Articles for Month: January 2012

Poll: Majority of Americans Wants U.S. Supreme Court to Reject Same-Sex “Marriage” by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., February 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion shows that a majority of Americans believe the US Supreme Court would defend marriage as between a man and a woman against opponents of California’s Proposition 8, with an even greater majority expressing approval of such a ruling. Both sides of the marriage debate expect that the federal trial of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex “marriage,” will reach the US Supreme Court. Perry v. Schwarzenegger currently […]

Permissive Abortion Laws May Be Hazardous To Mothers’ Health, Per New Report by LifeSiteNews.com By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, December 11, 2009 (C-FAM) – A new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows that countries with restrictive abortion laws are often the leaders in reducing maternal mortality, and those with permissive laws often lag. According to the report, the pro-life nation of Ireland has topped the global rankings once again with the best maternal health performance. Abortion advocates have attempted to push an international “right to abortion,” claiming that restrictive laws force women to seek unsafe abortion, which in […]

Mother Rejected Advice to Terminate Pregnancy Given by Priest at Centre of ‘Early Induction’ Scandal by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, March 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – About six months ago an urgent case came to the attention of pro-life leaders in Canada, involving a pregnant Catholic woman whose unborn baby was diagnosed with serious health problems and who was seeking help. She said she was receiving conflicting advice from Catholic authorities on whether or not she should go for an early induction, which would have caused the death of her child. Gillian DeSouza told LifeSiteNews.com she received advice through her […]

Discovery may end hopes of using embryo stem cells directly in therapeutic applications

Woman awakes in a closet after coerced abortion

Funeral for Aborted Babies at Mother Angelica’s Shrine in Alabama by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life July 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the afternoon of Sunday, July, 27, 2008, close to five hundred of the faithful filled the tremendous Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament that Mother Angelica built in Hanceville, Alabama. They were gathered for the funeral of three children – Karen Esther, Enoch, and Rebekah. The three children were all in the same small white casket. All had been killed just weeks earlier by abortion, and discarded in the trash outside […]

Planned Parenthood Loses Bid to Silence Former Clinic Director Turned Pro-Life by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert BRYAN, Texas, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A district court judge has denied Planned Parenthood’s request for a gag order against Abby Johnson, the former director of a Houston-area Planned Parenthood abortion facility who quit her job following a conversion experience. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, District Judge J.D. Langley dissolved a temporary restraining order against Johnson after concluding that Planned Parenthood’s stated concerns over Johnson revealing security and business information was not enough to warrant the injunction. The judge also denied a […]

LINK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALITY AND PEDOPHILIA by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, Oct 6 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Judith Reisman, formerly a research professor at American University, veteran pornography researcher and expert witness before the attorney general’s commission on pornography has reached disturbing conclusions about the link between homosexuality and pedophilia. WorldNetDaily reports on Dr. Reisman’s research in the current issue of their magazine. Contrary to the view expounded by homosexual activists that gays are no more likely to sexually moles children, Dr Reisman says research proves the opposite. Homosexual men are anxious to recruit young boys—a practice that is becoming easier thanks to […]

Brazilian Government Punishes Dissenters of Pro-Homosexuality Policy by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the last month the Brazilian government has fined one organization and upheld the censorship of another for rejecting the socialist regime’s endorsement of homosexual behavior. On March 3 the Department of Justice fined the Association of Public Functionaries 14,800 reais (8,559 dollars), for “discrimination” for refusing to allow one of its homosexual members to register his sexual partner as his “spouse”. The federal government of Brazil does not recognize same-sex “marriage”, nor “civil unions” for homosexuals, and the only state that […]

Spanish study found children experience serious adverse effects from such adoptions

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ALL’s Judie Brown on Sen. Brownback: “I’ll never use ‘pro-life’ to describe him again” by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert and Steve Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., March 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas’ U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, who has long identified with the pro-life movement, has shocked pro-life leaders by supporting the nomination of extreme pro-abortion Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Brownback issued a joint statement with fellow senator from Kansas, Pat Roberts, congratulating the Governor. “It’s an honor for the State of Kansas to have an elected official appointed to the president’s cabinet,” […]

Chris Kempling to Quit BC Teachers’ College after Years of Harassment for Christian Beliefs by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White QUESNEL, BC, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Chris Kempling will be leaving his position in the public school system after years of harassment for his Christian beliefs and his moral stand against the campaign to promote homosexuality in schools. Kempling has announced he will be taking a job at St. Ann’s Academy in Kamloops. Earlier this year Kempling received a fresh list of citations for “conduct unbecoming a member” of the BC College of Teachers (BCCT) for his exposition of […]

Company executives admitted the corporation is dominated by homosexuals

BBC Pervaded by a “Consistent Institutional Anti-Christian Bias:” Edinburgh Cardinal by LifeSiteNews.com 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 […]

Brazilian Government Threatens Catholic Church over Opposition to Pro-Abort Presidential Candidate by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRAZIL, October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazilian President Luiz Lula’s personal secretary, Gilberto Carvalho, yesterday warned the leadership of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops that if attacks against Labor Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff continue, the Catholic Church’s agreement with the government might be revised, according to a report that originated with the Valor Economico newspaper, and was repeated by the Italian news agency ANSA. The agreement, known as a “concordat,” is a type of treaty signed by the […]

Judicial activism rears anti-democratic head in yet another country

Pro-Life Group Convicted of Calling an Abortion Activist an “Abortionist” is Refused Appeal by Brazi by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent ROME, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Federal Tribunal of Brazil has allowed a decision to stand condemning a pro-life organization for calling a pro-abortion anthropologist an “abortionist anthropologist” in a caption below a photo of the woman, taken while she debated in favor of the legalization of abortion. The word “abortista” (abortionist) in Portuguese is commonly used to refer to individuals, groups, or ideologies that defend the legalization of abortion, one of whom is […]

Prominent Pro-Family Activist Julio Severo Flees Brazil to Escape Charges of “Homophobia” by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Julio Severo, one of Brazil’s most prominent pro-life and pro-family activists, has fled Brazil to escape federal prosecutors who sought him following a complaint of “homophobia” filed against him for his unfavorable coverage of the nation’s Gay Parade in 2006, according to Severo. Severo states on his blog that federal prosecutors were seeking to obtain his address from the man responsible for his domain name in Brazil (www.juliosevero.com.br), who hired an attorney to defend his claim that he […]

Brazilian President Will Seek to “Criminalize Words and Acts Offensive to Homosexuality” by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BELEN, BRAZIL, April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazilian President Luiz Lula is promising homosexual leaders that he will continue to seek to criminalize speech that is critical of homosexuality. In a written address delivered to the Third Congress of the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transsexuals (ABGLT), Lula denounced groups, most of them Christian, who have objected to plans to outlaw such speech, calling them “hypocrites.” “Some backward as well as hypocritical sectors … have criticized our government for […]

Pro-Abort Frontrunner for Brazilian Presidency Fights Rising Tide of Pro-Life Sentiment by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dilma Rousseff, the current frontrunner in Brazil’s presidential elections, was regarded as a shoe-in by political pundits only two weeks ago. As the handpicked successor of the most popular president in the world, Luiz Lula da Silva, Rousseff’s victory was all but written in stone. However, following her surprise upset in the first round of voting on October 3, Rousseff now finds herself locked in an increasingly difficult battle against a rising tide of […]

SEX-ED CAUSES MASSIVE INCREASE IN TEEN SEX AND BIRTHRATE IN BRAZIL by LifeSiteNews.com RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 14 (LifeSiteNews) – Recent Brazilian statistics indicate a 19 percent increase in the birthrate for girls aged 15 through 19 from 1993 to 1998. The Washington Post reports that the “birthrate among girls aged 10 to 14 leaped 31 percent during the same period.” Liberal sages are puzzled by the stats. The Post calls the soaring pregnancy rate “a mystifying development given the unprecedented efforts of the past decade here to provide more information about, and access to, contraceptives.” That’s exactly why the […]

UN Approves Brazilian Homosexualist Group, Drops Christian Charity by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White GENEVA, July 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has overruled a decision by 19 of its 54 member states to bar official recognition of a Brazilian homosexualist organization. The Associated Press reports that this is the third year that ECOSOC has allowed the recognition of the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians and Transsexuals (ABGLT). Founded in 1995, the ABGLT is an umbrella organization claiming to be made up of 141 homosexualist activist groups and 62 “collaborating” organizations. Its aims are consonant […]

Catholic University to Honor Justice Breyer Who Wrote Majority Opinion Supporting Partial-Birth Abor by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, September 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a brash move defying the U.S Bishops’ speakers policy, Fordham University’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics announced that pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is the 2008 recipient of the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize. Breyer infamously wrote the majority opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down state laws banning the practice of partial-birth abortion. The Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize is scheduled to be bestowed upon Justice Breyer at a dinner in New York on October 29, […]

Interview with Brazil’s “most discriminated against and persecuted” Pro-Life Activist by Steve Jalsevac By Steve Jalsevac and Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SAO PAULO, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com’s Matthew Cullinan Hoffman recently had the opportunity to extensively interview Julio Severo, to ask him about the situation in Brazil, and the challenges he faces as a pro-life and pro-family activist increasingly under fire by anti-life forces in his country. Severo was recently described by the Brazilian philosopher and political commentator Olavo de Carvalho as “the most discriminated against and persecuted of Brazilians”. Involved in the pro-life and pro-family movement in Brazil […]

Archbishop Naumann Defends His Call for Pro-Abortion Politicians to Refrain from Communion by LifeSiteNews.com By Michael Baggot KANSAS CITY, KS, May 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City on Friday published a question and answer explanation and defense of his May 9 public request to Governor Kathleen Sebelius to refrain from receiving Holy Communion until repenting of her political support for abortion. The Archbishop also confirmed plans to address other pro-abortion Catholic politicians. “In this column, I want to provide you with my responses to some of the more common questions and misunderstandings regarding my pastoral […]

Cardinals, Bishops and Congressmen Slam Pelosi on Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner WASHINGTON, August 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –”Catholic” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s blatantly fallacious remarks on August 24 regarding the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion have triggered a tidal wave of criticisms from clergymen, congressmen and Catholics nationwide. Responding to a question from NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Tom Brokaw about when human life begins, Pelsosi appealed to her extensive research on the issue as well as her “ardent” Catholic faith to claim that, “I don’t think anybody can tell you when life begins.” She asserted that “over the […]

Swedish Government Seizes Child from Home Schooling Family by LifeSiteNews.com GOTLAND, Sweden, December 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A Christian home schooling family could permanently lose custody of their only child simply because they home-school. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) are joining forces as legal advisors to the family in order to persuade the Swedish government to return the seven-year-old child to his parents. “Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without government interference,” said ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska, who is based in Europe. […]

Mexican State of Puebla Approves Pro-Life Amendment to Constitution by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PUEBLA, March 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite fierce opposition, political maneuvering, and disruptive protests meant to stop the process, the Congress of the Mexican State of Puebla has approved an amendment protecting the right to life “from the moment of conception to natural death, except in cases foreseen by law.” The amendment, which was passed 29-10 with two abstentions, will prevent abortion from being legalized in Puebla in imitation of the 2007 Mexico City abortion law, which allows abortion on demand throughout the first 12 […]

Gays are “Deeply Unhappy”: Russian Orthodox Priest Warns of Dangers of Homosexual “LifeStyle” by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White MOSCOW, June 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After illegal Gay Pride marches went ahead in Moscow earlier this month, homosexualist activists are condemning the Russian Orthodox Church for asserting Christian teaching on sexuality and suggesting that homosexual people do not have to live the “gay lifestyle”. One member of the Orthodox Church, Father Vsevolod Chaplin, recently said of homosexuals, in an interview with newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, “Such people are deeply unhappy”. “I know it from confessions and numerous life stories. It’s not by […]

Commentary: President Obama Calls Tiller Killing a Heinous Act of Violence but Ignores Heinous Viole by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Judie Brown Upon learning of the tragic murder of abortionist George Tiller, about whom I have written on numerous occasions, our staff realized that I was 34,000 feet in the air. As I would have hoped, American Life League’s Executive Director, Shaun Kenney, who was on the ground, issued the following public statement on behalf of American Life League: Leaders within the pro-life movement often discuss justice in connection with our mission to end the tragedy of abortion. Today, Dr. George […]

Britain Already Has a “Government Policy of Silent Euthanasia”: Anti-Euthanasia Activists by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, September 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evidence is mounting that Britain may already have not only de facto legalised assisted suicide thanks to new prosecution guidelines issued this week, but also involuntary euthanasia by means of a tangled combination of rationing of government-funded medical care, end of life medical practice protocols that allow the withdrawal of hydration and the existing Mental Capacity Act. British and international anti-euthanasia and disability rights groups are expressing their alarm at the publication of prosecution guidelines earlier this week […]

LifeSiteNews.com Extra Special MUST READ Report on Population Control by LifeSiteNews.com Here is the link to the complete 58-page document THE INHERENT RACISM OF POPULATION CONTROL See the Spanish language version El Racismo Inherente al Control de la Poblacion Updated Nov. 30, 2004 May 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 58-page LifeSiteNews.com document to which this story refers is a MUST READ for all persons concerned about life, family and even freedom. For some, there is little that is new in the document but for the vast majority the all-important big picture it reveals is a critical, must-learn project. Without this […]

Parliament Report Sounds Alarm: Low Birth Rate + Aging = Financial Crisis by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, February 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the first official reports to indicate the disastrous consequences of Canada’s long-term below, replacement birth rate was released in Ottawa today by Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. While pro-life leaders have been warning of the impending disaster for years as abortion and contraception have wreaked demographic havoc, the financial fallout is beginning to strike home to governments worldwide. Taking into account Canada’s steady 1.5 birth rate, far below the 2.1 replacement rate, along with the […]

Abortionist Inflicts Demonic Psycho-terror on Pro-life Protestors in Vienna by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith VIENNA, January 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Austrian pro-life demonstrators outside the clinic of Austria’s most notorious abortionist, Dr. Christian Fiala, are now enduring his latest infliction of demonic psychological terror from paid clinic escorts, who have in the past abused and assaulted both physically and sexually the praying peaceful protestors. Video footage from Gloria TV shows Fiala’s goons trying to intimidate the demonstrators outside his clinic with an intense form of psychoterror and hatred aping the demonic. The video records the clinic escorts swaying side […]

In New Book Actor Dan Akroyd Says he Would Support Bestiality if Animals Were Sentient, Bashes Catho by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, September 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new book on the shelves called “Being Catholic Now” has sparked the ire of some Catholics. Catholic League President Bill Donohue lambasted the book in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com today, noting that the offering compiled by Kerry Kennedy is filled with contributions from anti-Catholics, wayward Catholics and only a few authentic Catholics. “The Kerry Kennedy book is rather amazing,” Donohue told LifeSiteNews.com. “It’s called ‘Being Catholic Now,’ yet many people […]

Australian and Danish Governments Providing Prostitutes for the Disabled by LifeSiteNews.com HOBART, September 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to an apparently unembarrassed official of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Australian state of Tasmania, guidelines have been established that allow care givers to organise visits for disabled clients to Hobart’s local brothels. The terms “hooker or “street walker” have long been taboo as being insensitive. Now “prostitute,” is no longer acceptable either and the properly affirming phrase “sex trade worker,” is used to describe the world’s oldest profession. This new nomenclature is especially important now that publicly […]

Women’s Ordination Groups All About Power, Free Sex, Abortion, New Age Religion by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, October 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The October 2005 issue of Toronto based Catholic Insight magazine contains a detailed report on two recent Catholic women’s ordination conferences. The insider account reveals that the internationally publicized ‘ordination’ events were more a front for a wider agenda to grab power and insert acceptance of homosexuality, abortion and a New Age type of anti-Christian religion into Catholic institutions. The Catholic Insight article, The ‘ordination’ of ‘womenpriests’ by Donna O’Conner-Hunnisett, especially relates the content of various talks given by speakers […]

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLAIMS CHRIST WAS FOR ‘CHOICE’ by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, December 4, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Once again, Planned Parenthood is displaying its true colors for all to see, publishing outright blasphemy just weeks before the Christian world celebrates the birth of Christ the Savior,” said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International (a project of American Life League). “Planned Parenthood has publicly indicated its religion is ‘choice,’ and its sacrament is abortion.” In a letter to Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News Channel program, Planned Parenthood speaks of the “sacredness of choice,” and in another letter it proclaims that “Jesus was […]

Undercover investigator calls for congressional examination of PP

Renowned lawyer and bioethics critic Wesley J. Smith slams Texas Catholic Conference

London Times Runs Article Promoting Incest by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski and John Jalsevac July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article narrated by an anonymous woman who says she is “an academic,” published in the London Times this week, favorably describes at length and in detail the woman’s incestuous relationship with her brother. The article is entitled “I had sex with my brother but I don’t feel guilty.” “Daniel is my brother,” says the anonymous narrator, whose story was transcribed by journalist Joan McFadden, “but since I was 14 we’ve had a sexual relationship – and that’s not something […]

Man's intuitive sense of moral law points towards a Lawgiver

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Warns Texas Sodomy Ruling Will Lead to Homosexual Marriage by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, June 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a scathing dissent to the Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court ruling handed down yesterday. The ruling which ruled unconstitutional Texas’ ban on sodomy, warns Scalia, “leaves on pretty shaky grounds state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples.” In some of the strongest language coming from the bench, Justice Scalia said of the majority ruling, “what a massive disruption of the current social order”. He explained that, “State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult […]

Homosexualist Group Side-Steps Normal UN Procedure to Gain NGO Status with U.S. Help by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman NEW YORK, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was granted consultative non-governmental organization (NGO) status at the UN, after the U.S. helped the group side-step the UN’s NGO Committee, whose approval is normally necessary to gain such status. The White House issued a statement from President Obama stating that the IGLHRC’s admission was an “important step forward for human rights,” and that the “more full inclusion” of the ILGHRC moved the UN “closer […]

Nebraska Abortionist Ordered to Close Immediately for Operating Illegally by LifeSiteNews.com BELLEVUE, NE, March 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bellevue, NE, abortionist LeRoy Carhart was ordered to close his abortion facility yesterday until his building passes inspection and he obtains an occupancy permit. Carhart has been illegally operating in his fire-damaged abortion mill since Saturday. Larry Donlan, Director of Rescue the Heartland, reported Carhart to the City of Bellevue yesterday morning. It was confirmed to Donlan that Carhart had no current occupancy permit and that he had been ordered to shut down his abortion business until it would be properly inspected. […]

Rockford Abortion Mill Hits New Low In Grotesque Window Dressing by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROCKFORD, Illinois, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Grotesque “decorations” in the windows of the notoriously bizarre Northern Illinois Women’s Center abortuary in Rockford, featuring such things as rubber chickens hanging from nooses, a nun in a coffin, and posters taunting the pro-lifers who regularly keep vigil outside with mocking and hateful messages, has hit a new level of offensiveness. A sign, located a few feet away from a door to the abortion mill marked “main entrance” has a picture of Jesus sticking up his […]

Spanish Government Sex-Ed Program “Recommends” Sex to Adolescents by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman CATALONIA, February 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Sex is for enjoyment as much as we can or want,” Spanish adolescents are being told by their socialist government. “Do and let others do whatever they wish.” Those words appeared in a pamphlet distributed to high school students in the region of Catalonia, according to Spanish news site Forum Libertas (Liberty Forum). “Enjoying sex is a natural and recommendable thing,” the pamphlet also states. “Learn the best ways to enjoy it with security and tranquility.” The pamphlet also endorses […]

Dutch Euthanasia Doctors May Now Kill Perfectly Healthy Adults by LifeSiteNews.com UTRECHT, January 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Royal Dutch Medical Association has concluded, after a three-year investigation, that Dutch doctors ought to be able to kill patients who are not ill but who are judged to be “suffering through living.” The decision contradicts the Dutch Supreme Court that ruled in 2002 that patients may only request euthanasia if they have a “classifiable physical or mental condition,” and not if they are merely “tired of life.” The law however, does not require a medical condition, but only that a patient […]

Norwegian Police Arrest Missionaries for Spreading Gospel At National Parade by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith OSLO, May 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norwegian police arrested two Christian missionaries for spreading the Gospel to crowds alongside an Oslo parade celebrating the birthday of Norway’s constitution last week. US evangelist Larry Keefer from Tampa, Florida, and Norwegian evangelist, Petar Keseljevic had come to the May 17 national event in Oslo, where Norwegians celebrate the 1814 ratification of Norway’s constitution with flag-waving, parades, and a public appearance of Norway’s reigning monarch, King Harald V. Police arrested the Christian missionaries as they were conversing […]

Abortion Clinic Owner Responds with Chainsaw as Radio Blares: ‘God Bless Pro-Lifers!’ by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, Illinois, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Staff at the Rockford abortion mill, which has been blaring the radio through its speakers to drown out pro-life counselors for several weeks, got an unpleasant surprise Friday morning when a local D.J. found out what his show was being used for. LifeSiteNews.com has reported numerous times on the bizarre Rockford abortuary, which has taken to taunting pro-life witnesses with signage and other paraphernalia mocking Christianity and Jesus Christ, and even directing personal insults at local […]

Pro-Lifers Publish Video of Morbid, Mocking Displays in Rockford Abortion Mill by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, Illinois, September 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers who frequent the Northern Illinois Women’s Center in Rockford have published a video casting light on the mocking, hateful, and grotesque signs and images that are a regular fixture in the windows of the abortion facility, which has earned a reputation as one of the most openly anti-life and anti-Christian abortuaries in America. “We feel this video is especially important at this point in time where some in the Church claim pro-lifers are judgmental,” remarked Rockford […]

Canada Legalizes “Sex Clubs” – “14-year-olds will be exploited” by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, December 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that group sex in publicly accessible venues is legal. In a ruling handed down this morning, Canada’s Supreme Court has declared it is legal for clubs to provide opportunities for group sex. As long as consent is given, the area is somewhat private, and no payment is directly involved, partner exchanging or “swinging” and group participation in sexual acts is not considered illegal. “The decision is certainly in line with the tendency […]

William Wilberforce’s Great Grandson Says if Alive Today Wilberforce Would Fight Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com Editor’s Note: The following letter by Fr Gerard Wilberforce, a Catholic priest in Exeter, who is the great grandson of the famed William Wilberforce is reproduced with the permission of Independent Catholic News. By Fr. Gerard Wilberforce March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I am writing as the great great grandson of William Wilberforce, who campaigned vigorously for the ending of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, which ultimately paved the way for the abolition of slavery itself throughout the entire British Empire in 1833. I am […]

England’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference Adopts Gay “Equality” Agenda for Church Employment by LifeSiteNews.com LONDON, February 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest manifestation of the homosexual crisis within the Catholic Church in England, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has issued a directive stating that persons living sexually immoral situations, including those in homosexual partnerings, must be given equal opportunity for Church employment. The “Policy Statement and Guidelines on Diversity and Equality,” often reading like documents produced by gay advocacy organizations and using their euphemisms, implies that barring active homosexuals from Church employment is a matter of grave […]

Vatican: the State Must Respect Parents’ Wishes in Religious Education by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine September 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Congregation for Catholic Education has released a new document in which they call on public authorities to respect the religious and educational freedoms of parents in school curriculums, emphasizing that schools ought to provide for the proper moral and religious formation of students according to the student’s faith. “In a pluralistic society, the right to religious freedom requires both the assurance of the presence of religious education in schools,” the document states, “and the guarantee that such education […]

Obama Stimulus Plan to Pour Millions of Taxpayer Funds into Contraception, Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hundreds of millions of the nearly $1 trillion price tag on President Obama’s economic stimulus bill is expected to go to contraception and the abortion industry. Last week, during consideration of the congressional Democrats’ spending bill by the House Energy & Commerce Committee, the panel made universal a Clinton-era Medicaid waiver that allowed states to seek federal funding for contraception and abortion. Under the new program, the federal government would match state funding for “family planning” […]

Follows previous rejections of divorcées from both France and Argentina

Estimated twenty patrol cars arrived on scene and began arresting pro-life participants without a word

It is no secret that the "peace and justice" crowd is soft on abortion

Women Tell Of Coerced, Illegal Abortions At Kansas Abortion Clinic by LifeSiteNews.com WICHITA, KS, April 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women have come forward and shared their stories of coerced, botched, and illegal abortions which they say took place at the nation’s largest late-term abortion mill, operated by George R. Tiller in Wichita, Kansas. “These are heart-breaking stories for which we hold Governor Kathleen Sebelius personally responsible,” said Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger. “The governor has appointed people to all the state’s enforcement institutions that continue to turn a blind eye to lawbreaking and unethical behavior on the part […]

Beer Boycott to Resume after MillerCoors Again Supports Sadomasochistic Sex Fair by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) last week contacted Mike Setto, the Michigan party store owner who helped spark a nationwide protest of Miller (now MillerCoors) beer in October 2007, following their sponsorship of the Folsom Street Fair, he was stunned to hear that MillerCoors had purchased a centerfold advertisement in this year’s program. Last year Miller apologized for their association with the “disrespectful” activities the fair is known for. Those who spearheaded the boycott that provoked the apology had […]

"The state dismisses the spiritual authority and usurps its role. In history this is called 'statism,' better known as fascism," writes editor of Catholic magazine

New York Cardinal Egan Slams Giuliani for Receiving Communion at Papal Mass – Demands Meeting by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, April 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The decision by several prominent pro-abortion politicians to publicly receive Holy Communion at papal Masses during the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI, despite clear Church teaching that says that their reception of Communion would constitute a grave sacrilege, may have backfired. While at first it seemed like it would be business as usual, today Cardinal Edward Egan of New York issued a statement condemning the reception of Holy Communion by former New […]

UK Homosexualists Launch Campaign to Remove Christian Equality Commissioner by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White September 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Trades Union Congress (TUC), a federation of trade unions in the United Kingdom, has issued a call for the removal of a Christian Equality and Human Rights Commissioner. Joel Edwards is the director of the Evangelical Alliance and a figure loathed by homosexualist activists for his forthright calls for a re-insertion of Christian morals in public life and defence of the rights of Christians who oppose the homosexualist political agenda. At its annual congress in Brighton, the TUC voted unanimously […]

Grandmother, 72, Violently Attacked Outside Nebraska Abortion Mill by LifeSiteNews.com OMAHA, Nebraska, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday, October 11, 2008, Mary Adam, 72, was knocked to the ground and injured outside a Bellevue, Nebraska abortion clinic by the angry mother of a woman who Mary had turned away from the clinic the previous day. The woman had returned with her daughter to ensure that she received an abortion, even though the daughter expressed hesitancy to Mary on Friday and indicated to her an interest in placing her baby for adoption. Mary was rushed to a nearby hospital and […]

Archbishop Publicly Tells Pro-Abortion Kansas Governor Not to Receive Communion by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen TOPEKA, Kansas, May 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann has directed Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to refrain from presenting herself for Holy Communion until she takes “the necessary steps for amendment of her life which would include a public repudiation of her previous efforts and actions in support of laws and policies sanctioning abortion.” The Archbishop made the directive public by writing about his actions in his archdiocesan newspaper The Leaven. “Having made every effort to inform and to persuade Governor Sebelius and […]

Controversial U.K. Mayor Cuts Gay Pride Funding, Pledges End to Political Correctness in Government by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White DONCASTER, UK, September 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recently elected mayor of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, has infuriated Britain’s politically powerful homosexualist lobby by attempting to withhold local funding for this year’s Gay Pride celebrations. The funding for this year’s event in June went through, but Mayor Peter Davies, a member of the English Democrat party and the father of Tory MP Philip Davies, has scrapped all future funding for the annual Gay Pride event. “I’m not a homophobe,” he said, […]

Pope Commends Large Families and “Faithfulness and Generosity in Welcoming Children” by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, January 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a video message aired in Mexico City yesterday at the Sixth World Meeting of Families, Pope Benedict XVI called urgently for “public witness and commitment from all the baptised in order to reaffirm the dignity and the unique and irreplaceable value of the family, founded on the marriage of a man and a woman and open to life.” Benedict XVI emphasized how, “with the strength that comes from prayer, the family becomes a community of disciples […]

Black Students for Life to Obama: “What About Equality for All?” by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Lawson Lipford-Cruz, President, Black Students for Life WASHINGTON, February 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This is Black History Month and the air is just beginning to settle on the fact that the United States of America finally has a black President. The inauguration of the first African-American president fell in conjunction with Martin Luther King Day, and because of this, we were able to reflect upon the journey, the struggles and our achievements as Americans and most importantly as human beings. It is truly difficult to […]

India Learns from Uganda: New AIDS Strategy Rejects Failed UN Approach – Will Focus on Abstinence, F by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner NEW DELHI, July 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the only national programs ever to effectively combat HIV/AIDS was the Ugandan ABC program, which focused on abstinence and being faithful to one partner. Now the Indian national AIDS committee is adopting this same approach in their effort to curb HIV/AIDS rates. A spokesperson for India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) told the media yesterday that sex-education taught to students will focus on abstinence and fidelity, […]

Obama Opposes California Marriage Amendment While McCain Supports It by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the California Marriage Amendment debate heats up Barack Obama and John McCain have made clear their respective positions on the issue. Two weeks after the California Supreme Court announced its decision to allow same-sex couples to “marry”, opponents of same-sex marriage succeeded in placing on the November ballot a proposed constitutional amendment which states: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” If passed, the measure would reverse the recent court decision. Mr. […]

McDonald’s Protesters Gather in California: “Stop Promoting Homosexuality” by LifeSiteNews.com By Jenna Murphy CALIFORNIA, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)- A group of frustrated protesters gathered in front of the McDonald’s restaurant in Citrus Heights, California yesterday to voice their opposition to McDonald’s explicit advocacy of the homosexual lifestyle, reports World Net Daily. The protestors wielded signs saying, “Stop promoting homosexuality,” “I’m NOT lovin’ it,” and “Christians: Boycott McDonald’s.” The protest was brought to a close when store officials heeded the wishes of the protesters in agreeing to convey their concerns to the corporate office. “They came out and talked with us,” […]

House Speaker Pelosi Vows to Kill Defense of Marriage Act and Still Receive Communion by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, August 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed to join Barack Obama’s new crusade to kill the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and promises to continue to fortify herself with Holy Communion from the Catholic Church for the campaign. Pelosi told reporters at a press conference last Thursday that she plans to support Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in his effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, should the American people elevate him to […]

Hundreds of Thousands to Participate in Life-Chain on Sunday October 5 by LifeSiteNews.com By Steve Jalsevac September 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Life Chain, a pro-life prayer and witness event, will take place this year in cities across the United States and Canada on Sunday October 5. Life Chain involves an a hour of silent prayer and public witness and will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. In Canada approximately 30,000 people participate each year, carrying signs that say, “Abortion harms women,” “Abortion kills children” and “Adoption, the loving option.” The official Life Chain website describes the pro-life […]

Mandated Homosexual Adoptions Forces Catholic Church to Quit Adoption Agencies in England by LifeSiteNews.com By Jenna Murphy WESTMINSTER, May 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under the leadership of Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, the Catholic Church in England has recently disaffiliated itself from three of the country’s largest adoption agencies. The Church stated that its adoption agencies ‘cannot remain Catholic and conform to the Sexual Orientation Regulations.” In an effort to put an end to discrimination against same-sex couples, the British Government released an official statement in 2007 declaring that all adoption agencies must allow same-sex couples to adopt children with equal […]

Late-Term Abortion Facility in Dallas To Close – Eighth Closure Since Bishop Began Prayer at Clinics by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski DALLAS, Texas, June 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Pro-Life Committee, the Respect Life Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, has reported that Aaron Women’s Health Center, a late-term abortion facility in Dallas will be closing its doors on June 28. Aaron’s was one of three abortion clinics in Texas authorized to perform late-term abortions on unborn babies older than 16 weeks gestation. When Bishop Charles Grahmann began leading a monthly “Second Saturday Rosary” outside Dallas abortion […]

Niece of Martin Luther King Jr. to Lead Prayer Vigil Outside Largest U.S. Abortion Centre – Monday A by LifeSiteNews.com By Jenna Murphy DENVER, August 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On August 25th, Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Auxiliary Bishop of Denver the Most Rev. James Conley and leaders of other Christian denominations will join Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Director of African American Outreach for the Gospel of Life Ministries for a peaceful prayer vigil in front of the new Planned Parenthood Clinic in Stapleton. The “Light in the Darkness” vigil, organized by […]

Giant Webcast Thursday to Educate and Mobilize Pro-Life Americans Against Great Dangers of Obama Hea by LifeSiteNews.com By Steve Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A coalition of prominent pro-life leaders has arranged a giant, Stop The Abortion Mandate live webcast for the public this coming Thursday, July 23, to alert Americans about the great dangers of the Democrat-proposed health care bill. David Bereit, a coalition member and leader of 40 Days for Life, told LifeSiteNews that he is temporarily de-emphasizing his current 40 Days for Life tasks to concentrate on this issue because of its extreme importance. […]

"Protection of innocent human life is not an imposition of personal religious conviction but a demand of justice."

Editor renews call for government elimination, or at least radical restructuring, of human rights commissions

Gay Activist in Hot Water for Revealing Conspiracy to Promote Homosexuality by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, July 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British journalist and activist has come under fire from a homosexualist activist for revealing the names of key figures involved in a deliberate long-term plan that resulted in the success of Britain’s “gay rights” movement. Nicholas De Jongh, a theatre critic, playwright and homosexualist activist, accused journalist Matthew Parris of “blowing” the confidentiality enjoyed for four decades by a small cadre activists who brought the movement to its maturity in late 1980s Britain. In a June 27th […]

US Bishops Develop Plan to Defend Marriage by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recognizing the societal implications of legislative and judicial efforts to redefine marriage, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) last week announced that it has joined efforts with the Knights of Columbus to develop a national plan of action in defense of marriage. The effort, which will highlight the bishops’ promotion and protection of marriage, will be led by an ad hoc committee appointed by Cardinal Francis George, president of the USCCB. The committee chair is Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, who also […]

Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop Nixes Gay Pride Service by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith MINNEAPOLIS – ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new Catholic archbishop for the Twin Cities has told a parish that it can no longer hold prayer services celebrating the homosexual lifestyle and that parishioners ought to pray for peace instead if they want to remain in conformity with Catholic teaching. The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, led by its new administrator, Archbishop John Nienstedt, informed parish staff members of St. Joan of Arc church that their annual homosexual pride prayer service planned […]

Cardinal Pell: "No western country is producing enough babies to keep the population stable."

Pro-Life World Coming to the Defence of Luxembourg Monarch’s Stand against Euthanasia by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, December 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US-based Alliance Defence Fund (ADF) has announced they will be launching a legal challenge to a new law in Luxembourg legalizing euthanasia. Last week, the world was shocked when the parliament of the tiny but venerable European state of Luxembourg proposed to strip its head of state, the Grand Duke Henri, of his veto powers when the latter announced he would refuse to give royal assent to the law. The ADF, a network of Christian attorneys, […]

Pro-Life Leaders Dismayed by Obama’s Abortion Remarks at Notre Dame by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders have responded to Obama’s remarks on abortion at the University of Notre Dame commencement – where Obama urged Notre Dame graduates to keep an open mind on the issue and shun “demonizing” the opposition – condemning the president’s remarks as clever rhetoric designed to disguise his extreme pro-abortion views and political record. As thousands of pro-life protesters lined the streets and gathered in the South Quad to pray, the president used the opportunity to issue […]

Swedish MP Seeks to Force Ireland, EU to Accept Abortion as “Right” with 1,000,000 Signature Campaig by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White BRUSSELS, July 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swedish liberal party MP and feminist activist has launched a campaign that, if successful, could see abortion enshrined as a “human right” across the EU – potentially forcing Ireland, as well as Malta and Poland, to abolish their protections for the unborn. Birgitta Ohlsson, an extreme left member of Sweden’s Liberal People’s Party, has founded the group “Make Noise for Free Choice” that hopes to obtain the one million petition signatures necessary […]

Abortion-Free States: the Ambitious Objective of 40 Days for Life Fall Campaigns by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, September 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This fall, 40 Days for Life vigils will take place at the last remaining abortion centers in North Dakota and Mississippi, states which each have only one remaining abortion facility, as well as the last two abortion facilities in Nebraska and the last two in Kentucky. “Despite the increasingly shrill rhetoric of the abortion industry, the simple truth is that business is off,” said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. “Abortion numbers have dropped so significantly […]

Arizona Law Forbids Easy Withdrawal of Food and Fluids from Patients by LifeSiteNews.com PHOENIX, AZ, June 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, the State of Arizona passed a bill known as “Jesse’s Law”, which will help protect incapacitated patients from being euthanized. The new law, inspired by the ordeal of Jesse Ramirez, closed a loophole in the decision-making process for patients who are physically unable to communicate their wishes regarding medical care. House Bill 2823 establishes a court process to obtain an emergency order to prevent a surrogate decision-maker from withdrawing the administration of food or fluid from an incapacitated […]

The Enemies of Life in Ecuador Messed with the Wrong Bishops by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman August 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When Ecuador’s socialists decided to pull a fast one and inject pro-abortion, anti-family language into their new constitutional project earlier this year, they probably felt rather self-assured. After all, their young president, Rafael Correa, is enormously popular in Ecuador, and his Alianza PAIS party won a clear majority in elections for the nation’s Constituent Assembly, charged with re-writing the nation’s constitution. Although Ecuador has strong Catholic roots, as well as a lively minority of Evangelical Protestants, the […]

“The Abortion President” Counsels Notre Dame Grads on How to Address Abortion Issue by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the University of Notre Dame commencement exercises yesterday, during what could easily be described as an Obama love-in, President Obama addressed the abortion issue that has roused an unprecedented groundswell of strong opposition by 79 U.S. bishops and 360,000 petitioners to his appearance at the leading Catholic university. Using the opportunity to make his longest abortion remarks since the election, “The Abortion President,” as he has been called by pro-life leaders because […]

Oregon Court Orders Frozen Embryos Destroyed, Considered “Property Rights” Issue by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert PORTLAND, Oregon, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied a father’s appeal to keep his six frozen embryos alive, and ordered that the embryos be destroyed by thawing, as ordered by his ex-wife. The court also ruled that the embryos’ fate fell under the issue of “property rights.” The court unanimously agreed that the father, orthodontist Dr. Darrell Angle, had no right to “impose a genetic parental relationship” on his ex-wife, pediatrician Dr. Laura Dahl, who did not wish […]

TEEN PROMISCUITY AND ABORTION ON RISE IN INDIA by LifeSiteNews.com NEW DELHI, September 27, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Sexual promiscuity and abortions are on the rise across India, according to the Hindustan Times. But experts are recommending the same failed solutions—sex education and contraception—that have driven up teen promiscuity in Western countries and everywhere else they have been imposed. “Schools should impart sex education,” said gynecologist Kamini A. Rao. Teenagers need coaching in use of contraceptives, and use of “emergency” contraceptive tablets must be spread. “The use of emergency contraceptives has been a secret. But it is simple in its use […]