Egyptian Coptic Pope Shenouda III Fined For Stand Against Divorce

Monday September 27, 2010 Egyptian Coptic Pope Shenouda III Fined For Stand Against Divorce By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CAIRO, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court has issued a decision requiring Orthodox Coptic Pope Shenouda III to pay damages of approximately 19,500 Egyptian pounds to church member Magdi William who sued the Coptic Church over its refusal to issue a certificate to re-marry after he divorced his wife. In May, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled in favor of another litigant seeking re-marriage, Hani Wasfi Naguib, stating that under Egyptian law the Coptic Orthodox Church must allow its […]
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College Campuses are Abortion Battleground

Monday September 27, 2010 College Campuses are Abortion Battleground Commentary by Kristan Hawkins September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As students went back to school this month across the country, they entered into the front lines of a most contentious battleground. College campuses today are the abortion battleground. Forty-six percent of all abortions are performed on college age women and on top of this, Planned Parenthood directly targets the youth in order to further its abortion agenda. At the same time that students are being targeted by Planned Parenthood, more and more young people between the ages of 18-29 identify themselves […]
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Pro-Abort Parliament Blasted for Hypocrisy for Outlawing Bullfighting in Spanish Region of Catalonia

Thursday September 23, 2010 Pro-Abort Parliament Blasted for Hypocrisy for Outlawing Bullfighting in Spanish Region of Catalonia By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BARCELONA, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The socialist dominated legislature of the Spanish region of Catalonia was blasted by a member yesterday for caring more about animals than human beings, in response to legislation outlawing the practice of bullfighting. Juan Bertomeu, a deputy elected from the more conservative People’s Party, observed that while one bull dies every three days in a bullfight, 57 children are killed by abortion in the region daily, a practice that is legal and supported […]
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LifeSiteNews Returns Monday August 30

Tuesday August 24, 2010 LifeSiteNews Returns Monday August 30 LifeSiteNews staff will be travelling from three different nations tomorrow and Thursday for an extensive planning meeting this week. We are all very much looking forward to this rare occasion when all staff (but one) will be able to spend almost three days personally meeting each other and discussing our mission. The travel and meeting times involved will likely not allow us to publish our usual complement of news reports, if any, for the rest of this week. If time allows, a few reports may be posted and emailed. However, starting […]
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No Quebec “Consensus” on Abortion, Poll Shows

Wednesday August 4, 2010 No Quebec “Consensus” on Abortion, Poll Shows By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, August 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new abortion poll seems to belie the supposed “consensus” of Quebeckers in favor of state-funded abortion-on-demand, suggesting that much of the populace considers the debate far from closed. A nationwide Angus Reid poll released Tuesday found that 38% of Quebec respondents agreed that a debate on abortion is long overdue. That figure was the highest of all the provinces, with Alberta coming in at 33%. Meanwhile, nearly half (49%) of Quebeckers said that they do not want the […]
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Catholic Schools in Singapore Forced to Present Condom-Promoting Sex-Ed Program

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SINGAPORE, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report by Singapore Catholic News says that a sexuality-education program based on Catholic moral principles that has been used in the country for 23 years has been replaced by a Ministry of Education program. The new program, which is mandated for both secular and religious schools, heavily promotes the use of condoms to high school and junior college students. “After 23 years of providing their sexuality-education programme in schools, Family Life Society (FLS) has failed to obtained approval from the Ministry of Education (MOE) to continue,” the report states. […]
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Critics Call New Maternal Death Report Faulty

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. New York, September 30 2010 (C-FAM) – A UN report has rankled experts for promoting abortion while also obscuring its research methods. The new maternal health report endorses a UN strategy that recommends “safe” abortion services and family planning alongside antenatal care and skilled attendants at birth.  That strategy was based on previous UN reports that said 536,000 women died yearly from pregnancy-related causes, 78,000 from illegal abortion. The new report slashes the total to 358,000 and did not offer any data regarding abortion. “This is specious,” Duke University’s Dr. Monique Chireau said. “There were no […]
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Brazilian Presidential Front Runner Declares Herself ‘Personally Against’ Abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, Brazil, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an apparent attempt to counteract a massive pro-life internet campaign against her party, Brazilian presidential front runner Dilma Rousseff told the nation's media today that she is a Catholic and is “personally against abortion.” “In my conception, I am favorable to the valuing of life,” Rousseff said. “And I am personally against abortion, which is violence against a woman.” Rousseff made the statements following a meeting with various religious and political leaders, which was organized in apparent response to the dissemination of numerous internet texts […]
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Bono Funding Scandal, Criticisms Upend UN Development Meeting

Commentary by Terrence McKeegan, J.D. September 30, 2010 (C-FAM) – A rock star's scandal and a surprising critique of aid programs last week underscored heightened criticism of international development efforts. The two incidents upended the intended message of a summit on UN development policies, reflecting a growing disconnect between rhetoric and development results. Rock star Bono, front man of the Irish group U2, was caught violating his own call for greater transparency and accountability, which he made in an op-ed piece for the New York Times. His opinions inspired the New York Post to examine the finances of Bono's own […]
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FBI, Obama Admin Join Pro-Abort Groups to Host Training Seminar against Pro-Life Activity

By Kathleen Gilbert PORTLAND, Oregon, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama administration has teamed up with leading pro-abortion lobbyist groups to host a training seminar aimed at combating pro-life “violence” against the abortion industry, which is defined to include even free-speech activities such as pro-life picketing, boycotting, and signage. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice sponsored an August 29 seminar in the FBI's Portland headquarters. The names of Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation (NAF), and the Feminist Majority Foundation appear prominently on the front page of a document prepared for the event which compiled […]
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Embattled Abortionist Claims States Can’t Prosecute over Interstate Abortion Scheme

By Kathleen Gilbert VOORHEES, New Jersey, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Jersey abortionist under criminal investigation has made an attempt to slip out of prosecutors' grasp by claiming that neither New Jersey nor Maryland, where he ferried his clients mid-abortion to complete the late-term procedures, are in a position to sue him. Stephen Chase Brigham, who once operated an empire of abortion clinics in four states, has come under scrutiny after a botched abortion last month led government officials to uncover his practice of starting late-term abortions in New Jersey and completing them in Maryland. The abortionist is […]
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Day 6 of 40 Days for Life: 44 Babies Saved!

Monday September 27, 2010 Day 6 of 40 Days for Life: 44 Babies Saved! Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life September 27, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – The subject line of today’s message no doubt got your attention. It’s the one thing everybody always wants to know — “How many babies have been saved?” As of the time I’m posting this, the total is indeed … 44 … that we know of. We always add “that we know of” because no one other than God Himself knows exactly how many lives He has spared in response to your prayers and […]
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A Ray of Light

Monday September 27, 2010 A Ray of Light Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life September 27, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – We often receive stories that get straight to the heart of what 40 Days for Life is all about. This one comes from Steve in Charlottesville, Virginia: 40 Days for Life is upon us and sometimes it’s hard to muster the courage and energy to confront the dark cloud of abortion that hangs over this nation. However, occasionally a ray of light shines through the darkness to remind us that God is still there and His love is triumphant. […]
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DISCLOSE Act Fails: Pro-Life Campaign Groups ‘Dodge A Cannonball by a Whisker’

Monday September 27, 2010 DISCLOSE Act Fails: Pro-Life Campaign Groups ‘Dodge A Cannonball by a Whisker’ By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republicans managed to beat off a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate on a campaign disclosure bill that pro-life groups said would have effectively muzzled their ability to communicate with voters in the upcoming 2010 midterm elections. “We dodged a cannonball by a whisker,” Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life Committee’s Legislative Director told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). The Senate voted Thursday to invoke cloture and proceed to debate the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting […]
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Last Call!

Monday September 27, 2010 Last Call! Dear Friends, This is our last special appeal letter for LSN’s Fall fundraiser which officially ends on Wednesday. $75,000 has been raised so far towards our minimum $100,000 goal. That remarkable progress is very good news! However, we are still at least $25,000 short of what is needed. Can the goal still be reached this week? We hope and pray that it can – but that’s up to you. LifeSiteNews is down to the wire – and we need your help. This past week one anonymous donor sent a $10,000 donation. Another $10,000 donation […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Report – Famous Five Statue Honours Racism and Eugenics Advocates

Wednesday October 18, 2000 Famous Five Statue Honours Racism and Eugenics Advocates Canadian feminist political exercise stretches truth and downplays serious negatives Famous Five celebrations over the past few days culminated today with the controversial unveiling of the Famous Five statue on Parliament Hill. The poorly attended event was also the occasion of two pro-life protests, one coordinated with the help of Campaign Life Coalition and the other sponsored by REAL Women of Canada. Seventy-one years ago today women were granted the right to be appointed Senators in Canada’s Senate by England’s Privy Council, announced Famous Five Foundation president Frances […]
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UK Bishops Support for Homosexualist Agenda Based on Vatican-Rejected 2005 Policy

By Hilary White ROME, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Monday, when the head of the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales (CBEW) told a BBC interviewer that the U.K. bishops had not opposed the creation of legal civil partnerships for homosexuals, he was speaking from a longstanding policy that was published in 2005. But a source close to the CBEW has told LifeSiteNews.com that that policy was rejected by the Vatican for not being in line with Catholic teaching. The UK bishops, however, have implemented it without change, ignoring Vatican-mandated corrections. During last week’s panel discussion on BBC 2, Archbishop […]
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D.C. Court Allows Embryonic Stem Cell Research to Continue During Appeals Process

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia has ordered that a district judge’s order blocking the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) embryo-destroying stem-cell research will be suspended while the appeals process works itself out. The order from Appeals Court judges Judith Rogers, Thomas Griffith, and Brett Kavanaugh, followed two days after oral arguments for and against U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth’s August 23 injunction that banned the NIH from funding further embryo-destroying research under the 1996 Dickey-Wicker amendment. Lamberth previously denied the U.S. Justice Department’s […]
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Senate Markup Postponed for Abortion-Friendly Int’l Violence Against Women Act

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate committee markup of a $1 billion bill pro-life leaders say they fear could become an engine for more abortion funding overseas has been postponed. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee office confirmed to LifeSiteNews.com Wednesday afternoon that the meeting in which IVAWA was to be discussed had been postponed from its original slot at 2:15pm Wednesday, but not yet rescheduled. The vote may wait until after the Senate goes on recess, which a committee spokesperson indicated may happen as early as Wednesday evening. An inquiry placed to Senate Majority […]
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Texas AG Tightens Licensing/Informed Consent Requirements for Abortion Clinics

By Peter J. Smith    AUSTIN, Texas, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Attorney General of Texas released an opinion tightening the licensing requirements for clinics that dispense abortion drugs, as well as the state’s informed consent laws for women seeking an abortion.     Responding to a request from Texas Rep. Franke Corte jr. (R- San Antonio) for clarification, AG Greg Abbott declared that abortion facilities must stop using prerecorded phone calls or one-way conference calls to inform women of the risks of abortion in order to comply with the state’s Woman's Right to Know Act.     Abbott said that in order […]
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Fall Fundraising Campaign Summary

September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Our heartfelt thanks go to all of you who were able to donate to our fall fundraising campaign. The campaign will officially end on Wednesday. While we haven't yet reached the $100,000 goal, we are at $87,000 at the time of this writing, and are confident that our devoted supporters will still be able to make up the difference in the next few days. There are likely also donations still in the mail that will help us meet our goal, and ensure that LSN can continue running until our next quarterly campaign in December. If […]
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Sixty Thousand Brazilians Attend Pro-Life Demonstration Led by Controversial Bishop

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent RECIFE, Brazil, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over sixty thousand Brazilians attended a pro-life rally held on Sunday by the Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Fernando Saburido. The archbishop is a controversial figure due to statements he has made in recent months that appeared to contradict the Catholic Church's teaching on human life and family. But in a speech delivered to the crowd, Saburido condemned the movement to legalize abortion in Brazil, which is being spearheaded by members of the ruling Labor Party, as well as other social problems currently troubling Brazilian society. […]
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Three Decades of Forced Abortion…and Counting: China to Continue One-Child Policy

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BEIJING, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Sept. 25, 1980, the Communist Party Central Committee issued a statement saying that “in 30 years, when our current extreme population growth eases, we can then adopt a different population policy.” But while the 30th anniversary of China's coercive one-child policy came and went this past week, the Chinese government has shown no signs of easing the policy, and instead expressed its intent to continue the use of forced abortion and sterilization, with no end in sight. Chinese state-run media quoted Li Bin, head of the National Population and […]
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Brazilian Supermodel Says U.S. Agency Pressured Her to Have Abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRAZIL, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazilian supermodel Isabeli Fontana has revealed in a recent interview that she was pressured by a U.S. modeling agency to terminate the life of her unborn child when she became pregnant for the first time. Fontana told Brazil's Istoé magazine that after modeling during her adolescence, she decided to leave her mother's home at the age of 18 and live with her boyfriend.  When she became pregnant at the age of 19 with her first child, however, her agents in New York encouraged her to have an […]
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USCCB Pro-Life Head Urges Pro-Life Witness in Statement Marking Respect Life Month

WASHINGTON, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston today called Catholics to “constantly witness to the inestimable worth and dignity of each human life through a loving concern for the good of others.”  In a statement to mark Respect Life Month, October 2010, the bishop, who heads the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), also encouraged participation in the worldwide “Vigil for All Nascent Human Life” called for by Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Advent. Cardinal DiNardo noted populations particularly at risk: millions of unborn children in the […]
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School Must Allow ‘Transgender’ 6th Grader to Use Girls’ Bathroom: Maine Human Rights Panel

By Kathleen Gilbert AUGUSTA, Maine, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maine Human Rights Commission (HRC) has ruled that a middle school unlawfully discriminated against a “transgender” sixth-grade boy by disallowing the child from entering a girls' bathroom and instead assigning him his own separate bathroom. The matter concerned Orono Middle School's treatment of a child whose parents have insisted has a right to use a girl's bathroom, despite being biologically male, because of his chosen gender identity. “In choosing to disallow [him] to use the girls’ bathroom facilities, the school was implicitly isolating and alienating her (sic) from other […]
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New Initiative Offers Help to Girls Facing Pressure to Abort

Friday September 24, 2010 New Initiative Offers Help to Girls Facing Pressure to Abort By Kathleen Gilbert SAN ANTONIO, Texas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pregnant teens often face pressure to undergo an abortion from parents or others – but a new resource soon to be distributed around the country will offer such young women hope and legal recourse in a seemingly hopeless situation. While many may think of coerced abortion as a phenomenon found only in countries such as China, pro-life sidewalk counselors across America testify to routinely witnessing young girls being practically dragged into abortion clinics by fathers […]
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Abortion May be the “Death Knell” for our Society: U.S. Bishop Doran

Friday September 24, 2010 Abortion May be the “Death Knell” for our Society: U.S. Bishop Doran By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROCKFORD, Illinois, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas Doran has powerfully tackled the topic of abortion in his latest column for the Diocese of Rockford’s newspaper, The Observer, in which he laments that, “In our devolving and decaying morally relativistic society, there are many people who regard the killing of a pre-born child as of no consequence whatever.” The bishop’s column, titled “The practice of abortion in our country and city holds hidden dangers,” addresses the danger of abortion […]
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On Tape: Top UK Catholic Bishop: We Fight Poverty not Gay Unions

Friday September 24, 2010 On Tape: Top UK Catholic Bishop: We Fight Poverty not Gay Unions By Hilary White ROME, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A day after the departure of Pope Benedict XVI from Britain, his senior archbishop, the unofficial head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, told a BBC interviewer that the English bishops had purposely refused to oppose legalizing homosexual civil partnerships. (Download the audio here) Attempting to defend the Catholic hierarchy from accusations of being opposed to the homosexualist political agenda around the world, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster hastened to assure the BBC’s […]
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‘Planned Parenthood Aborts African Americans’: New Mass Media Campaign

Thursday September 23, 2010 ‘Planned Parenthood Aborts African Americans’: New Mass Media Campaign By Patrick B. Craine AUSTIN, Texas, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new mass media campaign is hoping to shed light on Planned Parenthood’s racist roots and continued targeting of black communities. The PPAbortsAA campaign (“Planned Parenthood Aborts African Americans”) is aimed at getting the message out to a wide audience through billboards in large cities and TV ads on popular channels. “When you look at the numbers, it’s absolutely astounding the lie that’s been given to African Americans – that this is really good for them,” […]
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Despite Legal Threats, Mexican Cardinal Refuses to Retract Condemnation of Homosexuality

Friday September 24, 2010 Despite Legal Threats, Mexican Cardinal Refuses to Retract Condemnation of Homosexuality By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico City is refusing to retract his statements condemning homosexual behavior, despite a complaint filed against him with the federal government’s National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Contrapred). Multiple complaints before various government agencies were filed in August against Rivera, his spokesman Hugo Valdemar, and Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and fellow members of the socialist Party of the Democratic Revolution in response […]
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Kryptonite and Saving the World

Friday September 24, 2010 Kryptonite and Saving the World Dear Friends of Life and Family, In many ways, LifeSiteNews is a lot like the Superman comics. Look around the office of the series’ newspaper, the Daily Planet where Superman (alias Clark Kent) works as a reporter. Papers are flying around, Editor-in-Chief Perry White is on three phones at once, while Lois Lane frantically attempts to fit another villainous deed of Lex Luthor into the front page before the fast-approaching deadline. Here at LifeSiteNews, Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen is frequently juggling three calls at once on his two landlines and cell phone […]
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Contrary to Erroneous Reports, New Jersey Abortion Clinics Still Open

Friday September 24, 2010 Contrary to Erroneous Reports, New Jersey Abortion Clinics Still Open By Peter J. Smith TRENTON, New Jersey, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Erroneous reports of closed abortion clinics in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, have threatened to derail the 40 Days for Life effort in that city, with some pro-lifers being led to believe that there is no functioning abortion facility to protest against. “All kinds of people are calling and asking, ‘should we not go anymore, the clinics are closed,’” Jennifer Racancoj, a Cherry Hill 40 Days for Life leader, told LifeSiteNews.com. The source of the […]
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The Catholic Tea Kettle Continues to Boil

Friday September 24, 2010 The Catholic Tea Kettle Continues to Boil By Deal W. Hudson September 24. 2010 (InsideCatholic.com) – Over the past two weeks, I’ve had extensive discussions with a wide group of Catholic leaders about the state of the Church in the United States. The frustration and impatience among Catholics, which I discussed last February in “Is It Time for a Catholic Tea Party?,” continue to grow. The occasions for this discussion were the Catholic Leadership Conference held in Philadelphia earlier this month, immediately followed by the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference and the 15th Annual Partnership Dinner […]
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Poll: 77 Percent of Evangelicals Believe Abortion is Morally Wrong

Thursday September 23, 2010 Poll: 77 Percent of Evangelicals Believe Abortion is Morally Wrong By Peter J. Smith CARROLLTON, Texas, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Association of Evangelicals has released a new poll showcasing Evangelicals’ overall commitment to traditional Christian morality and opposition to abortion. The Gallup poll, commissioned by the NAE, found that 76 percent of Evangelicals believe sex between an unmarried man and woman is morally wrong, 77 percent believe abortion is morally wrong, and 79 percent say that having a baby outside of wedlock is also morally wrong. A high 87 percent of Evangelicals also […]
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U.S., EU Urged to Help Chinese Forced-Abortion Protester

Wednesday September 22, 2010 U.S., EU Urged to Help Chinese Forced-Abortion Protester By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of a Christian group has implored help from the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government and the European Parliament on behalf of two Chinese human rights advocates, one of whom who has been cut off from quality medical care despite his recent release from a prison sentence that shattered his health. Reverend Bob Fu, president of the China Aid Association, filed a petition Monday to the two governments for immediate intervention in the high-profile […]
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No Funding for IVF…Yet, Says Cash-Strapped Ontario Gvmt

Tuesday September 21, 2010 No Funding for IVF…Yet, Says Cash-Strapped Ontario Gvmt By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario government is not yet prepared to fund in vitro fertilization (IVF), as recommended in August 2009 by a government-appointed panel, because it would be too expensive, reports the Ottawa Citizen. “There are some pretty compelling reasons why we should [do it],” Health Minister Deb Matthews told reporters. “But at this time in our economy, we have to weigh all the pros and cons very carefully.” Yet Premier Dalton McGuinty indicated that the proposal is still […]
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Ugandan Ethics Minister to Porn Dealers: ‘Your Days are Numbered’

Tuesday September 14, 2010 Ugandan Ethics Minister to Porn Dealers: ‘Your Days are Numbered’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman KAMPALA, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ugandan government has announced a new legislative initiative to widen the definition of pornography and to eliminate its distribution from the country. Dr. James Nsaba Buturo, the nation’s Ethics and Integrity Minister, says that the new law will help to eliminate the “terrible vice” of pornography, and help to discourage other vices related to it, such as homosexual behavior. “Pornography leads to homosexuality,” said Buturo in a recent press conference. “I’m happy that, finally, a […]
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Have More Children and Go Back to Church or Europe Will Become Islamicized: Senior Vatican Official

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Have More Children and Go Back to Church or Europe Will Become Islamicized: Senior Vatican Official By Hilary White ROME, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Europe will grow more “Islamicized” if Christian Europeans do not start having more children, and going back to Church, a senior Vatican official said this month. Msgr. Piero Gheddo, a famous missionary and an official with the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, told Zenit news service that Europe’s indigenous inhabitants have abandoned Christianity and are becoming “paganized.” “The fact is that, as a people, we are becoming ever more pagan […]
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40 Days for Life Launches in Record 238 Locations around the World

Wednesday September 22, 2010 40 Days for Life Launches in Record 238 Locations around the World By Thaddeus M. Baklinski September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A record 238 locations in the US, Canada, Australia, England, Northern Ireland and Denmark are participating 40 Days for Life campaigns of prayer and fasting from today, September 22, through to October 31. 40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life effort that consists of 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion, 40 days of peaceful vigil in front of abortion clinics, and 40 days of community outreach. This unified effort […]
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US Catholic Bishops Slam Catholic Professor-Theologians over Book on Sexuality

Wednesday September 22, 2010 US Catholic Bishops Slam Catholic Professor-Theologians over Book on Sexuality September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Wednesday issued a sharply worded rebuke of a book co-authored by two Creighton University theologians. “The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology” was published in 2008 and written by Todd A. Salzman, chairman of the Creighton University Department of Theology, and Michael G. Lawler, the department’s professor emeritus. The book attempts to provide moral justification for contemporary sexual behaviors that consistently have been held to be immoral by the Catholic Church. […]
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Last Call!

Dear Friends, This is our last special appeal letter for LSN's Fall fundraiser which officially ends on Wednesday. $75,000 has been raised so far towards our minimum $100,000 goal. That remarkable progress is very good news! However, we are still at least $25,000 short of what is needed. Can the goal still be reached this week? We hope and pray that it can – but that's up to you. LifeSiteNews is down to the wire – and we need your help. This past week one anonymous donor sent a $10,000 donation. Another $10,000 donation was received earlier in the campaign. Are there one or more […]
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Abortionist Romeo Ferrer Closes Abortion Facility, Ending 20-Year Reign of Terror

BALTIMORE, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious abortionist Romeo Ferrer is closing his Severna Park, Maryland, abortion facility after a 10-year campaign by dedicated pro-life organizations and the suspension of his medical license by the Maryland Board of Physicians. Pro-life activists learned September 23 that the Gynecare Center is not scheduling new appointments and does not have a doctor to perform the procedure. The staff answering the phone indicated they are closing the facility. Ferrer's license was abruptly revoked on September 8 after the Board of Physicians found that the degree of negligence in the abortion death of one of […]
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Judge: Reinstate Lesbian Fired from Military under DADT

By Kathleen Gilbert TACOMA, Washington, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gay rights proponents are celebrating after a district court judge ordered that a lesbian be reinstated to her position in the U.S. Air Force, years after she was dismissed for being a practicing homosexual. The case of Margaret Witt, a former U.S. Air Force flight nurse, appears to be the first in which a judge has ordered a service member dismissed under the military's “don't ask, don't tell” (DADT) policy on homosexuality to return. “The evidence produced at trial overwhelmingly supports the conclusion that the suspension and discharge of Margaret […]
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Medical Experts Demand UN Action on Maternal Health, Not “Safe” Abortion

Thursday September 23, 2010 Medical Experts Demand UN Action on Maternal Health, Not “Safe” Abortion By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, September 23, 2010 (C-FAM) – Medical experts blasted the UN’s “abortion-first” approach in a maternal-health presentation to UN delegates last week. Coming on the eve of a UN summit on development issues, the expert panel urged governments to focus on basic medical care rather than abortion to reduce pregnancy-related deaths. “It is egregious to suggest to mothers that the only way to save their lives is to kill their babies,” said Dr. Robert Walley, head of MaterCare International. “They have […]
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Archbishop Accuses Pro-Abortion Government Officials of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Thursday September 23, 2010 Archbishop Accuses Pro-Abortion Government Officials of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SAN JUAN DE CUYO, Argentina, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of the Catholic archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina, is accusing pro-abortion and anti-family politicians in his country of “crimes against humanity,” warning that their actions will be remembered by the people. Archbishop Alfonso Delgado made the comments during the ordination of three priests and five deacons in the archdiocesan cathedral on September 9. The ordination, which was attended by an estimated 3,500 people, was the first […]
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More Charges against Dangerous New Jersey Abortionist

Thursday September 23, 2010 More Charges against Dangerous New Jersey Abortionist By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Jersey attorney general’s office has filed documents containing new accusations against Dr. Steven Brigham, saying he violated standards of care for two women seeking abortions at his clinics. In one case Brigham allegedly performed an abortion on a 35-year-old woman from Canada who was 33 weeks pregnant and whose child was reportedly diagnosed with Down syndrome. New Jersey law requires doctors performing late-term abortions (after 21 weeks gestation) to seek permission from the state medical […]
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Military Archbishop: Catholics for Equality ‘Cannot be Legitimately Recognized as Catholic’

Thursday September 23, 2010 Military Archbishop: Catholics for Equality ‘Cannot be Legitimately Recognized as Catholic’ By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The archbishop for U.S. Military Services has responded to a new “Catholic” group aiming to push the homosexual agenda in the Catholic Church, saying the group has not been recognized by Church hierarchy and, as such, “cannot be legitimately recognized as Catholic.” Archbishop Timothy Broglio made the comments in response to a Catholic News Agency (CNA) inquiry after Catholics for Equality sought to confront Broglio over arguments he made when he opposed repealing the military’s […]
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Vatican: MDG’s for Pop Control “Malevolent and Shortsighted”

Thursday September 23, 2010 Vatican: MDG’s for Pop Control “Malevolent and Shortsighted” By Hilary White ROME, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A senior Vatican official warned the UN this week against using the fight against world poverty and hunger as an excuse to push international population control and other anti-human ideologies. The Cardinal President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Peter Turkson, spoke to the summit of heads of state and government on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Monday. “Any attempt to use the MDGs to spread and impose egoistic lifestyles or, worse still, population policies as […]
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Colorado Personhood Backers File Lawsuit against ‘Biased’ Voter Guide

Thursday September 23, 2010 Colorado Personhood Backers File Lawsuit against ‘Biased’ Voter Guide September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The backers of a ballot initiative to amend the Colorado constitution and extend personhood to all human beings from the beginning of their biological development, filed suit Wednesday against the Colorado Legislative Council in a bid to stop the continued publication and statewide distribution of the ballot information booklet known as the “Colorado Blue Book.” Sponsors and organizers of Amendment 62, which appears before voters this November, accuse the Council of misleading voters about the personhood initiative in the Blue Book, which […]
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Priests for Life Canada Holds First Ever ‘Seminarians’ Pro-Life Congress’

Thursday September 23, 2010 Priests for Life Canada Holds First Ever ‘Seminarians’ Pro-Life Congress’ September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month Priests for Life Canada sponsored the first ever Seminarians’ Pro-Life Congress, at the Mount Mary Immaculate Retreat Centre, nestled in the beauty and quietness of Ancaster, Ontario. Twenty-five seminarians from all across Canada gathered for an intensive five-day learning experience about life issues from Aug. 30, to Sept. 3. Fr. Tom Lynch, National Director of Priests for Life Canada called the event “historic,” saying that it was “the first time ever, that I’m aware of, that seminarians from […]
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Knights of Columbus Bring Fourth 4D Ultrasound to At-Risk Mothers

Thursday September 23, 2010 Knights of Columbus Bring Fourth 4D Ultrasound to At-Risk Mothers ORANGE COUNTY, California, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four cutting-edge 4D ultrasound devices will soon help Southern California mothers at risk for abortion see the face of their unborn baby, thanks to the team effort of the Knights of Columbus, the local Catholic diocese, and a pregnancy resource center organization. On Thursday, September 30 at 4:30 the Knights of Columbus, the Orange County Catholic Diocese and Birth Choice Health Clinics will celebrate the installation of the fourth new 4D ultrasound machine and the launch of the […]
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NY Gov. Signs Bill Allowing “Unmarried” Partners to Adopt

Wednesday September 22, 2010 NY Gov. Signs Bill Allowing “Unmarried” Partners to Adopt By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, New York, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York will now allow unmarried partners – heterosexual and homosexual – to adopt a child together under new legislation signed into law on Sunday by Gov. David Paterson. The measure also allows same-sex couples with marriage licenses from other states to adopt children as well. The bill amends Section 110 of the state’s domestic relations law, permitting “adult unmarried intimate partners” to adopt, “in keeping with the state’s policy to ensure the best interests […]
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Louisiana Abortion Clinic Cited for Danger to Health and Safety to Remain Open

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Louisiana Abortion Clinic Cited for Danger to Health and Safety to Remain Open By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has been denied again the opportunity to keep closed an abortion facility cited for substandard medical protocols. A state judge has ruled that the abortion business, which performs between 200-300 abortions per month, can remain open while it appeals the DHH decision to shut it down. Judge Mike Caldwell of the 19th Judicial District Court ruled that Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport […]
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Congressman: U.N. Abortion Agenda Undermines Fight against Maternal Mortality

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Congressman: U.N. Abortion Agenda Undermines Fight against Maternal Mortality By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In this Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post, U.S. Congressman Chris Smith warned that an abortion agenda at the United Nations threatens to derail Millennium Development Goal number 5 of sharply reducing global maternal mortality, by diverting life-saving resources away from mothers and into legalizing abortion. Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa and global health, said that while health activists and world leaders were convening this week at the UN […]
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Archdiocese Disavows any Connection with Liberal ‘Synod’

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Archdiocese Disavows any Connection with Liberal ‘Synod’ By Matthew Anderson MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has officially stated that a liberal “synod” held over the weekend was not sanctioned in any way by the Church. In a statement released on Friday, the archdiocese explained that the synod, “Claiming Our Place at the Table,” scheduled for Saturday and sponsored by the group Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (CCCR), was being put on without the support of the archdiocese. During the synod’s keynote address, given by Paul Lakeland, Professor […]
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Republicans Block Repeal of Military Gay, Abortion Bans

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Republicans Block Repeal of Military Gay, Abortion Bans By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republicans were successful in their efforts Tuesday to block debate on a defense authorization bill that would have repealed both the law prohibiting homosexuals from serving openly in the military and the law banning abortion on military bases. Democrats failed to muster the 60 votes needed for cloture as all members of the GOP caucus held together, and two Arkansas Democrats, Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, also crossed party lines to join the Republican-led filibuster. Senate […]
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Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from ‘Hard-Wiring’ in Women’s Brains: Scholars

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from ‘Hard-Wiring’ in Women’s Brains: Scholars By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW YORK, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings,” write Evelyn Birge Vitz and Paul C. Vitz in an article published in the September 20 issue of Public Discourse. Evelyn Vitz is Professor of French and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. […]
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Moral Truth “Accessible by Reason,” Should Guide Political Process: Pope Benedict to British Civil Leaders

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Moral Truth “Accessible by Reason,” Should Guide Political Process: Pope Benedict to British Civil Leaders By Hilary White ROME, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Basing political and civil life on moral relativism and the shifting sands of popular opinion will lead ultimately to totalitarian ideologies and anti-human practices, Pope Benedict told a gathering of politicians, intellectuals, businessmen and ex-Prime Ministers on Friday. Standing on the spot in Westminster Hall where St. Thomas More was condemned to death by Henry VIII’s government, Pope Benedict took up his longstanding theme of warning against the “dictatorship of relativism.” He […]
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Live Action’s Rose to Youth: Engage in ‘Exciting’ Battle for Culture of Life

Friday September 17, 2010 Live Action’s Rose to Youth: Engage in ‘Exciting’ Battle for Culture of Life By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a speech hosted by Students for Life at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Live Action President Lila Rose recounted the path that led to her becoming one the most influential pro-life activists in the country. She also expressed her vision that one day there would be an “army” of activists exposing Planned Parenthood and, on a broader scale, replacing the culture of death with a culture of life. Rose, […]
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Florida Appeals Court Rejects Homosexual Adoption Ban

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Florida Appeals Court Rejects Homosexual Adoption Ban By Peter J. Smith TALLAHASSEE, Florida, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Florida Third District Court of Appeal has ruled that Florida’s 33-year-old law preventing homosexual couples from adopting violates the equal protection clause of the state constitution. The Appeals Court ruled 3 – 0 to uphold the decision of a Miami-Dade judge, who declared in 2008 there was “no rational basis” for the ban and allowed homosexual Martin Gill and his partner to adopt two half-brothers, now 10 and 6 years old, whom they had cared for since […]
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Rockford Police Chase Ultrasound Vehicle from Abortion Clinic

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Rockford Police Chase Ultrasound Vehicle from Abortion Clinic By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 6:45pm EST ROCKFORD, Illinois, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rockford pro-life community is up in arms after police chased away an ultrasound vehicle from the local abortion facility – even though pro-lifers say they worked for weeks with city police to ensure permission for the life-saving equipment to park near the incoming mothers seeking abortions. Rockford pro-life veteran Kevin Rilott posted a video of Rockford police telling pro-lifers that the city legal department might issue a warrant against them if the motor home, […]
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23rd Annual Life Chain to Take Place across North America on Sunday October 3, 2010

Wednesday September 22, 2010 23rd Annual Life Chain to Take Place across North America on Sunday October 3, 2010 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Life Chain, a pro-life prayer and witness event, will take place this year in cities and towns across the United States and Canada on the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, normally between 2 and 3 p.m. (Too see the Life Chain locations across North America and find the closest one, click here.) In Canada, Life Chain is held simultaneously in more than 200 locations, with well over 30,000 people taking […]
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Latin America Under Siege

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Latin America Under Siege Dear Friends of life and family, The “culture of death” — Pope John Paul II’s term for the international pro-abortion and anti-family movement, is now winning serious victories in Latin America. After decades of failure, the efforts of big international abortionist organizations and their well-financed proxies are increasingly converting ruling elites to their pro-death position. In recent months, Mexico City has approved abortion on demand, same sex “marriage” and adoption, sexual education programs that normalize perversion, and express divorce. The federal government has also begun to impose abortion on the states through […]
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LifeSiteNews Daily News for Monday September 13, 2010

Monday September 13, 2010 SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print Fast, Pray, Love: Bishop Urges Pastors to Join 40 Days for Life Archbishop Nichols’s Comments on Gay Unions Endanger the Souls of My Children Catholic Marriages Plummet in Britain More Pope London Visit Newsbytes – The Tide is Turning Toronto Archbishop on Catholic School Trustees: ‘Should Be Faithful Catholics’ HALF A CENTURY AGO Pope: Church Must Reject All ‘Alternative Models of Family Life’ Manslaughter Case against Massachusetts Abortionist Begins Today Santorum: ‘Separation of Church and State’ Meant to Protect Church from Gov’t, Not Vice Versa Fast, Pray, Love: Bishop Urges Pastors […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re:“No-Fault Divorce a Greater threat to Marriage than Gay 'Marriage': Expert”  I am so very glad that an article like this was finally posted. While I agree that traditional marriage needs to be defended from the current push for homosexual and polygamist unions, it should be noted that the divorce rate between heterosexual couples was hovering between fifty and eighty percent well before these other issues were introduced. And where was the outcry against that? I am glad someone is pointing out that if we want to secure traditional marriage, we have to hold everyone accountable. We can't point fingers […]
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Despite Legal Threats, Mexican Cardinal Refuses to Retract Condemnation of Homosexuality

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico City is refusing to retract his statements condemning homosexual behavior, despite a complaint filed against him with the federal government's National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Contrapred). Multiple complaints before various government agencies were filed in August against Rivera, his spokesman Hugo Valdemar, and Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and fellow members of the socialist Party of the Democratic Revolution in response to statements they made denouncing the homosexualist and abortionist policies of the Mexico City government […]
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Abortion May be the “Death Knell” for our Society: U.S. Bishop Doran

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROCKFORD, Illinois, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas Doran has powerfully tackled the topic of abortion in his latest column for the Diocese of Rockford's newspaper, The Observer, in which he laments that, “In our devolving and decaying morally relativistic society, there are many people who regard the killing of a pre-born child as of no consequence whatever.” The bishop's column, titled “The practice of abortion in our country and city holds hidden dangers,” addresses the danger of abortion “not only for its victims but also for its perpetrators and for societies that permit it, […]
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Pastors Gear Up to Challenge Tax-Exempt Regulations on Pulpit Freedom Sunday

LEAWOOD, Kansas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — One hundred pastors nationwide will be participating in the Alliance Defense Fund’s third annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on September 26, braving potential challenges to their tax-exempt status by educating their congregations about the candidates in this upcoming election in the light of their Christian faith. The pastors say they are exercising their constitutional right to free religious expression, despite a problematic Internal Revenue Service rule often invoked by activist groups looking to silence churches. Pulpit Freedom Sunday is an event associated with the ADF Pulpit Initiative, a legal effort designed to secure the […]
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Full Interview with Dr. Baskerville: Government-Caused Family Breakdown Expands Government

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Full Interview with Dr. Baskerville: Government-Caused Family Breakdown Expands Government By James Tillman September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — According to Dr. Stephen Baskerville, professor of political science at Patrick Henry College and author of “Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family,” the government “is engaged in a direct assault on the family” that is causing its breakdown – which in turn allows government to reach into yet more areas of civil society under the pretext of solving the problems that the breakdown of the family creates. LifeSiteNews: Last month, Governor David Paterson […]
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Newspaper Livid over Losing CCHD Funding – for Referring Planned Parenthood

Monday September 20, 2010 Newspaper Livid over Losing CCHD Funding – for Referring Planned Parenthood By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Street Roots, a Portland-based non-profit newspaper dedicated to serving the homeless and the poor, has expressed outrage that it is losing the support of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), because it referred people to Planned Parenthood in the health care section of its “Street Root’ Rose City Resource” booklet. “The message from CCHD managers at the Portland Archdiocese, although supportive of the booklet’s overall mission, was made clear in terms of funding: […]
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My Newly Conceived Child

Monday September 20, 2010 My Newly Conceived Child Dear Readers, The pro-life cause is very personal for me, as I am sure it is for many of you who follow our LifeSiteNews reports. Of course, we are always driven to protect the most defenceless little ones. But at the same time, there are certain life stages when the urgency of our cause finds its way right into the heart of our homes. My wife, Jenna, and I just found out Wednesday that we are expecting our second baby. We’ve been praying for this child for many months, and we are […]
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U.K. Pro-Life Advocates Arrested over Graphic Abortion Photo

Tuesday September 21, 2010 U.K. Pro-Life Advocates Arrested over Graphic Abortion Photo By Hilary White September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two pro-life activists were arrested this month in Brighton for displaying an allegedly “distressing” graphic sign of abortion outside a publicly-funded abortion facility. The two were held for 15 hours by police after staff in the British Pregnancy Advisory Service facility claimed patients were “traumatised and upset” by the pictures. The 7ft by 5ft banner showed an aborted eight-week-old embryo. The group has previously demonstrated without incident in Brixton, south London. Andy Stephenson and Kathryn Sloane are the leading members […]
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LifeSiteNews News Briefs – Islamisn

Monday September 20, 2010 LifeSiteNews News Briefs – Islamisn * 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 ISLAM The Muslim Next Door – American Thinker Fifteen months ago, a moving van pulled in next door. A man came out of the house. I crossed the yard to introduce myself and welcome him to the neighborhood. He looked Middle Eastern and spoke with a slight accent. (My automatic profiling instinct concluded “possible Muslim.”) He called his […]
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UN Treaty Used to Threaten Homeschool Families in Botswana

Tuesday September 7, 2010 UN Treaty Used to Threaten Homeschool Families in Botswana Botswana, Sept. 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week the fate of four homeschooling families will be decided in Botswana, reports the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). The families, adherents to the Seventh Day Adventist Church, have been ordered by a judge to send their children to public school. Despite the judge’s ruling indicating that the children were cared for and that the parents took steps to provide for the education of their children, the court found that they still need to go to public school because […]
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Archbishop Accuses Pro-Abortion Government Officials of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SAN JUAN DE CUYO, Argentina, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of the Catholic archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina, is accusing pro-abortion and anti-family politicians in his country of “crimes against humanity,” warning that their actions will be remembered by the people. Archbishop Alfonso Delgado made the comments during the ordination of three priests and five deacons in the archdiocesan cathedral on September 9.  The ordination, which was attended by an estimated 3,500 people, was the first of that size in 25 years, according to Jeanne Smits writing for Chretiente.info. […]
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UN Finally Accepts New and Much Lower Estimates of Global Maternal Deaths

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. NEW YORK, September 23, 2010 (C-FAM) – UN leadership capitulated on key maternal health figures last week, conceding pregnancy-related deaths have fallen faster than recently reported.     A new report abandons statistics fiercely defended just months ago. In April, an independent research team showed that UN leaders had for years inflated the number of maternal deaths to a half-million worldwide. The new UN report mirrors the independent study, putting the number around 350,000 and falling. The change highlights the tension between the UN's dual roles in research and policy making, as one researcher told of jetting […]
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Pro-Abort Parliament Blasted for Hypocrisy for Outlawing Bullfighting in Spanish Region of Catalonia

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BARCELONA, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The socialist dominated legislature of the Spanish region of Catalonia was blasted by a member yesterday for caring more about animals than human beings, in response to legislation outlawing the practice of bullfighting. Juan Bertomeu, a deputy elected from the more conservative People's Party, observed that while one bull dies every three days in a bullfight, 57 children are killed by abortion in the region daily, a practice that is legal and supported by the ruling socialists. “You want to tell me that you have feelings over the death of […]
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Hamilton Trustee Candidate: Ontario Equity Policy is ‘Sexual Abuse in 1st Degree’

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A public school trustee candidate from Ancaster says the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board’s equity policy, now being implemented in accordance with the Ontario government’s equity and inclusive education strategy, “represents sexual abuse in the first degree.” “To manipulate a child’s mind and coerce them into believing that it is permissible and acceptable to do something which is against their parent’s beliefs is reprehensible,” said Klaas Detmar.  “This makes me mad!” The Hamilton policy, adopted in 2008 despite strong objection from parents, commits all the board’s policies and procedures to be […]
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Military Archbishop: Catholics for Equality ‘Cannot be Legitimately Recognized as Catholic’

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The archbishop for U.S. Military Services has responded to a new “Catholic” group aiming to push the homosexual agenda in the Catholic Church, saying the group has not been recognized by Church hierarchy and, as such, “cannot be legitimately recognized as Catholic.” Archbishop Timothy Broglio made the comments in response to a Catholic News Agency (CNA) inquiry after Catholics for Equality sought to confront Broglio over arguments he made when he opposed repealing the military's ban on open homosexuality in a June statement.  Broglio reiterated to CNA that he opposed […]
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Notre Dame Protesters Win Right to Individual Jury Trials

Monday September 20, 2010 Notre Dame Protesters Win Right to Individual Jury Trials SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 88 pro-lifers (known as the ND88) who were arrested on the campus of the University of Notre Dame last year during President Obama’s controversial visit have won the right to have their own individual jury trials, thanks to the efforts of the Thomas More Society. The prosecution had sought instead to consolidate the cases, and thus expedite the legal process – a request that was denied by Chief Judge Michael Scopelitis. According to the TMS, the longer the […]
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Senate to Vote this Week on Allowing Abortion on Military Bases

Monday September 20, 2010 Senate to Vote this Week on Allowing Abortion on Military Bases By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaders of the right to life movement are calling on pro-life voters to contact their senators before the body of legislators votes on a Defense Authorization Bill this week that includes a provision that would allow abortions at military hospitals. Top conservative groups including the Family Research Council (FRC), the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List, and the American Family Association are warning that the FY2011 Defense Authorization bill, if passed, would “turn every U.S. military […]
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Pope Calls Every Person to ‘Work for Culture of Life’

Monday September 20, 2010 Pope Calls Every Person to ‘Work for Culture of Life’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROME, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At an open air prayer vigil in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday, Pope Benedict exhorted the thousands present to realize that “in our day, when an intellectual and moral relativism threatens to sap the very foundations of our society,” every person is called “to work for the advancement of God’s Kingdom by imbuing temporal life with the values of the Gospel.” “Each of us has a mission,” the pope stated, “each of us is called to […]
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U.S. General: Don’t Like Homosexuality? Leave the Army

Monday September 20, 2010 U.S. General: Don’t Like Homosexuality? Leave the Army Controversy erupts as DADT repeal teeters on brink By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Senate Democrats eye a repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy Tuesday, the Washington Times is standing by potentially explosive comments it published from an Army general, calling service members opposed to open homosexuality in the military “bigots” that “need to get out.” “Unfortunately, we have a minority of service members who are still racists and bigoted and you will never be able to get rid […]
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Pope Urges British Bishops: ‘Present the Gospel in its Fullness’

Monday September 20, 2010 Pope Urges British Bishops: ‘Present the Gospel in its Fullness’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROME, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the final day of his visit to the UK, Pope Benedict XVI met with the bishops of England, Scotland and Wales in the chapel of Birmingham’s Oscott College. The pope urged the bishops to present the gospel “in it’s fullness,” and not shy away from “including those elements” that oppose the modern world and are not politically correct. “As you proclaim the coming of the Kingdom, with its promise of hope for the poor and […]
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SFLA: North Carolina Governor Refuses to Investigate Fed. Funding of UNC Abortions

Monday September 20, 2010 SFLA: North Carolina Governor Refuses to Investigate Fed. Funding of UNC Abortions RALEIGH, North Carolina, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) has criticized the governor of North Carolina for failing to investigate the use of federal funds to pay for abortion coverage in the University of North Carolina’s insurance plan. North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue thanked Students for Life of America in a letter for notifying her office of the concern, but did not indicate that any action would be taken, saying only, “I understand you are also communicating with the […]
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23rd Annual Life Chain to Take Place across North America on Sunday October 3, 2010

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Life Chain, a pro-life prayer and witness event, will take place this year in cities and towns across the United States and Canada on the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, normally between 2 and 3 p.m. (Too see the Life Chain locations across North America and find the closest one, click here.) In Canada, Life Chain is held simultaneously in more than 200 locations, with well over 30,000 people taking part. Suresh Domenic, past Canadian coordinator for Life Chain at the national headquarters of Campaign Life Coalition in Toronto, […]
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U.S., EU Urged to Help Chinese Forced-Abortion Protester

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of a Christian group has implored help from the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government and the European Parliament on behalf of two Chinese human rights advocates, one of whom who has been cut off from quality medical care despite his recent release from a prison sentence that shattered his health. Reverend Bob Fu, president of the China Aid Association, filed a petition Monday to the two governments for immediate intervention in the high-profile case of human rights lawyers Chen Guangcheng, who was released from prison […]
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Have More Children and Go Back to Church or Europe Will Become Islamicized: Senior Vatican Official

By Hilary White ROME, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Europe will grow more “Islamicized” if Christian Europeans do not start having more children, and going back to Church, a senior Vatican official said this month. Msgr. Piero Gheddo, a famous missionary and an official with the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, told Zenit news service that Europe’s indigenous inhabitants have abandoned Christianity and are becoming “paganized.”  “The fact is that, as a people, we are becoming ever more pagan and the religious vacuum is inevitably filled by other proposals and religious forces,” said Msgr. Gheddo, who founded AsiaNews, the […]
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US Catholic Bishops Slam Catholic Professor-Theologians over Book on Sexuality

September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Wednesday issued a sharply worded rebuke of a book co-authored by two Creighton University theologians. “The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology” was published in 2008 and written by Todd A. Salzman, chairman of the Creighton University Department of Theology, and Michael G. Lawler, the department’s professor emeritus. The book attempts to provide moral justification for contemporary sexual behaviors that consistently have been held to be immoral by the Catholic Church. The 23-page statement is titled “Inadequacies in the Theological Methodology and Conclusions of The […]
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Congressman: U.N. Abortion Agenda Undermines Fight against Maternal Mortality

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In this Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post, U.S. Congressman Chris Smith warned that an abortion agenda at the United Nations threatens to derail Millennium Development Goal number 5 of sharply reducing global maternal mortality, by diverting life-saving resources away from mothers and into legalizing abortion. Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa and global health, said that while health activists and world leaders were convening this week at the UN to discuss the eight Millennium Development Goals and the targets to achieve by […]
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Louisiana Abortion Clinic Cited for Danger to Health and Safety to Remain Open

By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has been denied again the opportunity to keep closed an abortion facility cited for substandard medical protocols. A state judge has ruled that the abortion business, which performs between 200-300 abortions per month, can remain open while it appeals the DHH decision to shut it down. Judge Mike Caldwell of the 19th Judicial District Court ruled that Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport could continue to remain open and operating while the DHH's case against the abortion facility made its […]
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No Funding for IVF…Yet, Says Cash-Strapped Ontario Gvmt

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario government is not yet prepared to fund in vitro fertilization (IVF), as recommended in August 2009 by a government-appointed panel, because it would be too expensive, reports the Ottawa Citizen. “There are some pretty compelling reasons why we should [do it],” Health Minister Deb Matthews told reporters.  “But at this time in our economy, we have to weigh all the pros and cons very carefully.” Yet Premier Dalton McGuinty indicated that the proposal is still on the table.  “I know that, for young families in particular, this […]
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Moral Truth “Accessible by Reason,” Should Guide Political Process: Pope Benedict to British Civil L

By Hilary White ROME, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Basing political and civil life on moral relativism and the shifting sands of popular opinion will lead ultimately to totalitarian ideologies and anti-human practices, Pope Benedict told a gathering of politicians, intellectuals, businessmen and ex-Prime Ministers on Friday. Standing on the spot in Westminster Hall where St. Thomas More was condemned to death by Henry VIII’s government, Pope Benedict took up his longstanding theme of warning against the “dictatorship of relativism.” He again voiced his concern “at the increasing marginalization of religion, particularly of Christianity, that is taking place in some […]
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U.K. Pro-Life Advocates Arrested over Graphic Abortion Photo

By Hilary White September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two pro-life activists were arrested this month in Brighton for displaying an allegedly “distressing” graphic sign of abortion outside a publicly-funded abortion facility. The two were held for 15 hours by police after staff in the British Pregnancy Advisory Service facility claimed patients were “traumatised and upset” by the pictures. The 7ft by 5ft banner showed an aborted eight-week-old embryo. The group has previously demonstrated without incident in Brixton, south London. Andy Stephenson and Kathryn Sloane are the leading members of Abort '67, an organisation, named after Britain’s 1967 Abortion Act, affiliated […]
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Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from ‘Hard-Wiring’ in Women’s Brains: Scholars

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW YORK, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings,” write Evelyn Birge Vitz and Paul C. Vitz in an article published in the September 20 issue of Public Discourse. Evelyn Vitz is Professor of French and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. Paul C. Vitz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at New York University and Senior Scholar at […]
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Opinion: What’s the difference? Media, The Koran Burning, and the Pope’s U.K. Visit

Commentary by Matthew Anderson September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One can’t help but notice that religion is all the rage in the news these days. First there was the planned burning of the Koran on September 11 by a Florida pastor, and second, the visceral reactions by some British against the Pope’s visit. Interestingly (but perhaps unsurprisingly) the reaction from the mainstream media has been rather different regarding these two stories: One is decried as an outrage, while the other is protected under freedom of speech. This gives rise to an important question: What is the difference between Islam and […]
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Full Interview with Dr. Baskerville: Government-Caused Family Breakdown Expands Government

By James Tillman September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—According to Dr. Stephen Baskerville, professor of political science at Patrick Henry College and author of “Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family,” the government “is engaged in a direct assault on the family” that is causing its breakdown – which in turn allows government to reach into yet more areas of civil society under the pretext of solving the problems that the breakdown of the family creates. LifeSiteNews: Last month, Governor David Paterson signed no-fault divorce into law in New York state; it was the last U.S. state to pass […]
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Christian Students Suspended for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible Verses

Friday September 17, 2010 Christian Students Suspended for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible Verses ROSWELL, New Mexico, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Mexico School principal has penalized three Christian students with suspensions for giving fresh Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible verses to each of their teachers, according to the public advocacy group Liberty Counsel. This school is already named in a pending lawsuit filed by Liberty Counsel on behalf of families and students who were bullied, and one suspended, for exercising their freedom of religion by distributing abstinence wristbands and plastic models of babies at 12 weeks gestation […]
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Jerusalem Must Fund Homosexual Community: Israeli Supreme Court

Thursday September 16, 2010 Jerusalem Must Fund Homosexual Community: Israeli Supreme Court By Thaddeus M. Baklinski JERUSALEM, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Israeli Supreme Court judges ruled this week that Jerusalem discriminated against the city’s homosexual community by refusing to provide funding for a homosexual drop-in center and ordered the municipality to give the Open House Center for Pride and Tolerance $120,000. According to YNet News, Justices Esther Hayut, Hanan Melcer, and Isaac Amit wrote in their verdict that the municipality must expand funding for community centers without discriminating against the homosexual community and other minority groups, noting that the […]
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The Church Does Not Need to “Be Attractive” but to Proclaim the Truth: Pope to Journalists

Thursday September 16, 2010 The Church Does Not Need to “Be Attractive” but to Proclaim the Truth: Pope to Journalists By Hilary White ROME, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has made it clear that he is not going to mince words or waste time on his visit to a Britain beleaguered with social unrest, chronic welfare dependency, pornography, family breakdown, plummeting rates of marriage, record levels of abortion and increasingly aggressive – and politically successful – secularism. In his customary press conference aboard his Alitalia flight to Edinburgh this morning, Benedict was asked whether he hopes “to […]
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Stop Harvesting Organs after ‘Cardiac Death,’ Say MDs

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Stop Harvesting Organs after ‘Cardiac Death,’ Say MDs By Patrick B. Craine CALGARY, Alberta, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of doctors have called on the medical community to cease harvesting organs from patients whose hearts have stopped pulsating, saying that doctors are misleading families to believe that the patient has died when in fact their loved one is still alive. The story was featured Wednesday on the cover of Canada’s National Post. “A longstanding tenet of ethical organ donation [is] that the nonliving donor must be irreversibly dead at the time of donation,” explain […]
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Illinois Bishop Sartain: “To be Catholic Means to be Pro-Life”

Friday January 29, 2010 Illinois Bishop Sartain: “To be Catholic Means to be Pro-Life” By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking with LifeSiteNews.com after the Vigil for Life Mass in the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception last week, Joliet Bishop Peter Sartain insisted that there is no wiggle room when it comes to being Catholic and holding pro-life values. Bishop Sartain said he was proud that over 225 youth from his diocese had come to the D.C. March for Life. “They’re a great group from Joliet,” he said. “We’re teaching them the meaning of being […]
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Nicaraguan Legislation Seeks to Legalize Abortion, Protect “Sexual Orientation”

Friday September 17, 2010 Nicaraguan Legislation Seeks to Legalize Abortion, Protect “Sexual Orientation” By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MANAGUA, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famed Nicaraguan columnist and attorney Adolfo Miranda Sáenz is warning his readers against a new bill working its way through the national congress, which “intends, with subtle language, to legalize abortion, homosexual marriages, and adoption of children by homosexual couples.” According to Miranda Sáenz, the proposed legislation seeks (in its own words) to “avoid and reduce deaths and injuries to women resulting from an unsafe abortion,” because “reproductive health implies that people have the […]
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LifeSiteNews is in the Red

Friday September 17, 2010 LifeSiteNews is in the Red Dear Friends of Life and Family, With our fall campaign now at the half-way mark and only $23,000 of the needed minimum of $100,000 donated, you can understand that we are getting a wee bit anxious. Both our Canadian and US bank accounts are very low and we recently had to take a temporary loan from a supportive organization. We are in the red. I presume that those who have not yet donated or could donate more have questions about our quarterly fundraising campaigns. If you have already contributed as much […]
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New Archbishop of Seattle: “To be Catholic Means to be Pro-Life”

Thursday September 16, 2010 New Archbishop of Seattle: “To be Catholic Means to be Pro-Life” By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, DC, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This morning Pope Benedict XVI announced the appointment of Bishop James Peter Sartain of Joliet in Illinois, as metropolitan archbishop of Seattle Washington, where nearly one-fifth of the over five million residents are Catholic. In January, Bishop Sartain was one of the 45 U.S. Bishops in attendance at the March for Life Vigil Mass in Washington, DC. Bishop Sartain told LSN at the time that he was proud that over 225 youth from his diocese […]
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New TLC Series Aims to End ‘Discrimination’ against Polygamy

Thursday September 16, 2010 New TLC Series Aims to End ‘Discrimination’ against Polygamy By Kathleen Gilbert UTAH, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The stars of a controversial new TLC television show are gearing up to help change America’s idea of the family, encourage an end to what they call “discrimination” and promote legal acceptance of a new definition of marriage. But this Utah family is not concerned about redefining marriage as between two men or two women, but as between one man and two, three, four, or more women. “I just fell in love, and then I fell in love […]
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Canadian Dad Sacrifices Self to Save Wife, Unborn Child in Car Crash

Thursday September 16, 2010 Canadian Dad Sacrifices Self to Save Wife, Unborn Child in Car Crash By Kathleen Gilbert VANCOUVER, B.C., September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A heroic split-second decision by a young husband and father in the moments before a severe car accident that ultimately took his life has made headlines across the continent. Brian and Erin Wood were driving across Washington State to visit relatives Friday when a car, later found to contain drugs, swerved suddenly into oncoming traffic in front of the couple’s car. Erin maintains that her husband made the quick decision to swerve the car […]
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Faithful Have ‘Obligation’ to Disobey Abortion Law: Spanish Archbishop

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Faithful Have ‘Obligation’ to Disobey Abortion Law: Spanish Archbishop By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman TARRAGONA, Spain, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain, is instructing the faithful of his diocese to disobey Spain’s pro-abortion legislation. Archbishop Jaume Pujol Balcells writes in the latest diocesan bulletin that there are “obligations inherent in the relationship between the people and the civil authorities,” as well as the “right to a constructive criticism” of government policies. Those rights, he adds, include “the love and service of the country, the right and the obligation to vote, to pay […]
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British Headlines on Pope Visit

Friday September 10, 2010 British Headlines on Pope Visit Compiled by Hilary White LONDON, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The volume of news items in the print and broadcast media coming from Britain and Ireland attacking Pope Benedict and his upcoming state visit is becoming so great that it is becoming difficult to track. LifeSiteNews.com therefore presents this round-up of recent headlines, not a comprehensive list, with links for our readers’ interest. The Independent’s Johan Hari calls for faithful Catholics to join anti-papal protesters – The Independent Johann Hari: Catholics, it’s you this Pope has abused https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-catholics-its-you-this-pope-has-abused-2074029.html “I disagree with […]
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Federal Judge Deems Military ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Rule ‘Unconstitutional’

Friday September 10, 2010 Federal Judge Deems Military ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Rule ‘Unconstitutional’ By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 12:55pm EST RIVERSIDE, California, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in California Thursday night ruled that the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy banning homosexuals from disclosing their sexual orientation while serving in the U.S. military is unconstitutional. The ruling, which the judge vowed to follow up with a permanent injunction against the policy in two weeks, arrived less than three months before the results of a Pentagon study evaluating the possible detrimental effects of repealing the policy is […]
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Pitchfork Politics: the Feds are Targeting Conscientious Doctors

Friday September 17, 2010 Pitchfork Politics: the Feds are Targeting Conscientious Doctors Commentary by Dominique Monlezun and Kristan Hawkins September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Get the pitchforks out — America is hunting physicians. Instead of calling off the dogs, President Obama is leading the charge. In March of 2009, Obama called to rescind the conscience protection clause that was implemented by Health and Human Services on January 20, 2009. Then he adamantly backed the passage of the healthcare reform law, which leaves physicians’ conscience rights open for attack from nearly all sides. Why should you care about the conscience rights […]
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Brazilian Pastor Threatened by Government for Opposing Pro-Abortion Policies

Friday September 17, 2010 Brazilian Pastor Threatened by Government for Opposing Pro-Abortion Policies By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRAZIL, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Brazilian pastor is being threatened with “legal measures” by government officials following a sermon condemning the ruling party’s support for decriminalizing abortion, the homosexual agenda, and infanticide committed by indigenous tribes in the Amazon rain forest. In a YouTube video that has now been viewed over 1.6 million times, Pastor Paschoal Piragine Jr. of the First Baptist Church of Curitiba, warns his flock that the ruling Brazilian Labor Party (PT) is seeking to […]
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Phoenix Bishop Excommunicates Pro-Gay Priest Over Woman’s Ordination

Friday September 17, 2010 Phoenix Bishop Excommunicates Pro-Gay Priest Over Woman’s Ordination By Peter J. Smith PHOENIX, Arizona, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishop of Phoenix has excommunicated a priest who had openly supported the homosexual agenda, but crossed a line by participating in the attempted ordination of a woman to the Catholic priesthood. According to the Arizona Republic , Rev. Vernon Meyer, 58, was excommunicated by Bishop Thomas Olmsted over his participation in last month’s attempted ordination of Elaine Groppenbacher in Tempe. The ordination – which the Catholic Church does not recognize as valid – was performed […]
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Foundering in Polls, Crist Abandons Pro-Family Stance to Court Gay Vote

Thursday September 16, 2010 Foundering in Polls, Crist Abandons Pro-Family Stance to Court Gay Vote By Peter J. Smith MIAMI, Florida, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s poll numbers foundering in the three-way Senate race between the GOP’s Marco Rubio and Democrats’ Kendrick Meeks, the independent has now abandoned his pro-family positions to court homosexual voters in everything but marriage. Crist’s campaign has just released a position paper that outlines what the governor calls an “appropriate evolution” on giving rights to individuals based on a homosexual orientation. This comes as a new FOX News poll has […]
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Abortion Groups Praise Newly Named Head of UN Women’s Agency

Thursday September 16, 2010 Abortion Groups Praise Newly Named Head of UN Women’s Agency By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. and Nicholas Dunn NEW YORK, September 16 (C-FAM) – The appointment of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as Under Secretary General of UN Women has garnered praise from several abortion advocacy groups. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, commonly known as UN Women, was established on July 2nd when the General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution that consolidated four UN bodies on women’s issues. The creation of this super-agency for women’s issues is largely attributed to […]
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Ballot Box: More Pro-life Primary Victories in New York

Thursday September 16, 2010 Ballot Box: More Pro-life Primary Victories in New York By Peter J. Smith See more primary coverage here: ROUNDUP: Pro-Life Wins Big in Tuesday Tea Party Primary Surge WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life candidates (not all of them Tea Partiers) won big Tuesday night in GOP primaries, putting them in competitive or underdog races against pro-abortion challengers in the upcoming November 2 election especially in New York. Here is a look at some of the political landscape for the pro-life movement in the Empire State. Senate Races: Pro-life Carl Paladino, who won the […]
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Diocese of Austin Texas Cancels Planned Parenthood Rabbi Service

Thursday September 16, 2010 Diocese of Austin Texas Cancels Planned Parenthood Rabbi Service AUSTIN, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After LSN ran a detailed investigative report yesterday drawing attention to the fact that a Rabbi who is on the board of Planned Parenthood in Austin was to lead Jewish worship services at a Catholic Church, the diocese of Austin in Texas has canceled the event planned for Saturday. Austin Bishop Joe Vásquez has directed that the services of Yom Kippur for the congregation of Temple Beth Shalom not take place as planned at St. Louis Catholic Church on September 17 […]
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United Nations Considers International Tax to Support MDG’s

Thursday September 16, 2010 United Nations Considers International Tax to Support MDG’s By Amanda Pawloski NEW YORK, September 16 (C-FAM) – Sixty nations will present a declaration to implement an international currency transaction tax during the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit that begins next week at United Nations headquarters in New York. As members of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development, these nations will propose a tax they contend is necessary to bridge alleged funding gaps for the MDGs. Estimates judge the gap in development financing to fall between $324-336 billion a year from 2012 to 2017. […]
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Chinese Province Tackles Promiscuity with Christian Chastity Program

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Chinese Province Tackles Promiscuity with Christian Chastity Program By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PEKING, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – China’s Yunnan Province is implementing a new program to encourage chastity in students, using materials produced by the evangelical protestant organization Focus on the Family, according to local media reports. The program teaches students the value of sexual abstinence until marriage, and reportedly gives suggestions on how to respond to attempts by boys to convince girls to have premature sexual relations. For example, if the boy argues that “it’s safe, I have a condom,” the girl is taught […]
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Poll: 67 Percent Irish Support Gay ‘Marriage’

Friday September 17, 2010 Poll: 67 Percent Irish Support Gay ‘Marriage’ By Hilary White DUBLIN, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A poll taken by the left-leaning Irish Times newspaper that showed growing public support for the homosexualist cause in Ireland has prompted a group of campaigners to renew calls for legislation legitimizing same-sex unions. Irish Times/Behaviour Attitudes’ social poll found that 67 percent of those questioned believe “gay marriage” legislation should be instituted, while 46 percent support homosexuals being allowed to adopt children, with 38 percent opposed. Moninne Griffith, director of the pro-homosexualist group Marriage Equality, said the findings show […]
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USCCB Officials Urge HHS Not to Require Coverage of Contraception, Sterilization

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should not require coverage of contraception or sterilization in group and individual health plans as part of “preventive” services for women, said representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) this week. The HHS is currently deliberating on a final list of required preventive services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). “These drugs, devices and procedures prevent not a disease condition, but the healthy condition known as fertility,” said Anthony Picarello, USCCB general counsel, and Michael Moses, associate general counsel, […]
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Archbishop Chaput Urges Christian Renewal in Response to Growing Persecution in US

By Patrick Craine DENVER, Colorado, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faced with growing persecution from an increasingly secular culture, Catholics must work for a true Christian renewal of America by embracing and living the teachings of the Catholic Church, said Archbishop Charles Chaput in a Friday column for First Things. In the piece, entitled 'Catholics and the Next America', Archbishop Chaput reemphasizes his belief that Catholics, indeed all Christians, are poised to face growing persecution in the coming years. America's public discourse, while traditionally shaped by the country's deep Protestant roots, has been supplanted by a secular ideology that began […]
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SFLA: North Carolina Governor Refuses to Investigate Fed. Funding of UNC Abortions

RALEIGH, North Carolina, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) has criticized the governor of North Carolina for failing to investigate the use of federal funds to pay for abortion coverage in the University of North Carolina's insurance plan. North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue thanked Students for Life of America in a letter for notifying her office of the concern, but did not indicate that any action would be taken, saying only, “I understand you are also communicating with the University of North Carolina system about this issue.” SFLA revealed last month that federal funds are […]
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Manslaughter Case against Massachusetts Abortionist Begins Today

Monday September 13, 2010 Manslaughter Case against Massachusetts Abortionist Begins Today By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The trial into charges of involuntary manslaughter against a Massachusetts abortionist whose botched abortion killed Laura Hope Smith, 22, begins Monday, exactly three years after the young woman’s death, according to an Associated Press report. Prosecutors charged Dr. Rapin Osathanondh of Cape Cod with manslaughter in July 2008 in connection with the death of Smith, 22, whose heart stopped during an abortion. Osathanondh resigned his license in February 2008, the same day the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine issued […]
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Perkins: ‘We must Love People Enough’ to Combat Homosexuality

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Perkins: ‘We must Love People Enough’ to Combat Homosexuality By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservatives’ principled opposition to same-sex “marriage” is based, not on “homophobia” or any animus against homosexual persons, but on a genuine love for homosexual individuals that propels leaders to teach the truth about homosexuality and the damage it causes, said Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins last week. “Conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, realize we must love people enough to be willing to speak the truth – and the truth is that we cannot redefine marriage without opening […]
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Planned Parenthood Rabbi Given Pulpit at Austin Catholic Church

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Planned Parenthood Rabbi Given Pulpit at Austin Catholic Church (Editor’s note: Since the publication of this story, the Austin diocese has canceled the planned event, read the coverage here.) By John-Henry Westen AUSTIN, TX, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabbi Alan Freedman is a big name in the abortion industry in Texas; according to his information page at Temple Beth Shalom, he is currently “serving on the Board of Planned Parenthood in Austin.” The Planned Parenthood website confirms the fact. Despite this, the rabbi has been given permission to hold Jewish religious services at the St. […]
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ROUNDUP: Pro-Life Wins Big in Tuesday Tea Party Primary Surge

Wednesday September 15, 2010 ROUNDUP: Pro-Life Wins Big in Tuesday Tea Party Primary Surge By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Big Tea Party wins on Tuesday translated also into pro-life victories in several states as Tea Party candidates running in Republican primaries beat out GOP establishment opponents. Here is a quick round up for Tuesday’s election results and what they mean for the pro-life movement as the U.S. moves closer to the November 2 general election. DELAWARE: Pro-life Christine O’Donnell cruised to victory over pro-abortion and self-described “moderate” Congressman Mike Castle, the Delaware GOP’s pick […]
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Florida Bishop Joins Faithful in Planned Parenthood Protest

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Florida Bishop Joins Faithful in Planned Parenthood Protest By Peter J. Smith NAPLES, Florida, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Well over a hundred pro-life witnesses and a local Catholic bishop turned out on Monday to protest the one year anniversary of abortions being performed at a Planned Parenthood facility in Collier County in Florida. The News-Press of southwest Florida reported that Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice walked with between 50-60 Catholics after celebrating Mass at St. Anne’s Church in Naples to join a crowd that was estimated at about 230 people by Fred […]
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BC Polygamy Case May be Used to Test Polyamory

Wednesday September 15, 2010 BC Polygamy Case May be Used to Test Polyamory By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group calling itself the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association (CPAA) has asked Chief Justice Robert Bauman of the BC Supreme Court to declare whether polyamorists might be prosecuted as a result of the hearing, scheduled to begin Nov. 22, on the constitutionality of the ban on polygamy. In January, 2009, BC polygamists Winston Blackmore and James Oler from the community of Bountiful were arrested and charged under Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada, but the […]
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District Judge Refuses to Toss States’ Suit against ObamaCare

Tuesday September 14, 2010 District Judge Refuses to Toss States’ Suit against ObamaCare By Peter J. Smith PENSACOLA, Florida, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. district judge in Florida has unofficially approved for trial parts of a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of 20 U.S. states against the federal government over the constitutionality of the new health care reform law. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida declined to dismiss the lawsuit after a Tuesday hearing at the federal courthouse in Pensacola. However, he said he expected to dismiss some unspecified aspects of the […]
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Abortionist Pleads ‘Guilty’ to Manslaughter – Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail

Tuesday September 14, 2010 Abortionist Pleads ‘Guilty’ to Manslaughter – Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail By Peter J. Smith Updated 09/14/10 – 19:00 BOSTON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today Abortionist Rapin Osathanondh was sentenced to six months in jail, after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges yesterday in the death of one of his clients. Osathanondh, 67, will serve three months in a county jail after which he will likely be paroled. He must then serve nine months under home confinement with an electronic monitoring device, and three years of probation. In addition, Osathanondh is barred from practicing medicine […]
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WACO: “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS” VINDICATED

Wednesday September 8, 1999 WACO: “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS” VINDICATED FBI Admits to “Misleading” Congress and Public WACO, Texas, Sept 8 (LSN) – The tragic death of 86 people including 24 children in the 1993 Waco Branch Davidian church fire has gained renewed focus with new revelations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation did use flammable devices in their assault on the compound along with admissions from the department. Government critics have been making such claims for years, but have been ignored by the media and ridiculed by the Clinton administration as “right-wing-extremist-wacko-loser-conspirators,” to use the words of WorldNetDaily’s investigative journalist, John […]
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Jennifer Aniston and Destruction of the Family

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Jennifer Aniston and Destruction of the Family Dear Friends, “Destroy the Traditional Family: The Game” No, we’re not joking. This game is real, and you can play it on this website. Participants can use the cursor (shaped like a target) to click on images of happy traditional families, and watch as bombs fall onto the collage of smiling portraits, leaving only a black crater in their wake! And we’re the intolerant bigots? Of course we realize that the people behind the website have no intention of actually bombing families. But what it does make clear is […]
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NARAL Enraged, USCCB Cautiously Pleased with HHS ‘Clarification’ on High-Risk Pool Abortion Funding

Friday July 16, 2010 NARAL Enraged, USCCB Cautiously Pleased with HHS ‘Clarification’ on High-Risk Pool Abortion Funding By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion advocates are fuming that the Obama administration has moved to implement a “Stupak-style” ban on funding abortions in state high-risk insurance pools under the federal health care law, prompted by the National Right to Life Committee’s (NRLC) exposure of the issue and resulting media attention. “To our dismay, the Obama administration just announced it will exclude abortion coverage in the temporary health-insurance pools that will transition us into the new health-care system,” […]
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Michigan County Panel Votes to Nix Employee Abortion Coverage

Tuesday September 14, 2010 Michigan County Panel Votes to Nix Employee Abortion Coverage By Kathleen Gilbert GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of a county panel in Michigan have voted unanimously to remove abortion coverage from county employees’ health insurance, according to local news reports. The Grand Rapids Press reported Tuesday that Kent County’s Legislative and Human Resources Committee agreed in a 9-0 vote to seek an end to the benefit in future employee contracts, and to request voluntary surrender of the benefit by the 13 labor unions in the county. Pam Sherstad, a spokeswoman for Right […]
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Santorum: ‘Separation of Church and State’ Meant to Protect Church from Gov’t, Not Vice Versa

Monday September 13, 2010 Santorum: ‘Separation of Church and State’ Meant to Protect Church from Gov’t, Not Vice Versa By Kathleen Gilbert HOUSTON, Texas, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute” – these words of U.S. President John F. Kennedy helped bring about today’s “privatization of faith,” which allows politicians to rationalize away their abandonment of moral principles in the public square, according to former U.S. senator Rick Santorum. In a speech last Thursday at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas Santorum contemplated the consequences of […]
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Ontario Premier Says No Euthanasia Debate

Thursday September 16, 2010 Ontario Premier Says No Euthanasia Debate By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said he is not in favor of Quebec-style public hearings on euthanasia and assisted suicide, according to an Ottawa Citizen report. “That’s not the kind of thing we’re looking at pursuing in a formal way,” McGuinty said. “I think that continues to be an important discussion between families and their doctors, and that’s where it should be.” The Quebec government began a ten-city tour of public hearings, to look at euthanasia and assisted suicide in the […]
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Abortion Activist MD Sued for Inseminating Wrong Sperm

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Abortion Activist MD Sued for Inseminating Wrong Sperm By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Canadian pro-abortion activist who runs a fertility centre has been accused by two families of using the wrong sperm when their children were conceived in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In a suit lodged with the Ontario Superior Court, they even ask for a DNA test of the man, Norman Barwin, to determine if he used his own sperm. Barwin and his Ottawa facility, Broadview Fertility Clinic, are facing two lawsuits alleging the two children are […]
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How to Influence the Vatican: A Pro-Life Insider’s Perspective

Wednesday September 15, 2010 How to Influence the Vatican: A Pro-Life Insider’s Perspective By Hilary White ROME, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates and others looking for change in the Catholic Church have always come to Rome to meet and speak with Vatican officials. But few understand the differences between political lobbying in a democratic tradition, and how the Vatican works. Joseph Meaney, Director of International Coordination for Human Life International (HLI) is temporarily heading the Rome office in the absence of Monsignore Ignacio Barreiro, the current director of the office. He told LSN that very often, people can […]
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Judge Orders Louisiana Abortion Clinic Back in Business – For Now

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Judge Orders Louisiana Abortion Clinic Back in Business – For Now By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A state judge has decided that an abortion facility shut down a week ago by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals for substandard medical protocols, can go back in business until a hearing next Tuesday. On September 3, the DHH revoked the operating license of Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport after agents found the abortion facility’s staff failed to provide women a physical examination prior to abortions. Physicals are necessary […]
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Congressman Says Internet-Fueled Sex Trafficking Too Big for Government Alone

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) told a House subcommittee on Wednesday that stronger efforts need to be made to curb the scourge of child sex-trafficking, which has gained new fuel through the internet. Such an effort must involve stronger laws, but also needs the full and voluntary cooperation of foreign governments, businesses, and private citizens, he said. “Driven by demand and fueled by the ease and secrecy of the internet, we are facing a crisis of child exploitation in this nation,” Smith, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Human Trafficking, […]
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Anne Muggeridge Remembered as Great Pro-Life Activist and ‘Valiant Defender of Catholic Faith’

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life movement lost a fearless defender of human life this week as revered Canadian Catholic writer Anne Roche Muggeridge passed away in her 75th year on Tuesday after a decade struggle with an advanced Alzheimer’s-like illness. Wife of the late John Muggeridge and daughter-in-law of famed journalist and author Malcolm Muggeridge, she is remembered by countless admirers as a fierce and unyielding proponent of the pro-life cause and Catholic orthodoxy. Muggeridge wrote numerous articles, but is most known for her two books, The Gates of Hell (1975) and […]
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Nicaraguan Legislation Seeks to Legalize Abortion, Protect “Sexual Orientation”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MANAGUA, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famed Nicaraguan columnist and attorney Adolfo Miranda Sáenz is warning his readers against a new bill working its way through the national congress, which “intends, with subtle language, to legalize abortion, homosexual marriages, and adoption of children by homosexual couples.” According to Miranda Sáenz, the proposed legislation seeks (in its own words) to “avoid and reduce deaths and injuries to women resulting from an unsafe abortion,” because “reproductive health implies that people have the capacity to have children and the freedom to decide if they want to […]
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Brazilian Pastor Threatened by Government for Opposing Pro-Abortion Policies

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRAZIL, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Brazilian pastor is being threatened with “legal measures” by government officials following a sermon condemning the ruling party's support for decriminalizing abortion, the homosexual agenda, and infanticide committed by indigenous tribes in the Amazon rain forest. In a YouTube video that has now been viewed over 1.6 million times, Pastor Paschoal Piragine Jr. of the First Baptist Church of Curitiba, warns his flock that the ruling Brazilian Labor Party (PT) is seeking to create “institutionalized evil” in Brazil. “We need to take a stand and say: 'we […]
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Fast, Pray, Love: Bishop Urges Pastors to Join 40 Days for Life

Monday September 13, 2010 Fast, Pray, Love: Bishop Urges Pastors to Join 40 Days for Life By Peter J. Smith FARGO, North Dakota, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic bishop in North Dakota has asked priests and pastors of his diocese to take the lead this year in the 40 Days for Life campaign. Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo sent a letter dated August 27 to his Catholic priests asking them to attend 40 days vigils alongside many of their parishioners who have “joined with people of other faiths to raise awareness of the scourge of abortion on […]
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Schwarzenegger, California AG Can Stay Out of Prop. 8 Fight: State Supreme Court

Friday September 10, 2010 Schwarzenegger, California AG Can Stay Out of Prop. 8 Fight: State Supreme Court By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court has turned down a request from attorneys to mandate that California’s governor and attorney general represent the state in the federal legal battle over Proposition 8. Late Thursday, the California Supreme Court denied a petition filed by Pacific Justice Institute to require Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend Prop. 8. In August, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco decided to overturn […]
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Legislator Refuses to Dine with Iceland’s Lesbian Prime Minister and her “Wife”

Friday September 10, 2010 Legislator Refuses to Dine with Iceland’s Lesbian Prime Minister and her “Wife” By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman COPENHAGEN, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of a Faroe Islands political party took a stand in favor of sexual morality on Tuesday when he refused to dine with Iceland Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir and her lesbian partner during a state visit to his country. Sigurdardóttir, who has lead Iceland since 2009, is a practicing lesbian who “married” her partner Jónina Leósdóttir in a highly publicized ceremony in June of this year. Calling the presence of Leósdóttir a “provocation,” […]
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A Satanic Joke

Wednesday June 25, 2008 A Satanic Joke By Olavo de Carvalho Translated from the Portuguese by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman The other day a friend asked me if I had noticed that, within a single generation, forms of conduct described by psychiatry as neurotic or even psychotic have become accepted as normal. Not just normal – I responded – but normative, laudable, and obligatory. The next steps are: (a) marginalize and criminalize every reaction of revulsion, (b) make revulsion psychologically impossible, expelling it from the repertoire of conduct admitted by society. Only unconcealed paranoia could allow, for example, a country where […]
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Pope Warns against Dictatorship of Relativism and ‘Atheist Extremism’ on First Day in Britain

By Hilary White ROME, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the first day of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain he has not held back from the great themes of his pontificate – the threat of the “dictatorship of relativism” and suppression of religious freedom by secularist governments. In his address to Queen Elizabeth II, Benedict was pointed in his condemnation of the “atheist extremism” that led to the Nazi atrocities. In remarks that are clearly intended to answer the accusations of Britain’s radical secularists, he identified the country’s long history of human rights and justice with its thousand years […]
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The Church Does Not Need to “Be Attractive” but to Proclaim the Truth: Pope to Journalists

By Hilary White ROME, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has made it clear that he is not going to mince words or waste time on his visit to a Britain beleaguered with social unrest, chronic welfare dependency, pornography, family breakdown, plummeting rates of marriage, record levels of abortion and increasingly aggressive – and politically successful – secularism. In his customary press conference aboard his Alitalia flight to Edinburgh this morning, Benedict was asked whether he hopes “to make the Church as an institution, more credible and attractive” in a country where secularism is becoming the standard. Benedict […]
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Commentary on Sept 16 News

LSN's investigative report about an Austin, Texas Catholic parish allowing a Planned Parenthood rabbi to use the church for a service, appears to have had a major positive impact. Austin Bishop Joe Vásquez has to be praised for making such a decisive, quick move while encouraging continued dialogue with the rabbi about the life issues. “A Church that seeks to be particularly attractive is already on the wrong path” said Pope Benedict today to journalists. He added that, the Church, “does not work for her own ends, she does not work to increase numbers and thus power.” In other words, for Christians, […]
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Grade 1 Student to Learn about Gay Relationships in Montana Sex-Ed Program

Tuesday July 13, 2010 Grade 1 Student to Learn about Gay Relationships in Montana Sex-Ed Program By John Jalsevac HELENA, Montana, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recently unveiled proposal to teach comprehensive sex education in grades K through 12 in Helena, Montana, public schools is attracting considerable controversy, as it comes up for debate Tuesday evening. An outline of the proposed program, which can be found online, shows that students in grade one would be taught that “human beings can love people of the same gender.” In grade two they would learn that “making fun of people by calling […]
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Catholic Marriages Plummet in Britain

Monday September 13, 2010 Catholic Marriages Plummet in Britain By Hilary White LONDON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the lead-up to the pope’s visit, the Catholic bishops have striven to create a positive spin on the situation of the Catholic Church in Britain, but statistics have shown dramatic drops in most indicators of Catholic life since the 1982 visit of Pope John Paul II. Most significant, particularly in the light of Pope Benedict’s emphasis on the value of marriage, has been the precipitous drop in Catholic weddings in all dioceses in the country. Figures released this week by the […]
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UK Parliamentary Coalition on Human Dignity Welcomes Pope

LIVERPOOL, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Convenor of the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Dignity has issued a statement warmly welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the country this week. The pope's State Visit to the UK, which begins Thursday and ends Sunday, has been the subject of immense hostility from media and top atheist and homosexualist public figures. Prof. Lord David Alton of Liverpool said he was “delighted” to welcome the pope to the country on behalf of the parliamentary group, in a statement Wednesday. Alton said he hoped the visit “will encourage the opening up of the […]
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Commentary on Sept 15 News

LSN staff have put a great deal of work into some of today's reports. Yes, they involve a fair bit of reading, but these reports are full of invaluable information. Peter Smith's round up of recent US primary and other pre-election activity gives an excellent picture of the new conservatism that is triumphing from one race to another and confounding establishment “conservatives.” John-Henry Westen's detailed report regarding a Texas Catholic parish offering its sanctuary for services conducted by a Planned Parenthood involved rabbi is a quality LSN investigative piece. It illustrates just one of numerous situations of well meaning Christian religious leaders still not comprehending the evil beast that is Planned […]
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Chinese Human-Rights Crusaders Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Monday February 8, 2010 Chinese Human-Rights Crusaders Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., February 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bipartisan group of Congressmen have nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three stalwart Chinese human rights activists who have suffered enormously for championing the religious, political, and natural rights of Chinese citizens. Two nominees have been persecuted specifically for fighting China’s brutal policy of forced abortion and sterilizations under the “one-child” policy. On behalf of the seven U.S. lawmakers, New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith sent a letter to Thorbjorn Jagland, Chairman of the Nobel Peace […]
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Turning Sour Grapes into Wine: Vandalized Catholic Bookstore Ups Pro-Life Efforts

By Patrick B. Craine HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A volunteer-run Catholic bookstore in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia that has been subject to increasing vandalism due to its promotion of life and family has responded by raising its voice even louder in encouraging locals to get more involved in pro-life activities. On Saturday, the windows at Veritas Catholic Books & Gifts were pasted with pro-abortion posters advertising “underground abortions.”  The posters were posted so as to cover up an ad for the local 40 Days for Life campaign. In recent months the store’s windows have been scratched and […]
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13 Suicides Among Belgian Clerical Abuse Victims: Report

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Of the 475 victims of sexual abuse by Belgian clergy, 13 victims committed suicide, according to a report by an independent commission. On Friday, commission head and child psychiatrist Dr. Peter Adriaenssens issued the report, which showed most of the cases came from the Dutch-speaking sections of the country and occurred largely from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. The report stated “It is notable how often one issue comes back in the witness reports: the high number of suicides.” Adriaenssens told media, “The reality is worse than what we present here […]
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Study: Mental Health Deteriorates With Increased Television

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that watching more than 4 hours of TV a day has an adverse effect on mental well-being. The study was conducted by Mark Hamer, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, and research associates Emmanuel Stamatakis, PhD, and Gita D. Mishra, PhD. It analyzed the association of leisure-time sedentary behavior in adults, measured by television and screen-based entertainment (TVSE) time, and mental health. The researchers looked at mental health survey data of 3920 men and women between the ages of 35 […]
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Famed Spanish Athlete Prays for Right to Life at Opening of Salamanca Fair

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SALAMANCA, Spain, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famed disabled athlete Enrique Sánchez-Guijo prayed for the right to life during his speech announcing the  opening the annual fair for the city of Salamanca last Thursday. Addressing the Virgin Mary under her local title of the Virgin of Vega, Sanchez-Guijo asked her to “safeguard the right to life, inherent in every human being, from beginning to end.”  To this he added the “right to live in freedom, exiling every type of terrorism and oppression.” Sánchez-Guijo, who is blind, is well known throughout Spain for his multiple gold and […]
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Orthodox Prelate Warns Anglican Leader: Liberal Trajectory Harms Ecumenism

By Peter J. Smith LONDON, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Communion's increasing turn toward liberal dogmatic theology is harming its ecumenical relations with the Orthodox Church, and further dividing the unity of Christians, a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church warned the leader of the English church Thursday.  Metropolitan Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations for the Patriarch of Moscow, issued the warning to Archbishop Rowan Williams, leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, in his September 9 address to the Nicean Club Dinner. Volokolamsk condemned the Anglican Communion’s embrace of a female episcopate, the ordination […]
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How to Respond to Homosexualism in Schools: Ontario Leader Educating Parents

By Patrick B. Craine HAMILTON, Ontario, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Frustrated at the Ontario government’s efforts to impose homosexualism on the province’s schools? One top pro-family leader says that the answer is simple: “Leave the public system.” But Phil Lees, the director of a pro-family group called PEACE, says he recognizes that some families may not be able to take this more direct approach, and is therefore educating parents on other alternatives that are available to them. PEACE (an acronym for Public Education Advocates for Christian Equality) is a network of churches and families founded two years ago in […]
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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Abortion Clinic Escorts Sexually Abuse Praying Pro-Life Activists

Friday November 30, 2007 CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Abortion Clinic Escorts Sexually Abuse Praying Pro-Life Activists “I am horrified that this is possible in Austria” says local Bishop after viewing video By John-Henry Westen VIENNA, Austria, November 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Video footage of abortion clinic escorts in the employ of Vienna abortionist Dr. Christian Fiala are so offensive that a local Bishop was stunned and is convinced that the case must be brought to state authorities. In the video, Dr. Fiala’s staff can be clearly seen sexually abusing, humiliating and using grotesque intimidation tactics on pro-life activists who pray silently […]
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Not Talking: Planned Parenthood Tightlipped after Revoking PP Name from Affiliate

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Not Talking: Planned Parenthood Tightlipped after Revoking PP Name from Affiliate By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood (PP) Federation of America is not divulging the details behind its decision to revoke its trademark from a San Francisco area affiliate. The decision to distance itself from one of its own affiliates is a step that is rarely taken by PP: even those clinics caught violating the law by pro-life undercover reporter Lila Rose in recent years have retained full enjoyment of the PP name. Planned Parenthood of the Golden […]
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Youth Launch Pro-Life/Pro-Family “Statement to the UN and the World”

Thursday September 9, 2010 Youth Launch Pro-Life/Pro-Family “Statement to the UN and the World” By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, September 9, 2010 (C-FAM) – This week the International Youth Coalition launched its Statement of Youth to the UN and the World, a petition that will be presented to the UN General Assembly this Fall. Consisting of eight fundamental principles, the Statement was drafted by an international team of youth, and was first presented at a press conference at the World Youth Conference in León, Mexico. (To sign the statement, click here) The Statement comes as a response to the […]
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Transvestites Seek Right to Use Opposite Sex Bathrooms in Argentina

Friday September 10, 2010 Transvestites Seek Right to Use Opposite Sex Bathrooms in Argentina By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Argentinean transvestites are objecting to new legislation proposed to create a third bathroom for their use in commercial establishments, according to local and international reports. The proposed law, advanced by councilwoman Gimena Abonassar of the city of San Martín, is intended to protect women from men who enter their bathrooms dressed as the opposite sex, an increasingly common occurrence in certain countries. “We’re talking about creating a third bathroom to give a […]
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New Jersey Right to Life Warned of Interstate Abortionist Caught after Severely Botched Abortion

Friday September 10, 2010 New Jersey Right to Life Warned of Interstate Abortionist Caught after Severely Botched Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert Edited 9:49am EST 9.11.10 PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a botched abortion in Maryland revealed the illegal interstate practice of a New Jersey abortionist, New Jersey officials have filed documents to suspend the medical license of a man whose suspicious activities New Jersey Right to Life had warned about weeks ago. In a July 23 letter, New Jersey Right to Life executive director Marie Tasy requested that New Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow investigate Steven […]
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NIH Expedites Grants for Human Embryo Destroying Research

Friday September 10, 2010 NIH Expedites Grants for Human Embryo Destroying Research By Peter J. Smith BETHSADA, Maryland, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Institute of Health (NIH) is expediting the grant process for outside researchers in human embryonic stem-cell (hESC) research, after the D.C. Court of Appeals gave them an emergency stay until September 20 on a judge’s order halting their work. Thanks to the appeals court’s intervention, the NIH has decided to lift its suspension of all grants and contracts involving hESCs. However, according to Nature, Michael Gottesman, NIH’s deputy director for intramural research, advised those working […]
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Anti-papal Protesters “Not Representative” of British: Catholic Voices Spokesman

Friday September 10, 2010 Anti-papal Protesters “Not Representative” of British: Catholic Voices Spokesman By Hilary White ROME, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The hostility that the papal visit has engendered among a “small, well organized group” of homosexualist and hard-core secularist activists is “extraordinary,” but their opinion is not representative of the general British public, said Austen Ivereigh, a journalist and former deputy editor of the liberal Catholic magazine, The Tablet, in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). Ivereigh, who is acting as a co-coordinator and spokesman for the group Catholic Voices, which has been leading the charge in defending Pope […]
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Prison for Man Who Attempted Murder/Abortion on Pregnant Girlfriend

Friday September 10, 2010 Prison for Man Who Attempted Murder/Abortion on Pregnant Girlfriend By Peter J. Smith Edited 9.11.10 BLACKPOOL, UK, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK judge has sentenced a man to a year in prison for attempting to smother his girlfriend and abort their unborn child by shoving pills down her throat, reports the local Blackpool Gazette. Proceedings in the Lancaster Crown Court show that Craig Connell attacked and tried to smother his live-in girlfriend Kirsty Rawlinson with a pillow after an argument in May. Two days later, Connell repeated the attack, this time forcing tablets into […]
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Papal Protesters, Bishop Call for Courtesy During Visit while Media/Atheists Crank up the Rhetoric

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Papal Protesters, Bishop Call for Courtesy During Visit while Media/Atheists Crank up the Rhetoric By Hilary White LONDON, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Smith, met today with anti-Catholic campaigners to ask them to “show respect” to Catholics celebrating Pope Benedict’s visit to London. The first official state visit of a reigning pontiff to the UK, starting September 16, will likely be marred by demonstrations by secularist and homosexualist protesters. Anti-Catholic sentiment has rarely been higher in Britain since the repeal of laws restricting Catholic practice in the mid-19th century. The […]
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Santorum: ‘Separation of Church and State’ Meant to Protect Church from Gov’t, Not Vice Versa

By Kathleen Gilbert HOUSTON, Texas, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute” – these words of U.S. President John F. Kennedy helped bring about today's “privatization of faith,” which allows politicians to rationalize away their abandonment of moral principles in the public square, according to former U.S. senator Rick Santorum. In a speech last Thursday at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas Santorum contemplated the consequences of Kennedy's famous words, just before the fiftieth anniversary of the late president's address. His remarks were published in full […]
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Toronto Archbishop on Catholic School Trustees: ‘Should Be Faithful Catholics’

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Ontario’s October 25th municipal election approaches, Archbishop Thomas Collins of Toronto has called on the Catholic constituency to choose school board trustees that exemplify the practice of the Catholic faith. In a pastoral letter read at Sunday Masses this past weekend, the archbishop emphasized that a Catholic trustee “should be a faithful practicing Catholic.” “This election is enormously important,” he said.  “It allows the members of our Catholic faith community to have essential input into the governance of our Catholic schools.” Archbishop Collins’ letter comes as Catholic schools […]
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HALF A CENTURY AGO

“Religious liberty is under assault today in ways not seen since the Nazi and Communist eras.”Archbishop Charles Chaput, August, 24, 2010 Dear Friends, We are 29% of the way through out fundraising campaign, but have only reached 10% of our goal. Many thanks to those who have responded! For the rest, please consider the thought provoking message below: Half a century ago, not many could have imagined the need for LifeSiteNews . Why? Because fifty years ago, just as the sexual revolution was beginning, no one would have dreamt of gay “marriage”. It was universally held that marriage could only be […]
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More Pope London Visit Newsbytes – The Tide is Turning

LONDON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As predicted, the media coverage is starting to turn around, and more voices are being heard that are saying, 'Enough of this shrill anti-Catholic hysteria'. Papal visit: Bungled planning and embarrassing leaflets expose the public sector mentality of Church bureaucratsThe Church’s bureaucracy has far too much of the flavour of the public sector. You have large numbers of people doing really quite cushy jobs, but with little benefit to the Church. (I mean non-ordained, secular employees, mainly.) And the truth is that some of them lack any dynamism and flair, and are complacent, feeble […]
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Archbishop Nichols’s Comments on Gay Unions Endanger the Souls of My Children

Commentary by John Smeaton, Director of SPUC LONDON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – These are dangerous times for families in Britain – and they are dangerous times too for Catholic families in Britain. In today's Telegraph, Archbishop Nichols, the archbishop of Westminster, described as the “leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales” is interviewed by Neil Tweedie. He asks the archbishop whether the Catholic church should one day accept the reality of gay partnerships, who replies: “I don't know … “ Now this is not an off-the-cuff, careless, remark by His Grace. He means what he says. Only two months ago […]
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Canadian Gvmt ‘Considering’ Re-Funding Planned Parenthood

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Canadian Gvmt ‘Considering’ Re-Funding Planned Parenthood By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A key cabinet minister in the Canadian government says they are considering re-funding the world’s largest abortion provider, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), after the organization’s three year grant expired in December. Bev Oda, the Minister for International Cooperation and head of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), told the Ottawa Citizen that the government supports IPPF and wants to work with them. “We have a proposal before us right now and are considering it,” she said. CIDA […]
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Massachusetts Catholic Diocese Fires ‘Married’ Lesbian School Employee

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Massachusetts Catholic Diocese Fires ‘Married’ Lesbian School Employee By Kathleen Gilbert SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic diocese of Springfield has come under fire for effectively terminating a former dean and athletic director at a local Catholic high school after she got “married” to her lesbian partner in August. Massachusetts is one of a handful of U.S. states that recognize same-sex “marriage.” Christine Judd resigned her position at Cathedral High School on Friday. “I was given a choice of termination or resignation,” Judd told MassLive.com. “I’m hurt, but I wish nothing but the […]
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Brampton Pastor Joshua Passes Away Naturally

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Brampton Pastor Joshua Passes Away Naturally By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BRAMPTON, Ontario, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pastor Joshua (Kulendran Mayandy) died on the afternoon of September 6 after he was no longer able to receive nutrition and fluid orally following a seizure last week. Two weeks ago, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition was successful in helping the friends of Pastor Joshua reverse the decision of his court-appointed Substitute Decision Maker (SDM) and physicians to remove all food and hydration. The Christian pastor was able to receive nutrition and fluid orally without complications, although any other form […]
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Wisconsin Bishops: Faithful Citizenship Begins with Right to Life

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Wisconsin Bishops: Faithful Citizenship Begins with Right to Life By Peter J. Smith MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While voters should weigh several factors in choosing a candidate to support, the right to life is the most essential of all, said the Catholic bishops of Wisconsin in a pastoral letter on the U.S. bishops’ voters guide. Entitled “A Letter to Catholics in Wisconsin on Faithful Citizenship,” the document addressed four themes: the right to life, the nature of marriage, the poor and dependent, and the environment. However, the bishops made clear that these were […]
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Bulgarian Bishop Honors Mayor with Award for Banning Gay Pride Parade

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Bulgarian Bishop Honors Mayor with Award for Banning Gay Pride Parade By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SOFIA, September 8, 2010, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mayor of the city of Pazarzhik, Todor Popov, and local lawyer Stefan Yanev have been awarded a prestigious award for their role in keeping a “gay pride” parade out of the city. Bulgarian Orthodox Church Bishop Nikolay of the Plovdiv Diocese presented the pair with the highest order of the Plovdiv Bishopric, the “Holy Apostle Hermas” medal. Last month, municipal authorities in Pazardzhik passed a bylaw banning displays of sexuality in public, a measure […]
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Jailed Chinese Forced-Abortion Whistleblower Due for Release

Thursday September 9, 2010 Jailed Chinese Forced-Abortion Whistleblower Due for Release By Kathleen Gilbert BEIJING, September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A blind Chinese activist who has suffered extreme abuse by government authorities for revealing the coercive nature of the country’s one-child policy is due to be set free after serving a four-year prison sentence. Chen Guangcheng, 39, was arrested in 2006 after he advocated in favor of Chinese women who had fallen victim to forced abortions at the hands of the Chinese government. Although her husband’s term is up this week, Yuan Weijing told AFP Wednesday that she has not […]
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Reward Increased to $25,000 for Abortion Crime Information

Thursday September 9, 2010 Reward Increased to $25,000 for Abortion Crime Information WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Operation Rescue has announced that it is raising the reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of abortionists who are breaking the law from $10,000 to $25,000 effective immediately. In January, 2010, the pro-life group launched the Abortion Whistleblowers Program to encourage those with knowledge of abortion-related crimes to come forward. The program includes a multi-faceted ad campaign using radio, newspaper, Internet, direct mail, and social networking sites. “We are grateful that an anonymous supporter has come forward […]
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Iowans Seek to Sack Three Judges who Legalized Gay “Marriage”

Thursday September 9, 2010 Iowans Seek to Sack Three Judges who Legalized Gay “Marriage” By Peter J. Smith DES MOINES, Iowa, September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Wednesday waded into a unique state electoral battle, where conservatives are seeking to recall from the bench three state Supreme Court justices that legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2009. Speaking at a panel organized by the Iowa State Bar Association in the Hotel Fort Des Moines, O’Connor asserted that “the judges should not be subject to retaliation” from voters for the decisions they render. According to […]
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Paraguayan Legislator Seeks to Discourage Publicity for Homosexuality During Prime Time

Thursday September 9, 2010 Paraguayan Legislator Seeks to Discourage Publicity for Homosexuality During Prime Time By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent ASUNCIÓN, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Paraguayan city council member has drawn the wrath of the homosexualist organization Amnesty International by proposing that discussions of homosexuality be eliminated in the local media during prime time. In introducing the bill for consideration, Hugo Ramirez of the Municipal Council of Asunción said that “as a father I express my concern over the focus given to the topic without taking into account the time.” “I propose that notices be sent […]
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Pope Benedict’s Scylla and Charybdis in Britain: the Media and His Own Bishops

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Pope Benedict’s Scylla and Charybdis in Britain: the Media and His Own Bishops Commentary by Hilary White ROME, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – So, hands up everyone who thought the papal visit to Britain, set for September 16, was going to be a smash success; a revelation of the orderliness, devotion and unity of British Catholicism, and of the dedication of the secular media to cool, even-handed objectivity. Anyone? … Bueller? Watching the cringeworthy festival of pre-visit idiocy bursting out of Britain, both secular and ecclesiastical, has been a lesson for many in just how deeply […]
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Proposed Panamanian Law: $5,000 Fine for Disrespectful Comments towards Homosexuals

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Proposed Panamanian Law: $5,000 Fine for Disrespectful Comments towards Homosexuals By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent PANAMA, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Those who dare to criticize homosexuals in Panama could soon face a large fine. A bill is advancing silently through the Panamanian legislature that would fine perpetrators between $500 and $5000 dollars for making fun of or speaking “disrespectfully” of a homosexual, according to the Panamanian newspaper Critica. The law in question seeks to take “preventative measures” against “discrimination for reason of sexual orientation or gender identity” according to the newspaper. Critica reports […]
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Abortion Official Charged with Faking Bomb Scare at Own Clinic

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Abortion Official Charged with Faking Bomb Scare at Own Clinic By Kathleen Gilbert TULSA, Oklahoma, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortion facility director has been accused of misleading police after telling authorities that she had found a bomb at her facility, according to federal court papers. Linda Meek, 63, whose is no longer employed by Reproductive Services of Tulsa, will face a federal lawsuit for intentionally giving “false and misleading information” resulting in a bomb scare at the facility on August 13. Reports did not specify the circumstances behind the end of Meek’s employment at […]
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Federal Judge Denies Obama Embryo Research Appeal

Wednesday September 8, 2010 Federal Judge Denies Obama Embryo Research Appeal By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has denied the U.S. Justice Department’s request to stay his order stopping the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) embryo-destroying stem-cell research, dismissing their allegations that scientific research over the past decade would be irreparably harmed. “Defendants are incorrect about much of their ‘parade of horribles’ that will supposedly result from this Court’s preliminary injunction,” stated Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a three-page order. Lamberth ruled […]
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What our Critics are Saying

Wednesday September 8, 2010 What our Critics are Saying Dear Friends, “Extremist”? “A radical member of the religious right”? “Hater,” “bigot,” “racist” (as a person of color myself, I always smile at that last one)? Several pro-abortion and “progressive” think-tanks, blogs, and news sources claim LifeSiteNews is teeming with right-wing extremists, conspiring to strip away everyone’s liberties and indoctrinate society with backward thinking. While we have many fans among life and family leaders, it is instructive to see what anti-life, anti-family activists have to say about LSN. For example, Right Wing Watch describes us here at LSN as “anti-marriage equality […]
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Four-State Abortion Empire Crumbles Following Botched Abortion

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Four-State Abortion Empire Crumbles Following Botched Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert VOORHEES TWP, New Jersey, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The empire of a troubled New Jersey abortionist who headed a four-state abortion ring is slowly crumbling after Maryland began investigating the setup following a teenager’s botched abortion. In addition to unveiling the illegality of the setup, the investigation resulted in one raid where police discovered a gruesome display of 35 frozen unborn children preserved in jars. Stephen Chase Brigham is the owner of American Women’s Services, which operated 15 abortion facilities in states including New Jersey, […]
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Slovenian Government Pushing Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ and Adoption

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Slovenian Government Pushing Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ and Adoption LJUBLJANA, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Slovenian government is planning to legalize same-sex ‘marriage’ and adoption of children by same-sex couples, according to The Slovenian Civilian Initiative for Family and the Rights of Children (CIFRC). CIFRC president Ales Primc told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that the proposed new Family Code bill is being pushed through the government’s Labor, Family and Social Issues Committee without any public input. Primc said he himself was barred from attending the session of Parliament during which the controversial bill was discussed. A communiqué from Mr. […]
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Louisiana Abortion Clinic Shut Down for Ignoring “Most Basic” Medical Practices

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Louisiana Abortion Clinic Shut Down for Ignoring “Most Basic” Medical Practices By Peter J. Smith SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has invoked its authority under a new law to suspend the operations of an abortion facility after an investigation showed that it was endangering women’s lives by giving them substandard care. According to the Shreveport Times, the DHH revoked the operating license of Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, after agents found the abortion facility’s staff failed to provide women a physical examination prior to abortions, […]
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Public Hearings on Euthanasia in Quebec Begin Today

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Public Hearings on Euthanasia in Quebec Begin Today By Thaddeus M. Baklinski QUEBEC, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The provincial commission set up to look at euthanasia and assisted suicide in Quebec begins its ten-city tour seeking public input, starting in Montreal today. The Quebec government agreed late last year to establish the commission to seek public and expert opinion on the issue in response to a motion filed by three members of the province’s Parti Quebecois (PQ), including leader Pauline Marois (Charlevoix), who asked Premier Jean Charest to establish such a commission. Although euthanasia and […]
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Notre Dame Spokesman Refuses to Speak to

Friday September 3, 2010 Notre Dame Spokesman Refuses to Speak to LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although previously willing to speak to LifeSiteNews.com, the University of Notre Dame has evidently implemented a policy against such communication in the future. Earlier this week LSN attempted to confirm the termination of Bill Kirk, Associate Vice President for Student Life, with Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown. Brown: I’m sorry, I have no comment to you. LSN: You have no comment to me specifically? Brown: That’s right. LSN: Why’s that? Brown: I’d rather not get into that, […]
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Stephen Hawking’s Junk Science Atheism

World-famous physics professor Stephen Hawking is making waves and headlines by claiming in his new book, The Grand Design, that God is not necessary to explain the existence of the universe.
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Colorado Abortionists Launch Campaign against Personhood Ballot Initiative

Friday September 3, 2010 Colorado Abortionists Launch Campaign against Personhood Ballot Initiative By Kathleen Gilbert DENVER, Colorado, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion medical practitioners this week kicked off a campaign to snuff out the Colorado Personhood initiative, which aims to extend personhood to all human beings from the beginning of their biological development, as it heads to voters in November. Amendment 62, which has been certified for Colorado’s ballot once again after a failed attempt in 2008, has drawn vitriol from abortion groups eager to dismiss embryonic human life as “fertilized eggs” unworthy of the dignity […]
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Catholic College Rejects Homosexualist Group for Nonprofit Fair

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Catholic College Rejects Homosexualist Group for Nonprofit Fair By Kathleen Gilbert AUSTIN, Texas, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic liberal arts college has rejected the application of a local homosexualist group to participate in a campus nonprofit internship fair, because the group’s views directly conflicted with Catholic moral teaching. However, the school’s own homosexual support group has said it is “investigating” the affair. The student newspaper Hilltop Views reported last week that Equality Texas, a local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) advocacy group, had applied to recruit students at the Internship Fair for the coming […]
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World Youth Conference Ends In Controversy and Chaos

Friday September 3, 2010 World Youth Conference Ends In Controversy and Chaos By Samantha Singson LEÓN, MEXICO, Sept. 3, 2010 (C-FAM) – The World Youth Conference (WYC) closed in León, Mexico last week with frustrated and confused delegates adopting what is being called the Declaration of Guanajuato, which will be presented to the UN (United Nations) General Assembly later this month. Delegates became increasingly frustrated as they were shut out of the negotiating process. Unlike at the United Nations where meetings are open to any delegation wishing to make amendments, at the WYC delegates were told that meetings were closed […]
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Schwarzenegger, California AG Can Stay Out of Prop. 8 Fight: State Supreme Court

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court has turned down a request from attorneys to mandate that California’s governor and attorney general represent the state in the federal legal battle over Proposition 8. Late Thursday, the California Supreme Court denied a petition filed by Pacific Justice Institute to require Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend Prop. 8. In August, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco decided to overturn Proposition 8, the voter-approved state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, on […]
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New Jersey Right to Life Warned of Interstate Abortionist Caught after Severely Botched Abortion

By Kathleen Gilbert Edited 9:49am EST 9.11.10 PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a botched abortion in Maryland revealed the illegal interstate practice of a New Jersey abortionist, New Jersey officials have filed documents to suspend the medical license of a man whose suspicious activities New Jersey Right to Life had warned about weeks ago.   In a July 23 letter, New Jersey Right to Life executive director Marie Tasy requested that New Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow investigate Steven Chase Brigham's six New Jersey abortion facility following news of a crackdown on Brigham's four Pennsylvania clinics. […]
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Legislator Refuses to Dine with Iceland’s Lesbian Prime Minister and her “Wife”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman COPENHAGEN, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of a Faroe Islands political party took a stand in favor of sexual morality on Tuesday when he refused to dine with Iceland Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir and her lesbian partner during a state visit to his country. Sigurdardóttir, who has lead Iceland since 2009, is a practicing lesbian who “married” her partner Jónina Leósdóttir in a highly publicized ceremony in June of this year.  Calling the presence of Leósdóttir a “provocation,” Member of Parliament Jenis av Rana refused to attend at dinner in honor of the prime […]
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Anti-papal Protesters “Not Representative” of British: Catholic Voices Spokesman

By Hilary White ROME, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The hostility that the papal visit has engendered among a “small, well organized group” of homosexualist and hard-core secularist activists is “extraordinary,” but their opinion is not representative of the general British public, said Austen Ivereigh, a journalist and former deputy editor of the liberal Catholic magazine, The Tablet, in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). Ivereigh, who is acting as a co-coordinator and spokesman for the group Catholic Voices, which has been leading the charge in defending Pope Benedict's state visit, told LSN he believes the tide of anti-Catholic media coverage is about […]
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Catholic Alverno College Hosts Links to Pro-Abort, Homosexualist Groups

Tuesday June 22, 2010 Catholic Alverno College Hosts Links to Pro-Abort, Homosexualist Groups By Kathleen Gilbert MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A conservative student group has launched a protest against Alverno College, a Catholic educational institution for women, whose research division directs online visitors to several pro-abortion and homosexualist groups. TFP (Tradition, Family, Property) Student Action launched the peaceful protest after discovering links to extreme pro-abortion groups including the National Organization for Women, the Center for Reproductive Rights, EMILY’s List, and the Feminist Majority Foundation, on the resource page of the Alverno College Research Center for Women and […]
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Ontario’s Crown Accused of Abusing Legal System in Linda Gibbons Case

Thursday August 12, 2010 Ontario’s Crown Accused of Abusing Legal System in Linda Gibbons Case By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Before a courtroom packed with pro-life supporters Tuesday, lawyers for pro-life heroine Linda Gibbons argued that the Crown has abused the legal system by deliberately circumventing a legal challenge against the “temporary” injunction Gibbons is accused of violating. The National Post’s Charles Lewis, who recently published a cover story on Gibbons, was present at the proceedings, which he related in a Tuesday report. Gibbons has been imprisoned continuously since January 20, 2009, when she […]
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Pro-life Patience Wears Thin as Illinois Parental Notice Law Languishes in Legal Limbo

Tuesday June 1, 2010 Pro-life Patience Wears Thin as Illinois Parental Notice Law Languishes in Legal Limbo By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Illinois’ parental notice law has languished unenforced for nearly 15 years since its initial passage. Now that the constitutionality of the law has been repeatedly vindicated in the courts, pro-life attorneys are demanding the law be enforced. The embattled Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995 requires that one parent or legal guardian must be notified 48 hours in advance when a minor aged 17 or younger seeks an abortion. Attorneys from […]
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Embryo Research Can Continue Pending Lawsuit: D.C. Appeals Court

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington has stayed a federal judge’s temporary injunction on the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) embryo-destroying stem-cell research, while that judge continues to review the case. Earlier U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth had denied the U.S. Justice Department’s request to stay his order that human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research projects funded by the NIH violate an “unambiguous” U.S. statute, the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal dollars from going to research that destroys human embryos.  “The purpose of this administrative stay is to give […]
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Paraguayan Legislator Seeks to Discourage Publicity for Homosexuality During Prime Time

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent ASUNCIÓN, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Paraguayan city council member has drawn the wrath of the homosexualist organization Amnesty International by proposing that discussions of homosexuality be eliminated in the local media during prime time. In introducing the bill for consideration, Hugo Ramirez of the Municipal Council of Asunción said that “as a father I express my concern over the focus given to the topic without taking into account the time.” “I propose that notices be sent to the media and other organizations for the purpose of preventing information that involve these […]
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Pope to Council of Europe: Reject Relativism, Respect Life and True Marriage

By Patrick B. Craine ROME, September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI called on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Wednesday to reject relativism and find the source of human rights in an objective ethic that respects life from conception to natural death and true marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Noting that the Assembly aims to address various violations of human dignity, the pope insisted that given “the context of today’s society in which different peoples and cultures come together, it is imperative to develop the universal validity of these rights […]
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Sabbatical Over, Christopher West to Address Criticism

By Kathleen Gilbert EXTON, Pennsylvania, September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the end of a six-month sabbatical undertaken to pursue “deep, prayerful examination,” controversial chastity speaker Christopher West has announced plans to address critiques that have been aimed at his method of presenting Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body. In a statement posted on his website, West thanked all who encouraged him and helped make the sabbatical possible, saying that following “a graced time of renewal and reflection” he would return to his work “with a humble awareness that, as Christians, we carry a treasure in earthen vessels.” […]
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Catholics For Equality Co-Founder: Pope is a Closeted Homosexual, ‘Childish Idiot’

By Kathleen Gilbert MANHATTAN, New York, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One board member of the up-and-coming group “Catholics for Equality,” which aims to spread the homosexualist agenda among the Catholic community, is an ex-priest who has called Pope Benedict XVI a “childish idiot” and a closet homosexual. (Read more about Catholics for Equality here) Tony Adams, a writer and commentator within the homosexualist community, is listed as a founding board member of “Catholics for Equality” on its website. Adams, who changed his last name after “marrying” his male partner, regularly writes for South Florida Gay News, maintains his own blog […]
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Conservative Minister: We Don’t Fund Abortions, Just Abortion Groups

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Will the Canadian government fund, or not fund abortion overseas? That has been the question since early spring when Stephen Harper announced his much-debated G8 maternal health plan. But while the government has repeatedly stated that it will not “reopen the abortion debate” and fund overseas abortions, new information has surfaced in the last week that Canada’s top pro-life leader says throws into question those promises. While International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) are insisting that Canada has never directly funded abortion, the fact […]
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BBC Pervaded by a “Consistent Institutional Anti-Christian Bias:” Edinburgh Cardinal

By Hilary White LONDON, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With just days left to the visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI, the cardinal archbishop of Edinburgh has blasted the BBC for what he says is its “consistent institutional anti-Christian bias.” Cardinal Keith O’Brien told the Daily Express this Sunday that the BBC is pervaded by “a radically secular and socially liberal mindset.” The outspokenly pro-life cardinal warned that a planned documentary by the BBC on clerical sexual abuse, would be a “hatchet job.” The documentary, “Benedict –Trials of a Pope” is set to air the night before the pope’s […]
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Proposed Panamanian Law: $5,000 Fine for Disrespectful Comments towards Homosexuals

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent PANAMA, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Those who dare to criticize homosexuals in Panama could soon face a large fine. A bill is advancing silently through the Panamanian legislature that would fine perpetrators between $500 and $5000 dollars for making fun of or speaking “disrespectfully” of a homosexual, according to the Panamanian newspaper Critica. The law in question seeks to take “preventative measures” against “discrimination for reason of sexual orientation or gender identity” according to the newspaper. Critica reports that the bill has already passed out of the Government Committee of the national […]
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Papal Protesters, Bishop Call for Courtesy During Visit while Media/Atheists Crank up the Rhetoric

By Hilary White LONDON, September 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Smith, met today with anti-Catholic campaigners to ask them to “show respect” to Catholics celebrating Pope Benedict’s visit to London. The first official state visit of a reigning pontiff to the UK, starting September 16, will likely be marred by demonstrations by secularist and homosexualist protesters. Anti-Catholic sentiment has rarely been higher in Britain since the repeal of laws restricting Catholic practice in the mid-19th century. The meeting between Smith and the protest organizers was organized by Scotland Yard. The archbishop said on Monday that […]
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PACKARD AND TURNER TARGET 3RD WORLD FOR POP CONTROL

Monday March 27, 2000 PACKARD AND TURNER TARGET 3RD WORLD FOR POP CONTROL Boy Scouts Paid To Push Abortion NEW YORK, Mar 27 (LSN.ca) – Last Thursday, the foundations of both deceased computer tycoon David Packard and CNN media mogul Ted Turner announced multi-million dollar spending for depopulation among people of colour in the third world. The David and Lucille Packard Foundation announced more than $13 million in new grants “to develop innovative ways to bring voluntary family planning services to young people in the developing world.” The Packard money will go partly to the cleverly named “Family Health International” […]
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Louisiana Abortion Clinic Shut Down for Ignoring “Most Basic” Medical Practices

By Peter J. Smith SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has invoked its authority under a new law to suspend the operations of an abortion facility after an investigation showed that it was endangering women’s lives by giving them substandard care. According to the Shreveport Times, the DHH revoked the operating license of Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, after agents found the abortion facility’s staff failed to provide women a physical examination prior to abortions, or follow necessary protocols for the administration of anesthesia and monitoring their clients’ vital signs. […]
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Princeton Conference Aims at Fair Debate Between Pro-Life and Anti-Life Advocates

By Peter J. Smith PRINCETON, New Jersey, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizers of an unusual conference designed to bring abortion supporters and pro-life advocates together for a productive dialogue say they are hoping for greater pro-life participation in the event. So far only a small proportion of the conference’s registered attendees, which will feature prominent pro-life as well as pro-abortion speakers, identify themselves as pro-life advocates. Organizers of the Princeton University conference say the event is intended to initiate a thought-provoking dialogue that will encourage mutual respect, emphasize points of commonality, and bring about deeper understanding of the issues surrounding abortion. […]
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Catholics’ Constitutional Rights No Safeguard Under Ontario Equity Strategy: CLC

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Assurances that Catholics’ constitutionally-guaranteed denominational rights will be respected under Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s equity and inclusive education strategy are a “distraction” and a “clever tactic” to stave off rebuke from Catholic leaders, says Campaign Life Coalition, which is waging a campaign to have the strategy scrapped. (To find out more, click here) “By its very nature, McGuinty’s plan forces Catholic boards to violate Church teaching and accept the homosexual agenda because it forces all school boards to recognize special rights for homosexuals,” said Suresh Dominic of Campaign Life […]
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Pope Benedict’s Scylla and Charybdis in Britain: the Media and His Own Bishops

Commentary by Hilary White ROME, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – So, hands up everyone who thought the papal visit to Britain, set for September 16, was going to be a smash success; a revelation of the orderliness, devotion and unity of British Catholicism, and of the dedication of the secular media to cool, even-handed objectivity. Anyone? … Bueller? Watching the cringeworthy festival of pre-visit idiocy bursting out of Britain, both secular and ecclesiastical, has been a lesson for many in just how deeply the elite British institution hates and fears the traditional Christian mores and the world’s last unequivocal upholder of […]
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Texas Court Upholds Ban on Gay ‘Marriage’

Friday September 3, 2010 Texas Court Upholds Ban on Gay ‘Marriage’ By Peter J. Smith DALLAS, Texas, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas appeals court has struck down a trial court’s ruling Tuesday that the state’s ban on same-sex “marriage” violated the rights of a homosexual couple seeking a divorce. The court declared that “the natural ability to procreate” constituted the rational basis to restrict marriage to a man and a woman. The Court of Appeals for the 5th District of Texas struck down the previous ruling that said that two homosexual plaintiffs married in Massachusetts, identified as J.B. […]
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Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Saves Brampton Pastor From Euthanasia

Friday September 3, 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Saves Brampton Pastor From Euthanasia By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BRAMPTON, Ontario, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although warning that the danger is not over, Canada’s anti-euthanasia leader has confirmed that an incapacitated pastor who was being deydrated to death at a hospital has now been given food and water. Alex Schadenberg, director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said that Pastor Joshua (Kulendran Mayandy), who has been hospitalized since a heart attack in May and was denied food and water under orders of a Substitute Decision Maker (SDM), was fed orally by a member […]
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UN Conference on Global Health in Melbourne Dubbed “Relatively Wholesome Affair”

Friday September 3, 2010 UN Conference on Global Health in Melbourne Dubbed “Relatively Wholesome Affair” By Hilary White MELBOURNE, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UN conference hosted in Melbourne has received an unusually positive review from a prominent local pro-life advocate, who said the event was atypical for its lack of hostility to the unborn and the traditional family. The United Nations Department of Public Information’s 63rd NGO conference in Melbourne, ponderously titled, “Advance Global Health and Achieve the Millennium Development Goals,” was “a comparatively wholesome affair with little of the undercurrent warfare of other feminist-dominated conferences,” said Babette […]
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More Human Embryo Experimentation Likely under EU Directive: Bishops

Thursday September 2, 2010 More Human Embryo Experimentation Likely under EU Directive: Bishops By Hilary White BRUSSELS, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An EU proposal to restrict the use of animals in medical research has alarmed pro-life observers and the Catholic bishops’ conference for the European Union. The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) has this week voiced its opposition to an article in the EU’s draft directive on animal experimentation that would require the use of “alternative” test subjects that could include living human embryos. A statement from COMECE said that while it welcomes efforts […]
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HLI Denounces Eugenicist Professor’s Call to Sterilize the ‘Unfit’

Friday September 3, 2010 HLI Denounces Eugenicist Professor’s Call to Sterilize the ‘Unfit’ FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula, Interim President of Human Life International (HLI), yesterday denounced comments made recently by British Professor David Marsland in which Marsland called for certain “unfit” members of society to be forcibly sterilized. “Professor Marsland’s comments only go to show that no evil is ever fully buried in the past,” said Monsignor Barreiro. “Every time we think we’ve seen the last of the Sangerian calls to forcibly sterilize and otherwise do away with the disabled, we are aghast […]
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Mexico City Official Investigated for ‘Human Rights’ Violation for Criticizing Miss Universe Pageant

Friday September 3, 2010 Mexico City Official Investigated for ‘Human Rights’ Violation for Criticizing Miss Universe Pageant By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mexico City official is being investigated for “human rights” violations following a statement she made on national radio criticizing the Miss Universe contest. Martha Lucía Micher, chief of Mexico City’s Institute of Women (INMUJERES-DF), told an interviewer with MVS Radio that “really I don’t love [the Miss Universe pageant] and there are many women who don’t love to see how they exhibit us like cows.” Miss Universe contestants […]
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CBC Fails to Mention Discovery Channel Gunman was an Environmental Activist

Friday September 3, 2010 CBC Fails to Mention Discovery Channel Gunman was an Environmental Activist By Patrick B. Craine September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian pro-life leader has lambasted the CBC and its flagship news show The National for what he says was its extreme bias in covering this week’s hostage-taking in Maryland by an environmental extremist. In their Wednesday night coverage of James J. Lee’s enviro-terrorism at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Springs, Maryland, The National failed to mention Lee’s environmental motivations and wrapped up the piece in 45 seconds. “Imagine how differently they’d treat it if […]
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Sex Toys on Display at the World Youth Conference

Friday September 3, 2010 Sex Toys on Display at the World Youth Conference By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. LEON, MEXICO, Sept. 3, 2010 (C-FAM) – Last week at the World Youth Conference, organized primarily by the Mexican government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the main event for most of the estimated 5000 “participants” was the Interactive Global Forum, a massive expo with hundreds of booths and exhibits. A tour of the booths revealed what passes for “age-appropriate” sexual education in some UN circles. Because the venue for the World Youth Conference had considerably more exhibit space than most UN […]
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NY Hospital Apologizes to Nurses Punished for Refusing to Facilitate Abortion

Wednesday May 5, 2010 NY Hospital Apologizes to Nurses Punished for Refusing to Facilitate Abortion Hospital conscience policy still illegal? By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of a New York hospital has reversed punishment against eight nurses who refused to take part in an abortion, and has issued an apology to some of them, reported Newsday on Thursday. However, there remains question as to whether the hospital would have persisted in coercing the nurses, in conflict with New York and federal law, had the patient’s case been accurately deemed an “emergency situation.” “We erred […]
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Virtually all El Salvadorans Oppose Legalization of Abortion: Poll

Wednesday September 1, 2010 Virtually all El Salvadorans Oppose Legalization of Abortion: Poll By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SAN SALVADOR, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ninety-three percent of El Salvadorans are opposed to the legalization of abortion in their country, according to a new poll. To the question: “Do you agree with modifying the Constitution of the Republic, and that abortion be permitted?”, 93% answered that they were not in agreement, and seven percent said they were, according to the El Salvador newspaper. Among the reasons given for their rejection of the idea were: “All of us have […]
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Editorial: Is the Catholic Church in that Time of Purification that Ratzinger Predicted?

Wednesday April 7, 2010 Editorial: Is the Catholic Church in that Time of Purification that Ratzinger Predicted? Editorial By John-Henry Westen April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The near-constant battering of the Catholic Church during the past month over the sexual abuse scandal has most Catholics reeling and much of the media in a feeding frenzy, seeing the scandals as an opportunity to bring down the archenemy of the sexual revolution. This latest cycle of the sexual abuse scandal is different from that which took place in Canada and Boston years ago. It involves new and disastrous revelations daily and from […]
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Pro-Life Hopes for Illinois Parental Notice Law Dashed by Court

Thursday September 2, 2010 Pro-Life Hopes for Illinois Parental Notice Law Dashed by Court By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life attorneys hoping anxiously for a speedy conclusion to the legal battle over the state’s long-delayed Parental Notice of Abortion Act, saw their hopes dashed when the state Supreme Court refused to transfer the case to their immediate jurisdiction. The high court denied a motion by the pro-life legal advocacy group Thomas More Society to bypass the appellate court and hear the case brought against the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995. The act […]
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Video: Pro-Life Group Recalls Eerie Run-In with Discovery Channel Gunman

Thursday September 2, 2010 Video: Pro-Life Group Recalls Eerie Run-In with Discovery Channel Gunman By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The crazed eco-extremist who flung himself into the national spotlight yesterday after taking three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters is no stranger to the pro-life community in the nation’s capital. Newly unearthed footage shows an unsettling 2009 confrontation between pro-lifers and a man who they say they have identified as James J. Lee, 43, who was destined to be gunned down by police a year later, after acting on his extreme dedication to “stopping the […]
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Hospital Acquired by Boston Catholic Network to Offer Sterilization, Abortion Referral

Wednesday September 1, 2010 Hospital Acquired by Boston Catholic Network to Offer Sterilization, Abortion Referral By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholics in New England are raising questions after it was announced that Caritas Christi, a network of Catholic hospitals, would allow a newly-acquired secular hospital in Rhode Island to ignore core Catholic medical practices. The move appears to contradict previous statements by Boston’s cardinal that Caritas Christi would remain Catholic despite being sold by the diocese. Officials from both sides of the agreement confirmed that Landmark Medical Center of Woonsocket, RI, which provides abortion referrals, […]
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Missouri Diocese: Axe All Community Organizing Groups from CCHD

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Missouri Diocese: Axe All Community Organizing Groups from CCHD By Kathleen Gilbert KANSAS CITY, Missouri, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) prepares to receive a report on the controversial funding practices of their anti-poverty arm, one diocese has proposed a plan to cut off the group’s shadier associations. The diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph also suggested in a Monday post on its Catholic Key blog that its plan to reform the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which it has implemented on a local level, could be used as […]
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Italy Refuses Tax Revenue to Fund Mosques

Wednesday September 1, 2010 Italy Refuses Tax Revenue to Fund Mosques By Hilary White ROME, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian government has refused to grant official recognition to Islam in the tax code, citing polygamy that is sanctioned by Muslims and the religion’s failure to uphold women’s rights. The decision has to do with a bill that would allocate and distribute 8 percent of tax revenue to organized religions in the country. COREIS, one of Italy’s largest Muslim groups, responded to the decision saying, “Work should be begun on legally recognising those moderate Muslims who have for years […]
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ACLU Targets 2nd Mississippi School over Lesbian’s Yearbook Photo

Thursday August 19, 2010 ACLU Targets 2nd Mississippi School over Lesbian’s Yearbook Photo By Patrick B. Craine WESSON, Mississippi, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After pressuring a Mississippi school to give into homosexualist demands last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit against another school in the state over their commitment to natural gender norms. The ACLU is supporting Ceara Sturgis, 18, a homosexual student who is suing Copiah County School District after, she claims, her school excluded her from the yearbook due to her decision to pose in a tuxedo for the photo. The school, […]
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Canadian Parents More Lenient than French and Italians: Study

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Canadian Parents More Lenient than French and Italians: Study By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian parents are more lenient than Italians and the French, suggests a new study of parental behaviours in the three countries. According to Gwen Landolt of REAL Women, the study is “worrisome” for Canadians. Without adequate boundaries children easily fall into illicit activities such as drugs and promiscuity, said Landolt. The researchers surveyed 1,256 teens from Montreal, Rennes, and Milan, asking them to describe their parents in terms of emotional bonding, communication, frequency of conflict, rules, […]
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Africa Report: Kenya, Conflicts at Uganda Anglican Conference

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Africa Report: Kenya, Conflicts at Uganda Anglican Conference Commentary by Martyn Drakard NAIROBI, KENYA, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Friday 27th August was a red-letter day for many, though not all Kenyans. In the most impressive show of might and the costliest celebration since Independence Day in December 1963, the new national constitution was promulgated. The event was somewhat blighted, when Sudan’s president, Al-Bashir, one of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) most wanted men for the “genocide” in Darfur, showed up, having snuck in through Nairobi’s second airport, Wilson, at the invitation of some of the […]
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Ontario Equity Strategy Threatens to Embed Religious Discrimination: CLC

Thursday September 2, 2010 Ontario Equity Strategy Threatens to Embed Religious Discrimination: CLC By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of their campaign to scrap Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s equity and inclusive education strategy, Campaign Life Coalition is warning that the strategy threatens to embed a systematic and unjust religious discrimination within school boards’ hiring and advancement policies. Jim Hughes, CLC national president, said that the strategy “clearly makes for discrimination against those who don’t hold to the Ministry’s homosexualist version of ‘equity’, both in terms of advancement in the board and in terms […]
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USAID Pushes Social Marketing of Contraceptives in Philippines

Thursday September 2, 2010 USAID Pushes Social Marketing of Contraceptives in Philippines By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Philippine government is implementing a new marketing scheme developed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to push contraceptives on the largely Catholic population of the country. The “May Plano Ako (I Have Plans)” program was put together by USAID’s Health Promotion and Communication Project Health (PRO) and endorsed by the Department of Health (DoH) and Health Secretary Enrique Ona, according to Dr. Ivanhoe Escartin, head of the Philippine National Center for Health Promotion (NCHP). HealthPRO […]
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No Abortion Referrals at Newly Acquired Hospital Says Caritas after Meeting with Archdiocese

Thursday September 2, 2010 No Abortion Referrals at Newly Acquired Hospital Says Caritas after Meeting with Archdiocese By Kathleen Gilbert BRAINTREE, Massachusetts, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following a meeting with the local archdiocese, a Catholic hospital chain in Boston appears to have reversed its earlier position that a newly-acquired secular hospital would be allowed to continue its practice of providing contraception, sterilizations, and abortion referrals. Terry Donilon, spokesman for the Archdiocesan of Boston, referred LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) to an archdiocesan statement in which Cardinal Seán O’Malley said he was “concerned” about statements appearing in the Providence Journal from both the […]
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40 Days For Life Starting September 22 in Cities across Canada

Thursday September 2, 2010 40 Days For Life Starting September 22 in Cities across Canada By Thaddeus M. Baklinski September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in a record 238 locations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, England, Northern Ireland and Denmark are now preparing for 40 Days for Life campaigns from September 22 to October 31. This year, nine Canadian cities are gearing up to mobilize people of faith and conscience for the seventh coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign. These unified efforts have seen more than 350,000 people joined together in an historic display of unity to pray and fast […]
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Discovery TV Gunman Demands Halt to ‘Parasitic Human Infants,’ Credits Al Gore with ‘Awakening’

Wednesday September 1, 2010 Discovery TV Gunman Demands Halt to ‘Parasitic Human Infants,’ Credits Al Gore with ‘Awakening’ By Kathleen Gilbert Update 17:37 01/10/10 – Reports indicate that police have shot and killed James Lee, and released the hostages. SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chaos erupted after at least one hostage was taken at the Silver Spring headquarters of the Discovery Channel by what appears to be a crazed radical environmentalist. The armed man has reportedly demanded that Discovery Channel executives run programming geared toward stopping the propagation of “parasitic human infants” in order to save the […]
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Maryland Orders Dangerous Abortionist to Stop Practicing Illegally

Wednesday September 1, 2010 Maryland Orders Dangerous Abortionist to Stop Practicing Illegally ELKTON, Md., Aug. 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Troubled abortionist Steven Chase Brigham has been issued a cease and desist order by the Maryland State Board of Physicians. The order demands that he stop the illegal practice of medicine, including abortions, at five locations throughout Maryland because he does not and never has been licensed in that state. The order, dated August 25, 2010, indicates that Brigham has been practicing illegally in Maryland since January, 2010. The document referred to an incident that occurred on August 13, 2010, where […]
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Man Arrested after Threatening to Shoot Pro-lifers at Late-Term Abortion Centre

Wednesday September 1, 2010 Man Arrested after Threatening to Shoot Pro-lifers at Late-Term Abortion Centre ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man was arrested Saturday, August 28, outside a late-term abortion facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after he allegedly threatened to shoot two pro-life women who were offering help to abortion-bound women. According to Operation Rescue (OR), the unidentified man and his wife were escorting their daughter into the abortion clinic when the wife and daughter walked over to the pro-life women to discuss alternatives to abortion. The man became angry and ushered his family members toward the […]
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D.C. Archdiocesan Blog: Let the Man Head the Household

Tuesday August 31, 2010 D.C. Archdiocesan Blog: Let the Man Head the Household By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It’s a concept largely discarded as an antiquated view of gender roles, even in most Christian circles: the notion that a husband leading the home is the best way to keep a family running smoothly. Yet Monsignor Charles Pope, a blogger for the Archdiocese of Washington, pointed out in a post earlier this month that rejecting this model is at the root of “one of the biggest problems today in marriage.” This Bible-based tradition, he says, is […]
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Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally Draws Tens of Thousands

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally Draws Tens of Thousands By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Concerned that religion is slipping from its time honored place at the heart of America, tens of thousands of Americans of all different faiths gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. The massive crowd gathered in response to conservative icon Glenn Beck’s call for a fundamental restoration of traditional American values. For Beck, the August 28 “Restoring Rally” was an ecumenical call that could serve to make the United States great again by bringing it back to […]
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Sterilize the Unfit Says British Professor

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Sterilize the Unfit Says British Professor By Hilary White LONDON, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mentally and morally “unfit” should be sterilized, Professor David Marsland, a sociologist and health expert, said this weekend. The professor made the remarks on the BBC radio program Iconoclasts, which advertises itself as the place to “think the unthinkable.” Pro-life advocates and disability rights campaigners have responded by saying that Marsland’s proposed system is a straightforward throwback to the coercive eugenics practices of the past. Marsland, Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at Brunel University, London and Professorial Research […]
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The Implications of Cardinal Ouellet’s Rome Appointment For Canada

Wednesday June 30, 2010 The Implications of Cardinal Ouellet’s Rome Appointment For Canada Analysis by John-Henry Westen June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of Canada’s few outspokenly pro-life bishops is leaving his position as archbishop of the prominent diocese of Quebec to a new high-level post overseas in the Vatican. However, in his new job as the head of the Vatican dicastry which has a major say in appointing bishops and cardinals, Cardinal Marc Ouellet may have an even greater influence on the Church in Canada and especially his beloved Quebec. That is because nearly half of the bishops in […]
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15,000 Complaints Later, Pro-Abort/Gay Links Remain on Catholic College Site

Tuesday August 31, 2010 15,000 Complaints Later, Pro-Abort/Gay Links Remain on Catholic College Site MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alverno College, a Catholic college in Milwaukee founded by the School Sisters of St. Francis, has continued to host links to several pro-aborton and pro-homosexuality groups on its website, despite over 15,000 students and parents petitioning the school to remove the links. After the conservative group TFP Student Action started its peaceful protest in June, Alverno College removed some of the objectionable links on the “resource” page for the school’s Research Center for Women and Girls. They also posted […]
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Teen Pro-Life Phenomenon ‘Lia’ Defends Rights of the Unborn

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Teen Pro-Life Phenomenon ‘Lia’ Defends Rights of the Unborn By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life prodigy Lia Mills, whose Youtube orations have amassed nearly a million views, has set out to prove the humanity of the unborn in a new video, part of an ongoing campaign to promote the message of life. If the unborn are not human, the 13-year-old Toronto-native explains in her ten-minute address, then abortion is simply a matter of personal preference. But, she says, “if the unborn are human, then they have value and rights.” She […]
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Charitable Status Revoked from New Zealand Homosexual Reorientation Group

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Charitable Status Revoked from New Zealand Homosexual Reorientation Group By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WELLINGTON, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Zealand affiliate of U.S.-based Exodus Global Alliance has had its charity status revoked by the NZ Charities Commission. Exodus is a Christian organization that says it is dedicated to equipping agencies and individuals to communicate the message of “freedom from homosexuality.” The NZ Exodus Ministries Trust Board has had charitable status for more than ten years. However, the status was removed by the government’s Charities Commission in a decision dated August 18, as part of […]
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We’re Back

Monday August 30, 2010 We’re Back By Steve Jalsevac BARRY’S BAY, Ontario, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LSN staff have gradually returned home and to their duties yesterday and today after our successful, first ever, all staff planning event in the beautiful Canadian hamlet of Barry’s Bay, Ontario. Latin American reporter Matthew Hoffman was the last to return after being driven to Toronto’s international airport very early this morning. Five of our US staff arrived home late Sunday night after their 13-hour drive to Virginia. Patrick Craine flew back to Halifax, our US board chairman and his lovely wife returned […]
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Fr. Euteneuer Departs HLI, Will Return to Diocese

Monday August 30, 2010 Fr. Euteneuer Departs HLI, Will Return to Diocese FRONT ROYAL, VA, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After nearly 10 years of service to Human Life International (HLI) as its president, Rev. Thomas J Euteneuer has suddenly and very unexpectedly stepped down from his position after being asked by his bishop to return to his diocese in West Palm Beach, Florida. In a press release announcing Euteneuer’s departure, the board of HLI thanked the priest for his “leadership, hard work and dedication in carrying on the legacy of Fr. Paul Marx.” During his tenure Fr. Euteneuer traveled […]
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Notre Dame Spokesman Refuses to Speak to LifeSiteNews.com

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although previously willing to speak to LifeSiteNews.com, the University of Notre Dame has evidently implemented a policy against such communication in the future. Earlier this week LSN attempted to confirm the termination of Bill Kirk, Associate Vice President for Student Life, with Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown. Brown: I'm sorry, I have no comment to you. LSN: You have no comment to me specifically? Brown: That's right. LSN: Why's that? Brown: I'd rather not get into that, but no comment. LSN: Is this ND policy that you can't speak […]
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Women Convicted of Infanticide Released following Pressure from Mexican Pro-Abort Groups

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GUANAJUATO, Mexico, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Seven women convicted of infanticide have been released by the governor of the state of Guanajuato and a state judge following a massive campaign by pro-abortion groups, who have turned their cases into a cause célèbre in the national media. Governor Juan Manuel Oliva has also announced a legislative initiative to reduce the criminal penalty for infanticide from 25 to 35 years in prison, to three to eight years. The decision to release the women follows weeks of pressure by pro-abortion organizations, members of the socialist […]
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UN Conference on Global Health in Melbourne Dubbed “Relatively Wholesome Affair”

By Hilary White MELBOURNE, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UN conference hosted in Melbourne has received an unusually positive review from a prominent local pro-life advocate, who said the event was atypical for its lack of hostility to the unborn and the traditional family. The United Nations Department of Public Information’s 63rd NGO conference in Melbourne, ponderously titled, “Advance Global Health and Achieve the Millennium Development Goals,” was “a comparatively wholesome affair with little of the undercurrent warfare of other feminist-dominated conferences,” said Babette Francis. Francis, National and Overseas Co-ordinator of the life and family advocacy group Endeavour Forum […]
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Mexico City Official Investigated for ‘Human Rights’ Violation for Criticizing Miss Universe Pageant

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mexico City official is being investigated for “human rights” violations following a statement she made on national radio criticizing the Miss Universe contest. Martha Lucía Micher, chief of Mexico City's Institute of Women (INMUJERES-DF), told an interviewer with MVS Radio that “really I don't love [the Miss Universe pageant] and there are many women who don't love to see how they exhibit us like cows.” Miss Universe contestants exhibit their bodies to judges while dressed in extremely small string bikinis during the competition.  The swimsuit […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: D.C. Archdiocesan Blog: Let the Man Head the HouseholdI wanted to reply to the article about the Archdiocese of DC commenting on the need for the husband to be head of the family.  I am an orthodox, “John Paul II” Catholic.  I agree society is on the wrong path regarding the family and we need to get back to faith and mutual respect.  But this advice will just head us in the wrong direction.  St. Paul advised mutual submission in Christ.  Human nature being what it is, advising the husband to be the head *will* result in abusive behavior, […]
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“Miracle” as Baby Begins Breathing after Two Hours

Monday August 30, 2010 “Miracle” as Baby Begins Breathing after Two Hours By Hilary White SYDNEY, Australia, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors were baffled in April when a premature baby boy whom they had pronounced dead appeared to come back to life after two hours of being held by his mother. Staff had given child, Jamie, a twin, to his mother to hold and to “say goodbye” after the 27-week gestation boy had been pronounced dead. The attending doctor had spent 20 minutes after the birth trying to get the boy to breathe. Kate Ogg, of Sydney, Australia, held […]
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No Abortion Referrals at Newly Acquired Hospital Says Caritas after Meeting with Archdiocese

By Kathleen Gilbert BRAINTREE, Massachusetts, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following a meeting with the local archdiocese, a Catholic hospital chain in Boston appears to have reversed its earlier position that a newly-acquired secular hospital would be allowed to continue its practice of providing contraception, sterilizations, and abortion referrals. Terry Donilon, spokesman for the Archdiocesan of Boston, referred LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) to an archdiocesan statement in which Cardinal Seán O'Malley said he was “concerned” about statements appearing in the Providence Journal from both the Catholic hospital chain, Caritas Christi, and its prospective new hospital, Landmark Medical Center, indicating that the latter would […]
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Obama Justice Dept Seeks Stay of Order Nixing NIH Embryonic Stem Cell Funding

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Justice Department is requesting a federal judge stay his order stopping the National Institute of Health’s embryo-destroying stem-cell research pending an appeal, saying that cutting off the money to scientists would harm their research efforts.   Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled last week that embryonic stem cell research projects funded by the NIH violate the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal dollars from going to research that destroys human embryos.   Congress attempted to pass a bill permitting […]
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Cardinal Danneels Urged Sex Abuse Victim to Silence: Secret Recordings

Monday August 30, 2010 Cardinal Danneels Urged Sex Abuse Victim to Silence: Secret Recordings By Hilary White BRUSSELS, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recordings have revealed Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels urging a victim not to reveal 13 years of sexual abuse at the hands of the cardinal’s friend and colleague Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, the recently retired bishop of Bruges. “The bishop will resign next year, so actually it would be better for you to wait,” the cardinal is heard saying. Danneels warned the victim against trying to blackmail the church and suggested that he accept a private apology from the […]
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Anglican School Denies Enrollment to Child in Care of Lesbians

Tuesday August 24, 2010 Anglican School Denies Enrollment to Child in Care of Lesbians By James Tillman BEDFORD, Texas, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Vincent’s Episcopal School in Texas has decided not to permit a child raised by two lesbians to enroll for the 2010-2011 school year. “We regret the disappointment the mother feels,” the school said in a statement. “It is clear, however, that enrolling the child in a traditional Christian school, such as St. Vincent’s School, would not foster her own personal values at home.” “And it might undermine the moral instruction of our clergy and teachers […]
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NewsBytes for Aug. 24 – Militant Islam Today

Tuesday August 24, 2010 NewsBytes for Aug. 24 – Militant Islam Today Compiled by Steve Jalsevac See introductory article Militant Islam Versus the West * 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. Video – Three Things You Should Know About Islam –NewBusters https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2010/08/12/open-thread-three-things-you-should-know-about-islam Women and Children Die First By Jeannie DeAngelis – American Thinker In the past few months, the world has witnessed how cultures rooted in brutal, millennia-old practices treat vulnerable women and, more tragically, innocent children. Terrorist-based […]
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Man Arrested after Threatening to Shoot Pro-lifers at Late-Term Abortion Centre

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man was arrested Saturday, August 28, outside a late-term abortion facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after he allegedly threatened to shoot two pro-life women who were offering help to abortion-bound women. According to Operation Rescue (OR), the unidentified man and his wife were escorting their daughter into the abortion clinic when the wife and daughter walked over to the pro-life women to discuss alternatives to abortion. The man became angry and ushered his family members toward the building.   “When we come out, I'm going to put a bullet in your head […]
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Hospital Acquired by Boston Catholic Network to Offer Sterilization, Abortion Referral

By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholics in New England are raising questions after it was announced that Caritas Christi, a network of Catholic hospitals, would allow a newly-acquired secular hospital in Rhode Island to ignore core Catholic medical practices. The move appears to contradict previous statements by Boston’s cardinal that Caritas Christi would remain Catholic despite being sold by the diocese. Officials from both sides of the agreement confirmed that Landmark Medical Center of Woonsocket, RI, which provides abortion referrals, contraception, and sterilizations, would not be required to alter its medical practices, the Providence Journal […]
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Discovery TV Gunman Demands Halt to ‘Parasitic Human Infants,’ Credits Al Gore with ‘Awakening’

By Kathleen Gilbert Update 17:37 01/10/10 – Reports indicate that police have shot and killed James Lee, and released the hostages. SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chaos erupted after at least one hostage was taken at the Silver Spring headquarters of the Discovery Channel by what appears to be a crazed radical environmentalist. The armed man has reportedly demanded that Discovery Channel executives run programming geared toward stopping the propagation of “parasitic human infants” in order to save the planet from global warming and pollution. In a document apparently authored by James J. Lee, identified by law enforcement […]
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Pro-Lifers Urged to Show Up En Masse for Linda Gibbons Hearing

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders are calling on concerned individuals to show up en masse at a hearing in the ongoing trial of Canadian pro-life “prisoner of conscience” Linda Gibbons this Thursday. “It’s important that as many people as possible go to show their support, not only to Linda, but to the judge,” wrote Alissa Golob, head of Campaign Life Coalition Youth, on behalf of CLC national president Jim Hughes.  “If Linda wins this case, the temporary injunction on Toronto abortion clinics could be lifted.” The “temporary” injunction, imposed in 1994, created […]
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Italian Society being “Seriously Mutilated” by Negative Fertility Rates: Italian Cardinal

By Hilary White ROME, Sept. 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference said this week that Italian society is being “seriously mutilated” by its negative growth birth rate. Angelo Bagnasco, cardinal archbishop of Genoa, said at a Mass in Liguria this weekend that Italy, and Italian democracy, is facing a “serious cultural catastrophe” from its low birth rate. The Italian birth rate has climbed slightly from an all-time low of 1.23 in 2004 –  which made Italy the second most infertile country in the industrialized world – to 1.32 this year. It is estimated that […]
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Tony Blair’s Memoirs Reveal Dishonesty Was Dark Heart of His Anti-Life/Anti-Family Rule

Commentary By John Smeaton, LONDON, England, Sept. 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tony Blair's memoirs, entitled A Journey, have been published today and we have a copy at SPUC HQ. Here are some key points from it: “Politicians are obliged from time to time to conceal the full truth, to bend it and even distort it.” On Hans Kung, the theologian and notorious dissenter from Catholic teaching on abortion, euthanasia, contraception and much else: “My Oxford friend, Pete Thomson, always sung the praises, rightly, of the inestimable Hans Kung … a distinguished scholar and author [of] great works.” repeated references to his support for the […]
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Pro-Life Students to Vie for Cash Prizes in Fr. Ted Scholarship Essay Contest

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the past nine years The Interim newspaper and Niagara Region Right to Life have been co-sponsoring the Father Ted Colleton Scholarship program. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage young people to learn about pro-life issues, the pro-life movement, and to become actively involved in its programs. The 2010-2011 contest is open to Grade 11 and 12 high school students not only in Canada, but also to any English-language student around the world, with prizes of $1500, $800 and $500. Contestants must submit a typed original essay on […]
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