The Most Wonderful Family Time – Christmas – Steve Jalsevac

By Steve Jalsevac  LifeSiteNews.com Managing Director This past year has been a trying one for those who love life and family. However, there has also been much good news, although often harder to recognize and appreciate. The best good news time of the year for me is always Christmas. We take a break from the world controversies and frenetic pace and focus on the bigger picture of why we are really here and what really matters for each one of us. Last week one son came home from Rome. Yesterday another came home from seminary in Ottawa. Today, my wife […]
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Finnish Study finds IVF Increases Risk of Deformity

By Gudrun Schultz FINLAND, December 23, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – 43 babies out of every thousand conceived using in vitro fertilization techniques are born with a serious deformity, according to yet another study indicating the dangers of IVF. A report by Stakes, Finland’s National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, found a significant increase in the rate of birth deformity among IVF infants. Normal rates would be 29 per thousand. In particular, the study found a higher rate of genital malformation among IVF boy babies. There have been increasing numbers of studies linking infant health problems with IVF techniques […]
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An Assisian Christmas – John Jalsevac

By John J. Jalsevac My personal preparation for this Christmas began a little earlier, perhaps, than most. Two months ago I was in Assisi, that blessed, enchanted town that once gave rise to perhaps the holiest and most popular saint in history – St. Francis. For three days myself and my twenty-eight fellow classmates from Christendom College tramped about from basilica to basilica, and shrine to shrine, through the cobblestone streets and alleys of the medieval city. And for the three days we were absolutely silent, allowing our undistracted minds to concentrate on the only things that really matter. It […]
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Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord – Hilary White

By Hilary White No one wanted to know shepherds in first century Palestine; they were outcasts, almost as low as a criminal subclass. So it has always struck me as significant that the heavenly host, those highest of all the high, should have come to them for the great announcement. While the great of the world were looking the other way, the angels of God most high manifested to these lowest of the low a glimpse of celestial glory. The multitude of the heavenly host praising God and giving a message of assurance, one that could not be mistaken or […]
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Polish Pro-Family President Inaugurated

By Terry Vanderheyden WARSAW, December 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland has confirmed its new president – pro-life and “strongly Catholic” Lech Kaczynski was sworn in today. As the mayor of Warsaw, Kaczynski banned “gay pride” parades two years in a row. Kaczynski, whose identical twin brother Jaroslaw heads the minority ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, earned 54.5 percent of the vote to defeat fellow presidential contender Donald Tusk in October. The European Union may try to deny Poland its EU voting status because Kaczynski opposes the celebration of homosexuality. The EU is calling Kaczynski’s actions as the mayor of […]
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Pope Benedict Gives Message of Hope to Cardinals in Christmas Address

By Hilary White ROME, December 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI, in his first Christmas address as Pope, has led the Cardinals of the Curia, the Vatican’s version of a cabinet, in a meditation on the events of the past year for the Church and the world. Starting with a reminiscence of his friend, mentor and predecessor, Pope John Paul II, Benedict asked the rhetorical questions that summarize the thoughts of many in the troubled world. John Paul, the Pope said, asked in his last book if evil were the last word. “Is evil perhaps invincible? Is it really […]
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Christmas Memories – Gudrun Schultz

By Gudrun Schultz My most beautiful memory of Christmas is also one of my earliest memories. I was four. My family was small back then, just my parents, two sisters, and me. We lived on an isolated farm in the Quebec woods, and I spent my days playing with my sisters and taking care of a family of dolls. I don’t remember the Christmas preparations that must have gone on that year, but on Christmas eve, when it came time for my Dad to do the barn chores in the evening, we all got dressed up in our winter coats […]
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My Christmas of 1996 – Terry Vanderhaven

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, December 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of my most memorable Christmases was the Christmas of 1996. I had begun the process of discerning whether God wanted me to serve Him as a priest, so I attended a retreat in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a religious order there. At the same retreat was a young man from Ghana who, unlike me, was fairly certain of his call to the priesthood. Unfortunately for Peter, the seminaries in West Africa were not only full, but had a waiting list of three years or more. His parents had saved from their […]
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Research of Korean Embryonic Stem-Cell Scientist Declared “intentionally fabricated”

By Terry Vanderheyden SEOUL, December 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The research of Korean embryonic stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has been declared “intentionally fabricated” by a panel of scientists at Seoul National University. The once national hero said, “I sincerely apologise to the people for creating shock and disappointment,” after the announcement, according to a BBC report. “Based on these findings, data in the 2005 Science journal cannot be regarded as a simple accidental error but as intentional fabrication made out of two stem cells,” the investigators reported. “This is a serious wrongdoing that has damaged the foundation of science.” A […]
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To Our Readers From The LifeSiteNews.com Team

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year! A special set of columns appear on LifeSiteNews.com today and over the holidays – reflections on Christmas from our team of writers, and a few good-news stories too. We trust you’ll enjoy them and remember to check online to see photos which accompany some of the reflections. (https://www.lifesitenews.com ) LifeSiteNews.com will not publish from December 24 till January 2. Service will resume January 3, 2006. At this time of year we reflect on how Joseph and the full-term Mary, the ‘Mother of my Lord’, were turned away from […]
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From our Family to Yours – A Westen Family Christmas

By John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com For our family, these are the golden years of Christmas celebrations. Our seven children range in age from nine to newborn and so the holidays are filled with wonder and joy, excitement and singing. At some times there is a lack of quiet, but with grace, peace can always reign in our hearts. Five boys make for much of the action in the house, with a count down to Christmas having begun the first day of Advent. The anticipation of the coming of the Christ Child and the celebrations which ensue have grown exponentially these […]
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The Legacy of Mother Angelica

IRONDALE, Alabama, December 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – EWTN, the Eternal World Television Network founded by Mother Angelica, has been an outstanding success. The network offers 24-hour programming to 104 million homes in 110 countries. 80 percent of the material offered to viewers is produced on site at the network’s studios in Irondale, Alabama. There are countless conversions attributed to the networks’ influence, by people from an endless variety of backgrounds and situations. “Cancer patients, Playboy bunnies, secret Christians in Muslim countries who watch online—stacks of their stories come in to EWTN each day,” says Hoopes. Life has not been easy […]
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We Have a Huge Stake in Christianityhttps://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=11029 The Power of Christmashttps://www.nationalreview.com/jgraham/graham200512221014.asp Raymond Arroyo on an unlikely woman who built an unlikely empire.https://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/arroyo200512210812.asp National Post applauds Supreme Court of Canada decision in favour of swingers clubs https://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=e28cab1b-41b7-49ab-bcd2-645654a7888a Menorahs Light Path for Nativity Displayshttps://www.forward.com/articles/7053 Taking the Christmas Out of Christhttps://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-xmas21dec21,1,1681994.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true A last Christmas in Palestine?https://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/hagan122105.htm Public Schools Declare War on Christmashttps://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=11065 Chinese priests defiant in pre-Christmas standoffhttps://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-12-22T071320Z_01_KRA217178_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CHINA-PRIESTS.xml&archived=False Report Warns of Chinese Military Machinehttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/12/18/130057.shtml Next Narnia film, Prince Caspian, gets the thumbs-uphttps://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/news/blog-051219.html Exercise your way to better mental healthhttps://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2005-12-22T164554Z_01_MOR258934_RTRUKOC_0_US-EXERCISE-MENTAL-HEALTH.xml Creating the world’s first synthetic life formhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051219/LIFE19/TPScience/?query=synthetic+life+form Calgary Herald Attacks Supreme Court on Swingers’ […]
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True Conservatives Running as Independents against Anti-Family, Anti-Life ‘Conservative’ Candidates

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At least two conservative pro-family independents have decided to face-off with Conservatives who support same-sex “marriage” and abortion in the federal election. Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, BC, Conservative MP James Moore riled a host of conservatives after he won his seat in 2000 while claiming that he was pro-family and pro-life, then later voted in favour of the Liberal Party’s gay “marriage” legislation. Now a former member of his riding executive, Greg Watrich, is running against Moore as an independent. “There is a strong Conservative base here who feels they’ve been betrayed […]
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UK School Sticking to Ban on Wearing Crucifix Despite Protest from Muslims and Sikhs

By John-Henry Westen DERBY, UK, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – England’s Sinfin Community School is not backing down from its decision to suspend a 16-year-old for her refusal to take off a crucifix she wore around her neck on a gold chain for three years.ÂÂThe student, Sam Morris, was allowed back to school after a day’s suspension only after she removed the crucifix. Sikh religious bracelets, and Muslim sacred daggers are permitted at the school but the crucifix worn on a chain is not. LifeSiteNews.com contacted the local school council and was informed that the “jewellery ban” is still in […]
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Malta Will Not Legalize Divorce Despite EU Pressure

VALETTA, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maltese government has dismissed the campaign of a maverick secularist, Emmanuel Bezzina, to legalize divorce. Malta, the EU’s smallest nation and one of the world’s last holdouts in defending marriage, family and the unborn, has retained in law protections for married couples and families. Divorce and abortion are outlawed in Malta, and are likely to remain so, according to a government minister. “He doesn’t have his finger on the pulse. People are very afraid” by divorce, said Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, junior minister for justice and home affairs. Bezzina, who says he wants to […]
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Australian PM Howard Says Gay Unions Out of Question

By Terry Vanderheyden CANBERRA, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Australia would not be following Britain’s lead by introducing a class of marriage for same-sex couples. “I believe very strongly that marriage is exclusively a union for life of a man and a woman to the exclusion of others,” Howard said, as reported by the Australian Associated Press. “That’s the common understanding of marriage in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and I would be opposed to the recognition of civil unions.” Australian lawmakers voted to amend the Marriage Act last year that enshrined the traditional definition of […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Says He Would “Absolutely” Attend Gay ‘Wedding’

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Paul Martin, a self-styled “very strong Roman Catholic”, said in an interview with Don Martin of The Calgary Herald that he would attend a homosexual ‘marriage’ ceremony. Asked if he would attend a same-sex wedding if invited, the Prime Minister responded, “oh sure I’d go, absolutely. Yes, I would go if I was invited.” Martin has campaigned on the homosexual ‘marriage’ issue, berating his primary opponent – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper – for his party’s willingness to allow a free vote in parliament on the issue. (see coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121908.html […]
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Pro-Life Priest’s Society Finally Approved

By Terry Vanderheyden AMARILLO, Texas, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Priests for Life’s new Society of Apostolic Life, the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, has received official approval from its bishop. On December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, Bishop John Yanta of Amarillo, Texas, signed the approval for the Society that will train priests, deacons, and lay missionaries to devote their lives to the unborn. Priests of the Society make special promises related to the defense of human life, and are at the disposal of the Society to travel throughout the United […]
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ACLJ to Defend Two Pharmacists Fired for Refusing to Provide Abortifacients

ILLINOS, United States, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) –The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) announced today that legal action is underway in defense of two pharmacists who were fired for refusing to hand out abortifacient drugs. “These Conscience Clause cases are significant and represent the cutting edge of the abortion debate in our country right now;” ACLJ said in a statement to the press. “Doctors, nurses and pharmacists should not be compelled to violate their conscience and participate in an abortion procedure.” The pharmacists were suspended indefinitely from a Walgreens pharmacy after refusing to sign a document stating they […]
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Petition to Protect U.S. Military Chaplains’ Right to Pray Gathers 160,000 Signatures

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) issued a report today on efforts to protect the constitutional right of U.S. military chaplains to pray according to their faith. 160,000 people from across the United States have signed on to a national petition urging President Bush to enact an Executive Order protecting the constitutional rights of military chaplains to pray according to their faith. The petition campaign is in conjunction with efforts underway in Congress – spearheaded by Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina – urging President Bush to act.  ACLJ […]
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US Moms Foregoing Abortion in Unplanned Pregnancy

WASHINGTON, December 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 2002 survey has shown an increase in the number of women bringing unexpected pregnancies to term since 1995. In 2002, 14% of recent births were unplanned pregnancies compared to only 9% in 1995. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute admitted that the shift is a result of fewer women aborting. The Institute reported that in 1995, 26% of US pregnancies ended in abortion compared to 24% in 2002.  Susan Wills, spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said the numbers show a definite move against abortion among American women. “It shows a real pro-life […]
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Costco Replies to Numerous Complaints Regarding Fired Knight of Columbus

By Terry Vanderheyden PORT COQUITLAM, BC, December 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Costco has received numerous complaints after LifeSiteNews.com broke a story about a Knight of Columbus fired from Costco for denying a co-worker a hall for her same-sex wedding (see story: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121302.html). Although before publishing the story LifeSiteNews.com made repeated calls to Costco, with ample time to respond to the calls given, no response was received. In addition, calls put in to Costco’s lawyer were not returned. After the fact, Costco, of course, denied former employee David Hauser’s claim that he was discriminated against because of his involvement with denying […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Martin May Well Lose His Seat in Parliament Says CTV Pollster

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, December 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin may lose his own seat in parliament according to new polling from his home province of Quebec. Martin, who is the MP for the Quebec riding of LaSalle-Emard in Montreal, despite his arrogance on television debates, may lose his seat to the Bloc Quebecois separatist party which has gained popularity in Quebec. A new poll was conducted from December 17-19 by The Strategic Counsel for CTV and the Globe and Mail. The poll found that only 20% of Quebec residents will vote Liberal with a whopping […]
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A True Story by a Mother Who Happily Overcame Pressures to “Get Rid of” Her Pregnancy

TORONTO, December 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fatima, a relatively new immigrant to Canada found herself pregnant with twins at a time when she already had three children and her husband was without a job. She was therefore in quite a dilemma and turned to others for help, but the “help” offered was not what she expected, wanted or needed. Her personal story, with a happy ending, relates what many distressed pregnant women encounter from individuals or agencies who offer what they believe is a quick fix solution to their serious needs at a time of personal crisis. Fatima, who wrote […]
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From One Mom to Another: Keep Your Baby – A Personal, True Story

By Fatima Boutaleb Orignally published in the September 2005 Interim newspaper This is a story that happened to me while I was pregnant with my twins. It happened while I was studying computers at a private institute. My husband wasn’t working at the time. We had three kids together. We had been in Canada for three years. It was very hard for us to start a new life in Canada, coming from another country with different ways of life, different traditions and culture. Anyway, the real reason for this story is to send a message to any family or a […]
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The War Against The Lighthttps://thewandererpress.com/a12-22-2005.htm Dispatches from the War on Christmashttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0038928.cfm UK Church Leaders Speak Out Against Anti-Christmas Trend
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German Conservatives Unite in Plan to Outlaw Late-Term Abortions

By Gudrun Schultz GERMANY, December 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian Democratic Union and Christian Socialist Union have jointly announced plans to change current abortion laws, making it illegal to obtain an abortion after 23 weeks into a pregnancy. Johannes Singhammer, the parties’ spokesman for women’s affairs, said plans would “change the scandalous practice in Germany,” in an interview with the Munchner Merkur, Bavarian daily press. “No sensible human being can remain calm when a child, which could live, is aborted shortly before its birth, just because it is handicapped, ” Singhammer said. “We must urgently rethink the value of […]
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Liberal Party Campaigner: “Take your NRA, Gun Loving A** Back to the US Where You Belong”

By Hilary White OAKVILLE, December 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest election gaffe from the Liberals comes from the Oakville Liberal riding association where confirmed abortion-supporter, Bonnie Brown, is running for re-election. Elie Betito, a prominent volunteer for Brown’s campaign, responded to an email to the campaign from a voter who took the Liberals to task in strong terms for the Sponsorship scandal and Paul Martin’s proposal to ban handguns. The email writer, Stacey Cherwonak, who identified herself as a forensic firearms specialist with the RCMP, wrote, “I want to thank your party for making it clear who I should […]
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Abortion-Shoah Comparison Infuriates Abortion Advocates at EU

  By Hilary White BRUSSELS, December 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – That it is verboten to compare abortion with the Nazi holocaust is a routine assertion among abortion advocates and is a particularly sensitive dogma among secularist partisans in the European Parliament. The latest example comes from Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), which has issued a media release excoriating the European Parliament for allowing the display of a poster that made the comparison. The CFFC release is in conjunction with a statement from a group of 500 self-proclaimed “women’s rights and human rights leaders,” saying they were “outraged” by the […]
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Even Pro-Abortion Senator Wants this Abortion Doc’s Licence Suspended

PANORAMA CITY, California, December 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Barbara Boxer, known for her rabidly pro-abortion views, has demanded that the Osteopathic Medical Board of California immediately suspend the license of abortionist Laurence Reich. In a strongly worded letter, Boxer referred to a recent CNN report about Reich that detailed Reich’s criminal past as a sexual predator, but failed to mention that he is an abortionist. “I never thought I would agree with Barbara Boxer on anything, but I whole-heartedly support her demand for the immediate suspension of abortionist Laurence Reich’s license in the interest of public safety,” said Operation […]
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The Origin of Silent Night – A Christmas Carol is Born

Special to LifeSiteNews.com by Fr. Bernard Heffernan For 22 years I looked after the spiritual needs of senior citizen homes. Volunteers helped. Among them was Anna Cairnduf, a lady who hails from a mountain town in Austria. She’s the grand niece of Father Joseph Mohr, the writer of the Christmas carol “Silent Night” which for a long time was ignored. Why? Great music is expected from great cities and great Cathedrals but hardly from a poor, cold, drafty little mountain church, where a few days before Christmas in 1818, a hungry mouse chewed through the bellows of the old organ, […]
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Christmas Message from President Bush – Contrast to Non-‘Christmas’ Cards

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, December 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura have issued a Presidential Christmas message brimming with faith and all about the ‘reason for the season’. The message, reproduced in full below, is striking in that rather than stating ‘I believe . . .” or “Christians hold that . . .”, the Presidential message on the WhiteÂHouse web siteÂstates as a plain matter of fact that “More than 2,000 years ago, a virgin gave birth to a Son, and the God of heaven came to Earth.” There was considerableÂcontroversy in the […]
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Swiss Hospital Sanctions Euthanasia

By Terry Vanderheyden LAUSANNE, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Swiss hospital has announced it will allow doctors to kill their patients beginning in the New Year. University hospital in Lausanne said the hospital, the first to sanction active euthanasia since the practice was legalized, argues as the Dutch did before euthanasia became legal there, that suicide should be “strictly regulated.” Abuses are, of course, rampant in the Netherlands, while 70% of terminally-ill Swiss – at least those in Zurich – already succumb to either passive (when life-sustaining nutrition and hydration is denied) or active euthanasia. Until now, patients […]
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Belgian Pharmacists Given Green Light to Supply Euthanasia Cocktail

By Terry Vanderheyden BRUSSELS, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belgian pharmacists were given the go-ahead to dispense lethal cocktails to physicians who request them for the purpose of euthanizing patients, three years after the practice was legalized. Until now, pharmacists were not protected under the euthanasia law enacted in 2002 that made it legal for physicians to kill their patients. In the event that doctors were charged in an illegal death, pharmacists until now were subject to potential prosecution. The new measure makes physician-assisted suicide more accessible to all. Up until now, pharmacists were seemingly undaunted by the potential backlash, […]
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Belfast Lesbians first to “Marry” in UK

BELFAST, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This weekend in Belfast, three pairs of self-described homosexual “couples” were the first to avail themselves of the United Kingdom’s new Civil Partnership law which was passed in February. The first legally “married” gay partners in the UK were two lesbians, Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close. The BBC reports that at least 1,200 civil ceremonies are booked, indicating a much higher level of interest in Britain than in Canada where relatively few have come forward. After Belfast, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Edinburgh are also finding high levels of interest. Great Britain is well […]
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EU Orders Spain to Start Charging Catholic Church Sales Tax

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Union’s Executive Commission has threatened to take the Spanish government to court if it does not agree to start charging the Catholic Church sales tax on the goods it buys. Spain’s socialist government, which since its election has engaged in a project of erasing from law and public life all indications of the Catholic character of the country, is unlikely to demur. The EU has said that a special tax exemption breaks European tax law. Currently, the Church in Spain receives a portion of tax revenues under a 1979 […]
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Former President Clinton Does Tribute Video for Elton John Gay “Wedding”

By John-Henry Westen LONDON, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former US President Bill Clinton has done a one-minute video congratulating musician Elton John on his upcoming homosexual ‘marriage’. According to the British paper, The Mirror, on the tape, which is to be played tonight at John’s pre-‘wedding’ bash, Clinton says, “If there were more people in the world like Elton, then the world would be a better place.” Despite his support for Elton John’s homosexual union, Clinton’s political manoeuvres on homosexual ‘marriage’ were dictated by political expedience rather than conviction. It was after all President Clinton, and not President George […]
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Woman Petitioning for Murder Charge in Death of Unborn Grandson is Harassed by Conservative Party Se

By Gudrun Schultz EDMONTON, Alberta, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman who went to a Conservative rally to seek support for a petition after her pregnant daughter was murdered last month was harassed, manhandled, and threatened with removal. Mary Talbot has been circulating a petition asking for legislation to bring criminal charges against anyone who causes the death of an unborn child by killing the child’s mother. Talbot lost her 19-year-old daughter, Olivia, and her daughter’s unborn son last month when her daughter was shot to death in her Edmonton home. (See earlier LifeSiteNews coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121408.html) Peter Goldring, Conservative […]
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Catholic Prime Minister Berates Opposition Leader for Non-Support of Gay “Marriage”

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first subject in theÂEnglish language debate between the leaders of the four major Canadian political parties centeredÂon homosexual ‘marriage’.ÂÂ As with the French debate which took place earlier last week, Friday’s debate featured Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe, NDP Leader Jack Layton and Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin trying to outdo each other in their support for the permanence of homosexual ‘marriage’ in Canada. For his part, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper explained, “Most Conservatives support the traditional definition of marriage. Our party position is to support the traditional definition while supporting […]
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Pope’s New Representative to U.S. Had Denounced Jerusalem “Gay Pride”

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Pietro Sambi, newly appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, had condemned a Gay Pride celebration planned for Jerusalem last August. Then Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Palestine, Archbishop Sambi called the planned gathering “a provocation to the Jews, Christians and Muslims of Jerusalem and all over the world,” reported Joel Greenberg for the Jewish World Review. “This is a holy city for people who accept the Lordship of God on their life. It’s not for pride,” Archbishop Sambi said. “No one can assure that this parade will […]
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All Major U.S. Media Lean Left Except Fox News and Washington Times, UCLA Study Finds

WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper’s news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left. These are just a few of the findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media […]
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Congress Passes $300 Million+ Cord Blood Stem Cell Bill – President Bush will Sign

WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday, the House of Representatives voted to pass HR 2520 – the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act – written by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). The non-controversial legislation had earlier passed the House of Representatives in May by a vote of 431-1 and was slightly altered before passage by the Senate Friday night. The bill will now be signed into law by President Bush. Umbilical cords are a rich, non-controversial source of stem cells. Currently hospitals throw millions of them away each year because the infrastructure required to properly collect and store […]
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USAID Seeks Reimbursement from Promoters of Morning-After Pill in Peru

LIMA, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a complaint from the Population Research Institute’s Latin American Director Carlos Polo, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has imposed sanctions on two groups in Peru that used American tax money to promote the legalization of the morning-after pill (MAP) in that country. Each will have to return part of their grant as a punishment for violating USAID policy. “We are pleased to see the strong response of USAID headquarters in response to our complaint,” said PRI President Steve Mosher. “Too often in the past, USAID grantees have interfered in […]
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US Archbishop Candid About Islamic Persecution of Christians

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, DC, United States, December 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Charles Chaput, of the diocese of Denver, broke free from politically correct restrictions to speak openly about growing Moslem persecution of Christians, in an address to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, of which he is a member. “Anti-Christian discrimination and violence seem to be growing throughout the Islamic world,” said Archbishop Chaput. “In the past several years, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and even Moslem-controlled areas of the heavily Catholic Philippines have all seen extraordinary acts of bloodshed against Christians.” The Archbishop […]
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Epoch-Making Korean Cloning Study now Believed Faked

By Hilary White SEOUL, December 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – South Korean cloning researcher, Dr Hwang Woo-suk, author of the cloning research paper that was lauded in the international press as the most important, epoch-making breakthrough in the stem cell field, has allegedly admitted to colleagues that he fabricated some of the results. Roh Sung-il, who collaborated on the paper, published in the leading journal, Science, said in television interviews that at least nine of the eleven stem cell lines the team had claimed to have created were faked. Roh said that a team member had been pressured into doctoring results […]
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Harper Has Left Himself Little Room to Defend Traditional Marriage – Vows no Notwithstanding Clause

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, December 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Restoring marriage to its proper definition seems off the map in this political cycle. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper greatly disappointed defenders of traditional marriage during the leadership debate last night by vowing “never” to use the notwithstanding clause to defend the traditional definition of marriage. During the first of the Leaders debates, a French-language debate, the leaders of the four parties represented in Parliament responded to a question on homosexual ‘marriage’. While the Bloc, NDP and Liberal Leaders tripped over themselves trying to outdo one another in support of homosexual ‘marriage’, […]
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First Homosexual Civil Union in U.S. Ends after Five Years

By Terry Vanderheyden BRATTLEBORO, Vermont, December 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first same-sex couple to enter into a civil-union “marriage” in the US is getting a divorce. Kathleen Peterson and Carolyn Conrad were in court in October to dissolve their civil union and to decide on a division of home and property. “All I want to say is that the civil union was a big source of pride for me and now it’s not,” Peterson said Wednesday, as reported by the AP. The pair was the first to enter into a civil union after former Vermont governor Howard Dean signed […]
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Planned Parenthood Caught Concealing Rape of 11-year-old

By Hilary White SAN FRANCISCO, December 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood’s San Francisco office has removed a letter from its website that purported to be from a girl thanking the organization for not telling her parents that she has been raped when she was eleven by her then-17 year-old “boyfriend.”“Planned Parenthood helped me deal with the aftermath of the rape allowing me to deal and cope as best as I could in my own way,” the letter said. American Life League’s affiliate, STOPP International said that Planned Parenthood removed the letter from their website after it caught the attention […]
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Michael Schiavo Turning Terri into Poster Child for Euthanasia

Special to LifeSiteNews.com by Judie Brown It is frequently said that truth is stranger than fiction. In the case of Michael Schiavo, husband of the now deceased Terri Schiavo, this is precisely correct. You may recall that during the years that Terri Schiavo suffered from a debilitating condition, Michael worked very hard to acquire legal permission to kill his wife by denying her the basic human right of receiving food and water. He argued that she would not want to be fed through a tube. His view was that she actually died 12 years earlier, and that the person in […]
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Corporate Foundations Bankroll Anti-Alito Coalitionhttps://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10881 More Blacks Teaching their Children at Homehttps://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0038932.cfm Couple wins Nativity scene battlehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47911 Vickie Metzger wants Christmas back in Penn-Harris-Madison schools – fed up with the political correctness.https://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051215/News01/512150400/CAT=News01 False Perceptions Regarding the Attack Against Christmashttps://www.therealitycheck.org/FeaturedWriters/rmeyer121505.htm Rep. Chris Smith’s Trafficking Bill Passed by House of Representatives Strengthens and Expands Human Trafficking Laws, Combats Domestic Traffickinghttps://www.earnedmedia.org/csmith1215.htm Priest at Minnesota Catholic University resigns post over Vatican documenthttps://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Gay_Priests_Resignation.html Group of homosexual Italian clergy issue letter on Vatican policyhttps://www.tri-cityherald.com/24hour/world/story/2980600p-11659080c.html Wal-Mart Preparing to Offer Another Carrot to homosexual Communityhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/afa/152005b.asp Why I Thank God I Couldn’t Be A Priesthttps://www.ncregister.com/articulo2.php?artkod=MTU2 The new Vatican document […]
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Italy Introduces New “Ethical” Tax on Hardcore Pornography

By Gudrun Schultz ROME, Italy, December 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italy has succeeded in introducing significant taxation on its massive pornography industry. After several failed attempts, a 25% tax has been achieved on hardcore pornography, including films, magazines and sex-shop merchandise. Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti was responsible for pushing the tax through parliament. Mr. Tremonti said the tax he has brought in is an “ethical” tax, in an interview with the BBC yesterday. The 25% tax surpasses the original proposal of 20% suggested in Italy’s 2006 Budget bill. The Italian porn industry is estimated to bring in more than […]
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Ontario Liberals Fix Next Election Date

By Terry Vanderheyden TORONTO, December 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The provincial Liberal government has passed a law fixing the date of the next and every subsequent election for the first Thursday in October every fourth year – October 4, 2007, is then the date for the next Ontario election. Prior to this, elections in the province had to be held within five years, but the exact timing was left to the party in power. This meant that a party could hold an election at any time they felt their popularity was highest in the polls. New Democrat Party critic Peter […]
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Liberal MP Says Gay Marriage Issue Will Lose Party Votes in Rural Canada

By Gudrun Schultz MIRAMICHI, New Brunswick, December 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Charlie Hubbard, Liberal Miramichi candidate and incumbent MP, said in the Moncton Times Tuesday that the Liberal Party will lose votes in rural Canada if same-sex marriage becomes a major campaign issue. “Let sleeping dogs lie,” said Hubbard. “It is an issue that is going to cost us votes in rural areas. The more talk there is, the more concern there is about whether or not or if you can turn back the legislation.” Hubbard wants Liberal strategists to stop using the topic as a major campaign issue.  The […]
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US Bishops’ Organization Gives Glowing Review of Homosexual-Sex Propaganda Film

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, December 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church identifies homosexuality as a serious moral and psychological disorder of unknown origin, one that is serious enough to make a man who suffers from it ineligible for priestly ordination. Nonetheless, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has issued a glowing movie review of the homosexual propaganda film, Brokeback Mountain, a story of two rugged cowboys who engage in homosexual liaisons and adultery. The film’s theme is a favorite of homosexual folklore: two lonesome cowboys, removed from the repressions of artificial social mores by their work in the […]
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French MP Faces 6 Months Jail and $30,000 Fine over “Hate Speech” against Homosexuals

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, December 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A law banning hate speech against homosexuals enacted in France last year has proved its criticisms valid by being pressed against a sitting MP for comments which cannot be considered hateful in any true sense. Christian Vanneste, a member of the UMP representing the Lille region faces up to six months’ imprisonment and a $30,000 fine after being taken to court by three homosexual activist groups – SOS Homophobie, Act Up-Paris and Sneg. The Telegraph reports that the public prosecutor at the trial in Lille said Vanneste was guilty as charged […]
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Canadian AIDS Activists Want Bawdy Houses Legalized

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An HIV/AIDS awareness group is pressuring the federal government to legalize prostitution. Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network spokesman Glenn Betteridge maintained that keeping prostitution illegal forces women into so-called unsafe sex. Prostitution “needs to be treated as work, so that sex workers can be protected under workplace legislation just like all other workers in Canada,” said Betteridge, as reported by the Globe and Mail. The group released a report Tuesday in support of legalized prostitution. The group’s report, among other things, claimed that “. . . HIV transmission is about unprotected sex, […]
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Ford Meets with National Gay and Lesbian Organizations to Reassure Advertising will Continue

By Terry Vanderheyden DEARBORN, Michigan, December 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senior executives from the Ford Motor Company met in Washington D.C. with the leadership of national gay and lesbian organizations Monday to reassure them of their continued support for the homosexual agenda. In a letter sent to the homosexual advocate leaders attending that meeting, the company explained, “You asked us directly to have Jaguar and Land Rover reverse its plans and advertise in gay and lesbian targeted publications in 2006. As we said, Jaguar and Land Rover made a business decision about their media plans and it would be inconsistent […]
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‘Silent Night’ gets reprieve – School agrees to perform beloved carol after 1st secularizing traditional lyrics https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47907 Religious McDonald’s Sign Draws Attention In Raleigh – Woman Asks Restaurant To Remove Sign, ‘Jesus Is The Reason For The Season’https://www.wral.com/news/5532271/detail.html Narnia Gets Lion’s Share of Box Office, While Critics Hail ‘Gay Cowboy’ Flick https://www.cwfa.org/articles/9689/CFI/misc/index.htm Salazar hits back at Focus on Family adhttps://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4313182,00.html Progressive Insurance Chairman Gives $8.5 Million To ACLUhttps://www.afa.net/progressive.asp “Save the World” Enviros Are Killing Millions of African Kidshttps://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_14_05_JS.html CWA Announces 2005 Prince of Pomposity Winnerhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/9663/LEGAL/pornography/index.htm How long will it be before the Muslim neighbourhoods of Quebec and Ontario erupt in […]
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HIV Infected BC Man Convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault for Spreading Virus

By Hilary White  NEW WESTMINSTER, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A BC man has been found guilty of knowingly spreading the HIV virus to his sexual partners. Adrien Nduwayo was convicted yesterday of five counts of aggravated sexual assault, one count of attempted aggravated sexual assault and one count of sexual assault.  Crown council, Andrew MacDonald confirmed that spreading HIV constituted aggravated sexual assault. “There’s six victims in this case. Three of the complainants who came forward were HIV-positive and, of course, their circumstances are more tragic,” MacDonald said. “All of the victims showed a great deal of courage and […]
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Mother of Slain Pregnant Woman Petitions for Murder Charge in Death of Unborn Child

By Gudrun Schultz EDMONTON, Alberta, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman who lost both her 19-year-old daughter and her daughter’s unborn son in a murder last month has started a petition for federal legislation that would see the person responsible charged with murder in the death of the child. Under current federal law the unborn child is not considered a person until it has been born alive. There is no legal judgment against causing the death of the child through the murder of its mother. Mary Talbot wants to bring pressure against politicians to make a decision on the […]
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Militant Homosexual Activist Charged for Assaulting Police Officer at Home of OutFest Protester

By Terry Vanderheyden PHILADELPHIA, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist Jason Robbins was arrested after he punched a police officer outside the home of a Repent America member last week. Robbins spent a night in jail Wednesday for aggravated assault and resisting arrest after police arrived on the scene outside the home of Linda K. Beckman, a Repent America member who spoke out against homosexuality at the homosexual “Outfest” festival in October last year. Robbins sat in his car as six other protesters picketed Beckman’s home; he said the protest was to avenge Beckman for her part in opposing […]
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Muslim Women on Condom Machines: “Don’t ruin our culture, Remove these machines”

By Gudrun Schultz CHENNAI, India, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attempts to install condom vending machines in India’s capital have met with fierce resistance by Muslim groups. Street protests followed the government’s announcement that it plans to install 500 condom vending machines in the capital and 1000 more throughout the state. “We must fight AIDS, but these machines at public places will only promote sex outside marriage among the younger generation,” said MH Jawahirullah, head of the Muslim Progressive Party, in an interview with Australian News yesterday. Strong conservative forces in the country have shown staunch resistance to efforts to […]
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Cloning Whistleblower says Korean Cloning Breakthrough “Fabricated”

By Hilary White  PITTSBURGH, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The US researcher formerly working with Korea’s foremost cloning research team has blown the whistle a second time on Hwang Woo-suk, the team’s leader. Gerald Schatten, has revealed that he believes some of Dr. Hwang’s cloning advances may have been “fabricated” according to a report from the Associated Press.   In May, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the international scientific community was lauding the Korean team for being the first to develop specified stem cells that could be used to treat patients with various diseases without risk of tissue rejection, a major stumbling […]
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The Beer and Popcorn Report 2 – Three Liberals and the US Ambassador

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The remarks of chief Liberal spokesman and strategist Scott Reid on Sunday which said that parents couldn’t be trusted with the $1,200 per year per child Conservative Choice in Childcare Allowance because they would just “blow” the money on “beer and popcorn” (see coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121202.html ) are continuing to make headlines today. Two former Liberal MPs and one current member have come out swinging against the Liberals over the beer and popcorn scandal. ASHAMED TO HAVE BEEN A MARTIN LIBERAL Former Liberal Cabinet Minister David Kilgour referred to the beer and […]
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Abortion Statistics for 2004 Reveal Over 84,000 Australian Babies Aborted

By Terry Vanderheyden CANBERRA, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Australian health statistics authority has estimated that the lives of 84,218 children were ended by abortion last year. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare statistics also showed that the abortion rate has jumped by 151% since a tally in 2000, when 7.8 of 1,000 women ended their pregnancies in abortion; in 2003, 11.8 out of every 1,000 women had an abortion, while last year the number was 19.7 per 1,000. Year 2000 and 2003 data was incomplete, however, because before now data on induced abortion was not available on […]
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Mother Dies of Cancer to Save Life of Her Unborn Child

By Gudrun Schultz CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A mother who developed cancer while pregnant with her fourth child has died after refusing treatment that would have harmed the baby. In a sacrifice reminiscent of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, who died of cancer in 1962 after deciding to protect the life of her unborn baby, Bernadette Mimura chose to save her child’s life at the cost of her own. She delivered a healthy son, Nathan, two months premature, and lived long enough to witness his baptism. Mimura selflessly refused to consider treatmentÂfor her conditionÂwhich would have harmed her […]
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Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Offers Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, December 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF) supports human embryonic stem cell research and willÂprovide grant funding to researchers, according to their grant application form, available at https://www.ccff.ca/pdf/ResearchEnglish.rtf. The application form for a research grant clearly indicates that funding is available for embryonic stem cell research. In section A., under ‘general information’, the applicant is requested to indicate whether the proposed research involves human embryonic stem cell experimentation. If so, they are asked to provide all necessary approval forms. Stem cell research using human embryos has been condemned by many organizations […]
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Polygamy Next “Right” on Judicial Chopping Block Warn Pro-Family Advocates

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, December 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family analysts are warning that, since the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in Canada and Massachusetts, polygamy is likely the next frontier in the advancing disintegration of the Judeo-Christian edifice. South Dakota State Rep. Elizabeth Kraus, who proposed a constitutional amendment that would explicitly ban not only same-sex “marriage” but also polygamy, warned: “Once you open the marriage door to anyone other than one man or one woman, you haven’t begun to slide down the slippery slope. You’ve already hit rock bottom.” Kraus’s proposed amendment reads, “Only marriage between a man and […]
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In Lame Attempt to Divert from Beer and Popcorn Scandal PM Attacks Harper over Gay ‘Marriage’

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, December 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After facing a torrent of derision for the inane statements of Liberal spokesman Scott Reid suggesting Canadian parents would spend childcare money irresponsibly on popcorn and beer, Prime Minister Paul Martin has created a diversion by pulling out an old and tired campaign tactic – attacking Conservative leader Stephen Harper for a potential repeal of same-sex “marriage” legislation. Appearing in Ancaster, Ontario, Martin, calling same-sex “marriage” a “Charter” issue, challenged Harper to answer whether he would invoke the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause to override the Constitution and repeal […]
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Divorces, Abortions Soar in Chinahttps://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article332352.ece A unique glimpse into the soul of a woman’s abortion choicehttps://www.soulcommunications.net/ Weblog: Forcing Emergency Contraception Pills Down Throats of Opponentshttps://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/149/51.0.html Plan B Journal Article Stirs Controversyhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051212.wcma1212/BNStory/National/ Colorada push to nix gay nuptials begins – but groups not all on same pagehttps://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3292702 Liberals’ Use of Words Effective Tool in Promoting Radical Ideologieshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/92005gst.asp Dean Wants Gay Quota in Democratic Partyhttps://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22249 Hundreds of Chemicals Found in Newborns’ Umbilical Cordshttps://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php How Ontario’s Government Fosters Gambling Addictionshttps://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1134169812449 The Aging of Canada’s Populationhttps://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1134344411928 One in 16 Brits is Gay: Governmenthttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/12/ngay12.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/12/ixhome.html U.S. Cable Industry Gets Family Friendlyhttps://apnews.myway.com/article/20051212/D8EEQTHO5.html Polygamy rights is the next […]
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Calgary Bishop: “Too Many Catholics Have Become Too Complacent and Too Tolerant”

By Gudrun Schultz CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Frederick Henry, of the Calgary Diocese, called upon Catholics to “push back” against the forces of secularism in our society, in an interview with Zenit news yesterday. In recent years, Henry has been an unusually outspoken public defender of Catholic principles in contrast to the very timid response by most Canadian religious leaders to on-going, serious attacks against traditional Christian culture and beliefs. “We are not nearly countercultural enough or prophetic enough,” Bishop Henry said, reminding Catholics that they have a responsibility to be a witness of Christ in […]
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UK Author, Broadcaster, Subjected to Police Inquiry for Criticizing Homosexual Adoption as “Homopho

By Terry Vanderheyden CAMRIDGE, UK, December 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British author and broadcaster was the subject of a police inquiry after she criticized homosexual adoption in a live radio broadcast. Lynette Burrows, a pro-family advocate, described the reaction to her comments as “sinister.” In a Radio Five Live show on the new civil partnerships act, Burrows said allowing a same-sex male couple to adopt a boy posed as much of a risk as allowing two heterosexual men to adopt a little girl. “It is a risk,” Burrows said, as reported by the Telegraph. “You would not give a […]
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Christmas Gift For All

By Hilary White TORONTO, December 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hilary White reviews the just released movie “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” in today’s LifeSiteNews.com Special Report. White enthusiastically writes, “the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe literally shouts a defiant, ‘Merry Christmas!’” in the midst of the tedious culture war in which the bad guys insist we wish each other ‘happy holidays.’” She calls the film “a Christmas gift for those who are weary of the sneering ironies of our own hundred years of cultural winter.” The movie has some imperfections, but nevertheless, our reviewer says, “When the […]
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Even the NDP and Bloc say the Liberals are Anti-Family

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, December 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The anti-family remarks of two Liberal Party spokesmen Sunday has garnered criticism from all opposition parties. Chief Liberal spokesman Scott Reid and his colleague John Duffy in televised comments said that Canadian parents would squander child-care money (if it was granted to parents directly rather than to state-run institutions) on “beer and popcorn”. (see LifeSiteNews.com coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121202.html ) NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe while maintaining their disagreement over the Conservative child-care plan, nonetheless took issue with the anti-family stance of the Liberals. Layton, speaking at a Toronto […]
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After Abortion the Mental Distress Lasts for Years says New Study

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff OSLO, Norway, December 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women who have had an abortion still experience mental distress related to the abortion years after it happened. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine reveals that five years on, women who have had an abortion suffer higher levels of mental distress than other womenÂor than women who have had a miscarriage. Anne Nordal Broen and colleagues from the University of Oslo, in Norway, collaborated with colleagues from the Buskerud Hospital in Drammen, Norway. They studied 40 women who had had a miscarriage and 80 women […]
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Happy HOLYdays

Special to LifeSiteNews.com By Warren Throckmorton, PhD This Christmas season is just getting stranger as we go. All over the place people are trying to figure out what to say to each other (“Happy holiday(s),”“Merry Christmas,”“Get out of my way, I want that iPod”) and how to talk about the time of year we are in. I tried just saying Happy December to a few people and they just rolled their eyes. I agree; it didn’t do much for me either. Schools are hotbeds for these kinds of scuffles. One school near Seattle spent $494 to reprint a cafeteria menu […]
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Abortion Toll for Planned Parenthood USA Hits 255,015 in 2004

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff WASHINGTON, D.C., December 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While national figures generally indicate a decrease in the number of abortions, Planned Parenthood Federations of America continues to commit more every year. In 2004, PPFA admits that it took the lives of 255,015 human beings, an increase of nearly 4.3 percent. PPFA confessed to killing 244,628 preborn human beings in 2003, which was a 6.1 percent increase from the previous year. Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International (LDI), today blasted Planned Parenthood for its “ongoing war against children.” He said the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) […]
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Hear Him Roar! I Did! – A Review of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/afa/92005a.asp Hollywood Revival? Christians keep Hollywood profitable.https://www.ncregister.com/articulo2.php?artkod=MTU0 ‘Merry Christmas’ Wristbands Find Faithful Audiencehttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/9/124303.shtml In a mid-season turnabout, Target stores have pledged to re-introduce Christmas themes into marketing efforts,https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47838 CWA Mobilizes Support for Alitohttps://www.cwalac.org/article_289.shtml Congressional report calls for investigation of Maurice Strong’s role in Oil-for-Food scandalhttps://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover120905.htm Belinda: Come clean on the gag lawhttps://morefreedom.org/cgi-bin/news.cgi?rm=display&articleID=1134134922&search=&category=1&order=&page=1 Washington furious over Martin’s climate change commentshttps://www.cbc.ca/story/canadavotes2006/national/2005/12/09/katrina-global-warming-bush-martin.html AP’s Report on its Own Political Corruption Poll Focuses Problem on GOPhttps://newsbusters.org/node/3145 Narnia & Its Enemies – Sexist, racist, intolerant Lewis?https://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200512090859.asp Who’s Afraid of C. S. […]
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US Court Reverses Ruling Against Law Banning Extreme Pornography

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff PHILADELPHIA, December 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled today to uphold federal obscenity laws. The ruling came in the federal government’s appeal of the dismissal of an indictment against Extreme Associates, an enterprise that produces extremely hardcore pornography, including scenes of violence, urination, and simulated rape. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) President Alan Sears, who served as executive director of the U.S. Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography under President Ronald Reagan, hailed today’s ruling.“The First Amendment was never intended to protect obscene materials that further violent crimes against women and […]
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Italian Lawmakers to Debate Tax on Pornography included in Budget Bill

By John-Henry Westen ROME, December 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian ANSA news agency reported yesterday that a tax on pornography was introduced into the 2006 Budget bill which must be approved this month. The new 20 percent tax will be placed on the sale and rental of pornography, including porn on the internet or pay-TV. The proposal was put forward by MP Daniela Santanché of the National Alliance party. According to ANSA, the pornography industry in the country brings in 1.1 billion euros every year. A similar measure was proposed in the United States in October. Kansas State Representative […]
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Canadian Pro-Marriage Group Ramps Up Election Strategy With VoteMarriageCanada Website

By Steve Jalsevac London, ON December 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The coalition comprising the ProMarriage Network has just stepped up its federal election efforts with the launch of a VoteMarriageCanada website. The development follows the announcement by MP Pat O’Brien and former MP Dr. Grant Hill on Nov. 22 of the formal launch of a national campaign to elect a pro-traditional marriage Parliament during the next election. The key goal of the campaign, they stated, is to elect a parliament which will restore the traditional definition of marriage as “the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion […]
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Outrage Over Vulgar Portrayal of Virgin Mary By South Park

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff NEW YORK, December 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three weeks before Christmas and on the eve of the Catholic Feast of the Immaculate Conception, producers of the satirical television programme South Park are under fire for an unusually vulgar portrayal of the Virgin Mary. The show, which is popular with children, has a long history of Catholic-bashing but this time, according to William Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, they have gone way too far. The programme, titled “Bloody Mary,” which aired Wednesday, portrayed a satire on the miraculous statue phenomenon. Accompanied by vulgar […]
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Public School Board Rejects Prime Minister’s Campaign Stop While Catholic Board Permits It

By Terry Vanderheyden CORNWALL, December 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Eastern Ontario public school board denied “persistent” requests by Prime Minister Paul Martin’s campaign team to make a stop at one of their high schools, while the Catholic board welcomed the pro-abortion, pro-gay “marriage” PM with open arms, as reported by LifeSiteNews.com Friday: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05120207.html. Upper Canada District School Board said it “politely declined” Martin’s request to visit Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School Thursday; Martin instead visited Cornwall’s St. Joseph’s Catholic Secondary School, where he also gave a live televised nationwide address through CBC Newsworld. While the public board sensibly has […]
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Politics Trumps Health Concerns on Morning After Pill in Ontario

By Hilary White TORONTO, December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario College of Pharmacists has declared that the Morning After Pill (MAP), the abortifacient drug known to carry serious health risks to women, will hereafter be dispensed without a complete medical history being taken by the pharmacist. Last week, Ontario’s privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian, complained that screening women for their sexual history before dispensing the drug was a violation of their privacy. This despite the well-documented health risks of the drug which is a massive dose of the same kinds of hormones found in regular birth control pills. Voluntary guidelines […]
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Second Major Study Shows Modern Catholic Universities Harm Students’ Faith Life

By Terry Vanderheyden and John-Henry Westen PERTH, Australia, December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students who attend Catholic Universities are more likely to lose their faith than retain or enrich it, according to new Australian research. The Western Australia Catholic newspaper, The Record, reported on survey results by Dr. Luke Saker, stating that “almost all students who graduate from Catholic education regard the Church as irrelevant.” Dr. Saker found that only 12.8% of 133 Edith Cowan University students polled attended church on Sunday, while 82% rarely or never availed themselves of the sacrament of reconciliation. Other highlights of his survey found […]
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Indian Government Fights Court Effort to Legalize Sodomy

By Gudrun Schultz ÂNEW DELHI, December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of India has declared the country is not ready for legalized homosexual activity, in response to a petition before the Supreme Court by the Naz Foundation, a homosexual activist organization in South Asia. The group wants to strike section 377, which identifies homosexual activity as an illegal punishable offence, from the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Government’s current position is based on public social opinion towards homosexual activity, which “does not favour” legalization. The affidavit issued by the Union Home Ministry states “the right of privacy cannot be […]
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AIDS Specialist and Former Condom Advocate Speaks on Switch to Abstinence

By Gudrun Schultz LAKE FOREST, Calif., December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A senior U. S. research scientist who once advocated the use of condoms to slow the spread of HIV now promotes abstinence and fidelity as far more effective weapons against the disease. Edward Green, with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, became convinced of the effectiveness of abstinence and faithfulness after witnessing the impact of Uganda’s ABC program on the country’s infection rates. The ABC method, which stands for Abstain, Be faithful, or use a Condom, is credited with dramatically reducing the rate of HIV infection in […]
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Justice in British Columbia Knights Case also Decided Against Christians Kempling, Brockie

By Terry Vanderheyden VANCOUVER, December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Heather MacNaughton, who chaired the three-panel BC Human Rights Tribunal in the mixed judgement of the Port Coquitlam Knights of Columbus v. two lesbians, is the same Justice who fined Christian printer Scott Brockie and denied an appeal by Christian teacher Chris Kempling. In 2000, MacNaughton was the adjudicator in the Ontario Human Rights Commission decision against Scott Brockie, a Toronto printer, who was forced to pay $5,000 in damages for refusing to print stationary for The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Brockie, who opposes homosexuality on religious grounds, politely asked […]
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Sikh Minister Supports Right of UK School Girl to Wear Crucifix to School

By John-Henry Westen DERBY, UK, December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The news that a 16-year-old UK school girl was suspended for wearing a crucifix at a school where Sikh religious articles are permitted has sparked the ire of the Sikh community as well as the Christian community. Sikh Minister Sardarni Sahiba Gurumeet Kaur Khalsa told LifeSiteNews.com “It is the height of wrongful discrimination to disallow Christian students to wear a crucifix, while yet allowing Sikh students to wear a kara (a religious steel bracelet).” Deputy head teacher Howard Jones of Sinfin Community School in Derby attempted, in a three hour […]
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Congressional Black Caucus to Oppose Alitohttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/07/D8EBKOR82.html Hollywood Joins Anti-Alito Efforthttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/7/124139.shtml Hundreds of Lutheran churches across US will receive report explaining why all human life should be protected.https://www.christianpost.com/article/church/2415/section/lutheran.report.gives.biblical.response.to.stem.cell.cloning.in-vitro.fertilization/1.htm Library backs down over ‘inappropriate’ nativity figures, now welcomes holy familyhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47788 ‘Silent Night’ secularized: School changes beloved Christmas carol to ‘Cold in the Night’ with all new lyrics https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47784 President of US Catholic League and others slam Bush secular Christmas cardhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/06/AR2005120601900_pf.html Let the world know…it’s not a Happy Holiday…it’s a Merry Christmas!https://www.cafepress.com/loretto Scientists develop new breed of “living” computer with brain nurtured in Petri dishhttps://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/06/1102182227308.html Donor Network Right to Refuse Organs from Homosexual, […]
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Canadian Election Buzz

Media Continue Negative Coverage of Harper: Analysis in Macleans Mag  Just because the Conservatives are paranoid about reporters doesn’t mean the media isn’t out to get them. An analysis of newspaper coverage in the opening days of this campaign concludes Stephen Harper received the most negative coverage of the four main party leaders, even more negative than the coverage he got in the disastrous final week of the 2004 election. Initial coverage of Paul Martin was not only less negative, it was more positive than the waning days of the last campaign, when the Prime Minister rebounded to pull out […]
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Woman Sues Scottish Abortionists for Support of Surviving Twin

By Hilary White PERTH, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Scottish court has set a date for the case of a woman seeking damages from her abortionist for failing to kill both of her twin daughters. Stacy Dow is suing the Perth Royal Infirmary after the hospital sent her home still pregnant with the surviving child, Jayde, now four. “I have got a child now that I wasn’t planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that,” Dow told a London newspaper in April. Perth Sheriff Court set has set March 2006 as the date […]
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Focus on the Family Takes Issue with Charlize Theron Comments on Homosexual “Marriage”

By John-Henry Westen HOLLYWOOD, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hollywood actress Charlize Theron who stars in the current sci-fi movie Aeon Flux has received criticism for her commentsÂon homosexual ‘marriage’. After being dogged by reporters over when she and her boyfriend Stuart Townsend are planning to marry, the actress decided to instead use the question to push for legalization of homosexual “marriage”. Theron told the television entertainment show Extra: “We came up with a new idea that we said that we would get married the day that gays and lesbians can get married – when that right is given to […]
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Pope’s Representative Asks Boston Archbishop to End Catholic Involvement with Gay Adoptions

By John-Henry Westen BOSTON, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US papal nuncio, Gabriel Montalvo Higuera.Âhas reportedlyÂsent a letter toÂArchbishop SeanÂO’Malley of Boston asking that the diocesan Catholic Charities discontinue its practice of cooperating in adoptions for homosexual couples. The Boston Herald reveals the news from an unnamed source. In response the Archdiocese says it could not comment specifically on the letter but did admit that the controversial practice is under review and that a decision on the matter is expected “early in the New Year.” The controversy erupted in October when the Boston Globe reported that Catholic Charities was […]
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Boston College Students call on Jesuits to Choose: “Jesuit Values or Catholic Doctrine”

By Hilary White BOSTON, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an editorial condemning the cancellation of a homosexual dance, the student newspaper of Boston College has called on the Jesuit administration to come clean about their loyalties: “BC should follow Jesuit values, not Catholic doctrine.” The flap started when the college cancelled a dance to ‘celebrate’ homosexuality and other forms of fashionable sexual deviancy. The “safe zone” dance organized by the college’s own “GBLT” (“gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgendered”) student group was cancelled by the college because it purportedly conflicted with the college’s Catholic affiliation. In making this open declaration, […]
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Court OK’s Religious Liberty Defense For Doctors Sued For Refusing Lesbian Artificial Insemination

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff SAN DIEGO, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - – A California appeals court ruled Friday that two San Diego doctors may assert religious reasons in their defense against a lawsuit by an unmarried woman who claims the physicians discriminated against her because she is a lesbian. For clinical and religious reasons, the physicians referred the woman, Guadalupe Benitez, to a fertility specialist when she requested they perform a type of artificial insemination procedure called intrauterine insemination. “Our First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion. The right to religious liberty is one of the most vital rights Americans […]
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Celibacy Requires That Priests Renounce Marriage—Something Homosexuals Cannot Do

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff FRONT ROYAL, VA December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, has succinctly explained the concerns of the Catholic Church in relation to homosexual men and the priesthood. Commenting on the new Vatican document on the subject, Fr Euteneuer said, ““Engaging in homosexual acts is a grave, mortal sin that endangers the immortal soul of the practitioner and such a lifestyle compromises a man’s ability to competently serve as a priest.” “The statement released last week with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI clearly restates the Church’s longstanding teaching that men […]
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US Senate should immediately pass cord-blood stem-cell bill, sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith and Sen. Orrin Hatchhttps://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20051204-102937-9890r.htm Colorado senator’s opposition to Samuel Alito is politically motivated “schoolyard taunt,” group contends.https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038851.cfm Religious Freedom? Church-Linked Charity Can’t Employ Christians Onlyhttps://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=ForeignBureausarchive200512FOR20051206a.html Officials at Boston College have announced the cancellation of a dance sponsored by campus gay, lesbian and transgender organizations. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5581 Celibacy requires that priests renounce marriage—something homosexuals cannot dohttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5578 Archbishop says homosexual civil unions will undermine marriage https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5575 Vatican paper renews critique of civil unionshttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41111 Homosexual advocacy group “deeply dismayed” that Ford Motor Company has quietly agreed to stop advertising in lesbian, […]
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Australian Archbishop Cancels Talk by Pro-Abortion Politician

MELBOURNE, December 5, 2005 (CWNews.comLifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, Australia, has cancelled a prestigious annual lecture, after pro-life activists complained that the government official scheduled to give the talk was a supporter of legal abortion. The archbishop announced on December 7 that he was calling off the “Rerum Novarum” lecture, which was to have been delivered just two days later by Jon Stanhope, the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. The archbishop made his announcement after energetic protests by pro-lifers, who argued that Stanhope, who supports abortion, should not be allowed a prominent Catholic forum. Stanhope has […]
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Canada’s Chief Justice Says Courts Must Ignore Written Laws in Favour of Judge-Decided Unwritten “No

By Hilary White WELLINGTON, December 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada’s Chief Justice, Beverley McLachlin, believes the rule of law “requires” Justices to ignore the actual written law, as passed by democratic legislatures, in favour of unwritten ideological principles. McLachlin told an audience at New Zealand’s Victoria University that laws must be interpreted according to the individual preferences of Justices for “norms that are essential to a nation’s history, identity, values and legal system.” That these norms are known only to the justices on the Supreme Court seems not to have deterred McLachlin or the Supreme Court. […]
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Catholic Award to Stephen Lewis Went Ahead without St Boniface Archbishop in Attendance

By Hilary White ST. BONIFACE, Manitoba, December 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The St. Boniface General Hospital last week awarded one of the world’s more prominent promoters of the eugenic population control and anti-Catholic movements in international health care. Stephen Lewis, despite protests by Catholics and pro-life groups, both to the hospital and the local bishop, was duly granted a prestigious award for “international humanitarian work in health care.” Kevin Hunter, Director of Communications and Development for the Foundation said that while the Foundation had noted the objections of Campaign Life Coalition Manitoba, the award is not designated as a Catholic […]
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Academic Bets Terrorism Will Thrive in China with 30 Million Frustrated Bachelors

By Terry Vanderheyden EDINBURGH, December 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – University of Toulouse professor of economics, Paul Seabright, said that the demographic disparity in China is going to lead to violence and even terrorism by the “unmarriagable” and “sexually frustrated” men there – the products of a one-child policy and sex-selective abortion and infanticide. “In the next 30 years the surplus of essentially unmarriageable males are going to be the ones at the bottom of the heap,” Seabright said, as reported by the UK’s Sunday Herald. “They’ll have little education, they’ll have poor economic prospects and they’ll be sexually frustrated and […]
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Prominent Canadian Priest Claims He’s ‘Gay’, Blasts Vatican on Canadian National Radio

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, December 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Richard Reshaw, C.S.C., former Assistant Secretary General of the Canadian Religious Conference (1994-2002), exposed himself as a homosexual and supportive of the ‘gay culture’ on CBC radio on Sunday. Renshaw made the revelations on CBC’s The Sunday Edition hosted by anti-Catholic host Michael Enright who is known for his unrepentant ‘joke’ referencing the Catholic Church as “the greatest criminal organization outside of the Mafia.” Canadian Catholics who have wondered at the constant unorthodox stands of the Bishops’ official development arm – the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) […]
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Simple Election to do list for Pro-Life Canadians

TORONTO, December 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s national pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition has included in its December newsletter a partial to-do list for its supporters during the current federal election. The organization is in the meantime preparing a detailed voters guide to be published on its website which will contain articles on the parties, the leaders, the life and family issues, the results of its survey and records of all the candidates on the life and marriage issues, and much more. The information will also be accessible for its supporters by calling the CLC national office at 1-800-730-5358. CLC […]
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Sex lessons at five urgedhttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2087-1903916%2C00.html Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germanyhttps://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/ US court rules against lesbian fertility patient https://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0%2C12271%2C1657878%2C00.html Study Links Teen Depression with Sexual Experimentation, Drug Usehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/afa/52005g.asp ADF Battles Georgia County’s ‘Christmas’ Ban in Schoolshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/afa/52005c.asp Wisconsin School Policy Bans Religious Themes in any Song During Christmas Holiday https://www.lc.org/pressrelease/2005/nr120505.htm The campus crusade for Christmashttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/mikeadams/2005/12/05/177713.html Comedian and Jew Jackie Mason Stands Up For Christmashttps://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_2121656.shtml Parish event for high school students combines Mass, supper, ‘Narnia’https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506918.htm The “traditional family”—mom, dad and one or more children living and growing together in one home—is not simply in decline according to the World Congress of […]
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Canadian Election Buzz – Dec. 5

Article Excerpts London MP Pat O’Brien Praises Harper – London Free PressPat O’Brien has given the Liberals another slap, saying arch-rival Stephen Harper could make a good prime minister. O’Brien stressed his support for Harper is based on one issue—same-sex marriage, the very issue that led him to bolt from the Liberals when they voted in favour of it. Harper said last week a Tory government would allow a free Commons vote on gay marriage—and ban further gay unions if MPs decided to reinstate the traditional definition of marriage. Predicting a neck-and-neck election race, O’Brien said he hopes same-sex marriage […]
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26 Current MPs Not Running Again in Canadian Federal Election

By Steve Jalsevac OTTAWA, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – So far, 26 Members of Canada’s Parliament will not be seeking re-election in the upcoming federal election. The MPs are almost evenly split between those who Campaign Life Coalition has rated as pro-life or pro-abortion and pro-traditional marriage or pro-same-sex marriage. Notably, the majority of quitting MPs who are pro-life and pro-marriage are Conservatives from western Canada. A large majority of the pro-abortion, pro-same-sex marriage quitting MPs are Liberals. 1 Bloc, 9 Conservatives, 3 Independent, 12 Liberals and 1 NDP Member of Parliament will not be running again. 4 are from […]
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Canadian Bishop Says Abortion and Traditional Marriage Must be Considered When Voting

By John-Henry Westen ST. CATHERINES, ON, December 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an election many concerns vie for central importance such as economics, health care, and moral considerations. However, some concerns overshadow all others and must be given priority. According to a recent statement of the Catholic Leadership Conference, a meeting comprising over 100 US Catholic groups, “Catholic voters must first make decisions about their votes based on the moral issues that are non-negotiable. First among these are the life issues.” As Canadians ready to go to the polls on January 23, they have been reminded of their duty to […]
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Civil “Marriage” for Gays Reality in UK

By Terry Vanderheyden LONDON, December 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s new civil unions law for same-sex couples, which grants them all the privileges of marriage and gives a powerful seal of approval to homosexual relations, comes into effect today. Same-sex couples who wish to register their unions can now indicate their desire to do so and, after a brief waiting period, make it formal on December 21. The Civil Partnerships Bill, passed through parliament last year, means that same-sex couples are now entitled access to spousal-like benefits such as pensions, immigration, next-of-kin status, and an exemption on paying inheritance tax. […]
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Conservative Party Promises Choice in Child Care Allowance and Tough Actions on Drug Crime

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff OTTAWA, December 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Conservative Party of Canada is reaching out to families with a new choice in child care allowance that will grant $100 per month per child to parents for children under six. Also, over the weekend, Conservative leader Stephen Harper announced a plan of action to deal with drug crime, including mandatory minimum sentences for the most serious drug crimes and scrapping the Liberal proposal to decriminalize marijuana. Contrasting the Conservative child care plan with that of the Liberals, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said, “The Liberal plan sends money to provincial […]
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US Political Wiz Ralph Reed Urges Canadian Social Conservatives to “Make History” This Election

TORONTO, December 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US political wiz, Dr. Ralph Reed, addressing a Toronto gathering of religious and other social conservative leaders Nov. 30, urged them to organize effectively and on Jan. 23 “usher in the greatest victory in the history of this country.” Dr. Reed, was senior adviser for President George W. Bush’s election campaign and as executive director of the Christian Coalition built the most influential grassroots organization in recent U.S. politics. He was invited to address the Wednesday evening banquet of the three day 2005 Canadian Values – Embrace Democracy conference organized by the Institute for […]
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Pharmacists Rightly Concerned about Women’s Health and Plan B

LifeSiteNews.com staff TORONTO, December 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Guidelines from the Canadian Pharmacists Association advise pharmacists to collect a woman’s name, address, phone number and details about her sexual activity before they dispense the so-called “morning-after pill”. After Heath Canada made levonorgestral or Plan B an over the counter drug, the pharmacists association posted guidelines which suggested a screening of the patient. Women groups such as the Canadian Women’s Health Network are asking that the drug   be made available in grocery and variety stores in order to protect women’s privacy. “This drug is a double dose birth control pill […]
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Pro-Abortion, Pro-Gay “Marriage” Prime Minister Does Campaign Stop at Catholic High School

By John-Henry Westen CORNWALL, ON, December 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, Prime Minister Paul Martin arrived at St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Cornwall with the full campaign bus of national reporters, televising a live nationwide address through CBC Newsworld. The fact that Canada is currently in a federal election does not seem to have fazed school officials when Martin’s staff requested the visit. The campaign stop was a perfect photo op with school children whooping wildly, and waving flags for the Leader of the Liberal Party. Neither has it offended sensibilities at the Catholic school and board of education that […]
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Crystal Meth User not Guilty of Manslaughter of Unborn Son

By Hilary White HONOLULU, December 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hawaii’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that 32-year-old Tayshea Aiwohi, whose son died two days after she smoked crystal methamphetamine on the day of his birth, was not guilty of manslaughter, overturning a previous court’s ruling. The court’s ruling was based on the legal notion that an unborn child is not a person under the law and so no person was harmed when Aiwohi used the drug. No US court has convicted a woman for the death of an unborn child due to abuse in the womb. City Deputy Prosecutor Glenn Kim, […]
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Princeton Bioethicist says only “Know-Nothing Religious Fundamentalists” will Value Human Life by 20

By Hilary White PRINCETON, December 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Infamous advocate of infanticide and the man often credited as the founder of the modern radical animal rights movement, Dr. Peter Singer, was featured in the National Post this week predicting that the traditional ethics of western civilization would shortly be abolished. Singer’s comments appeared first in the September/October edition of the journal Foreign Policy as a speculation on what cherished social institutions would still exist in 35 years. Singer, a strict utilitarian and the man the New York Times called the “greatest living philosopher,” says, “By 2040, it may be […]
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“Gays” cannot be Seminary Rectors or Professors says Vatican Document Cover Letter

By Hilary White ROME, December 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A part of the Vatican’s instruction on banning homosexuals from Catholic seminaries that did not gain widespread media attention was a covering letter accompanying it that specified that “gay” men must not be allowed to be seminary rectors or professors. Signed by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the education congregation, and Archbishop J. Michael Miller, the congregation’s secretary, the letter specified that the instructions “must be adhered to faithfully,” a stipulation expected to rankle among North American and European bishops who have long been accustomed to a creative interpretation of obedience […]
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Dangerous Depo-Provera is being prescribed to large number of Canadian Aboriginals without proper monitoringhttps://www.macleans.ca/topstories/health/article.jsp?content=20051128_116635_116635 “Arnold Schwarzenegger has become a liberal Democrat. By placing a leading homosexual, pro-abortion Democrat activist in charge of his entire administration, Arnold has taken a disastrous turn to the lefthttps://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=10602 The Supreme Court of Hawaii has ruled that unborn children are not “human beings,” and therefore women cannot be prosecuted for causing the death of babies by harmful behavior during their pregancies. https://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47661 $3 Billion Stem Cell Funding Measure Will Go to Trialhttps://www.christianpost.com/article/society/2049/section/%243.billion.stem.cell.funding.measure.will.go.to.trial/1.htm Late-term abortionist, Geroge Tiller, “the Killer”, cleared in death of young mentally retarded […]
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Canadian Election Buzz

By Steve Jalsevac Response to Conservatives Same-Sex Marriage Announcement Ottawa Citizen editorial praises Stephen Harper’s candour when he said he wouldn’t obstruct efforts to repeal legislation allowing gay weddings.  https://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=e3e141dc-3069-4862-84c3-d0d5e6988d39 Paul Thomas, a political scientist at the University of Manitoba writes about Harpers gay ‘marriage’ announcement, “But then, as I thought about it more, I realized it was a calculated judgment. I don’t think there’s a huge downside, and it may provide protection against it surfacing later.”https://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Election/2005/12/01/1331869-sun.html Don Martin in the National Post“The way it’s been explained to me by two sources attending the private meeting, Harper canvassed his caucus […]
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Abortion Doctor Says Hillary Clinton Was His Patient

By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortionist William F. Harrison was profiled in the LA Times yesterday, as a 70-year-old doctor who is proud to have “terminated at least 20,000 pregnancies” since he began performing abortions in 1973. What the LA Times did not report is that Harrison, claims to have had New York Senator Hillary Clinton as his patient right around the time he commenced the procedure. Harrison wrote a book review for Amazon.com on Bill Clinton’s book “My Life”. In that July 24, 2004 review, unearthed by Covenant News blog, Harrison states, “I am […]
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After Abortion Women’s Suicide Rates Are Highest Says New Study

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff SPRINGFIELD, IL, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Compared to women who have not been pregnant in the prior year, deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248% higher in the year following an abortion, according to a new 13-year study of the entire population of women in Finland. The study also found that majority of the extra deaths among women who had abortions were due to suicide. The suicide rate among women who had abortions was six times higher than that of women who had given birth in the prior year and double that of women who […]
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Research Discrediting Abortion-Cancer Link Is Seriously Flawed says Review in Medical Journal

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff WASHINGTON, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a scientific review of 10 prospective studies published online today in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and others are using seriously flawed research to deny an abortion-breast cancer link. The author, Professor Joel Brind of Baruch College, concluded: “These recent studies therefore do not invalidate the large body of previously published studies that established induced abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.” Brind is the second expert to accuse abortion enthusiasts of conducting “shoddy research.” His paper represents an update […]
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Ex-Gay Group Rejoices that Vatican Says Former Homosexuals Can Become Priests

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff WASHINGTON, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s recent document on homosexuality and the priesthood, is being lauded by ex-gay groups since it requires that seminarian candidates be free from homosexual tendencies for at least three years. “The ex-gay community is grateful to the Holy Father for recognizing that men who have overcome same sex attractions are capable of serving as priests,” said Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX). “All mainstream mental health organizations agree that individuals with unwanted same sex attractions have the right to seek therapy to explore […]
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Walgreens Disciplines Four Pharmacists for Refusing Abortifacient Morning-After Pill Prescriptions

By Terry Vanderheyden ST. LOUIS, Illinois, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four Walgreens pharmacists have been suspended without pay for refusing to dispense the abortifacient morning-after pill. The pharmacies, all located in Illinois, are subject to a law instituted by Gov. Rod Blagojevich in April that forces pharmacists to fill prescriptions whether they are morally opposed or not. A Walgreen spokesman, Tiffani Bruce, said the pharmacists all opposed the prescriptions on religious or moral grounds, and “have said they would like to maintain their right to refuse to dispense, and in Illinois that is not an option,” according to an […]
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South Africa Legalizes Gay ‘Marriage’ While Tasmania Rejects It

By Terry Vanderheyden CAPE TOWN, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – South Africa’s highest court has ruled to allow same-sex “marriage.” The country’s Constitutional Court has ordered parliament to amend the law within one year, mandating a change to the wording of the marriage law from the “union between a man and a woman” to the “union between two persons.” “The common law definition of marriage is declared to be inconsistent with the constitution and invalid to the extent that it does not permit same-sex couples to enjoy the status and benefits it accords heterosexual couples,” claimed Justice Albie Sachs, according […]
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