Articles for Month: June 2009

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) has prepared an extensive package that includes information on euthanasia and assisted suicide to be given to Members of Parliament, talking points to share with one's MP, and a questionnaire to be completed during a meeting with an MP. The package is a national response from the EPC to Bill C-384 – the bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide for people who are physically or mentally suffering or terminally ill. The bill was introduced by Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament Francine Lalonde in May 2009. […]

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite a June 22 press release stating that neither the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) nor Development and Peace (D&P) would be commenting on the results of a recent investigation of five of D&P's Mexican partners until the results were made public, the President of the CCCB, Archbishop James Weisgerber, has been making the rounds of the media in the last several days, giving numerous interviews on the topic.  The archbishop has given separate French and English language interviews to Salt and Light Television, as well as interviews to Zenit […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – African AIDS patients say they are being forcibly sterilized in hospitals funded by the United States’ international AIDS program PEPFAR, LifeSiteNews has learned. Dozens of women in Namibia claim that personnel in the PEPFAR-funded public hospital system used various methods to force or coerce them into receiving tubal ligations because of their HIV-positive status. Women's activists in the country believe the total number of victims is far greater. Amon Mgazateme, an attorney representing several of the women, told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that all of the victims who have approached him […]

* Disclaimer: 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. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac OBAMA Christians, here come the lions – The end of our religious freedom in America could be at hand.https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100930 Are you freer today than you were before Obama? Survey shows grave concerns by Americans about Big Brotherhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101266 Worried about the involvement of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, in next year's census. https://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/exclusive-minn-lawmaker-fears-census-abuse/ Majority now cosponsors Ron Paul's Fed audit – Demand for transparency […]

* Disclaimer: 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. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac LIFE ISSUES The Basement of the Culture of Death by Deal W. Hudson  With a pro-abortion president in the White House, new sub-groups in the broader “culture of death” are coming into view. Anyone who describes herself as pro-choice but has any impulse to protect the unborn is “anti-choice.” Thus is revealed the darkest recesses in the “culture of death,” when all compassion for the unborn child […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House has confirmed that President Obama has invited leaders of the homosexual lobby to the East Room of the White House on Monday to celebrate the “birthday” of the homosexualist movement. Obama is expected to make an appearance at the event. The goodwill gesture, which the White House has not publicized, follows growing dissatisfaction from the homosexual lobby towards Obama's handling of various issues. Activists have decried Obama's failure to aggressively attack the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy banning open homosexuals, […]

By Patrick B. Craine RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two years ago, Jeff and Marsha Fisher's world fell apart after their denominational leaders discovered Jeff's addiction to pornography. Jeff, who had been pastor of a plant church in Buffalo, had to leave his position, and they moved with their two young children from Buffalo to Raleigh. Now, they are using their experience for God's glory through a new online ministry, Porn to Purity, where they share their story and their continued battle through a blog and podcasts. About a year after starting the new church plant, Jeff was confronted […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion proponents are reacting with fury after Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) filed an amendment this month to the President's healthcare reform package authorizing the institution of an Office of Unborn Children's Health. The Office is one of hundreds of amendments filed so far with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee as they examine the Affordable Health Choices Act. Abortion proponents lambasted the amendment by the “anti-choice” Coburn, who is also a medical doctor. “With so many Americans lacking basic health care, it is unconscionable that Sen. Coburn […]

By Hilary White ROME, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Attacks by officialdom in the UK on public expression of Christian belief are continuing, with the emergence of the case a Christian nurse, Helen Slatter, who left her job after hospital administration told her to stop wearing her small gold crucifix necklace. Nurse Slatter was told by her employer, the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, that the 1-inch gold necklace could “harbour and spread infections” or be used as weapon. She refused the hospital's suggestion that she carry the necklace in her pocket and has resigned, saying she would not choose between her job […]

By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, California, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Live Action Films, the investigative group responsible for uncovering the illegal practices of Planned Parenthood employees, has released another video showing a Planned Parenthood employee denying that widely disseminated photographs of aborted children are real. However, the video-sharing site YouTube quickly and without explanation removed the video, and the group says YouTube issued Live Action's account a “warning strike.” The video first plays undercover footage of a Planned Parenthood counselor from Tucson, AZ telling a patient that images of aborted fetuses are “not real.” Following a warning for graphic […]