Monday January 24, 2000
See today’s LifeSiteNews stories
MARCH FOR LIFE USA
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (LSN.ca) – Hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans are marching today in commemoration of the 27th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision which brought abortion to the US. While the pro-abortion media has reported equal representation at events dealing with the anniversary, eye-witnesses report an overwhelming pro-life presence with little if any opposition present.
The Associated Press reported yesterday that “Hundreds of activists on both sides of the abortion debate converged on the nation’s capital Saturday to mark the 27th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision with a weekend of vigils, marches and protests.” Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition Canada is in Washington joining in the March for Life. Hughes told LifeSite this afternoon that there were hundreds of thousands of pro-life marchers and that he had not seen any abortion supporters thus far.
One of the pro-life events Sunday, reported on in the LA Times, was a demonstration featuring large pro-life signs set up on the roads leading to the church President Clinton attends.
See the Associated Press report and the LA Times at:
https://www.suntimes.com/output/news/roe23.html https://www.latimes.com/wires/wpolitics/20000123/tCB00V0271.h…
See the Roe V Wade messages from US pro-life groups at: Family Research Council https://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000122/dc_frc_abo_1.html Why Life? https://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000121/va_why_lif_1.html American Life League https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY;=… -2000/0001121944&EDATE;=
CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION GROUP HELPS PREGNANT WOMEN
– Voice of the Martyrs sends money for Sudanese refugees –
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Jan 24 (LSN.ca) – Glenn Penner, Director of Development for Voice of the Martyrs, included a special report in the latest issue of the organization’s newsletter on the persecution Christians are facing in Egypt. In the report, Penner also discusses the suffering of persecuted Christians from Sudan who have fled to Egypt’s capital, Cairo, and notes that many of the women are pregnant. He says: “Many Sudanese mothers are pregnant and unable to pay the fee that hospitals regularly charge them to deliver their baby. Dr. S. [name kept confidential by VOM for security purposes] is trying to provide affordable medical help for these dear people, but the hospital is unable to subsidize her work.”
Penner then notes that this doctor delivers an average of five Sudanese babies each day. He adds that VOM sent $14,000 from their Relief and Development Fund to Egypt to help workers provide for the medical needs of these Sudanese refugees.
VOM can be reached at (905) 602-4832 or [email protected] . Their address is: Box 117, Port Credit, Mississauga, ON L5G 4L5. Internet address: https://www.persecution.net
MP CALLS CARDINAL RAVING BIGOT FOR PRO-FAMILY STAND
GLASGOW, Scotland, Jan 24 (LSN.ca) – George Galloway, a leading Labour MP from Glasgow likened Cardinal Thomas Winning, leader of Scotland’s 750,000 Catholics, to a “raving bigot” following the cardinal’s opposition to the promotion of homosexuality in schools.
Galloway was reacting to the cardinal’s use of the word “perverse” to describe the homosexual act. “I was disgusted by the use of this word [perversion] which could have dripped from the lips of any raving bigot, and Cardinal Winning had no business using such a word,” said Galloway. “Cardinal Winning is not fit for the great office that he holds.”
However, the Rt. Rev James Jones, the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, spoke up in support of Cardinal Winning, rejecting accusations that the cardinal is “homophobic.”
For more see the Telegraph at:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo;=aNNea3…
LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
The Catholic Register reports today that Ontario’s Catholic bishops have thrown their support behind a new coalition seeking full government funding of religious-based schools in addition to the already funded Catholic school system. https://www.catholicregister.org/2000/news/012400_2W.html
A Reuters report circulated by Pro-Life E-News notes that Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has pledged to hold a referendum on changing the country’s abortion laws.
Church News reported Saturday that Columbia is considering a new Penal Code which would allow for genetic manipulation of human embryos for scientific research. Columbia Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Saenz of Bogota jas written an article opposing the measure saying that the proposals put “human being’s dignity at stake.”
Marion Richardson, 36, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England is suing Britain’s largest condom manufacturer for substantial damages, claiming that a split condom led to the birth of her third child. The company denies the condom was defective. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&rtmo;=3wwHxu…
US NEWS ROUNDUP
APC news reports that a 15-year-old boy who allegedly backed out of a suicide pact with his 15-year-old girlfriend, and watched her die, may be the first person charged under the state’s new assisted-suicide law. https://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/21/as…
President Clinton told Democratic Party donors Saturday that the fate of abortion would be determined by the current presidential election, “to pretend otherwise is naïve,” he said. https://www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500158337-5001973…
CORRECTION
The LifeSite Newsbyte on the pro-family demonstration outside the offices of Justice Minister Anne McLellan over the child pornography law stated there were “dozens” of protesters. Eye- witnesses have informed LifeSite that there were actually some 200 people demonstrating despite a temperatures of -20 C.