Child Resuscitated

PORTSMOUTH, August 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of Charlotte Wyatt, the child with serious lung damage who doctors predicted would not live past her first weeks of life, have been denied an appeal of a do-not-resuscitate order by the UK’s Court of Appeal. Darren and Debbie Wyatt presented letters from their physicians at the hearing Thursday, citing evidence that Charlotte had made “remarkable progress,” according to a BBC report. Portsmouth Hospital Trustees went to court to make sure that when Charlotte had a breathing crisis she would not be ventilated, on the grounds that her life was overly burdensome […]
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Gay Human Rights Complaint Against Calgary Bishop Dropped – Was All About Getting Media Attention

CALGARY, August (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norm Greenfield, who launched a human rights complaint against Calgary Bishop Fred Henry, has admitted to the media that his actions were done in order to attract media attention. Greenfield launched his complaint after Bishop Henry released a pastoral letter explaining Catholic teaching on the subject of homosexuality. (See the letter here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jan/050113a.html ) At a conciliation session at the Alberta Human Rights Commission headquarters yesterday, in a session mediated by a human rights commission lawyer, Greenfield met with Bishop Henry and his legal counsel. During the meeting Greenfield agreed to drop the complaint. A second […]
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Bill Clinton Coming to Canada October 18 – Pro-Lifers Vow to Picket

OTTAWA, August 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former US President Bill Clinton will be in the Canadian capital on October 18, 2005 to deliver a keynote address at the gala launch of an organization called Professeurs pour la liberté (PPL). This is not the first time, the “partial-birth abortion president” has ventured north of the border for a speaking engagement, andÂlike his other northern excursions, his appearance will not be lacking in protest. While the cause of the inviting organization is a noble one, Clinton’s presence will mar the evening. Professeurs pour la liberté aims to offer scholarships to young people […]
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Planned Parenthood Could Make Over $100 Million Profit Selling Morning After Pill

August 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Within the next week, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce its decision on whether a drug known as Plan B will be available over the counter without a doctor’s prescription.   Plan B is a morning-after pill – an “emergency contraceptive,” or so its manufacturers say. FDA approval would not only represent an ideological victory for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, but it would also generate a financial windfall. Because of a series of shrewd business agreements, the organization could be in position to make a minimum of $100 million profit over […]
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Pornographer Sues Bush over Anti-Prostitution Measure

WASHINGTON, August 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US porn king, Philip D. Harvey, is suing the Bush administration over its anti-prostitution policies saying that the restriction on USAID funding is an “unconstitutional infringement of speech.” Harvey, the founder and chief executive of one of the world’s largest mail-order pornography and sex merchandise businesses is also the founder and president of DKT International which promotes condoms and abortion in the developing world and is a major player in the population control movement. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Bush administration says that U.S. and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) receiving […]
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Study: IVF Mothers More Prone to Postpartum Depression and Early Parenting Difficulties

MELBOURNE, August 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian researchers have revealed that women who conceive through in-vitro fertilization are four times more likely to suffer from post-partum depression and early parenting difficulties as compared to women who conceive naturally. Publishing their findings in the latest issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, the authors wrote, “These data would suggest that obstetricians, pediatricians, and other clinicians caring for pregnant women and mothers and infants after childbirth should be conscious that a previous history of fertility difficulties, advanced maternal age, assisted conception, operative delivery, and multiple birth may heighten the risk for postpartum […]
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“Civil Unions Do Not Belong in Constitution” Emphasizes US Pro-Family Group

BOSTON, August 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts legislature has set September 14 as the date for a debate on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex “marriage,” which proposes that “marriage” be replaced with a nearly identical institution – civil unions. A pro-family coalition opposed to the compromise measure is calling on concerned individuals to contact their Senators and Representatives to oppose the proposed amendment. The amendment, coined the Travaglini-Lees Amendment after Massachusetts State Senate President Robert E. Travaglini (D – Boston) and Massachusetts State Senate Minority Leader Brian P. Lees (R – East Longmeadow), passed by a vote of […]
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Abortion Fetal Pain Study Authored by Abortion Rights Activists

SAN FRANCISCO, August 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mainstream media are today reporting on a “study” (actually, an interpretation of existing medical literature) published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The authors argue that there is no good evidence that unborn humans feel pain before the third trimester (after 29 weeks gestational age). The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) points out that “Most of these stories have failed to report important information on the origins of this ‘study.’ The lead author, Susan J. Lee, is a medical student and former NARAL employee.” The connection to […]
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Aruba Forced to Acknowledge Gay “Marriage” by Courts

ORANJESTAD, Aruba, August 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lesbian couple “married” in the Netherlands in 2001 won a fight to have their same-sex relationship recognized by the government of Aruba Tuesday. Aruba’s Superior Court denied the government’s appeal of a lower court ruling, despite widespread opposition to the homosexual lifestyle on the island and in the Caribbean region in general. “The Dutch marriage can be inscribed in the register,” the judge proclaimed in his written decision. “Since Aruba is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it must comply with demands of the Kingdom.” A lower court ruled in December […]
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‘Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman’ Bumper Sticker Leads to Demotion – Lawsuit

ORANGE COUNTY, California, August 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A computer technician has filed a federal lawsuit in Orange County after being reprimanded and demoted for expressing his support for traditional marriage. The employee is represented by Pacific Justice Institute and PJI affiliate attorney Laurie Messerly. This employee works in an office environment where co-workers are permitted to have personal, religious, and even political messages in their cubicles. He decided to take a stand for traditional values by posting a bumper sticker in his cubicle that stated, “Marriage = man + woman.” His supervisor ordered him to remove the sticker because […]
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Canadians for Renewal Organizes All Night Prayer Vigils For Repentance And Conversion

August 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the moral degeneration of Canada having reached the deepest, most discouraging low yet with the recent legalization of homosexual “marriage”, many Canadians are wondering what can be done to check the advance of our cultural meltdown. One of the truisms often repeated by the most experienced and battle-hardened leaders of the pro-life, pro-family movement worldwide is that prayer must always be first, because ultimately what is being fought is not a political, but a spiritual battle. In recognition of this truth a newly formed group of concerned Canadians, calling themselves “Canadians for Renewal”, is […]
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No Interest in Alberta United Church’s Same-Sex “Marriage” Classes

CALGARY, August 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com readers will hardly be shocked to learn that the first proposed “marriage” preparation classes offered exclusively to same-sex couples at a Calgary-area United Church was cancelled from lack of interest. Northwest Calgary’s Wild Rose United Church pastor, Reverend Linda Hunter, blamed the rampant homophobia in Alberta for the lack of interest in her course, according to a Canadian Press report. “Part of it is that this legislation is very, very new,” she said. “And the other part is Alberta is particularly homophobic, and homosexual couples are still a little leery and suspicious.” An […]
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California Supreme Court Redefines Motherhood: Rules Child May Legally Have Two Mothers

SACRAMENTO, August 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a child may legally have two mothers, after hearing testimony in three separate cases brought by same-sex lesbian couples. The cases before the court “raised fundamental issues as to what makes a family and who qualifies as a parent,” according to an American Family Association release. In Elisa B. v. Superior Court, the court held that a lesbian who had agreed to raise the children born to her partner, but then split up with her partner, was required to pay child support for the children as a […]
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Wisconsin Reintroduces Ineffective 2003 “Ban” on Cloning

MADISON, August 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Assembly and Senate of Wisconsin is attempting to prohibit human cloning, but the bill, in reality a reintroduction of an identical bill from 2003, follows the many other legislative attempts that in the end effectively prohibited nothing. In legislation regarding cloning, the devil is in the details, specifically, in the definitions which, if they are not strictly based on the scientific realities, will leave a law full of legal loopholes. In the case of some national or state bills, including Canada’s, the definitions are so vague and inaccurate as to leave open the […]
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German Media Very Positive on Pope Benedict and World Youth Day

COLOGNE, August 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â A survey of German media reports conducted by The Catholic Universe, one of England’s largest Catholic papers, has found that nearly all the front page coverage of Pope Benedict following World Youth Day was positive. The Universe offers this informative summary: “Benissimo! … und tscho” was the headline in Italian and the Bavarian dialect of Cologne’s Express newspaper. “Very good, and so long,” appeared next to a photograph of the Pope blessing the crowd from the Marienfeld hill on Sunday. The subheadline said: “1 Million Pilgrims in World Youth Day. ‘I Love Cologne!’—Pope Benedict.” […]
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Vatican Investigation of US Seminaries to be Led by Strongly Pro-Life Bishop

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic News Service has announced that Rome is set to start its long-awaited “apostolic visitation,” or systematic investigation and evaluation of the formation offered to prospective priests in seminaries. With many bishops studiously ignoring what has become the ecclesiastical equivalent of the elephant in the drawing room, Rome may be planning to force the issue at last.   The last Vatican-led visitation was seven years in duration beginning in 1981. The report given to Pope John Paul II, according to some observers, amounted to a whitewash in which the theological and moral dissent being […]
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Pope Pushes Orthodoxy On Final Day of World Youth Day

COLOGNE, August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During his homily for the closing Mass of World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged the youth to pursue a pure and full faith, which does not pick and choose among doctrines. He continued on that theme in remarks to the German Bishops before returning to Rome. “If it is pushed too far, religion becomes almost a consumer product,” said the Pope to over a million pilgrims in attendance at the three-hour Mass culminating World Youth Day. People choose what they like . . . But religion constructed on a ‘do-it-yourself’ basis cannot ultimately […]
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WYD Virtual Pilgrimage Chapter 5 – A Million Pilgrims in Words and Feelings

COLOGNE, August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Saturday night the preparation began for the grand finale of World Youth Day. Some 700,000 youth spent the night in sleeping bags under the stars at Marienfeld (Mary’s field) where the next day over a million people would attend the three-hour Mass with Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict addressed the youth gathered on Saturday night telling them that the real revolutionaries and rebels, the real movers and shakers in the world, are those who follow Christ’s example of transforming death into life.“Only from the saints, only from God does true revolution come, the […]
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Commentary: How Stupid is Hollywood Really?

August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During the past few months much has been said and written about the on-going big slump in movie attendance. That attendance is down 12%, revenue is down 10% and Hollywood just can’t figure out what is causing this phenomenon and what they can do to turn it around. LifeSiteNews.com writer John Jalsevac thinks the questions Hollywood big wigs and critics are scratching their heads over are really not difficult for most of us to answer given rather obvious factors. Almost all the pathetic products released by the industry this summer tell a lot about an […]
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Pro-Life “Memorial Day” Scheduled for October 3

STAFFORD, Virginia, August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“In memory of 46,000,000 innocent victims of surgical abortion,” the American Life League (ALL) has instituted an annual pro-life memorial day for October 3, the day after the annual Life Chain Sunday, and also the day the Supreme Court returns from summer recess to begin a new session. “It’s the ideal day to establish an annual Pro-life Memorial Day for America to honor the 46,000,000 young lives lost to surgical abortion since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling,” the ALL web site states. ALL is also campaigning to have US President George […]
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La Crosse Bishop to Screen Speakers Invited to Diocese Locations

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a meeting in Denver during the 2004 Presidential election campaign, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, (USCCB) decided that politicians and other public figures who supported abortion, homosexual legitimacy or otherwise lived in opposition to their faith, could not be allowed a public platform in Catholic churches or institutions. The decision was left up to individual bishops to enforce or not. In the diocese of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Bishop Jerome E. Listecki has issued what he is calling a “policy of prudence” regarding speakers in which he has reserved such decisions to […]
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Gay “Marriage” Rejected in Former Dutch Caribbean Colony

ORANJESTAD, August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Public opposition to the homosexual movement and “gay marriage” is still powerful in some “traditional” societies. In Aruba, a small Caribbean former Dutch colony, sentiment against homosexual or other deviant “lifestyles” is vehemently opposed by the public whose cultural roots are more in tune with Latin American culture than with that of the modern Dutch. A lesbian “couple” Charlene and Esther Oduber-Lamers, who were “married” in the Netherlands are attempting to use the tried and true method of judicial activism to force acceptance of homosexual unions in Aruba, a country that is 80% Catholic. […]
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UK Hospital Fights to Retain “Do Not Resuscitate” Order Despite Child’s Improvement

PORTSMOUTH, August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Charlotte Wyatt, the child with serious lung damage whom doctors predicted would not live past her first weeks of life, is improving dramatically. However, Portsmouth Hospital Trustees went to court to make sure that when Charlotte had a breathing crisis she would not be ventilated, as her parents desperately wished, on the grounds that her life was overly burdensome and should not be prolonged. On January 28 this year, the judge sided with the hospital, but Charlotte, now nearly two years old, continues to fight for her life. Charlotte was born with damaged lungs […]
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WYD Virtual Pilgrimage Chapter 4 – Relics, History and a Standing Ovation by Jews

COLOGNE, August 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The youth from all over the world encounter Germany with a sense of awe. Particularly those from the Americas who come to the ancient world from the new world with mouths agape at the historical evidence of Christianity which surrounds them. A case in point is the nearby city of Aachen, where World Youth Day (WYD) pilgrims from many countries have visited. Greeting the pilgrims in Aachen is the Cathedral which contains four “Great Relics” of Christianity. Placed in an ornately carved and gold-plated reliquary are: the cloak of the Blessed Virgin, the swaddling-clothes […]
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World Youth Day Organizers Distance Themselves from Pro-Abortion UN Speaker

COLOGNE, August 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since LifeSiteNews.com broke the story of the pro-abortion United Nations representative Eveline Herfkens who was to speak at World Youth Day, there has been a flurry activity to protest the move. Numerous LifeSiteNews.com readers, Human Life International, and the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute lobbied Cardinals and World Youth Day organizers in Germany to put a stop to the scandal. (See the original LifeSiteNews.com story here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/aug/05080908.html ) On August 15, Human Life International received a fax from the Apostolic Nuncio to Germany, Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender indicating that he had raised the […]
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Kansas Attorney General Sues Governor to End State Funding for Abortion

TOPEKA, August 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline filed a lawsuit Thursday against Governor Kathleen Sebelius in an attempt to make state funding of abortion illegal. The suit argues that using state funds to finance abortion violates the state Constitution because of the protection for “inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Kline, according to a report in the Lawrence Journal-World, also requested that the court agree that life begins at conception, when “a new, unique and genetically distinct human being is formed, distinct from its host while dependent upon her.” […]
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Abortion Case Before European Human Rights Court – Pro-life Group Intervenes

STRASBOURG, August 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the European Union’s court of human rights prepares to hear the case of a woman who claims Ireland’s ban on abortion breaches the European Convention on Human Rights, the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has called upon the court of human rights in Strasbourg to respect the right to life of the child in the womb. The woman, known only as D, argues that her rights were violated because she had to travel to Britain for an abortion when she found she was pregnant with a seriously disabled child. […]
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Woman must Repay Government costs of Eugenic Abortion, US Court Rules

SAN FRANCISCO, August 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the wife of a US navy man must pay the government back the US $3000.00 it spent aborting her child because the military refuses to fund eugenic abortion. Under federal law, the US military only pays for abortion in cases where the mother’s life would be endangered by childbirth. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the woman’s constitutional right to abortion was not violated in the case since under federal law, the military only pays for abortion if the mother’s […]
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From Cologne to the Conquest of Europe: How the Muslim Brotherhood is Challenging the Popehttps://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=37837&eng=y There’s something unserious about Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush’s newfound affection – Peggy Noonanhttps://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007120 Liberal MP trashes Prime Minister’s Method of choosing new governor genrealhttps://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2005/08/18/1177796.html
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Australian Churches, Charitable Institutions Tax Status in Jeopardy

SYDNEY, August 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australia’s opposition party is calling on the ruling coalition government to clarify new restrictions placed on churches and other charitable institutions, which stipulate that criticism of the government or its policies can lead to revocation of their charitable tax status. Opposition treasury spokesman Wayne Swan said the new measure is the “sort of thuggery . . . typical of a Government that’s drunk on its own power,” according to an abc.net.au report. He said the institutions that represent the underprivileged should be free to voice their opposition to policies that may affect the poor. […]
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Girls Gone Wild Gets Cold Reception in Canada

HALIFAX, August 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pornography film producer, Mantra Films Inc., may have a more difficult time recruiting young college women to participate in their Girls Gone Wild university tour when they come to Canada this fall. The group entices young college women to participate in bacchanalian-style parties at university bars, which culminate in the women stripping before the cameras. The company did a 17-stop tour of Canada last year – Girls Gone Wild Canada; the DVD created from that tour is being used by Mantra now to promote their planned tour for this semester. Dalhousie University, in cooperation […]
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Umbilical Cord Blood Found to Yield Embryo-Like Stem Cells

LONDON, August 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The hope of curing diseases using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood has just received another boost. Scientists from the UK’s Kingston University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, have discovered a type of cell in the umbilical cord that shares the same properties as embryonic stem cells. Called “cord-blood-derived embryonic-like stem cells” (CBE), are not as flexible as the cells derived from embryos but much more so than cells from bone marrow, the usual source of ‘adult’ stem cells. Colin McGuckin of Kingston University, calling his team’s discovery a […]
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Abortion-Derived Skin From Unborn Babies Used to Treat Burns

LAUSANNE, August 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swiss scientists at the University Hospital of Lausanne have used the skin of aborted babies to treat eight children with deep second and third-degree burns. The online edition of The Lancet reports that Patrick Hohfield and colleagues used skin that had been donated by parents of the aborted child to create a “bank” of skin tissues for grafting. The skin cells, they write, could be used to grow several million sheets of skin, each measuring 9cm by 12cm. Patches of foetal skin tissue were placed over the wounds left by burns, and then bandaged. […]
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Catholic Student Society wants 18 Pro-Abortion “Catholic” Colleges to Dismiss Dissident Professors

MANASSAS, August 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Newman Socitey, a Catholic group working to restore the authentic character of Catholic academia, has thrown down the gauntlet in the case of 18 institutions who support the Culture of Death. The colleges failed to discipline professors who oppose the right to life and other fundamental Catholic moral and religious teachings. In two separate mailings, CNS sent a letter to 75,000 people asking for help ousting 18 dissident professors. The letter, written by Eugene Diamond, former president of the Catholic Medical Association, said, “It is for us to raise our voice in […]
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Festival Atmosphere at WYD – 9800 Priests, 750 Bishops at Event

Cologne, Aug. 17 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The 20th World Youth Day (WYD) celebrations, which Pope Benedict XVI will join on Thursday, August 18, already involve 405,000 registered participants. Organizers expect 800,000 or more to attend the final weekend sessions on August 20 and 21 at Marienfeld, outside Cologne. At the time of the opening ceremonies, 193 different countries were represented at WYD: a record for the event. “The entire world has arrived in Germany,” observed Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, who heads youth ministry for the nation’s Episcopal conference.   There were 120,000 young people on hand before the opening ceremonies, to participate […]
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California Students Win Right to Wear Pro-Marriage T-shirts to School

  ROHNERT PARK, CA, August 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students in a northern California city recently won the right to wear pro-marriage t-shirts after school officials were warned against restricting their free speech. Tired of the constant barrage of messages contrary to their beliefs, student members of the Conservative Club at a high school in Rohnert Park decided to express their own traditional values for a change. Working with staff attorneys at Pacific Justice Institute, as well as PJI affiliate attorney Bill Trask, the students selected a t-shirt message which clearly stated the students’ support for traditional marriage, including a […]
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ACLU Head Likens Praying School Board Members to 9/11 Terrorists

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, August 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An American Civil Liberties Union director equated school board members who pray before their meetings with 9/11 al-Qaida terrorists. In comments made on camera to local WAFB-TV, Joe Cook of the ACLU of Louisiana said, “They believe that they answer to a higher power, in my opinion,” referring to school board members who want to maintain the right to begin school board meetings with prayer. Answering to a “higher power”“is the kind of thinking that you had with the people who flew the airplanes into the buildings in this country, and the […]
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Harvard to Spend $1 Million Annually In Attempt to Disprove Intelligent Design Theory

BOSTON, Mass, August 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harvard has announced that it will spend $1 million annually towards research intended to delve into some of the most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe. Some Harvard representatives insist, however, that the study has nothing to do with the recent controversy surrounding the tension between traditional Darwinian evolution and the God-based Intelligent Design Theory. Last month president Bush created a flurry of controversy when he promoted the inclusion of Intelligent Design into school curricula to counter-balance the oftentimes dogmatic teaching of Darwinian evolution theory. “This is not something that began […]
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Nearly 7000 Canadian Youth Arrive in Cologne for World Youth Day

COLOGNE, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â Nearly 7,000 Canadian pilgrims joined a crowd of hundreds of thousands of youth for today’s opening ceremonies of World Youth Day (WYD) in Cologne, Germany. With the exception of WYD 2002 in Toronto, this is the largest Canadian delegation since the celebration was first launched in 1985. The majority of Canadians arrived in Cologne yesterday after spending some time in various German dioceses. At the 1997 WYD in Paris, a tradition began with pilgrims from around the world being invited to meet the residents of the host countries by living among them for a […]
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Latvian Cardinal Warns Gay Militancy More Dangerous than Soviet Times

RIGA, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - To a packed basilica holding tens of thousands of Catholics onÂMonday, Latvian Cardinal Janis Pujats warned that homosexual militancy is more dangerous than the militancy experienced by the war-torn country in Soviet times.“In Soviet times we faced atheism, which oppressed religion; now we have an era of sexual atheism,” he said.“This form of atheism is even more infectious and dangerous, spiritual values disappear in a swamp of sexual irregularity.” The homily which was broadcast live on state television and radio reflected on the gay pride parade held in the country for the first time […]
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World Youth Day to Show Youth the Beauty of Christianity Says Pope

ROME, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview on Vatican radio Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of his hopes for World Youth Day. Asked what he would like to transmit to the youth of the world, the Pope relied, “I would like to show them how beautiful it is to be Christian, because the widespread idea which continues to exist is that Christianity is composed of laws and bans which one has to keep and, hence, is something toilsome and burdensome – that one is freer without such a burden.” “I want to make clear,” the Pontiff continued, “that […]
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Euthanasia Activist Gives up Starvation Death Effort as Too Painful and “Undignified”

BRISTOL, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kelly Taylor, a 28-year-old woman who is not terminally ill, has ended her attempt to starve herself to death after 19 days because of the pain of the effects of starvation. Mrs. Taylor claimed that she had chosen self-starvation as the only method of suicide that would not leave her husband Richard liable for prosecution. Nevertheless, after 19 days, she said, “It has become too uncomfortable and I would not wish what I have been going through on my worst enemy.” Taylor suffers from a congenital heart condition known as Eisenmenger Syndrome which, despite […]
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Gays Using World Youth Day Platform to Demand Church Acceptance – Again

COLOGNE, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since the elevation of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to the papacy, homosexual groups with the generous assistance of mainstream media, have been clamouring for the Pope to “relax restrictions” on homosexual behavior in Catholic discipline. In the latest bid for Church acceptance of homosexual deviancy, a number of gay activist groups have called for the Pope to announce at World Youth Day his acceptance of sexual immorality into the canon of Catholic moral teaching. The groups, Germany’s Lesbian and Gay Association (LSVD) and the Cologne Lesbian and Gay Day (KLuST), issued a statement to an […]
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Iowa Pro-Life Display Vandalized, Man Arrested

  WATERLOO, Iowa, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A roving pro-life display of 1,600 small white crosses, placed in churchyards to symbolize unborn lives eliminated by abortion, has been vandalized twice in a week. A man, caught in the act of mowing the crosses down with his van, is believed to be the same person who destroyed several hundred of the knee-high crosses on display at the Ascension Lutheran Church last week. Police charged 29-year-old Justin Haes with criminal mischief, reckless driving and drunken driving after he was caught in the act of destroying crosses at the Concordia Lutheran Church […]
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Forced to Assist in Abortion, Nurse Sues South African Government

PRETORIA, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A South African nurse who left her job rather than be forced to assist in abortions began her civil suit in the Johannesburg High Court today. Sister Wilhelmien Charles, who worked as a nurse in the Kopanong Hospital until May 2004, is suing the hospital as well as the national and regional ministers of health for a violation of her constitutional right to refuse to participate in the abortions on religious grounds. Sister Charles’ forcible transfer from one department to another, where the abortions were routinely committed, was discriminatory against her belief as a […]
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U.S. Court Says It’s Okay for Men to Come to Work in a Dress and to Shower with Female Co-Workers

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Pennsylvania court has opened the door for men who believe they are women to come to work in a dress and to use the women’s restroom and shower facilities. The decision by the Commonwealth Court, which upheld a lower court ruling mandating that “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” be added to the Allentown (Pennsylvania) human relations ordinance, is being decried as an “outrage” by a traditional values group. According to the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), this is not something that the majority of citizens in Allentown want and […]
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“The Last Honorable Politician” and Presidential Candidate, Howard Phillips, Speaks On Judge Roberts

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Howard Phillips has been called the last honorable politician. A 1962 Harvard graduate, where he twice served as president of Student Council, Phillips has served throughout the years in numerous positions in the executive branch of the United States government. From the day he was born politics was in the conservative leader’s blood, and he began his political career at a very early age by volunteering for Republican election campaigns in the mid 1950s. In 1974 Phillips left the Republican party after years of service in jobs as varied as precinct worker, election […]
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Web sperm sites crackdown plannedhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4145378.stm Human eggs for sale on internethttps://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3516083.stm Woman’s tube pulled, man commits suicidehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45759 F-word makes it into editors’ language guidehttps://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1124045138762_25/?hub=TopStories ‘UFO cult’ infiltrated: Filmmaker secretly documents Raelians to expose ‘brainwashing, sexual coercion’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45764 Harvard to Investigate Origins of Lifehttps://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050815/ap_on_sc/harvard_evolution;_ylt=AnlHjc6Mm8pe7tVEcPExsvOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM– ‘Digital birth ID’ stirs privacy debatehttps://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2005/08/13/m1a_digital_0813.html ‘Anti-ACLU’ Fights for Religion in Public Lifehttps://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C165644%2C00.html Scientists’ spirituality surpriseshttps://washtimes.com/national/20050814-115521-9143r.htm Pro-Family Psychologist Says Permissive Parents Put Kids At Riskhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/152005g.asp Reaching out to the porn industry.https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/008/29.71.html Starbucks Promotes Homosexual Agendahttps://www.religionjournal.com/showarticle.asp?id=3080 Millions Tune In for ‘Justice Sunday II,’ Hear Call to Action on Judicial Activismhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/152005a.asp Pro-Family Psychologist Sees Growing Trend Toward ‘Pushover Parenting’https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/122005e.asp Bishop-Controlled […]
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Virtual Pilgrimage to World Youth Day

TORONTO/COLOGNE, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – World Youth Days (WYD)Âhave been aÂhuge international cultural phenomenon. The enormous gatherings of youth, which were responsible for the largest gathering of human persons in Manila in the Philippines in 1995, are a celebration of Christian faith but also a cultural phenomenon which comes as a wave pushing back the culture of death. The lives ofÂmany who experience WYD are said to be changed forever. LifeSiteNews.com is pleased to provide an ongoing glimpse into the experience of the youth currently attending the WYD in Cologne. Our glimpses will be provided by various youth sending […]
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Harry Potter Controversy Carries Over to Vatican Radio

ROME, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â The massive controversy generated over the letters of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger posted on LifeSiteNews.com regarding Harry Potter continues nearly a month after the posting.ÂÂ The priest who in 2003 inadvertently caused the world media to falsely trumpet that the Vatican and Pope John Paul II approved of the Harry Potter novels, was back on Vatican radio defending the Potter books, responding to the letters from Cardinal Ratzinger. The German Cardinal who was to become the current Pope wrote in 2003 to a German Potter critic saying, “It is good, that you enlighten people about […]
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California Abortion Drug Investigation Underway After Four Deaths

LOS ANGELES, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health officials have launched an investigation into the safety of the RU-486 chemical abortion after reports that four California women died after combined use of the drug with misoprostol, a drug used to follow-up after the RU-486/ Mifeprex feticide kills the unborn child. The combined resources of the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the California Department of Health Services and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services are seeking to determine if there is a causal connection between use of the drug and the […]
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Teenage Mother Forgoes Abortion after Reading “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart” Bumper Sticker

MILLINOCKET, Maine, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bumper sticker saved a baby’s life, as reported by an e-newsletter. Pro-lifers Dave and Mary Labun came out of the house to their parked car to find a handwritten note on the windshield thanking them for their “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart” bumper sticker. The note reads as follows: Hello, This might be very weird, but I wanted to thank you. I’m not sure what you believe in, but I’m a strong believer in God, and right now I am 17 and pregnant. And on my way to school one day, I […]
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BC Official “Horrified” by Sex Identification Test but not by Abortion

VANCOUVER, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new home test kit has one BC official “horrified” that couples may learn the sex of their children before birth. The horror that parents may be able to choose gender-specific clothes and nursery furnishings seems to have gripped an official of the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons. This “expert” in medical ethics, said, “I’m greatly concerned about that because I think gender selection is immoral.” Peter Seland, deputy registrar of ethics for the College continued, “I believe that that opinion is shared by the college.” The Gender Mentor Home DNA Gender Testing […]
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Erotic Billboard Images a Traffic Hazard Study Shows

NASHVILLE, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Research by US psychologists from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and from Yale University in Connecticut, have found that the sight of erotic images on billboard advertising can cause a brief moment of blindness that may constitute a traffic hazard. The study shows that some personality types are affected more than others and the moment of blindness is short, but could constitute a hazard while driving. Volunteers were shown a rapid-fire series of images such as landscapes and architectural scenes, interspersed with violent or erotic images. When the erotic images were placed close together, […]
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Award to Leading Abortion Doc “Defies the Imagination” says Canadian Bishops Conference

OTTAWA, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Brendan M. O’Brien of St. John’s, Newfoundland, has expressed great dismay that abortionist Henry Morgentaler received the 2005 Couchiching Award for Public Policy Leadership on Friday, 5 August 2005, during the 74th annual Couchiching Conference. “How someone who has led a movement that causes the death of approximately 100,000 innocent persons a year in Canada can be said to ‘have had a positive impact on Canada or a community within Canada’ defies the imagination,” said Archbishop O’Brien. According to Canadian Press, “The Couchiching Award […]
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NARAL Communication Director Resigns after Anti-Roberts Ad Pulled

WASHINGTON, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leadership of NARAL Pro-Choice America is still feeling the self-inflicted sting of its television ad. The abortion lobbyists director of communications, David E. Seldin announced his resignation the day after the group pulled a television ad that had even ardent abortion supporters angry at its inflammatory accusations against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Seldin said, “I’ve been thinking for a while that I would most likely leave after the Supreme Court nomination fight was over.” He said his last day with NARAL was Friday. The advertisement was considered inflammatory even by such rabid […]
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New Jersey University Student Punished for Voicing Opposition to Homosexuality in Email

NEW JERSEY, August 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The despotism of the leftist establishment on American university campuses is a standard topic of most conservative magazines and websites. The war over freedom of speech is especially fierce among the tenured neo-Marxists who govern academia according to one group. In a recent salvo, the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, (FIRE) has come to the defence of graduate student, Jihad Daniel, at William Paterson University. 63-year-old Daniel, who is both a student and employee of the university, is being punished for “discrimination” and “harassment” for a private email he sent objecting […]
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Pro-Life California Youth Walks Across U.S. and Europe on Way to World Youth Day

COLOGNE, Germany, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Miles Foley of Citrus Heights, California, spent his summer walking 3,000 miles across the United States. Now Foley, and 35 other American students, are walking 150 miles from Brussels, Belgium to Cologne, Germany for World Youth Day 2005. “This summer has been an incredible experience,” said Foley. “The people we have encountered in Europe so far, much like those in the United States, have been welcoming.” Miles, a recent graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, is part of an organization of college students, called Crossroads, who sponsor walks across America each summer […]
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Vatican Concerned over Abortion Drugs and Referrals at UK Catholic Hospital

LONDON, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The private Catholic hospital of St John and St Elizabeth is under Vatican scrutiny, after the hospital began leasing its premises to National Health Service physicians, who, as public employees, are obliged to refer for abortions and to prescribe chemical abortifacients and contraceptives. The hospital, known for delivering the babies of such celebrities as Cate Blanchett, Heather Mills McCartney, and Kate Moss, is the focus of an inquiry spearheaded by the UK’s leading Catholic prelate, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. An additional part of the hospital’s expansion includes a plan to open a NHS primary care […]
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NARAL Pulls Offensive Roberts Ad In Face of Public Outcry

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this week Pro-choice America (NARAL) released a controversial ad linking Judge John Roberts with what the ad called anti-abortion “violent fringe groups” and specifically a 1998 abortion clinic bombing. The announcer concluded the ad urging viewers to ask their senators to oppose the confirmation of judge Roberts, saying “America can’t afford a Justice whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans.” The ad was subjected to an in depth analysis by Factcheck.org, which proclaimed its content at best misleading, and at worst completely false. It was immediately denounced by numerous […]
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Planned Parenthood Claims Pharmacist’s Refusal to Dispense an Abortifacient is ‘Criminal’

COVENTRY, Rhode Island, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The actions of a CVS pharmacist, who refused to fill a prescription for the abortifacient morning-after pill, were described as “criminal” by Planned Parenthood, even though the pharmacy chain itself is defending the pharmacist’s actions as compliant with company policy. “Our policy is to fill prescriptions for all customers in a timely manner and to make sure their needs are met and that they are satisfied,” said CVS vice president of corporate communications and community relations, Eileen Howard Dunn, according to a Providence Journal report. “As an employer, however, we must also […]
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Roberts and Playboy: More Unwelcome Surprises From Bush Nominee?

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More so than a man with passionate convictions, even be they contrary to their own, most hard and fast conservatives fear a man without apparent or firmly held convictions. And it seems that as the small bits of often seemingly inconsequential information about Judge John Roberts Jr.‘s willingness to argue or help with morally dubious cases trickles out into the public consciousness, conservative fears about Roberts are growing. Most special interest organizations, excepting far left extreme groups such as NARAL, have kept a judicious and thoughtful silence, suspending judgement about Roberts until sufficient […]
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Canada’s Liberal Tradition Requires Protection of Conscience Rights for Marriage Commissioners

OTTAWA, August 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal and conservative pundits have argued that while religious clerics should not be coerced to perform homosexual ‘marriages’, marriage commissioners, as state employees, should be required to uphold the state’s moral code, rather than be given conscience and religious freedom protection if they object to performing homosexual wedding ceremonies. On Tuesday, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, responded to one such columnist, saying, “Canada has a long history of protection for conscience and religious freedom. Canada has formally recognized the conscientious objection of pacifists, exempting them from participation in military campaigns. Canada allows Sikh RCMP officers […]
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Canadian Catholic Priest Defies Church and Defends “Ordination” of Women “Priests”

COBOURG, ON, August 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest sequel to the lurid events of earlier this summer, the so-called Catholic “ordinations” of nine women in a “secret” ceremony on the St. Lawrence River, a Cobourg Catholic priest has come out strongly in defense of the women and their actions. In an interview with the Osprey News Network the Catholic priest openly defied the teachings of the Catholic Church. “I believe that this is the beginning of a new and awesome change in the life of the Church,” said Rev. Edward Cachia of St. Michael’s Catholic Church about the […]
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German Bishops Stop Plan by Police to Hand out Condoms at World Youth Day

COLOGNE, August 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the pervasiveness of the condom doctrine in government, media and education it is perhaps understandable that Germany’s police union would have thought that distributing condoms at World Youth Day was a good idea. Prrotests from Church officials caused the GdP union to back off. The police include condom distribution at any event where large crowds are expected to gather. A bewildered sounding GdP union spokeswoman said, “We don’t want to offend anyone,” and said the decision to cancel the distribution was “an issue of sensitivity.” Other plans to distribute condoms and anti-Catholic literature […]
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California Supreme Court Refuses to Rule on Gay “Marriage”

SACRAMENTO, August 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would not hand down a ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex “marriage.” The decision means the issue remains open – a ruling welcomed by a pro-family group that is pushing for a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex “marriage” for the state. Executive Director of Campaign for California Families, Randy Thomasson, told the Associated Press, “It’s very good that the high court declined to hear this case.” Thomasson had asked the court not to rule on the issue. “The high court should never turn marriage upside […]
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Abortions in Pennsylvania Down 2.4% for 2004

HARRISBURG, PA, August 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of abortions performed in Pennsylvania decreased by 2.4% in 2004. ÂAccording to data recently made available by the state Department of Health, there were 36,030 abortions in 2004, compared to 36,908 in 2003. “Our Conference welcomes any decrease in the number of abortions,” said PA Catholic Conference (PCC) Executive Director Dr. Robert J. O’Hara, Jr. “We are confident that the number will continue to decline if women are presented with accurate information about the life growing within them and the resources available to help them continue their pregnancy and raise their […]
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Report on Catholic Clergy and Political Parties

August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) Recent U.S. and Canadian elections have brought the issue of the involvement of the Catholic Church in politics to the forefront, most notably the question of whether and under what circumstances stubbornly pro-abortion Catholic politicians should be denied Communion. While a few heroic bishops such as Canada’s Bishop Fred Henry and US Bishop Raymond Burke have taken clear stands in saying they would refuse communion to certain politicians, the majority have remained non-committal or even stated outright that they would not refuse communion to anyone. Not surprisingly this has sent a mixed message to the faithful. […]
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Catholic Clergy and Their Puzzling Support for Liberal Parties and Candidates

August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) Recent U.S. and Canadian elections have brought the issue of the involvement of the Catholic Church in politics to the forefront, most notably the question of whether and under what circumstances stubbornly pro-abortion Catholic politicians should be denied Communion. While a few heroic bishops such as Canada’s Bishop Fred Henry and US Bishop Raymond Burke have taken clear stands in saying they would refuse communion to certain politicians, the majority have remained non-committal or even stated outright that they would not refuse communion to anyone. Not surprisingly this has sent a mixed message to the faithful. […]
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Phoenix Bishop Misrepresented by Secular Press

PHOENIX, August 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The flap started last year over a speaking engagement on a proposition to the Arizona government to impose restrictions on illegal immigrants. Governor Janet Napolitano cancelled speeches against the proposition, which the Arizona Catholic conference also opposes, in some of the Catholic churches in the Phoenix diocese. This resulted from the Diocese of Phoenix asking the Governor to choose another venue, because, though they were in agreement over the treatment of undocumented immigrants, the Methodist Governor supported abortion and homosexual “marriage,” which are non-negotiables for Catholics. One Arizona online news source ran the Republic […]
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Disability and Anti-Euthanasia Groups Outraged at Biased Dutch Study

UTRECHT, August 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study appearing in the August 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine claims that the ‘careful patient evaluations and official practice guidelines’ followed by physicians in the Netherlands is adequate protection for those disabled people who fear for their lives in Dutch hospitals. The study surveyed all general practitioners in 18 of 22 Dutch general practice districts. Researchers found that 44% of all requests for euthanasia or physician assisted suicide were granted. The conclusion of the study is that the safeguards are working just fine, that doctor compliance is high and that […]
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EU Commissioner calls on Europeans to have More Children

BRUSSELS, August 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A European Commissioner warned that the continent’s low birthrate is one of three most pressing issues facing the European Union. “The collapse of social policies in support of working women and families has increased the burden on women, and contributed to the depression of fertility rates,” a press release from the office of the EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities stated. At a conference organized by the Commission last month, Commissioner Vladimír Špidla warned, “Between now and 2030, a loss of 21 million people of working age, or 7% of the […]
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Breast Cancer Incidence is Highly Correlated with Abortion Incidence – Researcher

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British breast cancer researcher will present evidence Wednesday, revealing that abortion is the best phenomenon to explain three distinct breast cancer trends in the UK population. Patrick Carroll, director of the Pensions and Population Research Institute in London, will present his evidence today at the Joint Statistical Meetings at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Carroll reports the following trends in breast cancer incidence, associated with abortion, according to a Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer release: Trend #1: Upper class women are the most likely to develop breast cancer and die of the disease. For […]
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NARAL Airs Ad Falsely Accusing Judge John Roberts of Supporting Abortion Clinic Bombings

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-Choice America (NARAL) is spending $500,000 to air a contentious ad that marks the strongest attack against Judge John Roberts Jr.‘s Supreme Court nomination by any special interest group thus far. The television ad begins with bloody images from a 1998 abortion clinic bombing. Following that is footage of Judge Roberts with the superimposed text of a brief signed by Roberts in 1991 that NARAL says was supportive of “violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber.” One of the victims of the 1998 bombing, Emily Lyons, says “I’m determined to stop this […]
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Amnesty International to Consider Pushing for Global Right to Abortion

MORALES, Mexico, August 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Amnesty International (AI) is to consider pushing abortion as a human right at its biennial International Council Meeting (ICM) beginning next week. The August 14-20 ICM with representatives from the fifty AI branches worldwide will consider altering the organization’s neutral stance on abortion. Amnesty International’s current policy on abortion states: “AI takes no position on whether or not women have a right to choose to terminate unwanted pregnancies; there is no generally accepted right to abortion in international human rights law.” The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) points out that […]
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Placenta Cells Share Characteristics of Embryo Cells Without Tumor Formation

PITTSBURGH, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have revealed findings that some placental cells have many of the same characteristics of embryonic stem cells. Like umbilical cords, the placenta is routinely discarded after a baby is born, and is a rich source of these cells. The cells are readily available and have been shown not to produce the tumors that are a major medical barrier to using embryo cells in direct treatments. “We think it would be easier to get these to the clinic than [embryonic stem] cells,” said Stephen Strom, an associate professor of […]
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FDA to announce Morning-After Pill Decision by end of August

WASHINGTON, August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Food and Drug Administration said it would decide the fate of Barr Pharmaceuticals Plan B abortifacient morning-after pill by month’s end. The FDA denied Barr’s first attempt at over-the-counter approval last year, based on the “overwhelming recommendation of the agency’s own scientific advisers,” according to a CNN report. In addition, the FDA expressed concern that Barr had not included any age restriction in the application. Their updated application requested that the drug be available OTC for girls aged 16 or over, while prescription-only status be retained for girls under 16. Experts argue […]
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Pro-Abortion UN Leader to Address World Youth Day Pilgrims in Germany

COLOGNE, August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Youth Days,Âa creation of the late Pope John Paul II, have become, without parallel, the world’s largest assemblies of youth. Such gatherings have been a boost to the Catholic Church but also to Christianity and Christian morality in general especially in the cities and countries where they have taken place. This stellar success has also infuriated opponents of Christian morality. Homosexual groups have taken to using the occasion to hold protests and pro-abortion organizations have taken out billboards to advertise condoms and the like. These measures areÂmostly ignored by the massive number […]
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Over 100 Groups Urge President Bush to Enforce Anti-Prostitution Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a joint letter to President Bush, over 100 women’s, health and policy organizations have urged him to protect victims of human trafficking and “stand firm on legislation and policies that require groups receiving certain federal grants to provide written assurance that they oppose prostitution.” The letter brings into sharp focus a contentious debate over how to best aid prostituted persons and sex trafficking victims. Some governments and groups favor the so-called “harm reduction” approach that emphasizes supplying sexually exploited persons with condoms and trying to teach negotiating skills. The U.S. government instead […]
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Group Launches Pre-Election Bid to Promote Legalized Abortion in Ireland

DUBLIN, August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion group today announced the launch of a campaign aimed at legalizing abortion in Ireland. The Irish Family Planning Association said it plans to lobby politicians in the run-up to the next federal election expected for 2007. The IFPA also plans to capitalize on the legal case before the European Court of Human Rights, where three Irish pro-abortion activist women are seeking to have Ireland’s abortion law overturned. At a press conference at a Dublin hotel today, six pro-life activists were removed by security for trying to break into the meeting while carrying […]
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Marriage Collapse a Major Factor in Decline of Quality of Life says Study

NEW JERSEY, August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Marriage Project is an interdisciplinary study undertaken by researchers at Rutgers University of New Jersey. It’s goal, to “educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child well-being,” involves the publication of the annual “State of Our Unions” report on the “social health of marriage in America.” The researchers found that the divorce rate in the US has continued to drop, falling to 17.7 per 1000 in 2004 from 18.1 the previous year. This slight improvement, however, was offset by the continued rise in unwed […]
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Portland Victim of Coerced Abortion Settles Out of Court

  PORTLAND, August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four years ago, a fifteen year old girl was locked alone in a room, drugged and had her child aborted by a for-profit abortion mill in Portland Oregon where she went for information that she hoped would dissuade her boyfriend from wanting an abortion. Felicia Bautista, now 19, has settled out of court in a lawsuit against the All Women’s Health Services abortion facility. One of the complaints of the suit was that the facility failed to inform her on the increased risk of breast cancer after abortion. She said that she had […]
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World Youth Day Cologne a Magnet for Anti-Christian Proselytizers

CYBERSPACE, August 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Those young participants of World Youth Day who have attended more than one have grown accustomed to certain aspects that have become standard features of the mass events. These include talks from bishops, fellowship with jubilant throngs of youth from around the world and a huge, outdoor Mass celebrated by the Pope. Another aspect without which it seems no World Youth Day would be complete is the fury of anti-Christian protesters who seem enraged that young Catholics have rejected their message of sexual immorality and the Culture of Death. World Youth Day is a […]
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Christian Leaders do not Speak for Christian Public says Prime Minister

SYDNEY, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell and his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop Peter Jensen, criticized proposed industrial relations changes that, they said, would erode minimum wages, cut weekend family time and restrict the collective bargaining powers of unions. In comments to The Age newspaper, the two Christian leaders warned that changes could undermine vulnerable workers’ ability to secure a stable financial and family life. The Government plans to introduce a single national industrial relations system, change the way minimum wages are set and scrap unfair dismissal laws for some businesses. “It seems at this […]
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Same-Sex Couple “Married” in Canada Sues for Recognition of Lesbian “Marriage” in UK

LONDON, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British lesbian couple, “married” in Canada, is suing to have their native country redefine their cohabitatory status as legally “married” under UK law. Sue Wilkinson, 51, and Celia Kitzinger, 48, will launch their suit with the UK’s High Court Friday, vowing to take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary. “Our relationship is not a civil partnership, it is a marriage,” claimed Kitzinger, a sociology professor at Toronto’s York University. “Any different-sex couple who did what we did would have had their marriage recognised. I feel insulted about being […]
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Majority of Albertans Disapprove of Homosexuality – Poll

EDMONTON, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ipsos-Reid poll revealed that a majority of Albertans – roughly 56 percent of the 800 surveyed -Âdisapprove ofÂhomosexuality. “This poll doesn’t reflect Albertans’ feelings,” claimed Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) Canada regional director Stephen Lock, according to a Calgary Herald report. “It reflects the opinion of people who responded to the poll.” But Ipsos-Reid spokesman Peter Weylie disagreed. He said the accuracy of his poll is not the issue – their predictions during the last provincial election were accurate. Weylie said he was most surprised that public opinion on homosexuality has […]
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New Study Finds Some Late-Term Abortion Babies Born Live at Only 18 Weeks

MANCHESTER, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK law allows abortion on demand up to the age of 24 weeks. This despite the general consensus that children born prematurely, after 22 weeks gestation, are viable and often survive. New evidence reveals that many children aborted at even 18 weeks are born alive – with some even crying. This reality begs the question from the so-called doctor, intent on killing the child, as to what to do when a baby is born alive, especially after 22 weeks. So far, the children born alive are left to their own until they in time […]
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Pro-Abortion Planned Parenthood Video Depicts “Superhero for Choice” Killing Pro-Lifers

WASHINGTON, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sleazy Dude” and “Senator.” These are two pro-life characters in a new animated video released by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (San Francisco). Titled “A Superhero for CHOICE,” the video follows a female “superhero,” named “Dianisis,” whose sole mission is to protect “choice.” Dianisis first encounters “Sleezy Dude,” as Sleezy tells a group of teenagers that “the only way to prevent pregnancy is to practice abstinence.” One teen responds, “But Mister, we learned at school that there are other ways to practice safe sex and protect ourselves.” Sleezy responds: “Those are instruments from the devil’s […]
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Morning After Pill Dividing Mexican Leaders

MEXICO CITY, August 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The decision by Mexican President Vicente Fox to make the abortifacient morning-after pill available for free at public hospitals last month is dividing his government. The pill has been available in Mexican pharmacies for years, but as of July 11 it was made available for free in health clinics that aid Mexico’s poor. Mexican bishops responded with a strongly worded condemnation of the move. A week after Health Minister Julio Frenk announced the decision, Interior Minister Carlos Abascal, after meeting with Cardinal Norberto Rivera, asked President Fox to re-evaluate the move. Cardinal Rivera […]
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American Red Cross Fires Employee for Refusal to Celebrate “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month”

SAN DIEGO, August 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian employee working at the American Red Cross, after expressing his concerns to senior staff about an e-mail from the diversity office notifying him that June was “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,” was fired from his job last month. Concerned Women for America (CWFA) reported that Michael Hartman, who had worked at the Red Cross for eight months, received an e-mail in late May distributed by Chief Diversity Officer David Wilkins which declared, “It is my pleasure to announce that June will be recognized as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month at national […]
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Canada Passes Child Pornography Bill

OTTAWA, August 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New anti-pornography legislation, Bill C-2, signed into law July 21, seeks to improve the protection of children from sexual exploitation, abuse and neglect. Although the legislation rights some ambiguities that existed in prior child pornography legislation, it still allows a defence for “artistic merit,” if those who create such so-called art can prove the end is for a “legitimate purpose,”– as may be used in the administration of justice, for the purposes of science, medicine or education. “Anything that leaves open the possibility that child pornography can be interpreted in any fashion as artistic, […]
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Colombians Maintain Right to Life for Unborn

BOGOTA, August 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Angus Reid Global Scan report revealed that the overwhelming majority of Colombians believe that abortion should remain illegal. According to a YanHaas poll, as reported by Colombia’s Radio RCN, 65.6 percent believe abortion should remain illegal. Abortion is considered a crime and is illegal there under any circumstances. In 1997, the Constitutional Court ruled that rape is no reason to justify taking the life of the unborn, emphasizing that a woman’s desire to abort “cannot take precedence over the life of the unborn.” The country’s Supreme Court softened its stand in 2001, ruling […]
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Poll: Most Americans Favor Abortion Restrictions

WASHINGTON, August 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Americans favor restrictions on abortion, according to a Pew poll released Wednesday – specifically, the overwhelming majority – 73 percent – favored parental consent before a minor can obtain an abortion. Nearly 60 percent said the number of abortions committed in the US should be reduced, according to separate surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, between July 13-17 among 1,502 adults, and July 7-17 among 2,000 adults. The poll also revealed that Americans are supportive of destructive embryonic stem cell research by nearly two-to-one (57%-30%). However, […]
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BC Court Hypocritically Rules Teachers can Criticize Government, State Personal Opinions in Classroo

VANCOUVER, August 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Columbia court of appeals has ruled that teachers there are free to use their positions to criticize the government and its policies. The teachers, in different BC school districts, used parent-teacher interviews to criticize aspects of their collective agreement with the government and posted flyers critical of the government’s actions on bulletin boards in the schools. The court decision is hypocritical, according to LifeSiteNews.com Managing Director Steve Jalsevac, when looked at in light of the recent censorship and subsequent suspension of a BC teacher for publishing his own personal views on another, […]
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Susan Torres Dies After Receiving the Last Sacraments of the Catholic Church

  ARLINGTON, VA, August 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After spending over twelve weeks hooked up to life-support in order that she might carry her baby to viability, 27-year-old Susan Torres, who has been medically brain-dead since collapsing from aggressive melanoma on May 7, has been given her final rest. Just one day after giving birth to Susan Anne Catherine Torres, Susan Torres Sr.‘s life support was turned off after she received he Last Sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church. “He’s hanging in,” said Justin Torres about his brother Jason, Susan’s husband. “It was a very difficult two days with a […]
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Dutch Doctor Admits to Killing Five Elderly Nursing Home Residents

OOSTENDE, August 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor has been arrested on murder charges after the deaths of five elderly nursing home patients suffering from dementia the past three years. The doctor, whom news sources are identifying only as “Boudewijn D.W.,” claimed that he had not murdered anyone but that the patients had been “relieved of their suffering” after he injected them with lethal doses of morphine. The doctor was arrested Friday at the order of a judge but was released Monday. A spokesman of the nursing home, Alex Daenekindt, said that there could be no question of legal euthanasia, […]
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Irish Designer Baby’s Stem Cells a Perfect Match for Ill Brother

MOIRA, August 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s first “designer baby,” created specifically as a tissue donor has been born and her stem cells harvested to treat her critically ill brother. Three week old Jodie Fletcher is a perfect tissue match for her five-year old brother, Joshua who suffers from a rare, incurable blood disorder, called Diamond Blackfan anaemia (DBA). Jodie is the result of genetically screened in vitro fertilization and was created with the permission of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) of the UK. Dr. Mohammed Taranissi, Director of the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre in London, […]
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Roe’s Army Reloads https://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hr732en/M=362343.6886681.7839642.3022212/D=groups/S=1705441200:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123091720/A=2894352/R=0/SIG=11fdoufgv/*https://www.globalgiving.com/cb/cidi/tsun.html A winning pro-life strategyhttps://worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45519 New law deals with fetal anesthesiahttps://www.kare11.com/print_article.aspx?storyid=103579 Top cloning experts gather in South Korea for clandestine testhttps://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050802/sc_afp/healthsciencestemcell Parental rights overwhelmingly supported in Californiahttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4546 Archdiocese denounces artificial insemination for homosexualshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4552 Frist’s Stem Cell Capitulationhttps://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2403/pub_detail.asp A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?https://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0506/opinion/cohen.html Taking Sex Differences Seriouslyhttps://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0506/reviews/butler.html CBC Jounalist is appointed new Governor General by Martinhttps://www.nealenews.com/index.htm John Roberts says he will honor established Supreme Court rulingshttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1004867&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 Faithful Furious Over Tactic of Portland Diocese Under Levadahttps://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-me-levada3aug03,0,2860940.story?coll=la-home-headlines Ad promotes Hillary for presidenthttps://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=63335&pt=n Senator Frist’s grave mistake – Cal Thomashttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050801.shtml Cardinal Keeler criticizes Frist’s support of embryonic stem-cell researchhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4534 Bush Backs up the […]
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Northern Ireland Parades Commission gives Green Light for “Gay Pride” Event

BELFAST, August (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a concerted effort by Christian and pro-family groups to put a stop to Belfast’s annual “Gay Pride” event, on Thursday the Northern Ireland Parades Commission gave the homosexual group the go-ahead to hold the event. The Northern Ireland Police Service requested that the Parades Commission – originally set up to decide on whether parades held by warring Catholics and Protestants be allowed to proceed –Â rule on the matter, after receiving complaints about the lewd nature of the parade from concerned Christian groups. A Christian coalition, Stop the Parade Coalition, originally complained that the event […]
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Brain-Dead Virginia Woman Gives Birth To Healthy Baby Girl

ALEXANDRIA, VA, August 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Susan Torres, the brain-dead Virginia woman whose plight attracted the sympathy of the international community, has given birth to a healthy baby girl. Born at 8:18 am, Susan Anne Catherine Torres was delivered by Caesarean section, weighing just 1 pound, 13 ounces. 26-year-old Susan Torres Sr., a vaccine researcher and mother of a two-year-old son, Peter, collapsed on May 7 of this year from advanced stages of melanoma. Having been pronounced brain-dead at the time with no hope of recovery, her husband Jason Torres chose to continue to artificially keep his wife alive […]
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Calgary Bishop Henry: “The state has no authority to alter the fundamental meaning of marriage”

CALGARY, August 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Fred Henry continues to fight for the meaning of marriage and family. In his July 31 Calgary Sun column the outspoken bishop writes that the erosion of the family poses real threats to the stability of Canadian society. Henry quotes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states, “The family is the natural and fundamental group unity of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state.” He continues, “The state has no authority to alter the fundamental meaning of marriage or to make the family a creature of the state.” […]
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Dead babies find shocks Germanyhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4737641.stm “The moment you give up your principles, and your values…you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”https://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110006858 Filibustering judges has only hurt Democratshttps://www.opinionjournal.com/nextjustice/?id=110007041 SENATOR DENOUNCES REPORT CALLING FOR UN GLOBAL INTERNET CONTROLhttps://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm Virginity Clothier Set to Become a Millionairehttps://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/31/wpants31.xml Female hormone therapies can cause cancer: UNhttps://www.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory.asp?archive=true&dist=ArchiveSplash&siteid=google&guid=%7B2CEDA8FB%2D1573%2D4A92%2DB7E3%2D9252EA1AC1BF%7D&returnURL=%2Fnews%2Fstory%2Easp%3Fguid%3D%7B2CEDA8FB%2D1573%2D4A92%2DB7E3%2D9252EA1AC1BF%7D%26siteid%3Dgoogle%26dist%3D%26archive%3Dtrue%26param%3Darchive%26garden%3D%26minisite%3D New York Governor Vows to Veto ‘morning-After Pill’ Legislationhttps://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBU3NKIUBE.html Tories promise to fight same-sex marriage law in electionhttps://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005/july/25/legislation/&c=1 What do drugs do the developing teenage brain?https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=126 University rebukes employee for e-mail decrying lesbianismhttps://washingtontimes.com/national/20050730-114110-4499r.htm Toledo Police, courts let accused priests avoid punishmenthttps://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005507310305 60% U.S. 13 year […]
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Portland Archdiocese Names Parishioners As Defendants In Sex-Abuse Bankruptcy Case

PORTLAND, Ore., August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a rare legal maneuver the Portland Archdiocese has named 389,000 registered lay Catholic parishioners as defendants in its ongoing bankruptcy case. The Portland diocese was the first in the United States to file for bankruptcy protection after facing hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits. In its bankruptcy petition the diocese claimed a likely $400 million in legal damages while listing only $19 million in assets. The lawyers of the sex-abuse victims, however, are arguing that the diocese owns the property and buildings of its 124 parishes, estimated at a worth of $600 million. The […]
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Infamous Canadian Abortionist Henry Morgentaler Set to Receive Public Policy Leadership Award

TORONTO, ON, August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the University of Western Ontario having publicly honored Henry Morgentaler earlier this summer, despite fierce public opposition and the loss of a number of large donors, it seems that others are finding the time ripe to publicly laud Canada’s most famed and controversial abortionist. It has been announced that Morgentaler is slated to receive his second award for the year, the prestigious 2005 Award for Public Policy Leadership. It will be conferred on him at the 74th annual Couchiching conference in Orillia, Ontario, taking place this upcoming weekend. “Through the direct and […]
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USAID “Biggest Obstacle” to Pro-Life Work of Peruvian Lawmakers, Author Says

LIMA, August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Catholic author, in a recent visit to Peru, met with the former prime minister and three representatives of the Peruvian Congress, who revealed that the “biggest obstacle” to their pro-life activities in the Peruvian Congress was from NGOs funded by the US State Department through USAID, the United States Agency for International Development. Author of The Window, “A Catholic Look at Society, Culture and Politics,” Deal Hudson, in the August 1 edition, writes that he met with the lawmakers to discuss their pro-life work in the Peruvian government. “The NGOs are using […]
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Unmarried Parents Five Times more Likely to Separate than Married

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The weekly Family Update from the World Congress of Families today revealed that cohabitating couples are five times more likely to separate than married couples. Citing research from the UK, the Congress revealed how these statistics are having a devastating effect on children: “An estimated 88,000 children under age five were affected by the separation of their unmarried parents in 2003, compared with about 31,000 children under five whose married parents divorced, the research concludes.” Harry Benson, lead author of the research, said, “The evidence is irrefutable. Unmarried parents are five times more likely […]
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Democrats and Pro-Abortion Groups Ready for a Change of Rhetoric –“Choice” doesn’t sell in US

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since the crushing defeat of the Democrats in the last election, the party’s spin doctors have been crafting a new approach to abortion without making any moves to abandon their basic premise that babies can be killed at will. Democratic think tank, the Third Way, billing itself as a “strategy center for progressives” attempting to reverse the social tide in the US towards traditional values, says that the Democrat party and abortion groups need to change their rhetoric. After its success in moving the Democrats to the centre on gun control, the think tank […]
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