Articles for Month: September 2010

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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