Articles for Month: November 2011

At Least 31 Babies Saved During Students’ Day of Silence by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac Updated: 10/20/2010 14:36 October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – By all accounts Tuesday’s Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, which saw students from around the world refusing to speak in commemoration of those unborn children who die through abortion, was a smash success. For Bryan Kemper, the founder of the massive annual pro-life event, it isn’t just about the tens of thousands of students who braved the taunts of their peers, or even the disapproval of school officials, to stand up for the unborn. More than anything, […]

EU Threatens to Withdraw Aid to Nicaragua if Pro-Life Law Remains by LifeSiteNews.com By Meg Jalsevac MANAGUA, February 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Representatives from the European Union are increasing pressure on the government of Nicaragua to reverse its recent law which unilaterally forbids abortion under any circumstances. According to a report from the Catholic News Agency, the EU representation has threatened to withdraw economic assistance to the country if the abortion law is not reversed. Nicaragua’s new abortion law was unanimously voted in by the Nicaraguan Legislature in October, 2006 and signed into law by then President Enrique Bolanos the […]

Film Review: Volition – A Film that Demands a Radical Choice by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac (To watch Volition, go to: https://www.thedoorpost.com/hope/film/?film=420351f1aefa2b42b1772fe9d5cc044a) November 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tim and Matthew Morgan have somehow produced a first-class short film that masterfully deals with the taboo issue of abortion despite working with a budget that would pay for approximately thirty seconds of a Hollywood blockbuster. “Volition,” first created for a short film competition, is as yet unknown, but will soon, I predict, become very well known indeed, as it very well should. Volition is an astonishing achievement. The film itself is not […]

New UN Head Says Homosexuality “Totally Unacceptable” by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White NEW YORK, September 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview prior to his first address, the UN General Assembly’s new president said that homosexuality is “not really acceptable.” Ali Abdussalam Treki, a veteran diplomat from Libya, was responding to a journalist’s question about his position on the UN’s “Declaration for the Universal Decriminalisation of Homosexuality” at a press conference prior to the opening of the 64th session of the General Assembly. “It is a very thorny argument,” he said. “As a Muslim, I do not agree with it. […]

Myspace.com “a haven for online sexual predators”: House Representative by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Social networking sites such as MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible to minors from libraries and schools receiving federal funding. By a vote of 410 to 15, the US House of Representatives passed yesterday H.R. 5319 “Deleting Online Predators Act” (DOPA), which amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require schools and libraries receiving federal money to protect minors from commercial social networking websites. “Social networking sites such as MySpace and chat rooms have allowed sexual predators to sneak […]

Interview: Defenders of the Eucharist are Defenders of Life says Vatican Cardinal by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White and John Jalsevac ROME, July 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For Catholics, between the Eucharist and the defense of human life there is an unbreakable connection, said the head of the Vatican’s liturgical office in an interview last week. Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments, spoke to LifeSiteNews.com on Thursday, saying that from the viewpoint of the Catholic Church there is “no doubt” about the inherent connection between Catholics’ faithfulness to the Church’s liturgical norms and […]

One U.K. Catholic School Stands against HPV Vaccination by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White MANCHESTER, UK, September 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A solitary Catholic school in Britain has refused to go along with the government’s plans to vaccinate 12 year-old girls against a sexually transmitted disease. Governors at St. Monica’s High School in Prestwich, Greater Manchester believe the school is “not the right place” to administer the drug. “Therefore, governors have taken the decision not to allow the school premises to be used for this programme.” The government plans to distribute the drug Cervarix to all school girls in Britain, aged […]

Sheila Rauch Kennedy not informed of 1995 Vatican decision until May 2007

European Court of Human Rights Bans Crucifixes in Italian Schools by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski STRASBOURG/ROME, November 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that displaying crucifixes in Italian classrooms violates parents’ rights to secular education for their children. The Strasbourg court found that, “The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises used by the public authorities … restricted the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions.” “The presence of the crucifix … could easily be interpreted by pupils of all ages as a religious […]

Exclusive: Prominent Rabbi Says Lieberman was Excommunicated and it is Still in Effect by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, August 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eight years ago when Al Gore selected then-Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman as his Vice Presidential running mate, an Orthodox Jewish Rabbinical court formally excommunicated Lieberman over his stands on partial birth abortion and homosexuality. The excommunication is said to stand to this day. Rabbi Yehuda Levin spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, organizations representing over 1000 Orthodox Rabbis, told LifeSiteNews.com today that the […]

Commentary: World’s Elite Make Population Control #1 Priority against Backdrop of Underpopulation Th by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, May 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Even though recent demographic study has revealed a great looming threat of demographic winter, the richest of the rich seem to believe that overpopulation is the top priority for their philanthropic endeavors. John Harlow writes today in The Times about a secret meeting of the global financial elite, convened by Microsoft mogul Bill Gates, at which attendees agreed that curbing the world’s population should be their top priority. In “Billionaire club in bid to […]