B.C. Gay Couple Seeks Mandatory Homosexual School Curriculum Without Parental Opt-Out

B.C. Gay Couple Seeks Mandatory Homosexual School Curriculum Without Parental Opt-Out by LifeSiteNews.com VANCOUVER, B.C. July 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal is preparing to hear what pro-family and religious groups are calling a truly frightening case. Murray and Peter Corren, a B.C. gay couple, filed a complaint against the B.C. Ministry of education in 1999 alleging that the Ministry’s curriculum didn’t adequately “address issues of sexual orientation.” That case is slated to be heard beginning today. “Basically, there is systemic discrimination through omission and suppression of queer issues in the whole of the curriculum,” alleges […]
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Warning to pro-lifers on Halloween: think twice before giving money to UNICEF trick-or-treaters

Trick-or-treaters across the country tonight will be bearing familiar orange collection boxes on behalf of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), prompting some pro-lifers to wonder whether they should donate to the controversial organization. As an arm of the United Nations, UNICEF presents itself as an organization dedicated to promoting the well-being of children, but has been criticized for pushing for liberalization of abortion laws across the world, and supporting population control. The organization lobbied New Zealand Parliamentarians to oppose a law that would require parental consent for minor abortions in 2004. News also broke that year that evidence of […]
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Why carry a dying child?

The alternative to accepting death is to try to control it by giving ourselves the authority to take life before life will make too many demands on us. Hence we have abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.
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Welcome, baby 7 billion

A few seconds after midnight a baby emerged from the womb of her mother, drew her first breath, and announced her arrival into the world with a tiny cry. This is Baby Seven Billion.
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Meet Rick Santorum’s precious daughter Bella, ‘the center of our universe’

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s daughter Bella was born with Trisomy 18. Trisomy is similar to Down syndrome in that the former has three of the 18th chromosome and the latter has three of the 21st chromosome. Many children with Trisomy 18 die within hours or days after birth. Many children with Trisomy 18 are aborted. But Bella is now three years old and “the center of the universe for our family,” says Santorum in a touching new video about her. Get out the kleenex… Rick and Karen Santorum have seven surviving children. They lost son Gabriel in 1996, who was […]
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Book Teaser: ‘Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture’ by Michael O’Brien

Book Teaser: ‘Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture’ by Michael O’Brien by LifeSiteNews.com Reviewed by John-Henry Westen June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Master story-teller and artist Michael O’Brien – the man to whom CNN went when they needed comment on Harry Potter – has penned the definitive work assessing the Potter phenomenon. This book is essential reading for all parents whose children have read or are considering reading the wildly popular offerings by J.K. Rowling and similar works such as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Although an analytical work, the reader will be captivated from the must-read preface. O’Brien’s earlier […]
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Vatican’s Chief Exorcist Repeats Condemnation of Harry Potter Novels

Vatican’s Chief Exorcist Repeats Condemnation of Harry Potter Novels by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen ROME, March 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s chief exorcist, Rev. Gabriele Amorth, is reported to have repeated his condemnations of the Harry Potter novels yesterday. According to press reports, Fr. Amorth, said of the books, “You start off with Harry Potter, who comes across as a likeable wizard, but you end up with the Devil. There is no doubt that the signature of the Prince of Darkness is clearly within these books.” “By reading Harry Potter a young child will be drawn into magic and […]
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ROME’S CHIEF EXCORCIST WARNS PARENTS AGAINST HARRY POTTER

ROME’S CHIEF EXCORCIST WARNS PARENTS AGAINST HARRY POTTER by LifeSiteNews.com North American Coverage Downplays Priest’s Warnings NEW YORK, January 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In early December, Rome’s official exorcist, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, warned parents against the Harry Potter book series. The priest, who is also the president of the International Association of Exorcists, said Satan is behind the works. In an interview with the Italian ANSA news agency, Rev. Amorth said “Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil.” The exorcist, with his decades of experience in directly combating evil, explained that J.K. Rowling’s […]
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Breast Cancer Link with Abortion and Hormonal Contraceptives Featured in You Tube Videos

Breast Cancer Link with Abortion and Hormonal Contraceptives Featured in You Tube Videos by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski October 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two videos confronting the disinformation about the link between the skyrocketing incidence of breast cancer, and abortion and hormonal contraceptive use have been posted to You Tube. The first video, produced by Ignatius Productions, features a victim of breast cancer, who states that abortion and hormonal contraceptive use at a young age destroyed her health. She says she is fighting desperately to beat the disease so she can raise her children. (see the video here) The […]
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What the FOX? Personhood headline on Fox News chants ‘clump of cells’ mantra

You wouldn’t know FOX was supposed to be a conservative news service from their awful headline on Wednesday: “Push to Declare a Human Egg a ‘Person’ Offers New Tack on Abortion Debate.” Apparently enough people were outraged at this appalling misnomer that FOX budged, but only slightly. The updated story now calls newly-conceived human life a “fertilized egg.” As a relatively mature zygote myself, I object to calling my neighbors, much tinier and more dependent at the moment than FOX News headline writers, such a dehumanizing slur. But the reason for it is no big secret. Respecting life regardless of […]
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African Nobel Prize Winner says HIV Created in Lab for Biological Warfare

African Nobel Prize Winner says HIV Created in Lab for Biological Warfare by LifeSiteNews.com NAIROBI, October 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan ecologist and the first African woman to win a Nobel prize, said Saturday that HIV was created deliberately in the laboratory as a biological weapon. “Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that,” she said at a press conference following the announcement of her receipt of the […]
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International Planned Parenthood UN Petition Drive Targets Youth, Demands Broad “Sexual Rights”

International Planned Parenthood UN Petition Drive Targets Youth, Demands Broad “Sexual Rights” by LifeSiteNews.com By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, May 7, 2009 (C-FAM) – The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) recently launched a new petition campaign that aims to pressure governments to “promote, protect and fulfill their promise to provide better access to sexual and reproductive health services” for all young people “regardless of age.” The petition was launched in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The petition promotes the message “Count Me In: Sexual Rights For All.” “Sexual rights,” however, […]
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Amazing photo: child with Down syndrome declares ‘I am the 10%’ who survived Roe v. Wade

Joshua Mercer over at CatholicVote.org just posted this amazing photo of a Down syndrome child holding a sign declaring: “I am the 10%”. The slogan is in reference to the Occupy Wall St. movement, which has supporters declaring that they are the 99% of Americans who are not the super-wealthy. However, in this case, the child holding the sign is saying that he is part of the 10% of Down syndrome children who have managed to survive the abortionist’s scalpel, after Roe. v. Wade. Because, sadly, the abortion rate for Down syndrome children in most Western countries is above 90%. […]
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Triumph of the state over the family: Brazilian Congress reinforces ban on homeschooling

The Education and Culture Committee of the Chamber of Representatives in Brazil has unanimously rejected, October 19, a bill that would have authorized, under state supervision, parents to homeschool their children. The homeschool bill had been introduced in 2008 by Evangelical representative Henrique Afonso and Catholic Representative Miguel Martini. In their rejection, the committee expressed its view that homeschooling “disrespects the Constitution, the Penal Code, the National Education Guidelines and Basic Law and the Child and Adolescent Statute.” However, home education was not, in the past, a strange experience in Brazil. The constitutions of Brazil had protection and respect for […]
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Federal Bill Puts Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the Crosshairs

Federal Bill Puts Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the Crosshairs by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life pregnancy centers, which focus on providing free resources and information to women in crisis pregnancies to allow them to keep their babies, are facing a new attack from pro-abortion groups, and this time through Congress. U.S. Rep. Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Menendez (D-NJ) are sponsoring a bill that would demand the Federal Trade Commission to develop advertising rules that would restrict the ability of pro-life pregnancy centers to reach out to women with crisis pregnancies. Maloney’s “Stop […]
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How to Fight the Gay Agenda: Pro-Family Group Organizes Three-Day Conference

How to Fight the Gay Agenda: Pro-Family Group Organizes Three-Day Conference by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-family organization Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) has scheduled a three-day conference on fighting the homosexual political agenda in the United States. The Americans for Truth Academy will be “probably one of the most comprehensive pro-family conferences on homosexuality ever to occur in the United States,” according to Peter LaBarbera, the organization’s founder and president. LaBarbera told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that he decided to organize the conference to counteract the large number of similar events held by […]
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Breaking: Sebelius administration destroyed key evidence in Kansas Planned Parenthood case

The Planned Parenthood abortion clinic of Overland Park, KS, is currently on trial for 107 counts of falsifying abortion records and committing illegal late-term abortions, 23 of which are felonies. The charges were brought by former Attorney General Phill Kline in October 2007 following an investigation he launched in 2003. Today came the bombshell news that the administration of former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, now the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, destroyed critical evidence in 2005. The evidence was needed to compare records Kline acquired with records Planned Parenthood later submitted. From the Kansas City Star: […]
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Jon Scharfenberger was a real man of conviction

Jon’s sister, Kim, posted the following funeral arrangements on her FB page tonight: “Thank you for all the prayers and condolences. We are going to need them through this time. For any who are interested, Jon’s wake and funeral will be held in our hometown, Warwick NY. The wake is on Friday the 21st at 2-4 PM and 7-9 PM at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home. The funeral is on Saturday the 22nd at 10:30 AM at the parish of St. Stephen the First Martyr.” We are still taking a collection for Jon’s funeral expenses. The cost associated with […]
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Tony and Cherie Blair Attack Pope on Homosexuality and Condoms

Tony and Cherie Blair Attack Pope on Homosexuality and Condoms by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In separate media venues this week, former British Prime Minister and his wife have attacked Pope Benedict XIV and the Catholic teaching on homosexuality and the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. In an interview with Attitude, a homosexual magazine, Tony Blair said that Pope Benedict’s objection to homosexual behaviour is a “generational” issue and that any change in Catholic teaching on the matter is resisted by Church leaders because of “fear” among religious leaders of changing […]
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Survey: Should you have the right to die?

The DR. OZ Show, as part of its plans for an upcoming episode on assisted suicide, has sported a snazzy survey on the show’s website titled “Should you have the right to die?.” The survey puts forward sly socratic-like questions that inevitably lead the participant to affirm that one has the “right to die,” that one’s family should support one’s “right to die,” and that doctors should “assist” in helping patients end their lives. Can there be any other reasonable response than to agree with culture-of-death advocates and their argument for one’s “right to die?” Yes, but only if one […]
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Phill Kline is a pro-life hero, but will Planned Parenthood successfully destroy him?

We hear about corrupt politics, kangaroo courts, crime cover-ups, and the silencing of Silkwood-type whistleblowers. In these days of the Internet, new media, and instant exposure, one might think such underhanded tactics would almost be too hard to pull off, particularly on a large scale. But in Kansas the last vestiges of the corrupt pro-abortion political, legal, and journalistic systems are brazenly at work trying to destroy pro-lifer Phill Kline, in order to protect the abortion industry. Phill Kline is trailblazer, the first prosecutor in the country to charge Planned Parenthood with criminal wrong-doing and to obtain highly incriminating (and […]
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Students for Life staffer develops extremely high fever – prayers needed urgently!

Note: See latest updates below. Our other staff member injured in the accident that claimed Kortney and her baby, Sophy, is Jon Scharfenberger. I’ve been in constant contact throughout the day with our SFLA staff getting updates. It’s bad, and at 3 AM it turned really bad. It’s gotten worse throughout the day. At this point, we need a miracle for Jon to make it to tomorrow. If it’s God’s will, may Jon stay and grow old with us. Please pray for this beautiful young man, and for his family who are beside themselves with grief and the hard work […]
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Commentary on October 14 News

See Jill Stanek’s blog post and Kathleen Gilbert’s report on what was essentially a kangaroo court ruling against heroic former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. We had extensively reported on this disciplinary hearing because of its importance. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal gave quite a different speech at the Value Voters Summit. This man understands the overwhelming significance of US cultural decline and the importance of family life. There is also some excellent video footage of parts of his talk. Also check out our brief video of Herman Cain’s speech that repeatedly got the crowd on its feet. Ron Paul also […]
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Travesty: Panel recommends suspension of Phill Kline’s law license

Read backstory here and here. This is a travesty. Even as an associate of abortionist George Tiller faces disciplinary action for violating Kansas law, and even as Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri stands accused of 107 criminal charges, both of these the end result of an investigation launched by former Attorney General Phill Kline, the Kansas City Star reported tonight: A Kansas disciplinary panel today recommended that… Kline be indefinitely suspended from practicing law because of ethics misconduct in his hot pursuit of abortion clinics. The recommendation goes to the Kansas Supreme Court, which will make the final decision. […]
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Where is Development and Peace really headed?

We the members of the quartet behind the blog (soutenonsdetp.wordpress.com), read the September 26, 2011 joint communiqué of the CCCB’s Standing Committee and the Development and Peace Liaison Committee.  It expressed a great deal of enthusiasm about the climate of the meeting and look forward to more frequent exchanges.  Unfortunately, we do not share this enthusiasm. Like so many others, the communiqué says nothing clear on the “nihil obstat” issue, in effect a veto right hidden in a declaration of “the importance of including Southern diocesan bishops in the dialogue, discussions and relationships that are an integral part of the […]
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D&P e-mail to staff

Greetings to you, At the time of the October Plenary Assembly, we sent a letter concerning the CCCB’s decisions with respect to Development and Peace to Bishop Pierre Morissette, current President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Despite the positive nature of aspects of the CCCB Standing Committee and Development and Peace National Council decisions, more recent developments in the situation brings even greater urgency to our communication with the CCCB and Development and Peace’s National Council.  With this in mind, we have appended two documents to this letter, the first discussing historic tensions between the CCCB and Development […]
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A revealing time at the Value Voters Summit: National Post slam piece on Summit

A team of 5 LifeSiteNews staff covered this past weekend’s Value Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. The event, run largely by the Family Research Council and co-sponsored by several other conservative organizations, is a major annual Washington political event.  It was a great experience. I scanned a fair number of news reports about the Summit, but for me by far the worst mainstream coverage was today’s unbelievable National Post front page slam piece by Allen Able.  Able seems to have been disgusted by the few people who expressed that they had problems with Romney’s Mormon faith and disgusted with just […]
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Law student: Participating in 40 Days, witnessing baby saved was ‘most amazing experience’

Last week we received an e-mail from one of our readers, who shared with us her story about participating in her local 40 Days for Life campaign. I thought it was extremely inspiring, and asked her if we could share her story with our readers. This is Lola’s story: I am a law student who heard about a prayer vigil for life going on at a Planned Parenthood in Smithtown, NY. I woke up two of my siblings early this Saturday morning and we joined the group of mostly elderly people who walked to the clinic from the local church […]
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An abyss of love: remembering pro-life activist Kortney Blythe Gordon

In the Jon Voight movie, Pope John Paul II, the young Karol Wojtyla announces to his friends in Nazi-occupied Poland that he has decided to become a priest. The friends of the young future pope respond with incredulity, demanding to know why. Karol replies: When faced with this abyss of evil, I can only respond with an abyss of love. And so it was with Student’s for Life of America’s National Field Director, Kortney Blythe Gordon, whose life has been that of a first order pro-life abolitionist. A few weeks ago, Kortney shared with me all of her expertise in […]
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Georgia Voters Support Personhood Amendment in Non-Binding Poll

Georgia Voters Support Personhood Amendment in Non-Binding Poll by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman ATLANTA, Georgia, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a non-binding poll this Monday, Georgia voters supported an amendment to the state Constitution declaring the right to life to be “vested in each human being from their earliest biological beginning until natural death.” “I believe that we’re the first state in the nation where voters have approved a Personhood Amendment – or at least, [where] they have indicated that [approval] through a non-binding straw poll,” Daniel Becker, President of Georgia Right to Life, told LifeSiteNews.com. The non-binding poll […]
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Drinking the kool-aid

I’m ugly. Well… at least that’s what the pro-abortion movement in Toronto has to say about me. I’m pro-life because I’m just angry that no man wants to sleep with me. I’m not joking when I say that was actually an argument used against me on the De-Fund Abortion Rally Facebook event page, since the event was posted a month ago. I didn’t anticipate the event wall being a cyber- magnet for pro-abortion rhetoric, but boy was I wrong. Since the event was posted mid-September, CLC Youth have been told to stop breathing, walk off a bridge, and my personal […]
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LifeSite Newsbytes for Thursday, October 6, 2011

Priests for Life Canada radio interview with Jim Hughes of Campaign Life Coalition.  Baby delivered from woman murdered in church ‘Satanist’ television star shocks Poland’s conservatives Austria: Catholics Denounce Dissenting “Priests’ Initiative” Divorced Argentine woman wins embryo custody Nitschke wins right to use euthanasia drug US News roundup Cuomo Administration has decided that it will not use Medicaid funds to pay for “sex reassignment” operations Coed Dorm Rooms Start At Ohio University Obama advocates big America in speech to gay activists Gardasil controversy soars: Drug blasted as ‘money-making machine’ that’s useless in fighting cervical cancer Lady Gaga questions Obama about […]
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Sarah Palin’s announcement not to run for Republican 2012 Presidential nomination

October 5, 2011 Wasilla, Alaska After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order. My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in […]
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Sarah Palin not running for President

“After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States,” Palin said in a statement.
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The pro-abortion legacy of Justice O’Connor: 30 years after joining the court, the damage continues

30 years ago last week Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the US Supreme Court. During the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan made a promise to nominate the first woman to high court. He got that chance shortly after taking office when Justice Potter Stewart left the bench. A review of O’Connor’s career reveals why the judicial nominee process has become so heated and why new laws had to pass what I call ‘the O’Connor test.’ Justice O’Connor was a former state legislator and judge from Arizona. During her interview with Reagan, she told […]
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National abortion chain goes bust

This apparently happened awhile ago, but we’re just now taking note. Last night a 40 Days for Life volunteer noticed that the National Women’s Health Organization, which owned a chain of four abortion clinics – including the last standing abortion mill in Mississippi – had “suspended operations.” This great news would be huge if it were true that its four clinics had also closed, particularly the Mississippi mill, which would make the Magnolia State the first in the nation to be abortion-clinic free. But three, including the Jackson clinic, are apparently still open and operating independently. The Raleigh clinic was […]
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Why defending Planned Parenthood is so hard: a very brief primer

Robin Marty of RH Reality Check launched quite the zinger in response to Jim Sedlak saying Planned Parenthood is “after [childrens’] souls” by promoting uninhibited sex: “I heard they eat the hearts of young kittens, too.” Yeah, seriously. And I heard abortion providers chop up little kids in their mothers’ wombs and then joke about finding pieces of baby in the sink. Oh, wait.  
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It’s just after midnight…

It’s just after midnight, Tuesday night (Wednesday morning really) and I’m sitting at my computer as our newborn son is being settled for the night, well at least the first few hours of it.  My wife Dianne and I learned early in this pregnancy that our son Zachary tested “positive” for Down syndrome (In Canada when the prenatal screening comes back with a chance of Downs greater than one in 200, it is considered a “positive” finding.) As I ponder this new life before me I’m struck with the beauty of life, and with its fragility. I’m so grateful for […]
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African Doctor Says USAID Finally Allowing Funds to be Used for Food, Health Care and Abstinence

African Doctor Says USAID Finally Allowing Funds to be Used for Food, Health Care and Abstinence by LifeSiteNews.com TORONTO, October 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In recent months there has been a “dramatic” change in policy in Africa by many western aid agencies that are for the first time in decades allowing Africans to decide to use aid funds for nutrition, basic health care and abstinence programs instead of the usual population control. Kenyan pediatrician Dr. Margaret Ogola related this development to LifeSiteNews.com in an October 19 interview in Toronto where Ogola had come to speak and meet old friends. Dr. […]
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Commentary on October 4 news

With one day to go in our Fall Campaign we are now almost 1/2 way to our necessary goal. Thank you to the large number of people who have donated since yesterday’s letter was published! Please keep it coming. The Julia Holcomb video interview has really taken off. Many people have watched Part 1 of the video but haven’t yet gotten around to the even more revealing Part II and inspiring Part III. Don’t miss them. Then you too will go “Wow!” as one reader did. Michael O’Brien’s talk at the LifeSiteNews annual staff meeting was about as deep and […]
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A battle to the death against moral relativism – Michael O’Brien

Barry’s Bay, Ontario, October 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During the Aug. 19-20 annual LifeSiteNews staff meeting in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, on the campus of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy, Catholic novelist and artist Michael O’Brien presented a talk with a strong spiritual emphasis related to the work of LifeSiteNews. The talk placed our work in a profound perspective, one closer to the truth than our day-to-day perceptions grasp. LSN journalists and other staff were most grateful to Michael for his comments which left us with much food for thought. Following are most of Michael O’Brien’s comments that began after […]
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Commentary on October 3 news

If you have not yet had the time to watch the video of Julia Holcomb telling her dramatic story, I strongly urge you to do so. As one reader said after viewing the three parts – “Wow!” This wife, mother and gifted artist is very special to have come from the difficult background that she did to the wonderful family life she now experiences. Her courage and conviction to go public with her personal story so many years afterwards – for the sake of helping other women to avoid abortion – is exceptional. Many thanks to all the readers who […]
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Saturday news commentary

A special treat for you today is Hilary White’s, “How a fire was lit within me”, her unique personal story about how she became involved in pro-life work and LifeSiteNews. Enjoy. The report about the Kerala, India government proposed law to severely penalize parents who have more than 2 children is especially alarming to us. In the brief video about our Mexico talks a few weeks ago I tell only part of the story of our involvement in that issue. When John-Henry and I went to India a few years ago we noticed the dangerous well below replacement and still […]
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