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Marriage Protection Amendment Waits for Congresshttp://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039400.cfm NBC to mock the Crucifixion of Christhttp://www.afa.net/nbcspecialalert.asp Schiavo news points up need of support for priests and reform of chancerieshttp://www.spiritdaily.com/bishopviews.htm Women Sue Wal-Mart Over Morning After Pillhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_contraception U.K. Evangelicals Applaud Defeat of Religious Hate Crime Lawhttp://www.christianpost.com/article/europe/606/section/uk.evangelicals.applaud.defeat.of.religious.hate.crime.law/1.htm Brokeback – Understanding Propagandahttp://www.rense.com/general69/prop.htm Gates speaks out against Internet censorshiphttp://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060201/gates_censorship_060201/20060201?hub=SciTech Britney, NBC plan to mock crucifixion – In ‘Will & Grace’ role, she does Christian cooking segment ‘Cruci-fixin’s’http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48612 Giving to churches by US seniors threatened?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48598 Major League Baseball succumbs to Beijing – Forces Taiwan to forgo name, flag, anthem at tournamenthttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48597 Colorado bishops, others, blast proposed legislation, cite […]

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to the leaders of the Christian Associations of Italian Workers Friday, Pope Benedict XVI warned, “As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.” Benedict was in fact making his own the statement first uttered by his predecessor John Paul II, who made the statement in 2000. (see coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/feb/00022501.html ) John Paul originally wrote the statement in 1991 in the encyclical Centesimus Annus. Benedict XVI highlighted how, in our time, science and technology “present huge possibilities for improving everyone’s lives,” but […]

NEW YORK, January 31, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Times reports today on a study showing that a combination of physical touch and the deep emotional commitment between married couples greatly reduces the neurological signs of stress. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia studied the effects of touch on 16 couples that rated “very happily married” on a questionnaire. The research showed that a touch of the hand from a husband had a significant soothing effect on his wife’s stress levels. The woman’s normal neural reaction to anticipating threatening situation, in this case a […]

Speaker says "it was the politicians who were whistling past the graveyard, dodging reality at all costs"

By Hilary White LONDON, January 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the most prestigious medical publications in the world, the British Medical Journal, has published an editorial calling for the legalisation of brothels. Fiona Godlee, the Journal’s editor said that the creation of legalised establishments in which three prostitutes would work together would reduce child prostitution and sex-slavery, a proposal denounced by anti-trafficking activists. Godlee is responding to a proposal of the Blair government to change the definition of what constitutes a brothel in order to allow up to three women to work from the same address. A government strategy […]

Alito Sworn In as Nation’s 110th Supreme Court Justicehttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183270,00.html The Lessons of Alito – It’s important to remember one thing: quality matters. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/648jhqpm.asp A Supreme Day for America as Justice Alito Takes the BenchÂÂÂÂhttp://www.cwfa.org/articles/10030/LEGAL/scourt/index.htm The Liberal Nightmare Beginshttp://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/31/154642.shtml UK Anti-euthanasia alliance launched http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4662312.stm A majority of women in Britain want the abortion laws to be tightened to make it harder, or impossible, for them to terminate a pregnancy.http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0%2C%2C1697578%2C00.html She refused abortion, though her little boy had no brainhttp://www.latimes.com/la-na-hospice28jan28,0,1197650.story?coll=la-homepage-calendar-widget Mohler: 80-90% of Down syndrome babies killed in push for ‘human perfection’http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22533 Reuters on Abortion Debate: “Conservatives” vs. “Abortion Rights Activists” – […]

By John-Henry Westen ROME, January 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Baltimore’s Cardinal William Keeler, has announced that Pope Benedict XVI will likely visit the United States next year. In an announcement on WBAL radio, the Cardinal said that he made inquiries while in Rome two weeks ago and was informed that the Pope, “is planning to come to the United States next year, and that the visit to Baltimore was part of the program that he looked forward to participating in.” Vatican experts have suggested that the likely date for the visit will be October which would coincide with the General […]

By Terry Vanderheyden NEW YORK, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Jewish author has written a commentary that probes the motivation behind certain leaders of liberal Judaism’s contempt for evangelical Christianity. David Klinghoffer, whose article, Six Questions for Jews—From Christians, appears in this month’s edition of First Things and states, “These are troubled times for Jewish-Christian relations. In November, two of the most influential American Jewish leaders, representing large swaths of the Jewish community, gave major speeches vilifying politically conservative Christians,” he explains. Klinghoffer states that, as an Orthodox Jew, he finds it difficult to understand the animosity of liberal […]

By Terry Vanderheyden MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some commentators are describing Google, the world’s most used internet search engine, as “scary,” after learning that the internet giant stores web search history and e-mails. The UK’s Times on Line reported that Google keeps an “extraordinary amount” of user information. Google logs searches on its search engine, storing the information “indefinitely.”“Because every computer has a unique IP (internet protocol) address, every visit to every website can be traced back to the computer making it – a fact which is well known in geek circles but remarkably under-publicised outside […]

By Terry Vanderheyden ROME, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian prelate, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s Vicar for Rome, yesterday condemned a recent resolution passed by the European Union on homosexuals and same-sex “marriage,” calling the measure “profoundly wrong and full of negative consequences,” according to a Catholic Universe report. Among other things, the resolution, passed January 18, calls for action against member states who fail to implement programs directed at fair treatment of homosexuals in employment and occupation, and to “ensure that same-sex partners enjoy the same respect, dignity and protection as the rest of society” throughout the EU. […]