Articles for Month: October 2013

CCCB President on Websites Confronting D&P: “they’re not part of the church, they’re not Catholic” by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite a June 22 press release stating that neither the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) nor Development and Peace (D&P) would be commenting on the results of a recent investigation of five of D&P’s Mexican partners until the results were made public, the President of the CCCB, Archbishop James Weisgerber, has been making the rounds of the media in the last several days, giving numerous interviews on the topic. The archbishop has given […]

German Homeschooler Melissa Busekros Home with Family after 3 Month Ordeal by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith ERLANGEN, Germany, April 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – German homeschooler Melissa Busekros finally returned home early this morning on her 16th birthday after having been forcibly separated from her family by the government 3 months ago. Back in February, Melissa was seized from her family home in a dramatic police raid for the crime of home schooling – illegal since 1937 by edict of Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler – and placed with a foster home in a location unknown to her family. The International […]

Scalia Says Roe vs. Wade Abortion Decision Was “improper” Action of Liberal Judges by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended his opposition to legalized abortion on Sunday, reiterating his long-held position that nothing in the U.S. Constitution guarantees a woman’s “right” to abortion. In a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen, broadcast by C-SPAN, Scalia said un-elected judges have no authority to decide on issues that are not addressed by the Constitution, such as abortion, reported the Associated Press. He said theÃ’ Roe vs. […]

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Study: Young Children Who Are Spanked Are Happier and More Successful as Teenagers by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, January 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US-based study suggests that spanking isn’t harmful for children and, in fact, states that children who had been physically disciplined when they were young, between the ages of 2 and 6, grew up to be happier and more successful, performed better at school as teenagers and were more likely to do volunteer work and to want to go to university, than those who had never been spanked. The study, conducted under the […]

“Abortion is a Blessing”: US Episcopalian Lesbian Minister Appointed to Head Prestigious Seminary by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White April 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, an openly lesbian minister in the American Episcopal Church, has caused a stir on the internet with a sermon, posted to her weblog, in which she called abortion a “blessing” and called for the suppression of rights of conscience for health care workers. In her sermon, titled, “Our Work is Not Done,” she wrote that there should be no restrictions whatever on abortion: “If we were to find that, while we were here, Congress […]

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US Court Rules it’s OK to Censor the Terms ‘Natural Family,’ ‘Marriage’ and ‘Family Values’ by LifeSiteNews.com TEMECULA, California, March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this week, San Francisco’s United States notorious Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the matter of Good News Employees Association v. Hicks that municipal employers can completely censor the terms “natural family,” “marriage” and “family values” as hate speech. The court concluded that municipalities have a right to literally dictate what form an employee’s speech may take, even if it is in regard to controversial public issues. Shockingly, the court concluded that the interest […]

Poland Ratifies Lisbon Treaty with Opt-Out from EU Human Rights Charter by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White WARSAW, April 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Both houses of the Polish Parliament voted last week to ratify the European Union’s new constitution, called the Lisbon Treaty, with a clause that allows the country to opt out of the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Sejm (lower house) passed the bill on April 1, with 384 voting for, 56 against and 12 abstaining. The Senate voted the following day, with 74 in favor, 17 against and 6 abstaining. In March, the Polish president, Lech […]

Moscow Gay Pride Ban Rebuked by Council of Europe by LifeSiteNews.com Terry Vanderheyden STRASBOURG, March 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of a congress of the Council of Europe has written to Moscow Mayor Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, strongly recommending that he revise his stance and allow a “Gay Pride” parade originally planned for May this year. President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities at the Council of Europe, Giovanni di Stasi, charges that the ban is a violation of the Council’s Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. “The Congress was . . . concerned […]

Russia’s Chief Rabbi: Perverse Gay Pride as Bad as Anti-Religious Cartoons by LifeSiteNews.com By Terry Vanderheyden MOSCOW, February 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar has come out against a proposed “Gay Pride” parade in the capital, saying such an event “would be a blow for morality,” according to an InterFax report. Rabbi Lazar said Thursday that any organization that forwards “sexual perversions” does not have a right to exist. He compared the offence that the proposed parade would have to observant Jews and all religious people in the country as akin to that felt by Muslims over […]

Gym Owner Complains of Human Rights Commission Process after Costly Battle with Gender-Confused Man by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine ST. CATHERINES, Ontario, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A gym owner in St. Catharines, Ontario, spoke out against the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) yesterday, complaining that, after he had been dragged through the system for three years and spent tens of thousands of dollars fighting a complaint brought against him by a gender-confused man, the case was ultimately dropped. In recent years the Canadian Human Rights Commission system has come under heavy fire from critics. One of the major […]

President Obama Signs “Hate Crimes” Bill into Law by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has now signed into law a controversial “hate crimes” bill that authorizes the federal government to intervene in violent crimes that appear motivated by hatred of homosexuals and apply stiffer penalties and sentences. President Barack Obama signed the measure into law at 2:30 pm today. A reception is planned for 5 pm., and President Obama is expected to deliver some brief remarks on the bill at around 6:05 pm. The expanded hate crime legislation extends special […]

Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels – Signed Letters from Cardinal Ratzinger Now Online by LifeSiteNews.com RIMSTING, Germany, July 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has obtained and made available online copies of two letters sent by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was recently elected Pope, to a German critic of the Harry Potter novels. In March 2003, a month after the English press throughout the world falsely proclaimed that Pope John Paul II approved of Harry Potter, the man who was to become his successor sent a letter to a Gabriele Kuby outlining his agreement with her opposition to J.K. Rowling’s offerings. […]

Important Supreme Court Decision Rejects UN High Court over US Treaty Obligations by LifeSiteNews.com By Piero A. Tozzi NEW YORK, April 11, 2008 (C-FAM.org) – A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision reaffirmed the right of the United States to govern its affairs in accordance with the US Constitution rather than specific provisions of international treaties. In the process, the Court rejected a directive of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Medellín v. Texas not only reaffirmed principles of sovereignty and self-government, but also undercut arguments of international pro-abortion activists that accession to international treaties requires nations to disregard domestic constitutional […]

Bishop Vasa: Pro-Abortion Candidates are “Disqualified” – Clarifies “Faithful Citizenship” by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, September 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During the opening day of the Catholic Leadership Conference yesterday, Baker Oregon Bishop Robert Vasa clarified the teaching of the US Bishops Conference regarding voting in favor of pro-abortion politicians. The question of whether Catholics may remain in good standing with the Church while voting for pro-abortion politicians was raised. Bishop Vasa responded referencing the document of the United States Catholic Conference titled “Faithful Citizenship”, noting a pro-abortion stance disqualifies candidates from consideration by faithful Catholics. LifeSiteNews.com […]

HEART TRANSPLANTS: IS BRAIN DEATH REAL DEATH? by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, Mar 3 (Lifesitenews.com) As the Canadian Parliament seeks to find ways to increase organ donation in Canada, a parliamentary committee has heard that heart transplant “donors” must be alive when organs are retrieved. Ruth Oliver, a Vancouver psychiatrist who was declared clinically dead in 1977 at the Kingston General Hospital after suffering internal bleeding of the brain, told the committee she is “living testimony that people survive.” Dr. John Yun, a Richmond, B.C. oncologist, testified to the committee that organ harvesting was the impetus behind the brain death theory that […]

Fordham Study Provides ‘Empirical Evidence’ for Sexual Orientation Change Efforts by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at Fordham University in New York have published a study in the March edition of the Journal of Men’s Studies, showing that positive results can be gained by homosexual men seeking to change their “orientation” by developing healthy non-sexual relationships with other men. According to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homoseuxality (NARTH), the study rovides “valuable empirical evidence” from the mainstream of psychological research supporting environmental factors as the cause of homosexuality. The study, by Dr. […]

MI Schools and Muslim Principal Sued Over Firing of Christian Wrestling Coach by LifeSiteNews.com ANN ARBOR, MI, July 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center announced today that a federal lawsuit has been filed against a Dearborn, Michigan high school, Fordson High School, and its Muslim principal, Imad Fadlallah, over the firing of Gerald Marszalek because of Marszalek’s connection to a Christian volunteer coach (read the complaint here). Marszalek, who had coached wrestling for 35 years, had achieved a legendary status in the wrestling community. Earning more that 450 wins, and sending numerous wrestlers to various collegiate programs, […]

Christian and Muslim Parents Facing Possible Criminal Charges for Opting Out of LGBT History Month by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, March 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK parents could face criminal charges for having removed their children from programs held at George Tomlinson Primary School promoting the homosexual lifestyle. Waltham Forest council has announced it will prosecute parents of about 30 children who did not attend a week’s worth of lessons coinciding with “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month.” A spokesman for the council said, “At George Tomlinson, parents were invited to meet with teachers and governors several […]

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Passage of C-38 Spurs Gay Activists Efforts to Criminalize Opposition by LifeSiteNews.com EDMONTON, June 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first indication that principled opposition to the homosexual political agenda will be fodder for the hate crime laws is already manifesting in Alberta two days after the passage of Bill C-38 changed the federal definition of marriage to include same-sex partners. Alberta legislators are attempting to find legal means of stopping the legalization of homosexual ‘marriage’ in the province. Homosexual activists have seized the opportunity to move the agenda along to the next phase by claiming that public opposition by politicians […]

UK Government Education Guidelines: Don’t use terms “Mom” and “Dad” by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, January 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Government guidelines for training school officials to be more sensitive to homosexuality, instruct teachers not to use the terms “mum and dad” when referring to students’ parents, and to treat “even casual” use of terms like “gay” as equal to racism. The guideance was commissioned by the Labour government directly from the homosexual lobby group Stonewall. The document was launched today at a Stonewall conference by Schools Secretary Ed Balls. Ed Balls said, “Homophobic insults should be viewed as […]

European Human Rights Court Rules State May Deny Parents Right to Home School Their Children by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith BRUSSELS, September 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights gave another setback to German homeschoolers by affirming that the interests of the State trump the rights of parents to educate their children. Yesterday, the Court denied a request from the parents of Joshua and Rebekka Konrad to rule Germany’s ban on homeschooling violates their human rights as parents to educate their own children under the European Convention on Human Rights. Fritz and Marianna Konrad filed the […]

Washington Archbishop Wuerl Won't Discipline or Deny Communion to Pro-Abortion Speaker Pelosi

Pastor Boissoin Exonerated: Judge Rules Letter on Homosexuality Not “Hate” Speech by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CALGARY, December 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian pastor who was hauled before the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal (AHRT) for writing a letter to the editor on homosexuality has been exonerated by a Court of Queen’s Bench judge who ruled the letter was not a hate crime but legitimate expression allowed under freedom of speech. Pastor Stephen Boissoin told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that he was “overjoyed and relieved” that the lengthy, stressful and expensive seven year legal battle over his letter to the editor […]

Homosexual Propaganda Removed From UK Schools, But Only After Muslim Complaint by LifeSiteNews.com By John Connolly BRISTOL, April 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Bristol schools hurriedly withdrew two books designed to imbue children with tolerance toward same-sex relationships after complaints by Muslim parents, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday. The books, which target audiences as young as four or five years old, are King & King, a fairy tale about a young monarch who marries a prince instead of a princess, and a book entitled And Tango Makes Three about two male penguins who fall in love at the New York […]

Study: Abortion, Hormonal Contraceptives Influence Breast Cancer Risk by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac Sept. 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A paper published this week in the journal, The Linacre Quarterly, by Angela Lanfranchi, MD shows how different pregnancy outcomes influence breast cancer risk. According to Lanfranchi, 52 years of research has pointed to the fact that abortion, as well as hormonal contraceptives, can significantly increase the risk of breast cancer. Lanfranchi is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. “In utero, (the mother’s) offspring produce hormones that mature […]

‘CHRISTIAN’ YWCA OF CANADA HONOURS ABORTION ACTIVIST by LifeSiteNews.com VANCOUVER, May 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) of Canada has decided to award one of Canada’s outspoken abortion activists with its Woman of Distinction award in the category of health and women’s rights. The Toronto Sun reported yesterday that Carolyn Egan, a director at a Toronto abortion mill, has been selected by the YWCA. Egan has the dubious distinction of having asked abortionist Henry Morgentaler to come to Toronto in the 1970’s to provide abortion services. In the 1980’s Egan co-founded the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics and […]

Sex and Porn on Top 10 List of Kids’ Online Searches by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski August 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study conducted between February and July this year by Symantec Corp. through their OnlineFamily.Norton service, which lets parents monitor their children’s Web activities, has revealed a glimpse into the online activity of children. Symantec studied 3.5 million searches made by the service users worldwide. The computer security company released a list of the Top 100 searches conducted by children whose computers have the OnlineFamily.Norton software and whose parents have created a user profile for them. Symantec found […]

Brazil to Place Condom Dispensers in All Public High Schools by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An official of the Brazilian federal government has announced that 400 condom vending machines will be placed in public schools by October of this year in the beginning stages of a massive distribution to the entire public school system. According to Eduardo Barbosa, head of the National Program for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS, the program will eventually be expanded to include all schools. “The expectation is that all of the public schools will have at […]

Two More Bishops Make 8 Who Have Come Out against Pelosi’s ‘Catholic’ Abortion Theology by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two more bishops have released statements condemning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s widely publicized claim that the Catholic faith could support abortion. Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of Colorado Springs and Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh join the other six Catholic bishops who have already corrected Pelosi’s false claims, made during an appearnace on NBC’s Meet the Press, that when life begins has been “an issue of controversy” throughout the history of the Church and […]

Pelosi: My Pro-Abortion Stance is Consistent with Catholic Faith by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., January 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In defending her pro-abortion views against the teachings of the Catholic Church in late December, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a professed Catholic, argued that restricting abortion amounts to a violation of women’s free will and is inconsistent with her Catholic faith. Pelosi told Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift December 21 that she had “some concerns” about the Catholic Church’s positions on abortion and homosexuality. “I am a practicing Catholic, although they’re probably not too happy about that. But it is my […]

Homosexual U.K. Documentarian Says Gay Lifestyle a “Sewer” of Casual Degrading Sex, Drug Abuse by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, September 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British homosexual journalist admits that his documentary on the London gay scene is likely to “burn every bridge in the gay world I’ve got.” Simon Fanshawe is a writer and broadcaster who created the documentary “The Trouble With Gay Men” after becoming increasingly alarmed at the shallowness and destructiveness of the “gay lifestyle.” The film, made for BBC 3 television, questions the emotional and psychological immaturity, narcissism, nihilism and self-destructive tendencies of many in […]

Alberta Government Refuses HRC Reform, Adds “Sexual Orientation” to Anti-Discrimination Law by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, Alberta, April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alberta Government has caved in to the homosexual agenda and included “sexual orientation” as a category of prohibited discrimination in its bill to amend the human rights act. The bill was introduced into the legislature by the government this week. Alberta has had de facto “gay rights” protection since a 1998 Supreme Court ruling in the Vriend v. Alberta case. That case saw homosexual activist Delwin Vriend charge Alberta with violating the Charter of Rights […]

Pro-life Governments Around World Declaring March 25 “Day for the Unborn Child” by LifeSiteNews.com by Hilary White March 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An international movement is afoot to establish March 25 as the Day for the Unborn Child. Beginning in 1993 in El Salvador as “Day for the Right to be Born,” the movement has grown to include other Latin American countries and is being imported to countries around the world. The celebration in 1999 in Buenos Aires was noted by Pope John Paul II and joined by representatives of the Muslim, Orthodox and Jewish communities in Brazil. Pope John […]

Pope Warns against Dictatorship of Relativism and ‘Atheist Extremism’ on First Day in Britain by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the first day of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain he has not held back from the great themes of his pontificate – the threat of the “dictatorship of relativism” and suppression of religious freedom by secularist governments. In his address to Queen Elizabeth II, Benedict was pointed in his condemnation of the “atheist extremism” that led to the Nazi atrocities. In remarks that are clearly intended to answer the accusations of Britain’s radical […]

Alberta Pastor Fined $7000 and Ordered to Publicly Apologize and Remain Silent on Homosexuality by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, June 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, the Alberta Human Rights Commission ordered Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin to desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in any sort of public forum. He was also commanded to pay damages equivalent to $7,000 as a result of the tribunal’s November decision to side with complainant and homosexual activist Dr. Darren Lund. The tribunal has also called for Boissoin to personally apologize to Lund via a public statement in the local newspaper. The […]

Live Action Launches Petition Against YouTube for Censoring Videos by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SAN JOSE, California, August 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Live Action Films, the pro-life media campaign famed for its undercover videos exposing questionable practices by Planned Parenthood employees, is launching a petition to combat the censoring of their videos on YouTube. In recent months, YouTube has pulled two Live Action videos without explanation, although the videos do not appear to have violated the video sharing website’s policy. In addition, Live Action says YouTube issued a “warning strike” against the group’s YouTube account, and has not answered Live […]

Mandatory Homosexual Indoctrination in Grade School Survives after Supreme Court Turns Down Case by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert LEXINGTON, MA, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After mounting a ferocious battle to preserve traditional marriage values, David Parker could only watch helplessly as the United States Supreme Court left intact a lower court ruling that allowed Massachusetts schools to promote homosexuality in the classroom without telling parents or allowing them to opt out. “The Federal Supreme court of the United States has tragically decided to deny our case from moving forward,” said Parker in a statement following the Supreme Court rejection. […]

Westminster Exorcist Says Promiscuity can Lead to Demonic Possession by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White WESTMINSTER, UK, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest of Westminster, the leading diocese of the Catholic Church of England and Wales, has written that promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual, can lead to dire spiritual consequences, in addition to the dangers to physical health. Promiscuity, as well as homosexuality and pornography, says 73 year-old Fr. Jeremy Davies, is a form of sexual perversion and can lead to demonic possession. Offering what may be an explanation for the explosion of homosexuality in recent years, Fr. Davies said, […]

Oregon Trying to Figure Out High Rate of Elderly Suicide—Psst “It’s your assisted suicide law” by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz OREGON, United States, May 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oregon’s confusion over the state’s alarming rate of suicide among the elderly would be laughable, if it were not so tragic, said Wesley J. Smith, an expert in the field of bioethics and euthanasia and the author of a critical examination of the assisted suicide/euthanasia movement, Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder. Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide in November of 1997. Over the ensuing decade, rates of non-physician […]

4-Year-Old Killed for Refusing to Call Mom’s Lesbian Lover “Daddy” by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen JOHANNESBURG, March 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Writing in the South African paper, The Star, journalist Baldwin Ndaba reports on the outcome of a court case concerning the death of four year old Jandre Botha, a young boy who according to evidence given in court was beaten to death after refusing to call his mother’s lesbian love “Daddy”. On Wednesday, Vereeniging Regional Court magistrate Rita Willemse found Engeline de Nysschen (33), and the child’s mother Hanelie Botha (31) guilty of murder in the death of the […]

Human Rights Complaint Filed Against Catholic Bishop for Defence of Traditional Marriage by LifeSiteNews.com CALGARY, March 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A supporter of same-sex marriage is using the human rights process to take away Bishop Frederick Henry’s right to freedom of religion and free speech. Despite the Catholic Church’s established role in preparing men and women for marriage and conducting religious marriage ceremonies between men and women, it appears that supporters of same-sex marriage do not want religious leaders to be part of the debate on this issue. Bishop Frederick Henry wrote a letter to the Catholics in his Diocese […]

Pro-Abortion Groups Silent in Wake of Pro-Life Activist’s Slaying by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert OWOSSO, Michigan, September 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In contrast to the swift condemnations issued by every major pro-life group across America in the hours following the slaying of late-term abortionist George Tiller in May, a deafening silence from nearly every U.S. pro-abortion group has accompanied the hours of nationwide media buzz following the shooting death of Michigan pro-life activist Jim Pouillon early Friday morning. The only statements from pro-abortion forces thus far have been issued by the local Michigan chapter of Planned Parenthood, and the pro-abortion […]

Deaths Associated with HPV Vaccine Start Rolling In, Over 3500 Adverse Affects Reported by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Canada, in large part due to aggressive behind the scenes lobbying, rolls out the not-comprehensively-tested Merck HPV vaccine for girls as young as nine, a look at developments on the vaccine south of the border should cause Canadians serious concern. In the United States a similar lobby campaign by the same company launched the mass HPV vaccination of girls beginning in June last year. In just little over a year, the HPV vaccine has been […]

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Gay Masses Continue in Archdiocese of Westminster by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, September 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While an announcement was made in December 2007 that there would be no more “gay” Masses sponsored by the archdiocese of Westminster, LifeSiteNews.com has learned the Masses have continued with archdiocesan approval, and there are no signs that they will be stopped. In December 2007, a statement and media release had confirmed that there would be no more Masses for “special groups” in the country’s leading archdiocese. But the Soho Masses Pastoral Council (SMPC), the organisation that negotiated the regular bi-monthly Masses […]

Mainstream Media Slammed for Libelling John Henry Newman as Homosexual by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, September 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A biographer of John Henry Cardinal Newman has refuted the claims of an English homosexualist activist that Newman was a closeted homosexual. Fr. Ian Ker, a priest and biographer of Cardinal Newman, told the Weekend Australian yesterday that homosexualists were using Newman’s close friendship with another priest as a political ploy. “Clearly” Fr. Kerr said, Newman “did love his dear friend” but he called it “ridiculous” to claim, a century after the fact, that they were homosexuals who lived […]

Kindergarten Children should be Encouraged to Dance Naked and Masturbate in Pre-Schools; Norwegian Child Expert by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White OSLO, Norway, October 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Oslo pre-school teacher, backed by child psychologists, has suggested that kindergarten children be encouraged to “express” their sexuality through “sex-play” and games, including dancing naked and masturbating, in pre-school and day-care centres. The English language edition of Norway’s Aftenposten newspaper reports that Pia Friis, the respected operator of an Oslo kindergarten, told an interviewer that children should be able “to look at each other and examine each other’s bodies. They can play […]

Action Call as German Homeschooled 15-year-old Sentenced to Child Psychiatry Unit by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NUREMBERG, February 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian and American homeschool associations are calling their memberships to take action on the case of a homeschooled teenager in Germany who has been taken away from her family and placed in a child psychiatry unit. Last Thursday, a 15-year-old homeschooled girl, Melissa Busekros, was forcibly removed from her parent’s custody by over 15 police officers. The homeschooled girl has been placed in the child psychiatry unit of the Nuremberg clinic. Home school legal defense explains the […]

Miami Archdiocese Sponsors Concert by Gay Men’s Chorus by LifeSiteNews.com by Eric Giunta February 27, 2009, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yet another of the Miami Archdiocese’s parishes is flaunting its disregard for orthodox Christian moral teaching by hosting a concert this evening by the Miami Gay Men’s Chorus. The concert (titled Serenade), the Chorus’s debut performance of 2009, is being held at Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach on Friday, February 27. LifeSiteNews contacted both the parish and the Archdiocese of Miami’s Communications Office; no official comment was forthcoming as of press time. This is not the first time an institution […]

Germany Jails Eight Christian Fathers for Removing Children from Sex-Ed Class by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WESTPHALIA, Germany, December 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At least eight Russo-German families in Salzkotten, Germany, have suffered heavy fines and now their fathers have been sentenced to prison, because they have refused to send their elementary school-age children to mandatory sexual education classes. The International Human Rights Group, a Christian legal defense organization that defends religious liberty and the right to homeschool in Europe, reports that in addition to refusing to allow their children to attend sex-ed classes, the families also resisted having […]

No Problem with Civil Unions for Catholic Church Claims English Bishop by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, January 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite clear teaching from the Vatican, a member of the English Catholic Bishops conference, a member of the English Catholic Bishops conference, and the head of the Catholic Education Service, has denied that there is any Catholic objection to homosexual civil unions. Speaking to The Tablet, Britain’s leading left-liberal Catholic paper, Bishop Malcolm McMahon, the chairman of the Catholic Education Service, said that he had no objection to homosexuals in civil partnerships working in Catholic schools. McMahon, once […]

Homosexual Activists Cheer Appointment of New San Francisco Archbishop by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White SAN FRANCISCO, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop George Hugh Niederauer, soon to be installed as the new Archbishop of San Francisco, has told a local news outlet that he is opposed to the Vatican’s prohibition of homosexuals in seminaries. “Some who are seriously mistaken have named sexual orientation as the cause of the recent scandal regarding the sexual abuse of minors by priests,” Niederauer said Monday in an interview with the Intermountain Catholic News. Niederauer referred to the “sexual orientation” of homosexual men, what the […]

Catholic Church must “Rethink” the Family: Head of Church-Funded Marriage Counselling Service to Hom by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, July 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexuals can “lay equal claim to their married heterosexual counterparts when bringing up children in stable relationships” the head of the highly regarded British Catholic marriage counselling service, Marriage Care, will tell a gathering of homosexualist activists this weekend. Marriage Care is registered as a Catholic charity whose president is the sitting Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, who is represented on the board by Fr. Michael Cooley. The organization, formed after the Second World War, […]

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Montreal Cardinal: “I am against abortion, but I can understand that in certain cases, there is almo by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner MONTREAL, April 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over the Easter weekend, Le Devoir newspaper published a story based on an interview with Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal, during which the Cardinal contradicted the teachings of Catholic Church on abortion and condoms. In the interview Cardinal Turcotte, as quoted by Le Devoir, compared abortion to killing in self-defense, effectively equating the unborn child with a violent aggressor. “Personally, I am against murder,” he said, “but can understand that sometimes, when […]

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Abortifacient Morning After Pill Now Sold off the Shelf in Canada by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White OTTAWA, May 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) has announced that the abortifacient drug, the morning-after pill (MAP), will be available over the counter without either a doctor’s prescription or pharmacist’s oversight being required. The only regulatory recommendation made by NAPRA is that the drug be stocked close to the pharmacy dispensary so that customers may ask questions if they choose. Canada is now the fifth country to allow MAP to be sold as an over-the-counter product after […]

U.S. Judge Grants Political Asylum to German Homeschoolers by LifeSiteNews.com PURCELLVILLE, VA., January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, in a first of its kind case, a federal immigration judge in Memphis, Tennessee granted political asylum to the Romeike family, who fled Germany in 2008 to escape persecution from the German government for the “crime” of homeschooling. Judge Burman said in his decision that, “The rights being violated here are basic human rights that no country has a right to violate.” Judge Burman also expressed concern that while Germany is a democratic country and an ally, its policy of persecuting […]

Artist said to be very pleased his works displayed in museum associated with the Church

Cardinal George Denounces “New Ways Ministry” as Pseudo-Catholic Organization by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, February 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Last Friday Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago and current President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement condemning “New Ways Ministry” for claiming to be Catholic while opposing the Church’s teaching on the objective immorality of homosexual acts. The Cardinal spoke unequivocally: “I wish to make it clear that, like other groups that claim to be Catholic but deny central aspects of Church teaching, New Ways Ministry has no approval or recognition from the Catholic Church […]

Terri Schindler Schiavo Family asks for Prayers and Outreach in Remembrance by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White STATEN ISLAND, NY, March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Priests for Life and the family of Terri Schindler Schiavo have organized a series of events intended to raise awareness of the plight of severely disabled people and the growing movement supporting legalized euthanasia. March 31 is the anniversary of Terri’s death by deliberate dehydration, ordered by a court at the request of her husband Michael Schiavo. The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation and Priests for Life have asked that Terri, and others in similar circumstances, be remembered […]

Rev. Raymond Gravel has often contradicted Catholic teaching on homosexuality and abortion

The Saga Continues: Previously Tolerant German State Declares War on Home-schooling by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac BADEN-WUERTTEMBURG, Germany, December 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over the last several years disturbing stories have come out of Germany: stories about children being forcibly and suddenly removed from their homes by police in the middle of the day and dropped in state schools, about whole families fleeing from Germany to avoid arrest, about mothers being imprisoned, about intimidation tactics and threats of fines or imprisonment, and all for the “crime” of home-schooling. In the most recent installment of Germany’s ongoing home-schooling saga, the Director […]

Video Shows Feminists Attacking Pro-Lifers in front of Argentinean Cathedral by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman NEUQUÉN, ARGENTINA, September 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews)—Argentinean feminists participating in a the annual National Women’s Encounter viciously attacked pro-life protesters in the city of Neuquen, who stood in front of the Cathedral to protect it from desecration, according to the catholic news agency ACI Prensa, which posted a video of the events on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0oMKGFTyk&eurl=https://catholicnewsagency.com/). Repeating last years assault on the cathedral in Cordoba (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07101802.html), where they held their previous meeting, the feminists are shown spitting in the face of pro-lifers, throwing bottles at them, […]

The Indian Child who was Buried Alive by LifeSiteNews.com By Hugo Marques BRAZIL, February 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amalé is four years old. Like many other children, he went to school for the first time on Thursday, February 12th, in Brasilia. A Kamiurá Indian from Mato Grosso, Amalé attracted attention from the rest of the children because he was the only child who was without a uniform and a backpack. But Amalé stands out from the rest for a much more troubling reason. The little Indian is actually a survivor of his own history. After being born, November 21, 2003 […]

Tiller may Face Grand Jury in Death of Christin Gilbert by LifeSiteNews.com by Hilary White WICHITA, April 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In November 2005, notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas was cleared by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts of responsibility for the death of Christin A. Gilbert, who died “as a result of complication of a therapeutic abortion,” after Tiller aborted her 28 week old child. Christin was a nineteen year-old girl who was rushed to hospital after becoming “unresponsive” at Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services abortion facility. It is most likely that she died of sepsis. […]

Youth Welfare Officer Lies to German Television about Homeschooler Taken Away from Family by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith NUREMBURG, March 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An officer of the German Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt) yesterday told a German television station that homeschooler Melissa Busekros is happy in state custody away from her family, despite evidence to the contrary. A Jugendamt officer brusquely ended a meeting between Melissa and her family, after her father showed her the mendacious video on his laptop. For over two months, 15 year-old homeschooled Melissa Busekros has been in the custody of Germany’s Jugendamt, an organization […]

Melissa – HomeSchooled Teen in Germany Begs for Help to Go Home to Family by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NUREMBERG, March 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a hand-written letter secretly passed by her to members of the International Human Rights Group (IHRG) in Germany, Melissa Busekros the 15-year-old who was removed from her family by police for having been homeschooled, begged for assistance to return to her parents. In the letter, dated March 12, 2007, Melissa relates, “I was taken away from my family on the first February 2007 and brought with more than 15 police men to the psychiatry […]

The Pro-Life Pentecost in Brazil, and what it Means for the Rest of the World by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRAZIL, March 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During the past month, the nation of Brazil has experienced a seemingly miraculous transformation. The Catholic hierarchy in Brazil has long been famous for its laxity regarding human life issues, and its disproportionate emphasis on economic issues that seems to equate Catholicism with socialist politics. The bishops have even maintained a loose but very real relationship with “Catholics for the Right to Decide”, which is the South American version of “Catholics for […]

President George Bush’s Final Thanksgiving Day Message by LifeSiteNews.com November 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather together and express gratitude for all that we have been given, the freedoms we enjoy, and the loved ones who enrich our lives. We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God. Every Thanksgiving, we remember the story of the Pilgrims who came to America in search of religious freedom and a better life. Having arrived in the New World, these early settlers gave […]

LSN Video: Development & Peace Funded Group vs Philippines Bishops by LifeSiteNews.com By Steve Jalsevac October 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last fall, a Filipino group listed as a partner of the Canadian bishops’ Development and Peace organization published an article noting it is “included” in a 50 group coalition urging the government to pass a controversial national Reproductive Health Bill. Meanwhile, the country’s Catholic bishops have been intensely opposing the same bill. LifeSiteNews has developed a brief 5 minute video to show its readers how information such as this can easily be discovered by anyone. A ten minute search on […]

U.K. Reissuing of Pro-Abortion Guidelines against Court Order “Baffling and Bizarre”: SPUC by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White BELFAST February 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The move of the U.K. government to reissue health guidelines that were ordered withdrawn by a Northern Ireland High Court Justice is “baffling” and “bizarre,” said Liam Gibson, the head of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) in the province. Gibson spoke with LSN today about the decision this week by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) to reissue the health guidelines that the Court had said “misrepresented” Northern Ireland’s […]

SPUC is in court in Belfast this week

Pro-Life Victory as Northern Ireland Abortion Guidelines Rejected by High Court by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White BELFAST, November 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in Northern Ireland are celebrating a major court victory today as the Belfast High Court has ordered the recall of health guidelines that they said would have undermined and effectively overturned the province’s pro-life laws. Lord Justice Girvan found that the guidelines failed to deal properly with conscientious objection to abortion and counseling on abortion. The judge said the guidelines were open to misinterpretation, saying the language was “ambiguous” and left doctors and staff unclear as […]

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Development & Peace Sending Canadian Youth to Work with Pro-Abort Group in Philippines by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In October LifeSiteNews (LSN) revealed that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P), the Canadian bishops’ social justice arm, is partnered with a group in the Philippines – the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) – that has pushed for the passage of a highly controversial “reproductive health” bill which has been strenuously opposed by the country’s Catholic bishops. Now D&P has announced that they are making preparations to send a delegation of […]

Obama’s Homosexual “Safe School Czar” Tells God “Screw You, Buddy” in Memoir by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – He is known to the United States as the “Safe Schools Czar:” a special advisor in the White House responsible for helping formulate policies designed to keep US public schools “safe and drug free.” But US pro-family leaders know Kevin Jennings as something more: a highly influential homosexual activist, who admitted in a book on his childhood that a deep-seated hatred of God and religious believers began when he fully embraced a homosexual lifestyle and […]

MUST READ: All LSN Evidence of Development and Peace Pro-Abortion Funding âEUR¦So Far by LifeSiteNews.com Last Updated: June 07, 2010 April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For several months LifeSiteNews (LSN) has been collecting evidence that the official development arm of the Canadian bishops, Development and Peace (D&P), is funding numerous radical leftist organizations that promote a pro-abortion and pro-contraception ideology. Thus far LSN has collected evidence about pro-abortion and pro-contraception D&P partners in East Timor, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Togo, South Africa, Benin, Brazil, Mexico, Haiti, Peru and Guinea. LSN reporters are currently working on reports about D&P partners in other parts […]

Support for HPV Vaccine Gardasil Helps Planned Parenthood Says LDI President by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gardasil, Merck’s questionable new vaccine against cervical cancer is expected to rake in at least a billion dollars in profits from sales, which will leave the pharmaceutical giant with more cash to donate to abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Merck has a long history of supporting abortion and Gardasil profits could turn into a financial boost for Planned Parenthood, especially as US states and Canadian provinces begin either to encourage or require HPV vaccination for girls as […]

Why Medical Authorities Cannot be Trusted on Gardasil HPV Vaccine by LifeSiteNews.com By Gwen Landolt TORONTO, December 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Medical health authorities have repeatedly assured us that Gardasil, the vaccine injection given to young girls to allegedly prevent cervical cancer, is perfectly safe. For example, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization, a group of medical specialists, endorsed the vaccine last February. The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists of Canada claims the vaccine is safe, as does Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer. The Canadian Pediatric Society and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada have also […]

CDC Reverses Gardasil Vaccine Requirement for Immigrants by LifeSiteNews.com By Matt Anderson and Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Center for Disease Control announced Friday that starting December 14 it will no longer require female immigrants, ages 11 to 26 seeking permanent resident status, to receive the controversial human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil before entering the United States. Simone Davis, a 17 year-old British immigrant to the United States, has been seeking citizenship status but was blocked in her search by the requirement for Gardasil. Davis, who is a devout Christian, believes that pre-marital […]

Less Than 10%, Maybe Even Less Than 1% of Vaccine Side Effects Reported

Toronto Archbishop Will Only Allow D&P Funds to go to Groups Approved by Local Bishops by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, July 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a two-page statement issued today, Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins has released his long-awaited decision regarding funding of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P). For 2009, says the statement, “We will set aside $1,125,000, which will be available for projects of Development and Peace which are operated by organizations endorsed by local bishops.” The measure will serve to clear up the problems with such funding since none of the pro-abortion groups […]

“Stop Funding Pro-Abortion Groups in Our Country”: Peru Bishops to Canadian Bishops by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen LIMA, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a May 28 letter, the Bishops Conference of Peru has “formally” requested that the bishops of Canada cease funding pro-abortion groups in Peru via the Canadian Catholic Organization of Development & Peace (D&P). “It is very disturbing to have groups which work against the Bishops of Peru by attempting to undermine legal protection for the right to life of unborn children, be funded by our brother bishops in Canada,” says the letter. The letter marks a […]

LifeSiteNews’ Detailed Response to Canadian Bishops’ Whitewash Report on Development and Peace by LifeSiteNews.com Editorial by John-Henry Westen and Steve Jalsevac OTTAWA, June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) released their report concerning the Mexican partners of their international development arm – Development & Peace. Given the very clear and incontrovertible evidence made available by LifeSiteNews.com confirming that the groups have advocated for abortion, it was astonishing that the report whitewashed the matter, saying: “we believe the allegations by Lifesite News âEUR¦ are not founded on the facts.” Distortion of LSN Allegations The report […]

Editorial: Development and Peace Has Issued a False Statement to All of Canada’s Bishops by LifeSiteNews.com March 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a three page letter which, according to Development and Peace, was sent to every Canadian Bishop, the official international development arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has claimed falsely that of its Mexican partners which LifeSiteNews.com found to be pro-abortion, “none of these organizations are involved in any activity related to abortion.” Since we at LSN assume good will on the part of D&P, we believe they were misled about the activities of the pro-abortion groups […]

Bishop Co-Author of D&P Investigation Admits: “I Just Should Have Followed Up more” by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen CORNWALL, October 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, LifeSiteNews.com sat down with Martin W. Currie, Archbishop of St. John’s, Newfoundland for an interview. Archbishop Currie was listed as the co-author of the June report which was the result of an investigation into evidence uncovered by LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that some of the groups funded by the international development arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) were advocating for abortion. The June report sparked controversy as it stated: “we believe the allegations […]

Gardasil Vaccination Results in Three Outbreaks of Genital Warts in Fiji School Children by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White November 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gardasil, the vaccine being pushed by governments around the world to combat the spread of human papillomavirus (HPV), has been linked in Fiji with 3 cases of outbreaks of genital warts among primary school students. HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection which causes genital warts, has been linked to the development of cervical cancer in women and governments around the world are implementing mandatory vaccination programs using Gardasil. With the Fijian government pressing forward with mass […]

German Bishops Finally Denounce Abortion Counselling Service by LifeSiteNews.com by Hilary White BONN, July 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week, six years after being ordered to cease and years of interventions from the Vatican, the German Catholic bishops’ conference has prohibited Catholics from using a pregnancy service that was issuing certificates for government funded abortions. “As a private association, Donum Vitae is an organization outside the Catholic Church – its information centres are not acknowledged by the bishops’ conference or by individual bishops,” the bishops said in a statement. “Persons acting in the Church’s service are prohibited from cooperating with […]

Abortion Employee Runs into Pro-Lifer, Keeps Going at Bizarre Rockford Abortuary by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, Illinois, July 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pattern of abuse at a Rockford abortion facility has continued after an employee allegedly struck with his car a homeless man praying with pro-life protesters, and drove away, according to witnesses at the scene. The vehicle reportedly struck Scott Griffin on Wednesday as it drove into the driveway of the abortion facility, where pro-lifers say workers frequently drive recklessly in an apparent attempt to intimidate those praying and handing out pro-life literature. “The dark colored SUV […]

Rockford Pro-Lifers Sue City for “Arbitrary, Invidious Censorship” of Pro-life Message by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac ROCKFORD, Illinois, April 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A goateed man with sunglasses and a pony-tail with a pit-bull on a leash sticks his face right up to the lens of the video-camera. “You do realize that you’re a f***in’ butt baby,” he shouts into the camera. “You’re a half-breed ni**er!” And then, just to make sure that the point is perfectly clear, he repeats, “You’re a half-breed ni**er.” This isn’t the first time that pro-life activists have seen a video of this sort. Footage […]

Well-Known Local Pro-Life Activist Gunned Down in Michigan by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac OWOSSO, Michigan, September 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An elderly pro-life activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning in front of Owosso High School in Michigan while he was peacefully protesting abortion with a sign depicting a baby and the word “Life,” according to local police cited in the Flint Journal newspaper. Locals say that the victim, James Pouillon of Owosso, was well-known in the area for his pro-life activities. Columnist Doug Powers wrote on his blog that Pouillon, called “the abortion sign […]

Contradicts Church on Abortion, Embryo Research, Condoms, IVF

International Organizations Gather 40,000 Signatures So Far in Support of Pope’s Statements on Condo by LifeSiteNews.com FRONT ROYAL, VA, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As a response to the deluge of criticism leveled against Pope Benedict XVI for his statement about the ineffectiveness of condom promotion in stopping the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, four prominent international pro-life organizations have gathered 40,000 signatures so far in support of the Holy Father. Kath.net (based in Austria), Human Life International (HLI, Virginia, USA), HLI Europa (Poland), and Vida Humana Internacional (VHI, Miami) have joined forces in reaching out around the world to gather […]

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He is consistent. States "there is no sharp distinction between the foetus and the newborn baby"

Low Birth Rate is Russia’s Biggest Problem Says President Putin by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz MOSCOW, Russia, May 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –Plunging birth rates are the central factor in Russia’s “critical” population decline, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an annual address to the nation, reported the BBC today. Russia’s falling birth rate is leading to a population crisis in the country, with an annual decline of 700,000 people. Increasing mortality rates and migration are also contributing factors, said President Putin. In an effort to counteract the plummet in birth rates, President Putin announced a ten-year national programme designed to […]

After-Abortion Autopsy Can’t Rule Out Live Birth – Shows Abortion Clinic Claims False by LifeSiteNews.com ORLANDO, FL, May 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life group Operation Rescue has obtained the autopsy report for Baby Rowan, the infant said to have been born alive on April 2, 2005, at a Florida abortion mill and whose mother claims was refused help by abortion workers in spite of her pleas on behalf of her dying son. The autopsy performed by Orange County, FL Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan C. Garavaglia on April 27, 2005, listed the official cause of death as “extreme prematurity […]

Lawsuit Filed for Baby Born Alive at Abortion Clinic then Killed and Hidden from Police by LifeSiteNews.com (02/06/09 – Breaking – Abortionist Stripped of Medical License in the Hialeah Baby Murder Casehttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020607.html) MIAMI, Fla., January 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, suit was filed by the Thomas More Society in Miami on behalf of Shanice Denise Osbourne, an infant girl who was allegedly murdered in July, 2006. The case claims that Shanice was born alive and then murdered by abortion clinic owner, Belkis Gonzalez. Thirteen defendants (including Gonzalez, abortionist Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique and their conglomerate of […]

Italian Society being “Seriously Mutilated” by Negative Fertility Rates: Italian Cardinal by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, Sept. 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference said this week that Italian society is being “seriously mutilated” by its negative growth birth rate. Angelo Bagnasco, cardinal archbishop of Genoa, said at a Mass in Liguria this weekend that Italy, and Italian democracy, is facing a “serious cultural catastrophe” from its low birth rate. The Italian birth rate has climbed slightly from an all-time low of 1.23 in 2004 – which made Italy the second most infertile country […]

Media Labels Pastor ‘Gay-Hating’ for Preaching Against Homosexuality by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz SCOTLAND, United Kingdom, September 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s online Herald newspaper ran a headline referring to Pastor Green as ‘gay-hating this morning, in coverage of the Pentecostal leader’s lecture tour through Scotland to discuss Christian sexual ethics. Pastor Green has been vilified by the mainstream media since he was prosecuted by the Swedish government for preaching against homosexuality to his congregation in 2003. Accused of “inciting hatred,” Green was sentenced to one month suspended sentence, a conviction that was overruled after lawyers argued for his […]

Planned Parenthood Implicated in RU-486 Deaths of Four Women by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study conducted at the University of Michigan and published in The Journal of Immunology has indicated that “off-label use” of the controversial abortion drugs Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol (Cytotec), collectively called RU-486, may be linked to the death of at least eight women. A press release from the American Life League states that Planned Parenthood’s recommendation to use the abortion-causing drug Misoprostol vaginally rather than orally, contrary to FDA recommendations, has led to fatal infections directly […]

Former Soviet dissident warns democracy being rapidly dismantled in Europe

APA Cancels Landmark Panel to Discuss Homosexual Therapy and Religion by LifeSiteNews.com By Michael Baggot WASHINGTON, D.C., May 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Psychological Association (APA) cancelled a highly-anticipated panel on homosexual therapy and religion on Friday after receiving pressure to do so from pro-homosexual activists. The “Homosexuality and Therapy: The Religious Dimension” symposium, organized by former Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists president Dr. David Scasta, was scheduled to occur yesterday at the Washington Convention Center, and was slated to discuss the insights religion can offer to the therapy of individuals with homosexual tendencies. Practicing homosexual Episcopal Bishop […]

Commentary: Britain’s N.I.C.E. Think Tank Not So Nice – C.S. Lewis’ Prophesy Comes Eerily True by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White February 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 1945, the great 20th century Christian apologist, C. S. Lewis, wrote a science fiction novel in which he proposed an alternative British history. In this history a government-funded scientific think tank, the National Institute for Coordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.), dictates government policy according to eugenic, utilitarian principles. In that novel, That Hideous Strength, the ironically acronymed N.I.C.E. takes over Britain and attempts to create an anti-human totalitarianism in which human rights are abolished and people […]

Will they also Fund Pro-Family Journalists?

The Psychological Profession and Homosexuality: Lunatics Running the Asylum? by LifeSiteNews.com Special Report Commentary by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, August 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man goes to a psychologist with a problem. “Doctor,” he says, “I’m suffering terribly. I feel like a woman trapped inside the body of a man. I want to become a woman.” The psychologist responds: “No problem. We can discuss this idea for a couple of years, and if you’re still sure you want to be a woman, we can have a surgeon remove your penis, give you hormones for breast enlargement and make other […]

Only latest in Liberals long list of demeaning comments towards parents

German Homeschooling Parents Sentenced to Three Months in Prison by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner June 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of a homeschooling family in the German state of Hesse have each been sentenced to three months in prison for the crime of homeschooling their seven children. According to a staff attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), the sentence was issued to Juergen and Rosemarie Dudek after the federal prosecutor, Herwig Muller, said last year that he was dissatisfied with the fines the couple had already paid for homeschooling their children. As reported by WorldNetDaily (WND), […]

Kennedy Funeral/Fr. Rosica NewsBytes – Deal Hudson, Fr. Thomas Euteneur, Austin Ruse, Goerge Weigel by LifeSiteNews.com * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Charity, Civility, and Speaking the Truth by Deal W. Hudson The funeral of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy provoked a highly charged debate among Catholics about civility. In the midst of this discussion, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, came to Washington, D.C., […]

First US Bishop to Decry the “Scandal” of the Kennedy Funeral by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, September 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Rene Henry Gracida, retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas has denounced the “scandal” of the Kennedy funeral. Writing on his blog, Bishop Gracida said, “There was so much wrong with the funeral liturgy celebrated in Boston last Saturday for Senator Edward Moore Kennedy that I hardly know where to begin.” He added: “Aside from the impropriety of such a grandiose celebration for one of the country’s most notorious dissident Catholics, the ‘celebration’ was […]

Cardinal Lashes out at Pro-Lifers, Soft-Pedals Criticism of Kennedy Abortion Support by LifeSiteNews.com Editorial by John-Henry Westen BOSTON, September 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an entry on his blog last night, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley defended his participation in the grandiose funeral for Senator Ted Kennedy. “There are those who objected, in some cases vociferously, to the Church’s providing a Catholic funeral for the Senator. In the strongest terms I disagree with that position,” he wrote. The problem with that of course is that the leaders of the largest and most significant Catholic pro-life groups in the United States never […]

EWTN’s Arroyo Takes Cardinal McCarrick to Task over Kennedy & Pope Letters by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen BOSTON, September 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – EWTN News Director and host of the popular EWTN program ‘The World Over,’ Raymond Arroyo, has written a compelling commentary on retired Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s part in Saturday’s burial of Senator Ted Kennedy. Arroyo begins by calling McCarrick’s reading of portions of Kennedy’s letter and a Vatican response a “marvelous bit of political theatre (as so much of Senator Kennedy’s funeral was).” The renowned EWTN show host, who is seen each week in more than 100 […]

Irish Priest Blasts Self-Righteous “Holier-than-Thous” on Kennedy Funeral by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White DUBLIN, October 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic faithful from around the world who protested against the lavish public funeral of the late, notoriously pro-abortion Senator Edward Kennedy were self-righteous “holier-than-thous” who lacked compassion, writes Fr. Gerard Moloney in an editorial of the October issue of the notably liberal Reality magazine. Moloney, a member of the Redemptorist religious order and editor of Reality, said that when it was announced that the funeral was to be held in a Redemptorist church in Boston, the order started receiving numerous […]

Pro-Abortion Kennedy Lauded as “Champion for Those Who Had None” at Funeral Mass by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, Massachusetts, August 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the warnings of pro-life Catholic leaders that the public honoring of pro-abortion Sen. Ted Kennedy by the Catholic Church would lead to an enormous scandal, the Boston Archdiocese hosted an elaborate televised funeral Mass for the senator this past Saturday. The service, presided over by Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley, included prayers of the faithful endorsing health care reform and homosexualist policies, and a eulogy by President Obama, who remembered Kennedy as a “champion for […]

LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes – Ted Kennedy by LifeSiteNews.com * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Senator Edward Kennedy: Resilient? Yes. Devout? Not exactly. While it seems like common courtesy to speak kindly of the dead, in this case, it’s even kinder to be plainly honest. Based upon the witness of the life he lived in the public eye, Edward Kennedy wasn’t particularly honorable. He wasn’t exactly the embodiment of the kind of statesmanship that would make our Founding Fathers […]

L’Osservatore Romano Recalls Edward Kennedy’s Support for Abortion, Chappaquiddick Incident by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman ROME, August 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s flagship newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has publicly taken note of Edward Kennedy’s public misbehavior during the last 40 years of his life, in a brief obituary published on August 26. Crediting Kennedy with being “constantly on the front line in battles over such matters as the protection of immigrants, arms control, the minimum wage,” it adds that “but he also unfortunately took positions favorable to abortion.” The article does not mention that, in addition, the senator supported […]

Pro-Abort, Homosexual, Human Stem-Cell Groups Mourn Loss of “Greatest Champion” Kennedy by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A survey of statements from various pro-abortion, embryonic stem-cell research (ESCr), and homosexualist groups responding to the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy shows a unified salute to a man they say fully engaged his considerable political prowess to benefit their causes. One homosexualist publication revealed this week that the Massachusetts 2007 true marriage referendum would have succeeded had Kennedy not secretly lobbied individual senators to change their vote. Sen. Kennedy succumbed to a cancerous brain tumor […]

HLI Priest-President Re: Kennedy Funeral Scandal: “Private funeral, family only – period” by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert and Peter Smith HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts, August 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The public Catholic funeral of Senator Ted Kennedy – whose long career of abortion advocacy helped sever the American Catholic identity from the Church’s pro-life teaching – will be a source of immense scandal, says Human Life International (HLI) president Fr. Tom Euteneuer. In addition, he said, Obama’s scheduled eulogy at the event amounts to a “perfect absolution” whitewashing Kennedy’s opposition to Catholic moral teaching. A funeral mass has been scheduled for […]

Dr. Alveda King Remembers Sen. Edward Kennedy by LifeSiteNews.com ATLANTA, GA, August 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – – Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today reflected on the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy. “The Ted Kennedy I want to remember is the man who, before he embraced the pro-abortion cause, was like his dearly departed sister Eunice, who was pro-life. Senator Kennedy once compassionately and consistently fought for civil rights. In 1971, he wrote that every human being, wanted or unwanted, had the right to be born. He later changed […]

UPDATED: Pro-Life Leaders to Cardinal O’Malley: Do Not Honor Pro-Abortion Kennedy with Public Cathol by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert 7:30 p.m. addition to story below – The Boston Globe reported today that “Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston will preside and deliver the final commendation at the funeral of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy tomorrow at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The Rev. J. Donald Monan, a Jesuit priest who was the longtime president of Boston College and is now the chancellor, will be the principal celebrant. And the Rev. Mark R. Hession, pastor of Our Lady of […]

Kenya First Lady: Condom “is causing the spread of AIDS in this country.” by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter Smith NAIROBI, May 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The First Lady of Kenya, Lucy Kibaki, spoke to Kenyan schoolgirls last week to warn them that sexual abstinence before marriage, not condoms, was essential to preserving their lives and futures. In speeches Thursday, and Saturday, Mrs. Kibaki spoke to high school girls about preserving their dignity and future, and urged them not to be duped into using the condom, which she linked to the spread of the AIDS epidemic that has sent millions of Kenyans […]

Condoms Encourage Promiscuity which Leads to More Infections: Namibian Bishop by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, October 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The belief that condoms are an effective means of stopping HIV/AIDS is “unrealistic” and groups pushing condoms in African countries are making the problem worse by encouraging promiscuity, “which leads to more infections,” a Namibian bishop said last week. The bishop also claimed that foreign experts are using the media and government funding deliberately to conceal the failure of condoms to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. Bishop Joseph Shipandeni Shikongo said at the African Synod […]

Catholic Doctors Confirm Pope’s Statement: Statistics Prove Condoms Ineffective Against HIV by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert MANILA, Philippines, May 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Catholic medical professionals based in the Philippines has stated that condom promotion has failed to curb the spread of AIDS. The group said that it agreed with a widely-criticized recent statement by Pope Benedict XVI in which he endorsed a renewed respect for sexuality in facing the AIDS epidemic, rather than condom use. “Condoms are highly dangerous,” said Yolly Eileen Gamutam, head of Asia’s Catholic Association of Doctors, Nurses and Health Professionals (ACIM-Asia), in […]

“The Weekend Cleanup”: The Gruesome Aftermath of Legalized Euthanasia in Belgium by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert LANSDOWNE, Virginia, June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Canada and several U.S. states mull over legislation to legalize assisted suicide or euthanasia, one Belgian man has claimed that silent acceptance of euthanasia in his country has led to unspeakable routine abuse, and is warning the Western hemisphere to be on guard against the encroaching euthanasia agenda. Lionel Roosemont told his story at the Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, held May 29-30 at the National Conference Center in Lansdown, Virginia. The conference […]

Bishop Says Nun is Automatically Excommunicated for Rubberstamping Hospital Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith PHOENIX, Arizona, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bishop of Phoenix has announced that a Catholic nun and administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix has automatically excommunicated herself by approving an abortion on a woman who was 11-weeks pregnant, and whose life hospital officials allege they were trying to save. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said the excommunications apply to all involved, and lambasted the hospital’s defense of their decision by comparing the ill woman’s unborn child to a disease that […]

Fertility expert says parents should choose child's gender

Embryo Research Oversight Agencies Ruled by Utilitarian Eugenic “Ethics” by LifeSiteNews.com SACRAMENTO, September 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has recently given the green light for the creation of designer babies to be used as tissue farms, the creation of cloned human beings for various research projects and the eugenic selection and destruction of “unfit” human embryos. The HFEA uses utilitarian principles of bioethics that are now standard in the international research community which admit of no inherent dignity to the embryonic human being. The eugenic bioethics principles are the foundation of all such […]

UK Embryo Authority Gives License for Eugenic ‘Search and Destroy’ Embryo Screening by LifeSiteNews.com LONDON, November 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has moved forward another step into the brave new world of cloning and eugenics by allowing embryos created in IVF labs to be ‘screened’ for the gene for a particular form of cancer. The HFEA has granted a license for University College Hospital in London to genetically examine embryos for familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), an inherited genetic colon condition. Any embryo carrying the gene will be selected out and killed at the […]

Embryos killed if they have potential for unwanted disorder or characteristic

Archbishop Announces Excommunication of Doctor and Family Members for Abortion on Nine-Year-Old Girl by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman RECIFE, Brazil, March 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of the Brazilian city of Recife has announced the excommunication of a doctor who performed an abortion on a nine year old girl, as well as the family members who made the decision to carry out the procedure. The girl, whose name has not been revealed by the Brazilian media, was found to be pregnant with twins recently. Her stepfather has confessed that he began molesting her at the age of three […]

Vatican Archbishop: Kennedy Funeral Critics Not Hurting Unity but Helping Church by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, September 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Raymond Burke, head of the highest Vatican court, the Apostolic Signatura, has offered a public defense of those pro-life leaders who spoke out against the scandal of the grandiose funeral of Senator Ted Kennedy. “One of the ironies of the present situation is that the person who experiences scandal at the gravely sinful public actions of a fellow Catholic is accused of a lack of charity and of causing division within the unity of the Church,” wrote […]

LifeSiteNews NewsBytes Sept. 6 – More Commentaries on the Kennedy Funeral – Rutler, Lawler, Gallagh by LifeSiteNews.com * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Note: we have included more excerpts than usual from some of these articles given the prominence of the commentators. Speaking Well of the Dead by Rev. George W. Rutler On July 29, 1997, a representative philosopher of our abortion culture, retired Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, was lavishly eulogized in […]

Letters to the Editor – More on Kennedy Funeral by LifeSiteNews.com Re: Cardinal Lashes out at Angry Pro-Lifers, Soft-Pedals Criticism of Kennedy Abortion Support I think the good Cardinal needs to be reminded of the cross. Christ’s passion was a result of challenging the leaders of the day for their moral failings. Where are the Thomas Becketts, John Fischers and Thomas Mores these days? Eric Moles Ontario, Canada _____________________________________ Dear Cardinal Sean Patrick O,Malley, “For nearly half a century, Senator Kennedy was often a champion for the poor, the less fortunate and those seeking a better life. Across Massachusetts and […]

Battle of the Catholic Stations: Salt and Light’s Fr. Rosica Rips EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo over Kennedy by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The decision to permit a grandiose public funeral celebrating the life of pro-abortion extremist Senator Ted Kennedy has caused a rift in the Catholic Church in North America. Several prominent Catholic priests in the pro-life movement as well as other Catholic pro-life leaders criticized the decision, and advocated a more subdued private funeral instead. Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley shot back Wednesday defending his actions with some fairly strong words for his critics. […]

British Muslim Pharmacist Under Attack for Refusing to Give Woman Abortifacient Pill by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith MANCHESTER, UK, May 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK Muslim pharmacist is under attack for refusing to dispense an abortifacient emergency contraceptive to a British couple on the grounds that he would be violating his Islamic faith. The pharmacist of a Sainsbury chemist (drugstore) in Manchester told Chris Mellett, 29, and Kaye Walsh, 36, that it was against his Islamic beliefs to provide the couple the abortifacient drugs which they had requested. Mellett and Walsh had earlier discovered that their contraception method […]

Bill "forcibly normalize all varieties of sexual orientation," warns critic

Editorial – The Real Reason Why Christians Oppose Same-Sex Marriage by LifeSiteNews.com by John-Henry Westen (This article was first published in the Easter issue of the BC Catholic) Christianity is not about discrimination and prejudice, not about judging and condemning, not about hatred and bigotry, it is about love. Love for God and love for neighbor – meaning all mankind. So, why would a religion based on love oppose the union of two persons in marriage if they are of the same sex? Simply put, because homosexual sex – the underlying basis for such unions – causes harm to those […]

At March, Black Pastor Warns Obama not to Preside over “Genocide” of American Blacks by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The most well received speech at the March for Life this year was that of an African American pastor from Frederick Maryland. Pastor Luke Robinson began noting that the election of the first African American President of the United States was a fulfillment of “part” of the “Dream” of Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. Speaking of the inauguration of the “first black President” of the United States, Pastor Robinson explained: “So many African Americans and other folks […]

Polish Priest Fined for Comparing Abortion to Holocaust, Saying Abortion is “Killing” by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine KATOWICE, Poland, September 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a ruling that Church leaders are calling a serious infringement of freedom of speech, a Polish judge has accused the Archdiocese of Katowice and the priest-editor of their Catholic weekly newspaper of comparing a woman who sought an abortion to the Nazis, and has ordered them to publish a court-dictated apology. Judge Ewa Solecka, further, fined the Gosc Niedzielny (Sunday Visitor) paper $11,000, objecting to comments from editor-in-chief Fr. Marek Gancarczyk that she deemed […]

Report Reveals Filthy Conditions, Health Violations at N.J. Abortion Center by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Filthy conditions and unsanitary equipment at one of the state’s busiest abortion centers led to a state-ordered closure late last month, a report from health department officials has revealed The Metropolitan Medical Associates was shut down Feb. 24 after state health officials discovered “immediate and serious” health risks during an investigation into conditions at the facility. Forceps crusted with “brownish blood-like residues,” rusted crochet hooks used to remove IUDs, and a thick layer of dark red “dirt […]

Editorial: Salt and Light’s Fr. Rosica says LifeSiteNews is Doing “the work of Satan” by LifeSiteNews.com Editorial By John-Henry Westen September 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the most scathing attack ever publicly directed at LifeSiteNews.com by a prominent clergyman, Fr. Thomas Rosica, President and CEO of Salt and Light Television, went so far as to accuse LifeSiteNews.com of doing the “work of Satan” in an interview on Sirius Satellite Radio’s The Catholic Channel. In the September 9 interview, Fr. Rosica told “Across The Nation” host Bob Dunning: “We have an agency in Canada functioning called LifeSite. It purports itself to […]

United Nations Urges Nicaragua to Legalize Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GENEVA, February 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations’ “High Commission of Human Rights” (OHCHR) is urging Nicaragua to legalize “therapeutic” abortions, as well as abortions in rape and incest cases, according to the Mexican government news agency Notimex. At a meeting of the Periodic Universal Examination of the OHCHR, Nicaragua was told by the Commission to “study the possibility of foreseeing exceptions to the general prohibition of abortion in therapeutic cases and in pregnancies brought about by rape and incest,” Notimex reported yesterday. […]

Woman Diagnosed as “Brain Dead” Walks and Talks after Awakening by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LAKE ELMO, Minnesota, February 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 65-year-old Raleane “Rae” Kupferschmidt’s relatives were told by doctors that she was “brain dead” after she had suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage in mid-January, according to an Associated Press Report. Her family had taken her home to die and were in the process of grieving and planning her funeral when she awoke and was rushed back to hospital. In accordance with her own wishes, doctors had removed Rae’s breathing tube and were waiting for her to die. […]

Complete Text of Lecture by Archbishop Charles Chaput in St. Basil’s Church, Toronto – February 23, by LifeSiteNews.com RENDERING UNTO CAESAR: THE CATHOLIC POLITICAL VOCATION+Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Toronto, 2.23.09 I want to do three things with my time tonight. First, Father Rosica asked me to talk about some of the themes from my book, Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life. I’m happy to do that. Second, I want to talk about some of the lessons we can draw from the recent U.S. election. And third, I want to talk about the […]

Study Finds Unborn Babies Respond to Mother’s Mood by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NAGASAKI, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists have discovered that unborn babies respond to their mother’s mood while she is watching a movie, becoming quiet and still if the film is sad and very lively if the film is happy. Dr. Kazuyuki Shinohara and colleagues in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior of Nagasaki University in Japan showed 10 pregnant volunteers a cheery 5-minute clip from the Julie Andrews musical The Sound of Music. Another 14 watched a tear-jerking 5 minutes from the 1979 Franco Zeffirelli […]

"unprecedented numbers" are opting out - threatens British abortion industry

Sri Lankans to be Warned of United Nations Efforts to Depopulate Nation by LifeSiteNews.com COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, October 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Later this month pro-life leaders from Human Life International and other pro-life groups will travel Sri Lanka on a speaking tour to expose the population control agenda “of the US Government and the United Nations.” From October 19-25, Cultura Vitae, in collaboration with Caritas Sri Lanka SEDEC and Human Life International – the largest pro-life organisation in the world, will launch the “Asian Family Under Siege” tour. An international delegation of experts from the USA, the Philippines and […]

Anglican Bishop: Vacuum Created by Christian Culture Collapse will be Filled by Radical Islam by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROCHESTER, UK, June 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The beliefs, values and virtues of Great Britain have been formed by the Christian faith” and the loss of that faith in public life has resulted not only in social breakdown, but the creation of a moral and cultural vacuum that is being filled by violent radical Islamism says a senior Anglican prelate. In an article in the new political magazine Standpoint, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester, pinpointed […]

12-Year-Old Stuns Pro-Choice Teacher and School with Pro-Life Presentation by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert TORONTO, February 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 12-year-old “Lia” of Toronto has become a star at her school and on Youtube with her five-minute pro-life speech, crafted for a school competition. Despite discouragement and outright opposition, Lia’s presentation was so well done that she reportedly won the contest she was told she would be disqualified from, due to the “controversial” message of her speech. The speech is available in its entirety on Youtube, where it has been viewed over 100,000 times and sparked a heated discussion. (See: […]

FBI DATABASE ON US PRO-LIFERS DISCOVERED by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, July 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Justice Department of US President Clinton and the Federal Bureau of Investigations have allegedly compiled a database on pro-life leaders called VAAPCON. After being tipped off anonymously to the database’s existence, Judicial Watch filed a freedom of information act lawsuit Friday to garner the information from the government. Larry Klayman, Chairman and General Counsel of Judicial Watch, a US government watchdog, said, “the Clinton Administration has used and continues to use the FBI as a political weapon against its perceived adversaries.” “Now we understand that the […]

U.S. State Department Funds Groups Lobbying “Yes” Vote on Pro-Abortion Kenya Constitution by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New evidence belies claims that the U.S. government is maintaining strict neutrality on Kenya’s proposed pro-abortion constitution, and indicates instead that the government is waging a proxy campaign in Kenya to get voters to approve the document. The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi has been vigorously denying complicity in getting out the “yes” vote, going as far as accusing its critics of “lying” and making “categorically false” claims. However, several U.S. Congressmen have uncovered information definitively […]

Catholics School Board Votes to Reverse Policy and Remove HPV Vaccine from Schools by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner BURLINGTON, June 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last night, trustees of the Halton Catholic District School Board voted in favour of passing a two-part motion that will ultimately see the removal of the HPV vaccine Gardasil from Halton schools. The first part of the motion was passed by a 5-4 vote, and stated that the HCDSB will no longer offer school premises for the purpose of providing the HPV vaccine. The second part pushed for an increased effort to impart to students the […]

School Board Official Changes Mind – Now Opposes HPV Vaccine in Schools by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, June 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Halton Catholic School Board trustee Joanne Matters has proposed a motion to curtail the current offering and administration of the HPV vaccine Gardasil in Halton schools. This comes as a surprise because last September saw Matters, a known pro-life advocate, vote in favor of allowing the vaccine into Halton schools. If passed, this new motion would reverse September’s decision on grounds that the administration of HPV vaccines in Catholic schools conveys “contradictory” messages to Catholic teachings on […]

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Halton Catholic School Board Approves Controversial HPV Vaccinations on School Premises by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen HAMILTON, September 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move which came as an unexpected shock to many in the pro-life movement, the board of trustees at the Halton Catholic District School Board voted 4-3 to reject a motion to forbid the controversial HPV vaccine to be offered or administered on the Catholic school board’s premises for the duration of this school year. The board has instead permitted the vaccine to be administered to girls as young as twelve on its premises. As LifeSiteNews.com reported […]

U.K. Government Tightens Leash on Homeschoolers: Fears Raised of Germany-Style Clampdown by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under newly announced Labour government rules, local council authorities are authorized to enter private homes to interview children, without parents present, on their safety and “quality of education.” The new regulations have raised fears among Britain’s homeschooling community of a government attack on the rights of parents to educate their children at home. Families will be forced to register with authorities and could face criminal penalties if they are deemed to be inadequately educating their children. The compulsory […]

German Family Freed from Criminal Charges for Homeschooling by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert ZITTAU, Germany, December 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After living under a cloud of criminal charges since 2007, the Brause family in Germany has finally been cleared of criminal child neglect for having homeschooled their five children. On December 2nd, Johannes Hildebrandt of the International Human Rights Group (IHRG), who had assisted the family’s legal battle, reported that the German court and the prosecutor are dropping charges against Mr. and Mrs. Brause. The Brouses had paid several fines and faced up to 2 years in prison as well […]

German Court Denies Missionary Family Residence Visa over Homeschooling by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith UEHLFELD, Germany, January 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A German court has rejected the visa appeal of a US Baptist missionary family, which now faces deportation from the country for choosing to educate their children at home instead of in the German school system. As previously reported by LifeSiteNews.com, Clint Robinson, his wife Susan and their three children were denied a residency permit by authorities in Germany after it was discovered that the Robinsons were Baptist missionaries and were homeschooling their children. Last minute negotiations last […]

German Court Orders Children to Be Returned to Homeschooling Family against State Advice by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White November 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Family Court judge in Germany has ruled that the children of a homeschooling family should be returned to the parental home on the condition that their school-aged children be enrolled in a state-approved school and the three-year-old in a “playgroup” for “socialization outside the family.” The Homeschool Legal Defence Association (HSLDA) reports that the decision of the judge was handed down against the recommendations of state officials who wanted to “keep an eye” on the family. […]