By Peter J. Smith WARSAW, May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tinky Winky the lavender alien puppet who minces about his way on the children’s BBC television programme “Teletubbies” with a lady’s handbag, has now minced his way into Poland as the center of a media-driven controversy designed to make the government’s campaign to protect children from homosexual propaganda look ridiculous. The controversy began after media sources misrepresented remarks made by Ewa Sowinska, Poland’s Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in a May 28 interview from WPROST, a weekly opinion journal, regarding the “Teletubbies,” specifically Tinky Winky. The interviewer asked: […]
By Gudrun Schultz MONTREAL, Quebec, May 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young Montreal woman has filed a human rights complaint with the Quebec Tribunal after a gay bar said women were not welcome to enter the establishment. Audrey Vachon, 20, with her father Gilles, entered Bar Le Stud in Montreal’s gay neighborhood for a drink on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. Once seated on the establishment’s patio, a waiter told her father that women weren’t welcome in the place. “On the spot I didn’t believe it, I thought it was a bad joke,” Vachon told the Canadian Press on […]
By Elizabeth O’Brien BOGOTA, Colombia May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 10th, hundreds of young people gathered in Bogota, Colombia before the national Constitutional Court in order to protest the legalization of abortion. Abortion was legalized on May 10, 2006, when the court decided to allow abortion in cases of rape and in case of any risk to the mother’s health. The ambiguity of the ruling effectively made room for abortion in almost any situation. Colombia was the first country in Latin America to allow abortion, opening the door for many other Catholic countries to follow its example. (See […]
By Hilary White LONDON, May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill that would have recognized the right of parents to be informed when their daughter was getting an abortion has failed by a wide margin in the British House of Commons. Tory MP Angela Watkinson had proposed the bill, arguing that sex education only encourages children to have sexual relations and leaves them vulnerable. MPs voted by 159 to 87 against Watkinson’s bill. In the name of ‘confidentiality,’ Department of Health rules keep parents in the dark about potentially dangerous abortions and contraceptives being made available to schoolgirls. In […]
By Elizabeth O’Brien BELFAST, Northern Ireland, May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Irish Democrat Ian Paisley Jr. is being investigated for a “breach of his ministerial pledge of office” over statements against homosexuality. Paisley told HotPress magazine, “I am pretty repulsed by gay and lesbianism. I think it is wrong. I think that those people harm themselves and – without caring about it – harm society.” He continued, “That doesn’t mean to say that I hate them. I mean, I hate what they do” according to an Ireland On-line report. While homosexual activists groups and those among his fellow politicians […]
By Hilary White EDINBURGH, May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland is reporting an all-time high in the number of abortions being committed; as a solution the country is offering more ‘sex-education’ in schools and free condoms. 13,081 pregnancies were “terminated” in Scotland in 2006, compared with 12,603 the year before, with the highest rates among those women aged between 16 and 19. The level of abortions among those aged under 16 also reached a record high of 362 in 2006, from 341 the year before and 309 in 2004. The BBC reports that the greatest increase is in so-called […]
HUNTINGTON, Conn., May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 23, 2007, the White House released an official White House photo of Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcoming their sixth grandchild, Samuel David Cheney, into the Cheney fold. The child is the offspring of Mary Cheney and an unreported male sperm donor. However the official White House photo caption indicates the child’s “parents” are Mary Cheney and her homosexual partner, Heather Poe. Stephen Bennett, a pro-family advocate who left the homosexual lifestyle and now has a ministry to convince others of its dangers, expressed his concern about […]
By John Jalsevac MAPUTO, Mozambique, May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Policymakers in the south African country of Mozambique are pushing to make the country one of the few African nations to legalize abortion on demand. The push for the change in law is coming from the Mozambique Health Ministry, which claims that legalizing abortion will cut down on the number of women who die as a consequence of illegal abortions. According to an IRIN report, health services in Mozambique estimate that in the 1990s 11% of maternal fatalities in the capital of Maputo were a consequence of […]
By Gudrun Schultz BIG VALLEY, Alberta, May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s first museum devoted to a creationist view of the Earth’s origins is set to open June 5 in Big Valley, Alberta. The Big Valley Creation Science Museum supports a literal interpretation of the Biblical account of creation and opposes evolutionary theory. The museum offers “a scientific and biblically based alternative to the evolutionary view of Earth history,” according to founder Harry Nibourg, in an interview with the Edmonton Journal. The $300,000 museum is owned by 46-year-old Nibourg, an evangelical Christian who works in the oilfields. Most of the […]
By Gudrun Schultz VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, May 30. 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five thousand candles will be lit in Vladivostok’s Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday to protest abortion, in observance of the International Children’s Day held on June 1. Russia has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, with 60 percent of pregnancies ending in abortion. In 2005 the country’s abortion rate outstripped the birthrate for the first time, LifeSiteNews.com reported last year. Abortion is commonly used as a form of birth control, with the highest percentage occurring among women in their late twenties and early thirties, according to 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. To what lengths should doctors go to save a life near its inevitable end? https://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1178686269089&call_pageid=1024322466723 The Pope on Abortion, Politicians and Communion – George Weigel https://www.catholicexchange.com/node/62186 Abortions in West Virginia Fall by 14 Percent https://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000004709.cfm Stigmatize Planned Parenthood – Kathryn Jean Lopez https://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathrynJeanLopez/2007/05/29/stigmatize_planned_parenthood China’s one-child policy in the balance https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/chinas_one_child_policy_in_the_balance/ California firm sponsors national campaign to preserve umbilical cord blood https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=1189e2b4-182c-4b40-a24c-d85f7e6cc4e7 Outcry over Dutch […]
By Hilary White STOCKHOLM, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swedish officials have granted permission under a new law for three families to create “saviour sibling” embryos to be used to obtain stem cells for treatment of seriously ill children. The families will have embryos created in vitro, screened for desired genetic traits and implanted. If the children survive to birth, they will be used to produce a transplant of healthy stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta. Sweden’s new law follows the broad use of genetic testing of embryos, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Doctors now commonly offer the […]
By John Jalsevac SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bay Area adoption/foster care agency, Family Builders, partnering with the City and County of San Francisco, has launched a controversial ad campaign in the hope of attracting more homosexual couples to adopt children. Two of the posters that form the core of the campaign feature homosexual couples together with their adopted children. The signs either use the slogan “Family Planning,” with the phrase beneath, “Our family was no accident-we planned for it,” or the slogan “Intelligent Design,” with the phrase, “Before we started our family we considered […]
By Hilary White SAO PAULO, May 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Brazil announced Monday a plan to provide artificial hormonal contraceptives to the public at a discounted cost in drug stores across the country. Brazil’s socialist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told media that the plan will give poor Brazilians “the same right that the wealthy have to plan the number of children they want.” Government-run pharmacies already distribute chemical contraceptives and condoms for free, but the new program will make the pills available at low cost in 3,500 privately owned businesses. The government hopes to have […]
By Gudrun Schultz MONTGOMERY, Alabama, May 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alabama Department of Homeland Security included pro-life organizations, as well as homosexual activist groups, on a website listing of potential terrorist groups, or groups that might spawn terrorists. The site has since been removed to modify the content after complaints. Department director Jim Walker said the site was taken down after his agency received a string of calls and e-mails from concerned individuals who complained the list was unfairly targeting certain groups on the basis of their beliefs. Pro-life organizations were included in a section of the list describing […]
By Gudrun Schultz JERUSALEM, Israel, May 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Israeli police issued a preliminary letter of permission last week for a homosexual pride parade in Jerusalem, Ynet News reported May 24, but a draft bill coming before the Knesset tomorrow may block the event. The Ministers Committee for Legislation voted Sunday to approve a bill that would give the city’s council power to ban events deemed dangerous to the public or offensive to religious groups. If the measure passes a vote in the Knesset on Wednesday, it would effectively make the gay pride parade planned for June 21 an […]
By Hilary White ROME, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has praised the massive gathering of supporters of natural marriage and the family held May 12th at the threshold of St. John Lateran Basilica, his own Cathedral church as Bishop of Rome. In a speech to the Italian bishops, the Pope called the gathering a “great and extraordinary popular festival that showed how the family is profoundly rooted in the heart and life of Italians.” He said, “While fully and cordially respecting the distinction between Church and politics… we cannot but concern ourselves with what […]
By Hilary White LONDON, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Department for Education and Skills has issued a set of draft guidelines for homeschooling families that remind local administrative councils that parents have the legal right to educate their children at home. The draft guidelines are to accompany a proposed consultation period and represent a shift away from the department’s rumoured position against homeschooling. Plans to implement the compulsory registration and tight monitoring of homeschooling families have been dropped. Local authorities, the document says, have “no statutory duties in relation to monitoring the quality of home education on a […]
GALVESTON, Texas, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a fundamental discovery that someday may help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas, medical researchers at the University of Texas have reported that they have engineered adult stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood to produce insulin. The researchers announced their laboratory finding, which caps nearly four years of research, in the June 2007 issue of the medical journal Cell Proliferation, posted online this week. Their paper calls it “the first demonstration that human umbilical cord blood-derived stem […]
Analysis by Dr. John B. Shea, MD. FRCP(C) TORONTO, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent article in Fertility and Sterility R.T. Mikolajczyk and J.B. Stanford proposed a model experiment that estimated the effectiveness of the disruption of ovulation by Levonorgestrel used as an “emergency contraceptive,” based on the prevention of fertilization. They also demonstrated what was termed the “effectiveness” of levonorgestrel with or without “mechanisms acting after fertilization.” If disruption of ovulation were the only significant mechanism of action of levonorgestrel, its “effectiveness” could not be much more than 50% if given immediately after intercourse. With delays in […]
By John Jalsevac May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International’s (AI) decision to support the worldwide decriminalization of abortion is having a huge impact on membership, with many members threatening to break, or already having broken from Amnesty, reported Australia’s The Age newspaper earlier today. The Age also speculated that many of Amnesty’s disgruntled employees and supporters may band together to found a new human rights organization. Amnesty International publicly admitted its new policy to support the universal decriminalization of abortion earlier this month, to the dismay of many of its longtime supporters. Already numerous high-level Amnesty supporters around the world […]
By Hilary White CHICAGO, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – DePaul University in Chicago, one of the largest and most important Catholic universities in the US, is hosting the second “Out There” conference on homosexuality and Catholic education. The conference, whose full title is the Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in “LGBTQ” (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer) issues on Catholic Campuses, is being organized through the DePaul Women’s and Gender Studies department. It is scheduled for October 19-20, 2007 and is calling for submissions for papers and workshops. The first Out There conference was held at Jesuit-run […]
By John Jalsevac MEXICO CITY, Mexico, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico’s government-appointed attorney general, Eduardo Medina Mora, has joined the effort to overturn Mexico City’s new law permitting abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, by taking the issue to the Supreme Court, reports Reuters. According to Reuters, Eduardo Mora said in a statement last Friday that the Supreme Court had already previously demonstrated that the abortion law was unconstitutional. Mora will be arguing the pro-life case before the Supreme Court along with José Luis Soberanes Fernández, president of the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico, who has […]
By Gudrun Schultz BRITISH COLUMBIA, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Plan B emergency contraception, the so-called “morning-after pill”, is now available in British Columbia pharmacies without a prescription from a pharmacist and without a mandatory informed consent sheet. The abortifacient drug, used to prevent conception or end early-stage pregnancy, can cause the death of an unborn child in the first days of life by preventing it from implanting in its mother’s womb. The pill has been moved from a Schedule IV designation—requiring a prescription from a doctor or trained pharmacist, and an informed consent sheet—to Schedule II, which means it is available over-the-counter […]
By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Canada, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation independently approved a recently-aired anti-Catholic comedy that offended Catholics by depicting the Communion host as snack food, according to a spokesperson for Canadian Television Fund. CBC denied approving the controversial pilot show of The Altar Boy Gang that ran May 11, which mocked the Catholic sacraments of Holy Communion and Confession. A public outcry following the show’s airing led CBC Television’s executive vice-president Richard Stursberg to send a letter to the National Post defending the CBC, in response to an editorial in the paper condemning the […]
By Peter J. Smith and John Jalsevac CANNES, France, May 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judges at the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival awarded the coveted Palm d’Or to what is being described as a “harrowing” film. The winning submission depicts the personal and moral consequences that a young woman and her friend face as they attempt to obtain an illegal abortion for the young woman while living in communist Romania. Directed by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and named for the age of the aborted baby, “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” [4 Luni, 3 Saptamini si 2 Zile], […]
* 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. Pro-abortion, feminist scholar says why she opposes pre-natal diagnosis and selective abortion. https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=bb45434c-b613-4047-87e3-38fe34dc5531 National Pro-life Group Denounces Attack on Dobson https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004696.cfm Yes, West Virginia, There Is an Abortion Clause https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA07E53#WA07E53 Planned Parenthood’s plight https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=20319b3c-69bf-4859-9779-5dfaf32c8fa5 UK Parliament Faces Fight Over Abortion Counseling, Waiting Periods https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200705/INT20070524a.html Growing unrest shows one-child policy in tatters https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9374&size=A Pro-life activist says South Carolina ultrasound bill is useless https://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/05/prolife_activist_says_south_ca.php Experts […]
By Peter J. Smith OKLAHOMA CITY, May 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) — State-funded medical facilities in Oklahoma may no longer perform most abortions under a new bill that became law on Wednesday. “Virtually every hospital in the state of Oklahoma will no longer be allowed to do [abortions],” Linda Gray Murphy, a lobbyist with the National Association of Social Workers told Reuters. “If you live in rural Oklahoma, your hospital probably receives state funding.” SB 139 was passed by both the Oklahoma House and Senate and became law after Gov. Brad Henry took no action on the bill for five days. […]
By John-Henry Westen YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, May 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories (NWT) ruled Wednesday that the Yellowknife Catholic School Board may not refuse non-Catholics to sit as trustees governing the board. The issue brings to the fore the increasing trend to deny Catholics in Canada their rights to Catholic education supported by the education tax dollars of Catholic rate-payers. Already in Newfoundland and Quebec the right to Catholic schooling supported by education taxes from Catholics has been removed. In the current case, Justice J.E. Richard of the NWT Supreme Court ruled […]
By John Jalsevac CHICAGO, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rainbow Sash Movement (RSM), the group of homosexual activists that self-describes itself as “Catholic” despite its open stance against significant moral teachings of the Church, announced today that they will again be “challenging the Catholic Church’s hierarchy” this upcoming Pentecost Sunday, May 27. RSM members wear a 2-inch wide ribbon of rainbow colors across their shoulders (a symbol of the modern homosexual movement). They then present themselves to receive communion in Cathedrals and parishes across the nation in protest against the Catholic teaching that those who publicly and stubbornly persist […]
By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., May 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite attempts by pro-homosexual advocates to paint the homosexual lifestyle as just another, normal, and healthy lifestyle choice, the FDA has renewed its 1983 policy that gay men cannot donate blood, due to the high-risk nature of living an active homosexual lifestyle. This past Wednesday the FDA stated that, despite mounting opposition to the policy, it will for medical reasons continue to uphold its ban on men who live or who have lived an active homosexual life from donating blood. According to the FDA, the ban is in place because, “A history of male-to-male sex […]
By Gudrun Schultz WARSAW, Poland, May 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Polish government is considering filing appeals to the European Court of Human Rights in protest of two recent landmark rulings. At issue is a Court decision ordering Poland to pay €25,000 in compensation for “wrongful birth” to a woman who was denied an abortion, and a ruling that declared Poland’s 2005 ban on a gay parade in Warsaw was illegal. Polish Radio reported yesterday on the proposal put forward for discussion by Marek Jurek, leader of the Polish Right. Jurek said the Court of Human Rights […]
By Gudrun Schultz SACRAMENTO, California, May 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California State Senate voted yesterday in favour of legislation that would require schools to portray homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality as positive choices to children. SB 777 would affect all grades from kindergarten to grade 12, requiring that textbooks, instructional materials and school-sponsored activities refrain from any “discrimination bias” on homosexual issues. The bill states: “No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias against any person because of a characteristic listed in Section 220. [Section 220 of […]
By John Jalsevac HOLLYWOOD, CA, May 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It seems that Jordin Sparks, the winner of the sixth season of the hugely popular “reality TV” show “American Idol,” is not only an example and inspiration to aspiring musical artists, but also those who are fighting for the Culture of Life. Whisperings have abounded in the so-called “blogosphere” for some months now, with blog posters speculating and presenting evidence for Jordin Spark’s Christian and pro-life stance. Since Jordin has gone from merely one contestant amongst many, however, to winner of the widely-viewed talent contest, those whisperings have taken on new […]
By Hilary White WARSAW, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Congress on Families, which met last week in Warsaw, Poland, announced in its closing declaration that the various threats to the family in Europe are creating a “demographic winter” that can only be healed by the protection and nurturing of the natural family. Love; faithfulness; gift of self as opposed to hedonism; dedication to divine truth in the face of relativism; love for, instead of fear of children; and reverence for human life in the face of discrimination and “extermination of the weakest” are listed by the Congress […]
By John-Henry Westen Editor LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 10, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s representative at the United Nations, addressed the Economic and Social Council of the UN on the hot topic of climate change. His comments were disturbing to many since he seemed to indicate the Vatican was taking sides in the contentious debate around the causes of climate change. Furthermore, by failing to clarify that the Vatican does not support population control as a means to address global warming his use of the terminology employed by groups advocating population control […]
By John Jalsevac GENEVA, Switzerland, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, May 23, the 60th annual World Health Assembly (WHA) came to a close. The WHA is self-described as “the supreme decision-making body of the World Health Organization.” It meets in Geneva in May each year, and is attended by delegations from the 193 Member States. Given that the new Director-General of the WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, has explicitly stated that her emphasis as director of the powerful organization will be on “the health of women and of the people of Africa,” pro-life and pro-family advocates have keenly observed the […]
By Peter J. Smith UNITED STATES, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Gallup Values and Belief survey shows Americans are evenly divided along “pro-life” and “pro-choice” lines, although a majority supports restrictions on abortion in most or all cases. The survey conducted May 10-13, 2007 shows 49% of Americans consider themselves “pro-choice” and 45% call themselves “pro-life.” The relatively even split has been constant for nearly the past ten years. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans (58%), however, believe abortion should only be “legal in a few” circumstances (40%) or “illegal in all” (18%). 4 in 10 Americans favor keeping […]
By Hilary White LEINSTER, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite her earlier announcement that she had decided against abortion, it seems that “Miss D”, the Irish teenaged mother at the centre of a recent controversial court case, has aborted her anencephalic child after all. The 17 year-old mother had been four months pregnant and under the care of the Health Services Executive (HSE) of the Republic of Ireland when she came into the public eye. A much publicized court-case in which she was involved centred around the effort to gain permission for her to travel to Britain to have her […]
By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, New York, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York State Assembly will soon consider a bill that would legalize same-sex “marriage” in the Empire State. The state legislature has seen such bills for 5 years now. This time, however, backed by Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a record number of 53 cosponsors in the Assembly, homosexual activists have never been closer to imposing same-sex “marriage” on the state. Daniel O’Donnell, one of three openly homosexual lawmakers in the Assembly, introduced Gov. Spitzer’s same-sex “marriage” bill in the chamber Monday. The proposed law would change […]
By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Canada, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Experiencing the breakdown of a marriage leads to an increased risk of depression compared to staying with a spouse, a new study published by Statistics Canada has found. Based on data from the National Population Health Survey (NPHS), the study examined the connection between ending a marriage and subsequently experiencing depression. Men and women were both found to have a greater risk of developing depression during the two years following the end of a marriage or committed common-law relationship, compared with couples who remained together. Twelve percent of people whose […]
By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, May 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Joanne Cacciatore has waged a decade-long battle to convince elected officials to recognize the need of parents to recognize the humanity of their stillborn babies with birth certificates. Ms. Cacciatore, the founder of the M.I.S.S. foundation and the MISSing Angels petition, spoke with LifeSiteNews.com about her own personal experience advocating the rights of herself and other parents seeking closure and the frustrating opposition she faces from abortion advocates opposed to birth certificates as some sort of stealth pro-life legislation. Ms. Cacciatore’s experience began with the death and […]
ANN ARBOR, MI, May 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Supporters of Michigan House Bill 4259, which would legalize adoptions by homosexual partners, have pointed to the lack of public opposition by the “Michigan Catholic Conference” as reason for hope that the Bill will pass the legislature and be enacted into law. Free Press Columnist Brian Dickerson recently wrote, “The church’s neutrality underlines the fact that adoption and gay marriage are separate issues, practically as well as legally.” To counter this false impression, the Thomas More Law Center, a national Christian legal advocacy group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has […]
By Hilary White OTTAWA, May 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic politicians should not leave their faith at the door of the House of Commons, says the newly appointed Archbishop of the Catholic diocese of Ottawa, the national capital. Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, was recently appointed as head of the Ottawa diocese where the spiritual life of Canada’s many Catholic MP’s will become his personal responsibility. Prendergast told the Halifax Daily News that “people of faith” in politics should “take their faith into full consideration in the decisions they take for the good of the people.” “I would call every […]
* 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. Facts, not flattery, about same-sex attraction’ https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/facts_not_flattery_about_same_sex_attraction/ ‘Have sex, do drugs,’ speaker tells students https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55800 Record numbers of young women are dabbling in witchcraft, https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2562767.ece Equal Rights Amendment Strips Women of Their Rights https://www.cwfa.org/articles/13035/CWA/nation/index.htm Religious Tolerance and the Common Good By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=745 Deep-six the Law of the Sea says Phyllis Schlafly https://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2007/05/21/deep-six_the_law_of_the_sea Tough Regulations Needed to Curb Illegal Online Gambling […]
By Peter J. Smith WARSAW, May 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Several thousand pro-family delegates gathered at the World Congress of Families IV in Warsaw shared their own strategies and experiences in promoting marriage and the family in the face of the developed world’s impending demographic decline. According to Polish Radio, the pro-family delegates at the May 11-13, 2007 congress addressed a number of wide-ranging topics concerning the future of the natural family and its importance to the health of society Dr. Mohammadreza Hojat, a research professor from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and a specialist in mother-child […]
By Hilary White TORONTO, May 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Writing in this weekend’s National Post, columnist and author George Jonas decried what he identified as the intellectual dishonesty of the abortion movement’s arguments for “choice” and abortion as a woman’s right. Comparing modern abortion supporters to the ancient warrior city state of Sparta, whose law allowed infanticide for unwanted children, Jonas wrote that the difference now is that while for Spartans ‘unwanted’ meant ‘substandard’, “for us it means ‘inconvenient.’ “We don’t want standard or even superstandard children if they cramp our style.” Jonas, though not himself pro-life, […]
By Hilary White TOPEKA, Kansas, May 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com, with files from Christian NewsWire) – A Kansas state legislator has been fined one hundred dollars for assaulting a pro-life activist. House Representative Vaughn Flora (D-Topeka) was found guilty yesterday of one count of battery. The attack occurred at a gubernatorial debate at the Kansas State Fair in September 2006. Operation Rescue’s Troy Newman was eliciting good natured laughs from the crowd of about 2000 as he and other pro-life activists danced through it dressed in cockroach costumes. The protest, Newman said, was meant to draw attention to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ […]
By Hilary White VERNON, British Columbia, May 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian physician and writer, Dr. Ken Walker, has upset a BC family after he wrote in a column that their two conjoined baby girls ought to have been aborted to avoid being seen as “freaks of nature.” Walker, a syndicated columnist under the pen name Dr. W. Gifford-Jones, called the twins’ mother, Felicia Simms, “irrational” and suggested she should have had an abortion. Walker wrote, “Physically they are destined for ill health, lying on their backs forever. They will become obese and develop the myriad […]
By Hilary White FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, May 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While pro-life youth ruled the day in Ottawa May 10th, New Brunswick held its largest ever parallel march in Fredericton with 325 pro-life citizens calling for “More Babies, Fewer Abortions.” New Brunswick is experiencing a demographic slump and its population is shrinking. Recent statistics showed that between July 1, 2005, and July 1, 2006 more younger people and families are moving away and fewer children are being born in the province. Last year the CBC reported that the death rate in New Brunswick had outstripped the birth […]
By Peter J. Smith CRYSTAL LAKE, Illinois (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Illinois high school girls were arrested and brought into juvenile court to face felony charges for “hate-crimes.” The pair had distributed “inflammatory” flyers directed at another student, which fellow classmates described as a part of a feud between friends that went too far. Police Chief Dave Linder told local media the girls, two 16 year-old Crystal Lake South High School students whose names were not released because of their age, had posted 40 fliers featuring a male student kissing another boy with “words of an inflammatory nature” written […]
By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Canada, May 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Immigration Minister Diane Finley introduced a bill Wednesday that would prevent sex trade workers from entering the country on a stripper’s visa. Bill C-57 is intended to prevent sexual exploitation and trafficking of foreign workers under the guise of exotic dancer visas. “What we’re trying to do here is protect vulnerable foreign workers, ones that could easily be exposed to sexual exploitation, harassment and abuse,” Finley told the House of Commons Wednesday. “The previous Liberal government gave blanket exemptions to foreign strippers to work in Canada. (This was) […]
By John Jalsevac MONTREAL, Quebec, May 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As a punishment for teasing a fellow classmate, the principal of a Quebec school required four students to write a ten line essay on oral sex, or “fellatio”. The four students, aged 9, allegedly used references to oral sex when taunting their fellow classmate. Three of the students completed the essay, and had them signed by their parents. The parents of the fourth student, however, objected to the exercise, and complained to a newspaper. Their son was given the option of writing about appropriate language in school instead. […]
OMAHA, May 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The College of St. Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, has withdrawn an invitation to leader of the pro-abortion Girls Inc., to deliver the College’s commencement address this Sunday, bowing to local pressure and concerns first reported by the Cardinal Newman Society. Wednesday, the Omaha World-Herald reported that the invitation to Roberta Wilhelm, executive director of Girls Inc. in Omaha, had been withdrawn. President Sr. Maryanne Stevens, R.S.M., said that she had received numerous e-mails, faxes and calls in protest. Rev. Damien Cook, director of the Bishops’ Plan for Pro-Life Activities for the Archdiocese of […]
By John-Henry Westen TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, May 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hours after LifeSiteNews.com contacted pro-life leaders in Latin America to alert them to troubling remarks made by Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, the Cardinal corrected his statements. Carlos Polo, Population Research Institute director for Latin America approached the Cardinal about his remarks to time magazine which conflicted with Pope Benedict over the issue of communion for pro-abortion politicians. As LifeSiteNews.com reported yesterday, in a recent interview with Time magazine, Cardinal Rodriguez was asked if he agreed with bishops who deny Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians. […]
An error in LifeSiteNews.com coverage from May 14 reported that the National Abortion Federation has demanded that all Canadian doctors be required to perform abortions—in fact NAF has asked the Canadian Medical Association to require all doctors to refer for abortions. We regret the error. See corrected version here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07051405.html
By Gudrun Schultz WARSAW, Poland, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland Education Minister Roman Giertych called for a ban on the “propagation of homosexuality” in schools on Wednesday, saying the proposal would protect traditional family values. Any promotion of “homosexuality, pornography or other phenomena violating moral norms” would be prohibited in schools under Giertych’s proposed amendments to the education law. Giertych is head of the League of Polish Families and Deputy Prime Minister for Poland. He defended the proposals against accusations of discrimination, the Associated Press reported, saying the amendments would “not discriminate against anyone.” “It is […]
By John Jalsevac MONTREAL, Quebec, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the third such case to make headlines in Quebec in the last several years, a 29 year old man is being accused of assisting his chronically ill uncle to commit suicide. Chantal Maltais was found hanging in his apartment in September of last year. Stephan Dufour, his nephew, was arrested this past week after a lengthy investigation by the police led them to the conclusion that Dufour may have helped his uncle to commit suicide. According to the Globe and Mail, Dufour’s lawyer has said that […]
By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two pro-life Catholic leaders came out swinging against the 18 pro-abortion Catholic congressmen who rebuked Pope Benedict XVI last week for suggesting bishops could discipline politicians for advancing abortion, saying the group would do faithful Catholics a favor by leaving the Church or resigning from office. Led by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the Congressmen had accused the Pope of offending “the very nature of the American experiment” for his statements “warning Catholic elected officials that they risk excommunication and would not receive communion for their pro-choice views.” […]
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s controversial remarks about the Pope have garnered a flurry of responses from Catholic groups. The latest to respond has been St. Catharines Diocese Bishop James Wingle, the President of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops. Reacting to Pope Benedict’s recent affirmation that pro-abortion politicians may not be given Holy Communion, Premier McGuinty, who professes to be a Catholic despite his pro-abortion stand told reporters, “There are very few political leaders who would allow all of their actions to be informed exclusively by dictates of the church.” […]
MANASSAS, VA, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) has urged the University of San Francisco (USF) – a Jesuit, Catholic university – to cancel its invitation to pro-abortion Rep. Nancy Pelosi to deliver the university’s commencement address this Saturday. CNS also is opposing a posthumous honorary degree to pro-abortion politician Leo T. McCarthy. “Even as we celebrate the fact that a growing number of Catholic colleges are choosing exemplary commencement speakers and honorees, we learn that the University of San Francisco has chosen a much different direction,” wrote CNS President Patrick J. Reilly in a letter […]
* 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. Legalization of abortion in Mexico City has energized pro-life forces across the rest of the country, led to unlikely alliance between Catholics and Protestants https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=d2a12dd8-b45e-4655-89bf-1331c2e46713 Some Athletes Choose Abortion Over Losing a Scholarship https://ncaabasketball.aolsportsblog.com/2007/05/13/some-athletes-choose-abortion-over-losing-a-scholarship/ Kansas governor lends support to Planned Parenthood https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9373 Now, some babies are aborted for virtually any trait considered undesirable by the mother or parents—and ethicists seem unwilling to draw any clear lines https://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=943 […]
By Peter J. Smith May 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Noted Christian bio-ethics philosopher and President of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Francis Beckwith, has rejoined the Catholic Church causing a stir of controversy in Evangelical and Catholic circles. Beckwith returned to the Catholic Church in a quiet ceremony April 29, and subsequently resigned his presidency and membership in ETS on May 5 citing a desire to avoid any cause for harmful divisiveness saying he still considers himself “evangelical, but no longer a Protestant.” An official response from ETS said members “have come to appreciate him as a […]
By Peter J. Smith VILNIUS, May 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mayor of Lithuania’s capital came out in support of trolley bus drivers who refused to go to work until pro-homosexual ads were removed from their lines. The trolley bus drivers went on strike until the ads “A gay can serve in the police” and “A lesbian can work at school” were finally taken down. The newly elected mayor of Vilnius, Juozas Imbrasas backed the drivers Tuesday, and criticised the dissemination of homosexual propaganda in the face of Lithuania’s commitment to traditional family values. “We tolerate people […]
By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Canada, May 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is coming under fire for a new show that depicts the Catholic Mass as a background for drug and gang-related activities, in what the Catholic Civil Rights League has called blasphemy of the sacred rituals of Catholicism. Titled The Altar Boy Gang, the show features a group of Montreal altar servers who use their role in the parish to cover up their involvement in the drug trade. Two 30-minute pilot episodes of the show were aired at nine p.m. on Friday. CBC’s program […]
By Gudrun Schultz UNITED STATES, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – CNN covered up poll results showing a majority of respondents were pro-life, blogger Joel Johannesen accused in a posting on ProudToBeCanadian.ca. CNN conducted the massive poll, released on May 9th, which covered wide-ranging issues with an anti-conservative bent. Question 43 addressed abortion, asking respondents, “With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?” The largest percentage—50 percent—of respondents indicated they considered themselves to be pro-life, compared to 45 percent who said they considered themselves to be pro-choice. That question was […]
By Hilary White DUBLIN, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The teenaged mother of an anencephalic child, known in the press as “Miss D,” has told the Irish Independent that she has changed her mind about aborting her baby. She said today, “I feel this is just a normal human being, I want it to have its own (burial) plot.” A week after winning a court decision allowing her to travel to Britain for an abortion, the pregnant mother has announced that she will give birth by medical inducement of labour and intends to bring the body of her […]
By Hilary White HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Connecticut Vermont, New Jersey and New Hampshire have instituted homosexual civil unions that create rights equivalent to those of marriage. Now homosexual activists are taking the marriage issue to the next logical step in the Connecticut Supreme Court. Gay activists attempting around the world to institute “gay marriage” in law have argued that the so-called “compromise” of civil unions with equivalent rights and duties is inferior and creates a second tier of marriage. The Supreme Court of Connecticut heard closing arguments today that civil unions are not […]
By Hilary White LYNCHBURG, Virginia, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American television evangelist and political organizer, founder of universities and pro-life political pioneer, the Rev. Jerry Falwell has died suddenly at 73 of a possible heart rhythm abnormality. The pro-life movement around the world is to a significant degree a result of Falwell’s organization in the late 1970’s of the Christian conservative movement that has defined the political discourse for decades. The movement has responded to his sudden death with outpourings of praise and sorrow. Randall Terry, Founder, Operation Rescue said, “Reverend Jerry Falwell masterfully integrated Christian ethics and […]
By Peter J. Smith LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An intrepid student reporter faces the legal hammer of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles (PPLA) after she recorded an abortion clinic employee offering her help to cover-up statutory rape and protect her over-age boyfriend from the police. Lila Rose, 18, a sophomore at the University of California Los Angeles and editor-in-chief of The Advocate, a pro-life newspaper on campus, entered a PPLA clinic with a hidden video recorder as part of her own investigation into the practices of abortion clinics. Rose posed as a pregnant 15-year-old accompanied […]
By John-Henry Westen SAO PAULO, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking Sunday to a gathering of Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, Pope Benedict XVI said “The family, the ‘patrimony of humanity’, constitutes one of the most important treasures of Latin American countries.” The Pope said that the family “is currently suffering a degree of adversity caused by secularism and by ethical relativism, by movements of population internally and externally, by poverty, by social instability and by civil legislation opposed to marriage which, by supporting contraception and abortion, is threatening the future of peoples.” Presiding at […]
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A campaign video released yesterday by the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign includes an image of Mother Teresa with then-First Lady Mrs. Clinton. The national Catholic-based advocacy group Fidelis called on the campaign to remove the image from the video. “It is wholly inappropriate, disrespectful and disturbing that Hillary Clinton is using an image of Blessed Mother Teresa as a political tool, especially given their radically different views on abortion,” said Fidelis President Joseph Cella. “Mother Teresa tirelessly fought to protect unborn children, while Hillary Clinton staunchly supports abortion on demand in all nine […]
By Hilary White NEW DELHI, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Calcutta Telegraph reports that the Indian government has refused diplomatic status to the same-sex “spouses” of two members of the Canadian diplomatic corps. Indian culture is very traditional and Indian law retains a strict understanding of marriage being possible only between a man and a woman. While convictions are rare, section 377 of the Indian Penal Code retains provisions against “unnatural sex” and sodomy a charge that carries a possible ten year prison sentence. The Telegraph quoted unnamed sources in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs […]
By Peter J. Smith HOUSTON, Texas, May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani tried once again to convince conservatives last Friday that they should support him despite his pro-abortion record. The former mayor appeared before 500 students and faculty at Houston Baptist University last Friday, where he discussed his support for abortion among other topics such as his record as mayor of New York, fiscal responsibility in government, and the ongoing war in Iraq. “This is a matter of deep and profound judgment,” Giuliani said in a speech. “It’s a matter of morals. It’s a […]
By Hilary White LONDON, May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The north London hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, nominally Catholic, is clashing with the Cardinal Primate of England and Wales, over their refusal to comply with Catholic medical ethics standards. The hospital’s medical advisory committee is calling for Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor to resign as patron and for the hospital to abandon even the pretence of being a Catholic hospital. Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, the head of the Catholic Church of England and Wales, issued a new code of ethics after it was revealed that the hospital was routinely ignoring […]
WARSAW, May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland, the host country of the World Congress of Families IV held in Warsaw May 11-13, 2007, threw down the gauntlet in a frontal challenge to the European Union during the pro-family congress which attracted some 3,300 delegates from all over the world. Poland’s Minister of Education and Vice Prime Minister of Poland, Roman Giertych and the Speaker of Parliament (Sejm) of the Republic of Poland, Marek Jurek, proclaimed during the congress that Poland has no intention of agreeing to the demands of the European Union (EU) that it follow the regulations established […]
By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Abortion Federation has beefed up its assault on Canada’s pro-life movement with a new demand that all doctors in the country be forced to refer for abortions, whether or not they object morally or on religious grounds. The Washington D.C.—based NAF issued the draconian demand May nineth to the Canadian Medical Association. Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the NAF, said physicians must put their patients’ interests ahead of “their own religious and moral convictions.” Saporta acknowledged that despite the lack of any legal restrictions […]
GAINESVILLE, May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has called for an end to embryonic stem cell research and recommends the exclusive support of already proven effective adult stem cell research. “Not only does embryonic research require taking the life of human embryos, it also prolongs needless suffering by delaying the development of more promising adult stem cell treatments and cures,” stated Michelle Cretella, MD, Fellow of the American College of Pediatricians. Research using non-embryo sources of stem cells, including amniotic fluid, umbilical cord blood, placenta and adult blood, fat and various organs, have yielded […]
By Gudrun Schultz CHICAGO, Illinois, May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chicago Board of Education is being sued after a 12-year-old school girl was shown the movie Brokeback Mountain in class—the film depicts a homosexual affair between two cowboys and contains graphic scenes of homosexual sex. The lawsuit was brought against the board by Jessica Turner and her grandparents, Kenneth and LaVerne Richardson, claiming the child suffered psychological distress after viewing the R-rated movie in her class at Ashburn Community Elementary School last year. The film received the rating for language, nudity and drug use show in the […]
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition AMSTERDAM, May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 10, 2007) has been reported by various media outlets as stating that the practice of Euthanasia in the Netherlands has dropped since it was formally legalized in 2002. When reading the actual report we learn of a different reality than what has been reported. The report states that in 2001, the year before euthanasia was formally legalized in the Netherlands, there were approximately 3500 (2.6%) euthanasia deaths, there were […]
By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year’s March for Life, the 10th annual march organized yearly by Campaign Life Coalition drew a record 7,000 participants and was populated mainly with youth, estimated at around 75% of the crowd. The rally began with speeches by various Members of Parliament, who told the assembled crowd how encouraged they were with the presence of so many young people determined to fight for the right to life of unborn children. Wheel-chair bound, and witty Frank Mountain, the President of Campaign Life Ottawa, and the chief organizer of the […]
By Peter J. Smith KAMPALA, Uganda, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Primate of Uganda warned Christians against practising homosexual acts saying that they violate God’s purpose for marriage and attract His wrath. The New Vision, a Ugandan online journal, reports Rt. Rev. Henry Luke Orombi made his comments while preaching during his one-week tour of the Bukedi Diocese. “People have abandoned relationships with the opposite sex. One wonders whether God was stupid to create Eve for Adam. Why isn’t Eve beautiful any more? Eve is going out with Eve and Adam with Adam,” Archbishop Orombi lamented. […]
By Gudrun Schultz GREELY, Colorado, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A key player for the indoor professional football team Colorado Ice was released from the team’s roster after a dispute over a porn film, Concerned Women for America reported in an audio release earlier today. A devout Christian, Troy Vermillion objected to a film with explicit raunchy sexual content shown on the team bus during a trip to an away game. Vermillion was particularly sensitive on the issue of pornography since he had suffered sexual abuse as a young boy, including being forced to watch pornographic movies at […]
By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International has finally admitted it has adopted a new policy supporting abortion. After pro-life groups exposed the organization’s secret adoption of a pro-abortion position last week, AI officials admitted Wednesday that Amnesty would begin lobbying for abortion to be decriminalized globally. Widney Brown, senior policy and campaigns director, told Reuters that the board of AI agreed on the policy change last month. The human rights lobby group had previously held a position of neutrality on abortion. While the agency has said they are not […]
WARSAW, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 3,300 delegates assembled in Warsaw’s historic Palace of Culture and Science for World Congress of Families IV. They came from as far away as Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Afghanistan, Nepal, Nigeria and The Philippines. Roman Giertych, Minister of Education and Vice Prime Minister of Poland, greeted the Congress on behalf of the Polish government. Mr. Giertych observed, “The World Congress of Families is a great honor for Poland. It is a sign that Poland is seen as the hope for Europe and the World. The family is life. Without the […]
By Peter J. Smith RIGA, Latvia, May 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Riga, head of Latvia’s Catholic Church, warned Christians this week that they must stand together and counter-demonstrate against the upcoming homosexual 2007 Riga Pride March in order to prevent the undermining of family values in Latvia. The Latvian newspaper, Ritienda published the open letter by Cardinal Janis Pujats, “Defending Family Values,” where the Cardinal described homosexual behaviour as “total corruption in the sexual arena” and an “unnatural form of prostitution.” “One month from now, there will once again be the issue of tolerance towards […]
By Hilary White OTTAWA, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ottawa-based Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) has responded to the Canadian government study that asserted same-sex partnerships are of equivalent social value as natural marriage in the raising of children. The 74-page study, commissioned in 2003 by the Liberal government’s Justice Department, cross-references 240 studies on parenting and children’s development. Lea Singh, assistant director of COLF, wrote to the National Post today criticizing the study saying it is flawed enough in its methodology to be unreliable. Singh writes that “most research on gay parenting has been based on […]
By Gudrun Schultz California, May 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christian leaders in the US are demanding that the pastor of a massive US evangelical church discipline a prominent parishioner for involvement in the pornography industry. Pastor Rick Warren is the charismatic leader of one of the largest evangelical congregation in the US, the California Saddleback Church. Among the 20,000 members who make up the dynamic church congregation is Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp. media empire. A report by The Business in 2006 revealed that News Corp.‘s European subsidiary BSkyB has been quietly creating its own raft of […]
By Hilary White CALGARY, May 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2005 when the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) was preparing to move to Calgary, the group that had met with remarkable successes across the country did not expect to lose the support of the Catholic bishop who is arguably the most outspoken on life and family issues. CCBR has been immensely successful as a pioneer in Canada of the use of large graphic images of aborted children juxtaposed with other forms of historical genocide. The displays, called the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), erected at university campuses and similar settings […]
By John-Henry Westen LAVAL, QC, May 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mac’s Convenience Stores, the most popular convenience stores in Canada, with a strong presence in the United States as well, have launched what many are seeing as a highly offensive advertising campaign for their frosted carbonated drink – froster. Posters seen in Mac’s store windows feature a nun kneeling with her arms raised and a sheep at her side. Above the nun, to which she looks adoringly, is a shining froster with the initials WTF below. WTF is part of a family of Internet acronyms which have […]
By Gudrun Schultz MADISON, Wisconsin, May 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a Wisconsin pharmacist’s conscience rights May 2, declaring it would place too great a burden on Wal-Mart to accommodate his request not to be involved in any way with the distribution of abortifacient birth control. Neil Noesen brought a lawsuit against Medical Staffing Network Inc., Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and the state of Wisconsin for religious discrimination over refusing to ensure he would not interact with customers seeking contraceptive prescriptions. Objecting to the abortifacient properties of contraceptive prescriptions, which can […]
By John-Henry Westen ROME, May 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A reporter aboard the Alitalia plane chartered to transport the Pope to Brazil Wednesday asked Pope Benedict XVI if he supported the Mexican bishops in their warning to politicians who supported legalizing abortion that they would face excommunication. The Pope responded saying, “Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary one but is allowed by Canon law which says that the killing of an innocent child is incompatible with receiving communion, which is receiving the body of Christ.” Referring to the Mexican bishops, Reuters reports the Pope added, “They did […]
By Hilary White GROVE CITY, Pennsylvania, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Does the fact that the American Psychological Association has agreed to examine the possible adverse effects of abortion on women’s mental health mean the organization is reconsidering the issue? Warren Throckmorton, a psychology professor, counsellor and writer says, “Very likely, the answer is no.” The APA has convened a panel of experts to examine the possibility that women might be psychologically traumatized after abortion. Throckmorton points out, however, that each has gone on the public record saying there is no evidence that abortion has any long-term negative […]
By Hilary White ROME, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian homosexual leaders are accusing Riccardo Di Segni, Rome’s chief rabbi of “racism” for his stand defending the traditional family. Di Segni was speaking against proposed legislation that would create de facto civil unions for homosexual partners and cohabiting persons with equivalent rights to natural marriage. De Segni spoke out against the “strange silence” of Jewish leaders “on this hotly debated issue,’ in an article to appear in the Jewish monthly Shalom. The ANSA news agency quotes Di Segni: “Society is about to make a decision which, according to […]
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a two-year study released today by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR), 53% of non-Evangelical university faculty say they hold cool or unfavorable views of Evangelical Christians – the only major religious denomination to be viewed negatively by a majority of faculty. Only 30% of faculty hold positive views of Evangelicals, 56% of faculty in social sciences and humanities departments hold unfavorable views. Results were based on a nationally representative online survey of 1,269 faculty members at over 700 four-year colleges and universities. Margin of error is +/- […]
The May 3 LifeSiteNews.com story on Amnesty International incorrectly stated that it was Amnesty International US which had adopted a policy in favour of advocating for abortion. Rather it was the entire Amnesty International organization. The corrected article also provides contact information so that those concerned with Amnesty’s new direction may voice their concerns. See the corrected version here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07050303.html
by Chuck Colson As Protestant Christians and as Americans, we condemn the grotesque anti-Catholic bigotry that is now on display as a result of the Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding the constitutionality of the federal law prohibiting partial-birth abortion. We denounce as particularly odious a cartoon published by the Philadelphia Inquirer depicting the five justices who formed the majority in the case wearing Catholic bishops’ mitres. Scarcely less offensive were the comments of law professor, and former University of Chicago Law School Dean, Geoff Stone identifying the Catholic religious affiliation of the justices forming the majority and accusing […]
Reprinted with permission from California Catholic Daily LOS ANGELES, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Model, singer and actor , “heartthrob” of countless women in Mexico and Latin America for his romantic leads in Spanish-language soap operas (“Herida de Amor,” “Salomé”, “Tres Mujeres”) and movies (“My Gardener,” “Chasing Papi”), Eduardo Verastegui has become one of the most eloquent voices against abortion in Mexico and the U.S. The singer/model/actor, once caught up in the hot “vida loca” of self-indulgence, glamour, and money, says he has no fear of public rejection for denouncing “the holocaust of abortion.” Verastegui has explained his pro-life […]
* 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. Giuliani gave to Planned Parenthood https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/3876.html Fred Thompson ‘94 Survey: Abortions Should Be Legal In All Circumstances, As Long As… https://www.nysunpolitics.com/blog/2007/05/thompsons-1994-issue-positions.html McCain says Republican candidate who favors abortion rights would face long odds https://apnews.myway.com/article/20070508/D8OVURU00.html California congresswomen want to compel armed forces to dispense morning-after pill https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=6ee0a4b3-274d-471f-b344-9253def3cfb2 Why I changed my mind seconds before I had an abortion https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=453148&in_page_id=1879 Superhuman: The Uncharted Territory of Transhumanism https://www.crisismagazine.com/may2007/pavlat.htm […]
By Gudrun Schultz BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands of pro-life and family supporters turned out to march in the first European Family Pride demonstration held in Brussels in front of the headquarters of the European Union. Organizers said the event was intended to bring Catholics together in a show of public support for Church teachings on marriage and family, in the face of growing political liberalism. Jean-Philippe Raspail, event organizer, told media, “We do not have a tradition of representing our interests as do Catholics in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.” Alain Escada is the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Zogby poll released today shows that parents are far more likely to favour abstinence education over so-called ‘comprehensive’ sex education which focuses on proper use of contraceptives. The poll found that 83% of parents think it is important for their child to wait until they are married to have sex. And further that 78% of parents think sex education classes in public schools should place more emphasis on promoting abstinence than on condom and other contraceptive use. The poll was commissioned by the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) and reveals that […]
By Gudrun Schultz Croatia, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Croatia has been targeted by the European Parliament over a sex education curriculum that opposes homosexuality and teaches abstinence before marriage, Eubusiness reported April 24. Deputies for the EP accused Croatia of “supplying medically inaccurate and incomplete information about sexual and reproductive health and family planning as well as about available and legal contraceptive methods” in the proposed curriculum, in a letter sent to Croatian officials. The reproductive health and sexual curriculum was introduced by the GROZD Association, a parent-based group, with the backing of the Roman Catholic […]
By John-Henry Westen VILINIUS, May 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lithuania celebrated a ‘Day of Life’ on the last Sunday of April. The biggest celebration took place in the national capital, Vilnius. Fr. Robertas Skrinskas, a Catholic priest and pro-life leader in Lithuania told LifeSiteNews.com that a Mass was celebrated at the Vilnius cathedral in the early afternoon and at 2pm the National association of families and parents organized the first pro life march which was themed “Family – cradle of Life”. Thousands of participants marched from the cathedral square to the Independent square, near parliament. Five Catholic bishops […]
NEW YORK, May 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Teenagers who watch television for three or more hours per day may have a higher risk of attention and learning difficulties in their adolescent and early adult years, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Children and teens in industrialized nations spend an average of two or more hours per day watching television, with more than 90 percent of viewing time watching entertainment and general audience programming, according to background information in the article. Researchers hypothesize that watching entertainment […]
TORONTO, May 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A powerful new DVD on euthanasia and assisted suicide entitled: Turning the Tide produced by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Salt and Light television media foundation is now available. The video is of such quality and significance that it was the subject of a lengthy interview report on the Zenit Internet news service yesterday (see https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=107110) Turning the Tide was designed to change the way secular society perceives the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Secular society views the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide to be issues related to autonomy whereas Turning […]
By Hilary White DUBLIN, May 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ireland’s Attorney General has instructed a senior counsel to represent separately the interests of an unborn child in a case at the High Court. LifeSiteNews.com reported earlier this week that a 17 year-old mother, four months pregnant and in the care of the Health Service Executive, was granted permission to bring a rushed suit against the HSE to allow her to travel to Britain to abort her unborn child. The HSE counsel, James Connolly SC, told Mr Justice Liam McKechnie that the Attorney General had told him to represent the […]
By Hilary White WASHINGTON, May 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US House of Representatives has passed the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, H.R. 1592 that inserts “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” into existing hate crimes provisions. The bill passed with a vote of 237-180, with 25 Republicans joining 212 Democrats. Fourteen Democrats opposed the bill. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who co-authored the bill’s first version with Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., in 2000, have promised quick action on a similar bill moving through the Senate. Since the 2006 mid-term elections, Democrats have held control of both […]
By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Vancouver safe-injection site for drug addicts has not reached the goals that proponents of the facility claim, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of Global Drug Policy and Practice. The controversial Insite facility, the first of its kind in North America, opened as a pilot project over three years ago in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. Heroin or cocaine addicts are provided with clean needles and allowed to inject themselves with their own heroin or cocaine under a nurse’s supervision. Supporters claim […]
By Gudrun Schultz COREGGIO, Italy, May 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Italian author of the 80’s who was known for extreme depictions of homosexuality, violence and pain in his work underwent a conversion to the Catholic faith shortly before dying of AIDS. Openly homosexual Pier Vittorio Tondelli was recognized as one of the greatest Italian authors of his time. A writer and playwright, Tondelli’s work was initially censored by Rome officials on charges of obscenity for his explicit portrayals of homosexual life. He was eventually acquitted of the charge of obscenity, but scandal continued to follow his […]
By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, May 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “I believe it is the most basic duty of Government to guard the innocent. With that in mind, I will veto any legislation that weakens current Federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage.” So said President Bush yesterday in identical letters sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nv.). In his letters, the President wrote, “I am concerned that this year the Congress may consider legislation that could substantially change Federal policies and […]
* 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. Homosexual Hands off Poland https://www.c-fam.org/index.php?option=com_performs&formid=5%20&Itemid=141 Converted Mexican author denounces abortion “holocaust” https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9254 Reuters Examines Challenges to Catholic Teachings on Abortion, Contraception in Brazil https://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=44663 Planned Parenthood Admits it: Abortion Total Tops Four Million https://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,99621.shtml An Abortion that Even Pro-choicers Abhor https://www.catholicexchange.com/node/61366 Abortion Sides Make Plans in Wake of Supreme Court Ruling https://ncregister.com/site/article/2346 Vatican hits out at criticism of pope https://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20070502221443546C326506 UAE mulls […]
By John-Henry Westen STRASBOURG, May 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Polish President Lech Kaczynski has been found guilty of violating the European Convention on Human Rights in a ruling released today by the European Court of Human Rights. Kaczynski was found to have violated the Convention for having banned a homosexual activist ‘Gay Pride’ demonstration in 2005 as the then-Mayor of Warsaw. A press release by the court noted that in the case known as Baczkowski and Others v. Poland (application no. 1543/06), the court ruled unanimously that there had been: · a violation of Article 11 (freedom of […]
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Executive Office of the President has issued a statement promising to veto “hate crimes” bill H.R. 1592 should it be approved in Congress today. Concerned Women for America, one of the leading groups fighting the legislation praised the President’s move. “We thank President Bush for honoring our nation’s constitutional tradition of equal protection under the law,” said Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues at Concerned Women for America. The text of the statement follows form the executive office follows: “The Administration favors strong criminal penalties for violent crime, including crime based […]
* 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. The pill and cancer: what women should know https://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=0d294e31-eb12-4780-a3d1-13a54b6c001c Kansas House passes Unborn Victims of Violence Act 97-27 https://www.joplinglobe.com/statenews/local_story_116003245.html Missouri House Votes to further regulate abortion centers https://www.joplinglobe.com/statenews/local_story_114013453.html Texas Senate passes bill requiring abortionists to do medical reports on patients https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4753799.html Oklahoma Legislature Fails by one vote to override Governor’s veto of bill cutting public funding of abortion https://newsok.com/article/keyword/3045279/ The Passing of ‘Fr. Death’ – […]
By Gudrun Schultz YORK COUNTY, Pennsylvania, May 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Pennsylvania middle-level court declared two lesbians and a sperm donor to be three legal parents for children at the heart of a custody support battle, in a ruling Monday. The decision follows an Ontario Appeals Court ruling in January that established three individuals—two lesbians and a sperm donor—as the legal parents of a young boy. In the PA case, the battle over parenting responsibilities was fought on the grounds of child support payments. The two women in the case had split from a six-year lesbian relationship […]
By Hilary White May 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although the bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) have rejected the idea of formally “blessing” same sex partnerings, they have allowed homosexual partners to seek formal “recognition” from their bishops and parishes. In a draft pastoral statement, the House of Bishops, who met April 16-20, say they have “committed” themselves to what they called the “most generous pastoral response possible within the current teaching of the church.” Two people of the same sex who have received a civil ceremony may “ask their parish’s recognition” and may have […]
By Gudrun Schultz PARIS, France, May 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – France’s leading contender in the coming election, Nicolas Sarközy, has been targeted by his key rival Ségolène Royal in a vicious attempt to instill fear in voters over his “dangerous” and “hard Right” policies, reported The Times earlier today. Mirroring the savage smear campaign waged by Jean Chretien’s Liberals against then-Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day in Canada’s 2000 federal election, Royal’s tactics follow a pre-set pattern of painting socially conservative candidates as would-be tyrants dangerous to the peace of the nation. Jean Chretien’s 2000 campaign team focused […]
By John-Henry Westen ROME, May 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has given strong public backing to Genoese Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference, who has been threatened with death after having strongly condemned proposals to permit homosexual civil unions. The Vatican made it public that Pope Benedict personally telephoned Archbishop Bagnasco yesterday urging him not to give in to intimidation. Later in the day, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent an official telegram to the Archbishop signed in the name of the Pope urging Archbishop Bagnasco to “continue in […]
By Hilary White NIAGARA FALLS, April 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario Education Minister, Kathleen Wynne, has confirmed that the Ontario government has no intention of eliminating the constitutionally guaranteed separate Catholic school system. Wynne was in Niagara Falls Friday at the annual meeting of the Catholic Principal’s Council of Ontario and said, “I am here to offer unqualified support to Catholic education in the province.” The meeting was attended by about 500 Catholic principals. Last week, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the district school board trustees of Hamilton, Ottawa-Carleton and Grand Erie voted to ask that the Ontario Public […]