Articles for Month: April 2007

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Robert Drinan, Infanticide, and the “Unthinkable”  https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=717   The Frenchman who discovered trisomy 21 was heroically professional when he insisted it could be cured.  https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/saintly_scientists_hate_the_disease_love_the_diseased/   Virginia Tech: Stopping the Violence  https://www.catholicexchange.com/node/61357   Ultrasound Deemed Too Emotional by Pro-Abortionists  https://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/kroeten_20070427.html   Is the pro-abortion community so steadfast to preserve infanticide?  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12865/CFI/life/index.htm   Partial-Birth Bigotry – The know-nothing left blames the latest abortion ruling on Catholicism  https://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010004   A Short & […]

The Partial Birth Abortion Ban may have begun to put Roe v. Wade on a path to absolute extinction

By Hilary White   WASHINGTON, DC. April 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study shows that not only do stem cells from the patient’s own body readily repair all sorts of damaged tissue, they stimulate the growth and differentiation of existing stem cells. Dr. Darwin J. Prockop, Director of Tulane University’s Center for Gene Therapy says his research suggests multiple strategies to treat diseases using adult stem cells.   Injected stem cells taken from bone marrow transfer mitochondrial DNA to existing local cells whose own mitochondria are inactive and stimulates those cells to start working.    While scientists and doctors […]

President of pro-life group charges "UN officials are promoting a new holocaust, the Holocaust of the innocent unborn"

Interior Ministry begins proceedings against the Church for violating laws prohibiting its involvement in politics

By Peter J. Smith ERLANGEN, Germany, April 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – German authorities have decided to leave 16 year old German homeschooler Melissa Busekros and her family in peace for now reports the International Human Rights Group (IHRG).   In a letter to the family’s attorney, the Erlangen Jugendamt (Youth Welfare Office), which was responsible for seizing Melissa from her home in February – affirmed that they were going to “de-escalate” the situation and allow Melissa to remain with her family as long as the Busekros family would continue to dialogue with the authorities. “This is a great victory for the […]

The Pontifical Academy for Life has opposed provision of the morning after pill for any reason

By Gudrun Schultz   Malta, April 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Dutch abortion boat that was granted a license from the Netherlands government to enter international waters does not have an open door to operate in countries where the practice is outlawed, according to a report published April 28 by the Times of Malta.   The boat’s license restricts abortion activity to countries where a “cooperation agreement has been reached with a regional hospital in the country of whose shores the facility is operating,” Paul Vincenti, CEO with Gift of Life, told the Times. “This boat is simply part of […]

By Gudrun Schultz   GENOA, Italy, April 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists mailed a bullet to the office of Genoese Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco Friday, in the latest threat against the senior church official over his opposition to same-sex civil unions.   Police bodyguards were assigned to protect Archbishop Bagnasco several weeks ago, after threatening graffiti appeared on his cathedral and other buildings across the city. “Death to Bagnaso” and “Shame on you, Bagnasco” were spray painted, along with insults against Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Camillo Ruini, previous head of the bishops conference.   Pornographic images of the Virgin […]

By Hilary White   CAMBRIDGE, MA, April 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A video has been removed that was posted to the online video service, YouTube, showing teachers using homosexual materials in class to promote the normalization of homosexuality to young children.   The film, “It’s Elementary”, was made in 1996 by Women’s Educational Media, a San Francisco-based group that claims the film “has served as a catalyst for schools all over the world to become more proactive in addressing anti-gay prejudice in the classroom.”     The link to the site on YouTube where the video was, now carries a message saying, “This […]

By John-Henry Westen   STRASBOURG, April 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italy’s Giusto Catania, launched an attack on the Catholic Church from the floor of the European Parliament Wednesday.  Catania, a Member of the European Parliament, joined in a debate on homophobia to say that the European governing body must stop intolerance. “We cannot allow these signs of intolerance,” said Catania, “we cannot allow such statements to be made as made by the Polish Minister.” Those statements he referred to were those of Polish Education Minister Roman Giertych, who has proposed legislation to forbid promotion of homosexuality in schools.  “One must […]

By John-Henry Westen   VATICAN CITY, April 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday afternoon, Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. announced that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the invitation presented recently by Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, to visit the headquarters of that organization in New York. “The Pope,” said Fr. Lombardi, “has accepted the invitation in general terms, and has expressed his willingness to visit the U.N. headquarters, although as yet there is no date or program for the trip.”   While the date has not been announced, it is likely that the visit […]

By Hilary White   SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of San Francisco is refuting the Evening Standard’s claim that a service to be broadcast worldwide this Sunday by the BBC from a San Francisco parish is a “gay Mass”.    With the headline, “BBC to broadcast gay mass from San Francisco” the Evening Standard reported today that the event, recorded last October 22, was presided over by Jesuit Fr. Donal Godfrey with preaching from one of Britain’s leading homosexual theologians, James Allison. The Standard reported that the “Mass” will feature prayers and readings tailored for the gay […]

By Gudrun Schultz   VIRGINIA, April 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Top Protestant leaders in the United States are calling for a united response from Protestants in rejecting “anti-Catholic bigotry” in the media. “Protestants have a special duty to condemn anti-Catholic bigotry…Our Catholic brethren should not have to wait to hear our voices forcefully raised against the bigotry now directed against them,” wrote Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship, in a BreakPoint Commentary published April 26.   Colson pointed to recent mainstream media coverage of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act as an example of […]

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, April 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study to be published in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health has found that “lesbians have more than twice the odds of overweight (odds ratio [OR]=2.69; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.40, 5.18) and obesity (OR=2.47; 95% CI=1.19, 5.09) as heterosexual women.”   Researchers compared population estimates of overweight and obesity across sexual orientation groups using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth with a study sample of almost 6,000 women.   Another study in the same edition of the journal, found that homosexual, bisexual […]

By Gudrun Schultz   MANIZALES, Colombia, April 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An arrest order against Archbishop Fabio Betancourt Tirado has been temporarily suspended for ten days by a Columbian court in Manizales—the order was issued after the archbishop refused to comply with a lawsuit over his decision to dismiss a seminarian for robbery and homosexual activity, according to a Catholic News Agency report April 26.   The former seminarian accused Archbishop Betancourt of discriminating against him over his homosexual activity while he was in seminary—he is now enrolled in a Protestant seminary. The archbishop declined to explain to the court […]

By Gudrun Schultz MEXICO CITY, April 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexican lawyers plan to take the capitol city’s new abortion law to an international human rights court next week, according to a Reuters report published earlier today.   A law permitting abortion on demand during the first three months of pregnancy passed Tuesday in Mexico City in an assembly vote dominated by left-leaning members. Lawyers argue however that the abortion law violates the Mexican Constitution, which states that human life must be defended “from conception until its natural end.” “The College of Catholic Lawyers, a secular association of believers, is […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Grassroots Organizations Fight for Right to Run Ads  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000004474.cfm   Pro-family activist warns of consequences of redefining marriage  https://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/pro_family_activist_warns_of_c.php   US Universities are headed by people who were students in the rebellious ‘60s. Ironically, they’ve become what they once hated  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004472.cfm   The Auth cartoon against the five Catholic Supreme Court justices who voted to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act  https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=715   Let’s be realistic about reality –  […]

Estimated 3-4,000 students in the Sacramento area chose to stay home

Slams Poland as "Hateful" for Failing to Allow Promotion of Homosexuality in Schools

By Gudrun Schultz   ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke took a strong stand this week against a Catholic charity’s decision to book singer Sheryl Crow for a benefit concert, publicly condemning the move and withdrawing from his position on the board.   Crow’s advocacy for legal abortion and embryonic stem cell research would make her appearance at the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation event a “scandal” that could confuse others and lead them to evil, Archbishop Burke said.   At issue was Crow’s public advocacy for “actions which result in the deliberate killing […]

Act UP members chanted, "Pope Benedict XVI, homophobe, AIDS accomplice"

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study to be published in the upcoming June edition of the American Journal of Public Health has researchers alarmed about growing rates of syphilis among homosexual and bisexual men.   The overall number of syphilis cases in the United States fell from 50,578 in 1990 to 7,177 in 2003. Nevertheless, homosexual men have seen their rates rise significantly in this decade. “The entire nation was caught unawares,” said study lead author James Heffelfinger, M.D., a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   The study provides […]

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, applauded the remarks made Monday by Vatican Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Archbishop called abortion “terrorism with a human face” and said: “Besides the abominable terrorism of suicide bombers, which is ever-present in the media, there is the so-called terrorism with a human face, which is also a daily occurrence and just as repugnant, which continues to be propagated by the media, manipulating traditional language with expressions that hide the tragic reality […]

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., April 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Latino communities are having a significant influence on the practice of religion in the United States, according to a new study released April 25 by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center.   Entitled Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion, the study examined the distinctive religious emphasis of the Hispanic faith communities and the resulting political views that have a growing influence on U.S. politics. “The major findings in this study leave little doubt that a detailed understanding of religious […]

MP links proliferation of adult pornography to rise and spread of child porn

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Aborted alive in the UK vs. U.S.  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55372   Dutch Discuss “Why nobody else wants euthanasia”  https://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/amsterdamforum/070422af   Abortion is back – in 2008- Pat Buchanan  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55356   Partial Pro-Life Democrats  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/partial_prolife_democrats.html   North Dakota passes conditional abortion ban  https://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/04/24/news/state/132450.txt   MSNBC’s Grotesque Partial-Birth Analogy: Issues ‘Sucked Life’ Out of GOP  https://newsbusters.org/node/12176   On Abortion: Rudy Criticized Pope John Paul II / Defended Clinton  https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820650/posts   HPV vaccine concerns give […]

NAACP's youth and college division wants even stricter guidelines within entertainment industry

Stephen Mosher asserts that forcing population control on poor nations via financial pressure is "economic assassination"

Ad has run since Feb. 26 and was pulled by Telecaster Committee on March 16th

By Gudrun Schultz   MISSISSIPPI, April 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children with religious parents are better behaved and appear happier than children raised by parents without the influence of religious faith, a new study has shown.   The first to examine the impact of religion on the development of young children, the study was authored by John Bartkowski, a sociologist with Mississippi State University. Bartkowski’s team questioned the parents and teachers of more than 16,000 children, asking the adults to rate the children—most of them age six—on self-control, frequency of poor or unhappy behavior, and their ability to respect and […]

Complains this is first time "Court has ever upheld a restriction on abortion without a health exception"

Override fails to gain veto-proof majority by one vote through defection of Sen. Charles Laster

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court rescinded two federal appeals courts’ rulings overturning partial-birth abortion laws in Virginia and Missouri on Monday in the wake of its recent decision to uphold the federal ban on the procedure.   The Court returned Herring v. Richmond Medical Center (No. 05-730) to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Nixon v. Reproductive Health Services (No. 05-1124) to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking them to review their respective cases in the light of Gonzales v. Carhart.   Previously the federal […]

No Problem with Killing Human Embryos

Violates the country's constitutional protection for the right to life

"It's so heartbreaking to see little kids brainwashed", says former homosexual Stephen Bennett

By Peter J. Smith   EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, April 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland’s Catholic Bishops issued a strongly worded letter to congregations last weekend calling upon voters in the upcoming election to challenge attacks on Christian values and bring the “voice of a truly human and Christian civilisation” to Scotland.   The Scottish Bishops’ stalwart letter comes in the wake of the Labour government’s open growing antagonism toward the Church’s presence in the public sphere, especially with its inflexible position against giving Catholics freedom of conscience regarding services to homosexuals and homosexual adoptions.   Gravely disturbed by the increasing […]

By John-Henry Westen   SAO PAULO, April 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Brazil has led some Catholics to seek to correct scandalous situations in Brazil which have been allowed to fester by Catholic authorities in Brazil.  Topping the list is the fact that the pro-abortion group calling itself Catholic for a Free Choice is housed in a building owned by a religious order, sharing the building with the southern branch of the Brazilian Bishops Conference and the Brazilian Religious conference.   The Spanish Catholic news service ACI Prensa reported in July 2006 that […]

By Gudrun Schultz   AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, April 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Dutch abortion boat has been granted government permission to perform abortions in international waters on women up to 7 weeks pregnant, despite a massive national and international outcry, the Times online reported earlier today.   The boat has caused an uproar at home in the Netherlands and abroad. Condemned by governments and pro-life organizations as a propaganda tool for pro-abortion activists, the abortion boat has come under intense criticism for offering to perform abortions on women from countries where the procedure is illegal.   Operated by Women […]

By Gudrun Schultz   BRASILIA, Brazil, April 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Debate over the morality of destroying human embryos in research began last week in Brazil, as the Supreme Court opened hearings on the issue to the general public.   For the first time, the Court permitted public attendance during the testimony of 25 doctors, researchers and scientists—dozens of citizens crowded the court during debates on the contentious issue, Reuters reported.   Brazil opened the door to embryonic stem cell research in 2005 with the passage of the biosecurity law. The attorney general challenged the law before the Supreme Court […]

Also charges abortion and euthanasia are "terrorism with a human face"

College knew he was a mentally ill, pornography and violence obsessed sexual predator and still did not expel him

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Remember this,” Richard John Neuhaus told a ballroom full of Catholic luminaries, “The greatest, moral, political, cultural contest of our time is…the contest between the culture of Life and the culture of Death.”   Richard John Neuhaus, a former Lutheran pastor born in Pembroke Ontario, is now a Catholic convert and priest and edits the leading American intellectual Catholic journal First Things. He addressed attendees at the 4th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC earlier this month. In the formal traditional American oratorical style, he encouraged those who had been involved in the […]

Doctors said they don't want to be seen as "organ-seizing ghouls"

By Hilary White   HAMILTON, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although separate Catholic school boards in Ontario are guaranteed under the Canadian Constitution, a series of recent motions by public school board trustees has called their continued existence and distinctive religious nature into question.    The Ottawa Citizen reports that the public Ottawa Carleton District School Board voted ten to one on April 10 to eliminate their separate English and French publicly funded schools. The vote reaffirmed a 2001 motion in favour of a unified non-Catholic school system.   In the last municipal election, in order to bring attention to […]

By John-Henry Westen   PAVIA, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at a Catholic hospital in the Northern Italian city of Pavia today, Pope Benedict XVI said, “It is my heartfelt hope that vital scientific and technological progress will always be accompanied by a concern to promote, alongside the good of sick people, such fundamental values as respect for and defense of life at every stage, upon which the authentically human quality of coexistence depend.”   Continuing his address at the “San Matteo” hospital, the Pope highlighted the fact that “in each person suffering from illness it is He Himself […]

Group Calls on Journalists to Challenge Researchers to Do a Proper Study

Anti-Catholicism at the Catholic Teachers Union Has Come Back to Bite

By Peter J. Smith   UNITED STATES, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists have gained ground in their agenda to promote same-sex “marriage” or civil unions in four US states: Washington, Oregon, New York, and Connecticut, where state lawmakers have recently signed, passed, or promised legislation detrimental to traditional marriage and family.   In Washington, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law the domestic partnership bill on Saturday, which gives homosexual couples legal rights and privileges reserved for married couples, including hospital visitation rights, the ability to authorize autopsies and organ donations and inheritance rights when there is no will.   […]

By Gudrun Schultz   MEXICO CITY, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter Friday supporting Catholics in Mexico City in their battle to prevent the passage of abortion legislation in the nation’s capital.   In his letter to Mexican bishops, the Holy Father said Christ’s victory over death was a reason to defend everyone’s right to life “from the first moment of their conception.”   Lawmakers in Mexico City will vote tomorrow on a bill to permit abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy. The volatile issue has led to an outcry from the […]

By Gudrun Schultz   IRVINE, California, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chinese government’s one-child policy has effectively reduced the country’s birth rate to well below replacement levels, triggering an impending demographic crisis, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have found.   A team of sociologists from the United States and China collaborated on the study, published in the current issue of the journal Population and Development Review, which is the first to use local data on fertility policy and population growth collected from 420 Chinese prefectures.   In what is being called the first systematic examination of the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its brief filed last week with the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Thomas More Law Center urged the court to reverse a federal judge’s ruling that an anti-Catholic resolution of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was constitutionally justified because the Church opposed adoptions by homosexual couples. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, a President Carter appointee and one-time counsel for the National Organization for Women (NOW), ruled that the Board resolution condemning Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality and urging the Archbishop of San Francisco and Catholic Charities of San […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Tennessee teen puts face on abortion debate  https://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=3751878   NBC’s Gravest Sin  https://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/5b83674e-5af9-433e-a4fb-49ff5ff4a378   Campus killings: what about those left behind?  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=526   Do we really want to go down the path of vaccinating children against deficits of moral intelligence and willpower?  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=529   Virginia Tech and the heartlessness of our media and therapy culture  https://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/   ‘No abortions, no exceptions,’ in sight – Georgia group aims for constitutional amendment […]

By John-Henry Westen   LONDON, ON, April 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  London Ontario Bishop Ronald Fabbro has issued a statement clarifying the teaching of the Catholic Church on the provision of artificial nutrition and hydration.   The issue has been contentious, even in Catholic hospitals, and was raised to international attention with the starvation death of Terri Schiavo in 2005. “In an address which he delivered on March 20, 2004, Pope John Paul II referred to a particular medical condition called persistent ‘vegetative’ state (PVS), or post-coma unresponsiveness,” said Bishop Fabbro.  “In reference to this condition, the pope stated that artificial […]

After aid organization publicizes atrocities, security officers surround hospital wing

OTTAWA, April 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Civil Rights League has announced that it is once again co-sponsoring the annual March for Life, to take place in Ottawa May 9 to 11. The 10th annual event will include a Mass, candlelight vigil and the Rose Dinner as well as the march to Parliament Hill the afternoon of May 10.   The League has worked hard on such civil rights issues as the definition of marriage, freedom of religion and freedom of expression. The right to life from conception to natural death is the most fundamental of civil rights. In […]

Study's numbers described as "the tip of the iceberg" for "terminations" in all of UK

By Peter J. Smith   ENGELWOOD, New Jersey, April 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life organizations enthused by Wednesday’s US Supreme Court decision, are calling for immediate enforcement of the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion ban by the US Justice Department.   In New Jersey, a number of pro-life organizations, including New Jersey Right to Life, the Legal Center for Defense of Life, and Crossing Over Ministry, held a press conference Thursday outside Metropolitan Medical Associates, an abortion provider, demanding enforcement of the upheld abortion law. “The practical consequences of today’s decision take place right here in Englewood,” said Richard Collier, president […]

By Peter J. Smith   NEW YORK, April 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students in over 5,000 schools were subject to a day of propaganda on Wednesday, when homosexual activist students passed out leaflets urging students to remain silent for an entire day to express their approval of the homosexual agenda.   The “Day of Silence” event sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), had students explaining they were protesting “the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies in schools.”   GLSEN claimed hundreds of thousands of students were expected to support its 11th […]

Children watch estimated 18,000 murders on TV by age 18 and over 200,000 acts of violence

By Samantha Singson   (NEW YORK, April 19, 2007 (CFAM) – A group of hard-left Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have sent a letter to a top-ranking member of the US State Department demanding that she not attend the upcoming World Congress of Families IV set for Poland this May.  In the letter recently released to the Baltimore Sun by Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), several MEPs claim that by speaking at the WCF, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey would be providing an “official US government stamp of approval to extremist and […]

By Gudrun Schultz   OTTAWA, Canada, April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attempt to force a lower age of consent for homosexual sex in Canada has failed at the committee stage, after Canadian MPs rejected two proposed amendments to a bill scheduled to come before the house within the next two weeks.   Bill C-22 was introduced by the conservative government to raise the age of consent for heterosexual sex to 16 from 14, where it currently stands as one of the lowest ages of consent in the developed world.   NDP Joe Comartin, at the request of homosexual lobby […]

By Gudrun Schultz   MOSCOW, Russia, April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Russian scientist and politician has warned that trafficking in human organs will explode in the country if legal euthanasia is introduced, Regnum News Agency reported earlier today.   Sergey Kolesnikov is a member of the Russian State Duma, a doctor of medicine and a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He told a Regnum correspondent that a law permitting euthanasia would “sharply increase” the risk of criminal seizure of human organs, already a significant problem in the country. “I strongly oppose legalization of euthanasia,” Kolesnikov […]

By Gudrun Schultz   DOVER, Delaware, April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A couple who adopted their two-year-old daughter as a frozen embryo left stored in a fertility clinic freezer, are now using their story to fight against legislation that would permit research using human embryos, the Dialog reported April 16.   Tim and Dawn Smith adopted their daughter Erin 11 years after she was conceived in a petri dish during in vitro fertilization proceedings. Unused by her biological parents, the child remained frozen in storage and faced likely destruction by eventual discarding.   After learning they were unable to conceive […]

By Hilary White   BRUSSELS, April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ruling party of Belgium, the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Flemish Liberal Democrats or Open VLD), wants to force every hospital in the country to install euthanasia protocols for patients who request it.   Since 2002, Belgian law has allowed doctors to help kill patients who, during a terminal illness, express a wish to hasten their own death. Belgium was the third jurisdiction in the world after the Netherlands (April 1, 2002) and the state of Oregon (1997) to legalize active euthanasia.   The Socialist who helped draft Belgium’s euthanasia […]

Clinton spoke warmly of "agenda she is "pursuing" with gay activists of Human Rights Campaign

Also must pay own legal costs and would be liable for all court costs if he loses

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, D.C., April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dawn Eden, celebrity blogger and Deputy News Editor for regional editions at the New York Daily News, was doing a book signing for her new book “The Thrill of the Chaste” at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast last week when she sat down with LifeSiteNews.com for an interview.   Her life story as she revealed it in snapshots is a fascinating and captivating chronicle of rebellion.    In the 1990’s as a rock journalist and unobservant Reform Jew, Eden says she thought herself the quintessential subversive, in a lifestyle of […]

Billboard ads present interpretations alien to their scriptural authors

Has suffered detention, forced psychiatric treatment and Reeducation Through Labor

Cite Health Dep. "Privacy" Concerns

Aruba's government lawyer: "Gay marriage is against the civil code and Aruban morals."

Corneal cultivation opens way to assist people with eye surface damage

ALBANY, N.Y., April 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New York Supreme Court judge denied a bid by homosexual activists to dismiss a case questioning the state’s recognition of same-sex “marriages” performed in Canada.  Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed suit on behalf of New York taxpayers in 2006 seeking to block the state comptroller’s attempts to recognize of out-of-state same-sex “marriages.” “The New York Court of Appeals has already decided that marriage is defined as one man and one woman,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Brian W. Raum.  “The legislature never intended for the term ‘spouse’ to include same-sex couples ‘married’ […]

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, April 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 5-4 majority decision penned by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the federal partial birth abortion ban which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003.   The law bans “partial-birth abortion,” a legal term of art, defined in the law itself as any abortion in which the baby is delivered feet-first “past the [baby’s] navel . . . outside the body of the mother,” or “in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Mexican archdiocese criticized “Catholics for a Free Choice” for hypocrisy   https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9126   U.S. Senate Committee Considers Curbing RU-486  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004391.cfm   Where Have All the Girls Gone?  https://ncregister.com/site/article/2267/   Now scientists create a sheep that’s 15% human  https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444436&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source   Former NOW Chapter President Exposes Left’s Media Agenda  https://newsbusters.org/node/12092   Critics Say U.S. Attorney Firings Were Linked to Anti-Porn Efforts  https://ncregister.com/site/article/2265   Prosecuting Pornography  https://ncregister.com/site/article/2257/   Why so much angst over […]

By Peter J. Smith   DES MOINES, Iowa, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former New York Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudolf “Rudy” Giuliani told supporters in Iowa that Republicans needs to “get beyond” pro-life issues and choose a candidate who can win the presidency in 2008.   Giuliani – a candidate known more for his leadership during the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks than his liberal views – told Republicans Friday at a campaign stop in Des Moines that Republicans need to elect someone who will fight terrorism and keeping the economy growing.  “Our party has to get beyond issues […]

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) has just released a “Safe is Sexy” television ad that features a young couple being interrupted from having unprotected sex by their Guardian Angels. The ad, which will appear on MTV, VH1 and FX, shows a sloppy-looking male angel eating popcorn at the head of the bed watching in delight. Then his female counterpart appears imploring him to do something. He accesses a TV remote and rewinds the scene of the couple in bed. This time the woman asks her male partner if he has any protection, to […]

By Gudrun Schultz   FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion activists in the province of New Brunswick—led by the National Abortion Federation based in Washington, D.C.—continue their assault on pro-life advocates, this time by seeking an injunction that would prevent pro-life demonstrators from coming within a certain limit of the Morgentaler abortion clinic in Fredericton.   The National Abortion Federation (NAF), New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women (ACSW) and the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) have demanded that Attorney General Thomas J. Burke, Minister of Justice and Consumer Affairs, introduce legislation to establish […]

By Gudrun Schultz and John-Henry Westen   TORONTO, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops have released a statement clarifying the Church’s position on euthanasia and assisted suicide, and calling on Catholics to question politicians about their stand on the issue. “Catholics, like all other citizens, have the right and duty to participate in the political processes of our democracy,” the bishops state. “Our elected representatives should be questioned about their positions on euthanasia and assisted suicide. We call on Canadians to encourage those who hold office, in all political parties, to protect the right to […]

By Gudrun Schultz   JOHANNESBURG, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – African Health Ministers adopted a new proposal Friday that will increase legal abortion throughout the continent, under the policies of the controversial Maputo Protocol on the rights of women, according to a report published yesterday by the Ethiopian Herald online.   Meeting on Easter Monday, April 9, health ministers from more than 40 African countries participated in a weeklong conference discussing health strategies for the continent under the Maputo Protocol that was “approved” by the ministers last October—ratified by just 15 of the 53-member states of the African Union, the […]

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on April 13, EWTN celebrity and best-selling author Raymond Arroyo delighted the nearly 2,000 attendees with stories of EWTN foundress Mother Angelica.  Particularly captivating were his very authentic sounding Mother Angelica impersonations which, beyond sounding like the saintly nun, were in content and tone nearly identical to the original.   In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, Arroyo explained Mother Angelica’s devotion to the pro-life cause.  He said that Mother’s “own infirmities and being someone who was honestly forgotten and pushed aside by so many […]

Pope is preparing a series of reforms of the Catholic Church.  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/14/wpope114.xml   TV Show “Grey’s Anatomy” Wins Award for Promoting Homosexuality   https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070415/greys_glaad_070415/20070415?hub=Entertainment   Sexual Abuse by Guards at Texas youth prison investigated  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55039   Scotland’s Smallest Baby – 14 oz and survived  https://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_headline=exclusive%2D-scotland%2Ds-smallest-baby%26method=full%26objectid=18906791%26siteid=64736-name_page.html   Billboard Company Refuses Ex-Gay Ads  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004367.cfm   China fires official for having too many children  https://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKPEK15854720070410?feedType=RSS   In Depth report on fast rising, not yet announced Republican presidential candidate, Fred Thompson  https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/528aylls.asp?pg=2   Focus on the Family’s James Dobson: I didn’t disparage Fred Thompson’s faith – Quoted: ‘I don’t think he’s a Christian; at […]

UN report criticizes German "suppression of forms of education that do not require attendance at a school"

By Hilary White   LONDON, April 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, the senior prelate of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has instructed a Catholic hospital to cease in vitro fertilisation treatments, contraception distribution and abortion referrals.   The Daily Mail reports that the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth in North London, popular with celebrities, will no longer allow any staff members to participate in contraceptive or abortion related activities under a new code of ethics to be instituted starting next month. Bishop George Stack, an auxiliary of Westminster, has been appointed to the ethics […]

Has created political crisis threatening to destroy ruling conservative coalition

Says embryonic stem cell push "is all about de-humanizing with a pre-text of curing"

By Hilary White FREDERICTON, New Brunswick April 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life mother of seven in New Brunswick, will not face criminal charges for displaying photos of aborted children outside the local abortion facility.   Suzie Ryan, the wife of pro-life leader Peter Ryan, was arrested last September while displaying an abortion image outside the facility owned by the notorious Dr. Henry Morgentaler. She was charged with violating the anti-obscenity provisions of the Criminal Code but since the Crown has not pursued the matter further it is likely that it will now simply be dropped.   Mrs. Ryan spent […]

By John-Henry Westen   NEW YORK CITY, April 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual and bisexual men may be at far higher risk for eating disorders than heterosexual men, according to a study conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. In the first population-based study of its kind, the researchers found that homosexual and bisexual men have higher rates of eating disorders. The findings are reported in the April 2007 issue of International Journal of Eating Disorders.   Researchers Ilan H. Meyer, PhD, associate professor of clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health and principal investigator, […]

Coalition of medical professionals and family groups ask court to reverse FDA's decision

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, April 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Along with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito, U.S. President George W. Bush was in attendance at the fourth annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast this morning. In remarks to the crowd of thousands, the President spoke about “renewing the promise of America.”  It “begins,” he said “with upholding the dignity of human life.” The President was at ease at the breakfast, joking with attendees about having the event on a Friday after Easter, outside of Lent so bacon could be eaten without hurting consciences. To laughs and […]

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Bush has reacted to Wednesday’s Senate passage of a bill to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.  The following is the full text of the President’s statement: Scientists believe that stem cells have the potential for medical breakthroughs in treating debilitating medical diseases and disorders. However, the advancement of science and medicine need not conflict with the ethical imperative to protect every human life. I am a strong supporter of scientific research—which is why I authorized the first federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells, under careful safeguards, starting in 2001. My […]

Warn "the people of the world... to learn from our mistakes and avoid repeating them in your own countries"

Opponents emphasize proposed legislation violates California constitution and rights of voters

April 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  President Bush, in his Easter message to the US’s approximately 224,000,000 Christians, called the resurrection of Jesus Christ, “the most important event” of the Christian faith. The US president’s brief message pointed to the resurrection of Christ as a beacon of hope. “We can rejoice in Christ’s rising, draw strength and inspiration from His example, and remember that in the end, even death itself will be defeated.”   The website of Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada did not carry an Easter greeting to Canadians and the Prime Minister’s office did not return calls […]

Laws would give homosexuals and their behavior special protections under US law and muzzle free speech

Union supported workers who decided not to work because Silent No More made them "feel unsafe"

By Gudrun Schultz   GENOA, Italy, April 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Genoa’s Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, president of the Italian bishops’ conference, has been placed under police protection after homosexual activists spray-painted death threats against the senior church official across the city, the BBC reported April 10.   Archbishop Bagnasco recently issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the government’s proposal to give legal rights to unmarried couples in civil unions, including homosexual pairs. “Why not say no to various forms of living together, to the creating of alternative forms of the family?” Archbishop Bagnasco said, warning that legalization of homosexual unions would […]

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US President Bush has said he’ll veto a bill that would increase taxpayer funding for human embryonic stem-cell research, if the Senate votes to pass the measure today, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink reported. “The administration strongly opposes Senate passage of S. 5, which would use federal taxpayer dollars to support and encourage the destruction of human life for research,” the White House said in a statement April 10. “Destroying nascent human life for research raises serious ethical problems, and millions of Americans consider the practice immoral.”   The […]

By Gudrun Schultz   STRASBOURG, France, April 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK woman has lost her final appeal to obtain the right to have children using frozen embryos from a previous relationship.   The European Court of Human Rights’ final appeals court, the Grand Chamber, yesterday rejected Natalie Evens’ claim that a British court violated her human rights by denying her petition to use fertilized embryos over the objections of her former partner.   Ms. Evens’ former fiance Howard Johnston refused to give permission for her use of the embryos in order to have children, after their relationship ended. […]

She has had two abortions and believes she suffered a miscarriage of third baby as result of abortions

AUSTIN, April 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A probate judge Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order so that a toddler named Emilio at Children’s Hospital of Austin can continue to receive medical treatment while his lawsuit moves forward.  The judge set a new hearing date for April 19, when an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney will help defend the boy’s right to life. “We are very pleased that the court today has agreed that little Emilio should continue to receive the treatment he needs to live while this case moves forward,” said Joshua Carden, the ADF-allied attorney working on the case […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Socialists in Mexico now seeking to legalize euthanasia  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9067   Senate, Bush head for showdown on stem cells  https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/congress_stemcells_dc;_ylt=AoP4wO4puQrXTmpUoffF7XQDW7oF   Senate Bill 850, which would authorize the state to issue a “certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth  https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/10/STILLBORN.TMP   Sen. Casey praised for keeping his commitment on Stem Cells  https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU07D06   Another scandal hits research into cloning  https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8952&size=A   Federal appeals court  to hear arguments on whether abortion ends human […]

By Meg Jalsevac   COLUMBIA, S.C., April 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani made a campaign stop to speak to the strongly conservative GOP population of South Carolina and to defend his pro-abortion stance.  “Ultimately I believe it’s an individual right and a woman should make that choice.”   Giuliani has previously explained his position saying that, though he may personally oppose abortion, “you have to leave that to a disagreement of conscience, and you have to respect the choice that somebody makes.”   Giuliani was in South Carolina to accept three endorsements in his effort to claim […]

Evangelical leaders warn it will have the effect of outlawing criticism of homosexual lifestyle.

Planned Parenthood claims victory after legal intimidation through army of lawyers and key political allies in state governments

By John-Henry Westen   KITCHENER, April 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic schools in Ontario have books and videos in their libraries which promote homosexuality despite Church teaching that homosexuality is disordered.    After being alerted by a concerned Catholic teacher, Defend Traditional Marriage & Family, a pro-family group headquartered in Kitchener, contacted the local Catholic school board to alert them to the fact that some of its schools have in their libraries books and videos misleading Catholic students and teachers on the issue of homosexuality. On March 26, the family group’s Communications Director Jack Fonseca wrote the Waterloo Catholic District […]

By Gudrun Schultz   AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The surprise winner of the top U.S. golf championship credited Jesus Christ in interviews following his Easter Sunday victory at the Masters’ Golf Tournament in Georgia.   Zach Johnson beat out Tiger Woods to win the prestigious Masters’ prize, the coveted green jacket, at the Augusta National Golf Club on April 8. The 31-year-old Iowan emerged from the background to grab a surprise victory, finishing with one-over-par 289 in a 72-hole total. “This being Easter, Jesus was with me every step. I felt Him. It was awesome,” Johnson told […]

Protest against Jesuit Catholic University of Detroit Mercy cancelled because meeting arranged

So far, new law requires only a mandatory three-day "cooling-off" period before abortion

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com.  They are presented only for your information.   Easter Surprise: NBC Acknowledges U.S. ‘A Very Religious Nation’  https://newsbusters.org/node/11878   Easter in Vietnam: An Extraordinary Account  https://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=131463&eng=y   Store gets egg on its face over Christ’s Easter ‘birth’  https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1610495.ece   Cultural elites trying to undermine religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter – it’s never been as bad as this year.  https://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/04/perspectives_the_easter_hit_pa.php   Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote to Cut Medicaid-Funded Abortion  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000004294.cfm   Spanish bishops like terrorism to abortion, euthanasia  […]

Law enforcement and Child Protection Services (CPS) in Kalamazoo have declined to investigate

Declined to hire youth worker who admitted to sexual activity outside of marriage

Final Maputo Protocol document not seen by participants and was "railroaded" through

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – HIV-positive people who say religion is an important part of their lives are likely to have fewer sexual partners and engage in high-risk sexual behavior less frequently than other people with the virus that causes AIDS, according to a study issued today by the RAND Corporation.   As a result, people with HIV who have stronger religious ties are less likely to spread the virus, according to the study by the nonprofit research organization.   The study measured religiosity by asking people to report how important religion was in their lives; whether […]

Strategy relies on secrecy, undermining national sovereignty, and never admitting absence of international right to abortion

Riveting section considered to be one of television's most memorable moments

Peter Kent Tries "905" region riding after failing in downtown Toronto riding

Says their vote would put them outside Church as soon as first abortion performed

Japan offers the chance to observe the demographic death spiral in its purest form

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Wisconsin Considers Assisted Suicide  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004297.cfm   Paris: archbishop and rabbi join to oppose euthanasia  https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50316   Womb transplant works in animals may soon come to humans  https://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=517382007   Ban on Gay Parade in Moscow Is Upheld   https://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/04/03/014.html   Helsinki is also the abortion capital of Finland   https://www.hs.fi/english/article/Helsinki+is+also+the+abortion+capital+of+Finland/1135226327627   Something unexpected is happening in Europe. Signs of re-awakening of Christian faith are slowly cropping up  https://ncregister.com/site/article/2189/   Skepticism and […]

By Peter J. Smith   BOSTON, April 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick ordered state officials Monday to record the 26 out-of-state same-sex “marriages,” which were blocked by his predecessor, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.   Gov. Patrick ordered the Department of Public Health to bind and index the out-of-state same-sex “marriages”, which Romney had prevented by enforcing a little-known law from 1913 that forbids out-of-state couples (except Rhode Island) from marrying in Massachusetts if they are prohibited from marrying in their native states. “I think that the previous administration was using a gimmick to make what I […]

By Meg Jalsevac   MELBOURNE, April 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New research out of La Trobe University in Australia has found a direct link between domestic violence and a woman’s choice to kill her child through abortion.  The conclusions of the study are similar to several previous studies on the same topic in different countries.   The study, labeled the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health, was carried out in an effort to reveal typical characteristics in Australian women who procure abortions.  The authors were Angela Taft and Lyndsey Watson of the Mother and Child Health Research of La Trobe […]

By Hilary White   VERNON, April 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Columbia doctor has pleaded guilty to attempting to assist a suicide and has agreed to stop practising medicine. Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma pleaded guilty in a Vernon court March 28th to charges that he had tried to assist 92-year-old Ruth Wolfe to attempt suicide.   The College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. had allowed Sharma to practice medicine under restrictions until the guilty plea. Sharma will be sentenced June 11 and the College announced it will make a final decision on his status in May.   Ruth […]

By Peter J. Smith LONDON, April 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards gained newfound infamy and media attention by admitting in a recent interview that his strangest drug experience was snorting up the remains of his own father with cocaine. Richards’ repulsive statements took handlers by surprise who hurried to dismiss it as an “April Fool’s joke.”   Popular music magazine NME published its interview with Richards, 63, on its website Tuesday where among other tawdry things, the rocker admitted he ground up his own father’s cremated remains with cocaine in a drug binge. “The strangest thing […]

By Hilary White   LONDON, April 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A team of scientists led by Sir Magdi Yacoub, a world famous heart surgeon based at Imperial College London, have used adult human stem cells to grow tissue that acts like a heart valve.   The next stage will be to attempt to grow a complete heart, a goal that until a few years ago was the stuff of science fiction. The heart valve tissue was the result of ten years of work, Yacoub said, and he expects the next stage to take as long again.   Despite promises in […]

Animal rights activist judge stalls court proceedings to determine asylum status of chimp

Says priest was indirectly "promoting the political stance on abortion and gay rights legislation that the candidate has"

By John-Henry Westen HARTFORD, April 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On March 26, Brian Brown, Executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, testified before the judiciary committee of the state legislature in regard to House Bill 7395: An Act Concerning Marriage Equality.    Representative Michael Lawlor, a proponent of homosexual ‘marriage’ repeatedly asserted falsely that Brown, a Catholic, believed homosexual people were intrinsically evil.  Lawlor, joined by Senator Edwin Gomes continued this line of attack even after Brown repeatedly insisted that he agreed with the Catholic Church’s position that homosexual acts, and not homosexual persons are intrinsically evil.   Brown […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Making Families Too Pricey   https://www.catholic.net/global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?channel_id=&news_id=105593   Germany recalling its Christian roots  https://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=124&id=8708&t=Germany+recalling+its+Christian+roots   Video: The Real Face of the E.U.  https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=62612529763293088&q=The+real+EU&hl=en   Al Gore as the shaman of global doom and gloom. He is not joking when he says, “He is more dangerous than his global warming.”  https://www.nysun.com/article/51681   Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition – William F. Buckley  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/business_of_global_warming_fee.html   At the moment, we seem […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, April 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has submitted a friend of the court brief supporting the right of physicians to refuse to perform medical procedures that violate their sincerely held religious convictions.  The brief was filed in a case pending before the California Supreme Court, North Coast Women’s Care v. Benitiz.     In that case Guadalupe Benitez, a lesbian, sued two doctors who refused to artificially inseminate her—alleging that the doctors discriminated against her because of her sexual orientation in violation of […]

Rejected college's five attempts to reach out to Soulforce and arrange meetings

By Hilary White   OTTAWA, April 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two MP’s with Canada’s socialist New Democrat Party have issued a press release concurring with the country’s abortionists that not enough children are being killed by abortion under the current laws.   Statistics Canada shows that Canada’s abortion rate apparently remains generally steady at approximately 110,000 children killed each year, equaling about 1/3 of Canadian pregnancies ending in abortion. That is only according to official statistics. Abortion reporting requirements are uneven across the nation. Pro-life leaders note that, accurate statistics are now hard to come by, many surgical abortions are […]

By Peter J. Smith   GUELPH, Ontario, Canada, April 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Guelph will host its 29th annual Sexuality Conference June 18-20 to train today’s missionaries of sex education to pave the way for a post-Christian tomorrow.   After a continental breakfast available to help sex educators network and get to know each other, the conference kicks off with the topic: “Sexual Rights in a Multicultural Society: How Do We Measure Up?”   During the research forum on “Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Global and Local Perspective” attendees consider three brief research presentations followed by […]

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez's support is viewed as crucial for assisted suicide bill's passage

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Political Nomination Meeting held at Ukranian Catholic Church

Superintendent says, "We need to practice under conditions as real as possible"

By Peter J. Smith   ROME, April 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new head of the Italian bishops conference has made political waves by asking on what basis may incest and pedophilia be denied if Italy legalizes same-sex unions and other alternatives to the family.   Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, who was appointed last month to lead the Italian Bishops Conference, is spearheading efforts of the Catholic Church in Italy against legislation giving unmarried unions – including same-sex ones – legal status and benefits. “Why say ‘no’ to forms of legally recognised co-habitation which create alternatives to the family? […]

By Hilary White   LONDON, April 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tony Blair’s Labour party has been waging an intolerant ideological war against religious belief in the name of tolerance, according to the Catholic archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor.   Delivering the 30th Thomas Corbishley Memorial lecture at Westminster Cathedral Hall on March 28, the Cardinal, leader of England and Wales’ 4 million Catholics, wondered aloud “whether the threads holding together democracy have begun to unravel.”   He denounced the passage of the Sexual Orientation Regulations of the Equality Act that, religious leaders have said, will coerce public compliance with […]

Decision called "chilling" in its implications for religious expression in Canada

By Peter J. Smith   VATICAN CITY, April 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two years after his death, a Vatican investigation concludes today on the life of a leader pro-life advocates will remember as perhaps the Catholic Church’s most ardent defender of the sanctity of human life and the family.   Officials of the Catholic Church marked a milestone in the process of sainthood for Pope John Paul II on Monday, ceremoniously completing an investigation into the well-loved Pope’s life on the second anniversary of his death.   The same day, the Vatican received a dossier detailing the miraculous cure of […]

By Hilary White   April 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A year ago this weekend, March 31, marks the second anniversary of the death of Theresa Marie “Terri” Schiavo, who died after being denied nutrition and hydration for two weeks. The manner of death was certified as “undetermined”.   Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and a friend of the Schindler family, said this weekend, “Terri’s case remains shrouded in massive ignorance.”   Most mainstream media outlets claimed that Terri was “terminally ill” or “on life support” but she breathed without a respirator and doctors agreed that she […]

25,000 of 250,000 schizophrenics in UK could have avoided affliction if they had not used cannabis says psychiatry prof

Family make-up –whether raised in a two-parent or a single parent environment - also linked to behavioral problems

Writer warns of these latest developments - "things must change or we shall perish"