Recent US News

By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision over whether the Holy See can be named as a defendant in a sex abuse case is not what most media have reported, says a noted legal expert on religious discrimination. “Unlike just about everyone else who seems to have commented on the subject I decided to find the facts first and comment afterwards and the actual legal facts are quite different from what is being reported,” wrote UK lawyer and author Neil Addison on his blog. Addison is the founder of the Thomas […]

Friday July 9, 2010 Alabama Court Agrees to Protect Survivors’ Free Speech BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal district court in Alabama approved a consent order today ensuring that police in Birmingham, Alabama, will not interfere with the first-amendment rights of the pro-life youth group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. The city agreed to the order after the Survivors, represented by the Life Legal Defense Foundation, sued for injunctive relief and damages. The suit, filed in early June, arose from an incident in February 2009, when nine members of the Survivors, based in Riverside, California, were arrested […]

By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, Illinois, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Staff at the Rockford abortion mill, which has been blaring the radio through its speakers to drown out pro-life counselors for several weeks, got an unpleasant surprise Friday morning when a local D.J. found out what his show was being used for. LifeSiteNews.com has reported numerous times on the bizarre Rockford abortuary, which has taken to taunting pro-life witnesses with signage and other paraphernalia mocking Christianity and Jesus Christ, and even directing personal insults at local pro-lifers. (See coverage here) The facility’s latest form of harassment, blasting a radio talk […]

By Kathleen Gilbert URBANA, Illinois, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic professor has been fired from the University of Illinois for sending an email to students in a course on Catholic doctrine, explaining how homosexual activity is contrary to the natural moral law. Kenneth Howell of Champaign, IL, also lost his job with the diocese of Peoria at the Newman center on campus, where he had been employed for 12 years, after university officials confronted Howell about the email. Howell had taught “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought” at the university's Department of Religion since 2001. In an […]

By Kathleen Gilbert NAIROBI, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the launch of a probe into whether the federal government is illegally supporting a new pro-abortion constitution for Kenya, Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi have denied that America is funding a campaign favoring the document, saying only that the U.S. supports “the constitutional review process.” In a statement released today, the U.S. embassy emphasized that “The US Government is supporting the constitutional review process as the centrepiece of the broad reform agenda agreed to following the post-election crisis,” as reported by Kenya's Daily Nation. “The referendum is in […]

Monday May 10, 2010 Stupak: ObamaCare Debacle ‘Changed My Relationship with the Pro-life Movement’ By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), the once-hero of the pro-life movement who vowed opposition to the pro-abortion health care reform bill only to vote for it in the end, has described in a Newsweek column how Obama’s 11th-hour promise of an “ironclad” executive order against abortion funding ruptured his relationship with the U.S. Catholic Bishops as partners in protecting the rights of the unborn. In the column, he repeats his previous assertion that health care reform […]

Friday July 9, 2010 Federal Judge Rules Fed Gay ‘Marriage’ Ban Unconstitutional By Kathleen Gilbert Updated: 07/09/10, 15:09 BOSTON, MA, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which enshrines in law the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. Judge Joseph Tauro claimed in a ruling Thursday that DOMA violates the right of homosexual couples to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. “This court has determined that it is clearly within the authority of the Commonwealth to recognize same-sex marriages among its […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Notre Dame Honored GE Despite Embryonic Stem Cell Research SOUTH BEND, Indiana, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Notre Dame has ignored a request to rescind the University’s May 2010 honoring of General Electric (GE) for “values-based decision making,” despite the company’s involvement with embryonic stem cell research. In a letter dated June 1 to Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins, C.S.C., Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick J. Reilly wrote, “Given Notre Dame’s Catholic identity, especially considering its ‘Statement Supporting the Choice for Life’ issued a month ago, it is contradictory and potentially scandalous […]

Thursday July 8, 2010 Buffett Billions Padding “Charitable” Abortion Advocacy By Peter J. Smith OMAHA, Nebraska, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the last number of years American billionaire Warren Buffett, 79, has gradually been giving away his estimated $47 billion fortune – and much of it is going to support the work of abortion activists worldwide. The Bloomberg news agency reports that Buffett’s annual gift this year to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – which supports population control efforts around the globe – was figured at $1.6 billion in Class B stock of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s Omaha-based company. […]

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Virginia Memorial for Unborn Vandalized By James Tillman FRANKLIN, Virginia, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Vandals have broken and uprooted dozens of the 275 crosses set up by Rock Church in Franklin, Virginia to symbolize the victims of abortion. Rock Church has been putting the crosses up since April. Each cross stands for 10 babies killed by abortion. A sign by the crosses explains that in Hampton Roads, where Rock Church is located, 175 babies die of abortion every week. Seventeen crosses are added each week to represent those babies. “My hope would be that it’s […]