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Archive for March, 2010

New Report by American Law Firm Pushes for Abortion in Kenya

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Terrence McKeegan’             `LifeSiteNews’   NEW YORK, NY, March 25, 2010 (C-FAM) - Earlier this month, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a New York-based public interest law firm that seeks to expand ... Read more..

10 Questions from the Atheists

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Apologetics, Atheism | Comments Off

By David Ould, Stand Firm Here in Australia, considerable attention was given to the recent Global Atheist Convention held in Melbourne. The event generated a lot of interest in the local ... Read more..

PepsiCo shareholder proposal seeks accountability in funding for homosexual causes

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

From CNA Shareholders of PepsiCo should vote for a shareholder proposal that the food, drink and snack company disclose its standards for donating over $75 million in corporate assets to controversial ... Read more..

A Place to Stand

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, Church of England | Comments Off

Chris Sugden in 'Evangelicals Now' - April 2010   It has been the "genius" of the Church of England since the time of Elizabeth 1 to seek a degree of principled comprehensiveness. ... Read more..

Christian chemists to keep morning-after pill opt-out

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Christian chemists will still be allowed to opt-out of selling the morning-after pill on religious grounds following guidance produced by the new regulator.   The morning-after pill can cause an ... Read more..

Unrest: Violence, Threats Assail Congressmen in Wake of Health Bill Passage

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Kathleen Gilbert’                         `LifeSiteNews’   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Thanks to widespread popular turmoil in the wake of the health care bill's passage this week, several U.S. lawmakers have requested ... Read more..

Quebec Bishops Condemn Province’s Bid to Cut Christmas, Weekends from School Calendar

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Patrick Craine’                            `LifeSiteNews’   QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet and the Quebec bishops have flatly condemned a decree issued last month by the Quebec Ministry of ... Read more..

Pope considers emergency ‘abuse summit’

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`John Phillips’                   `Independent’   As pilgrims, tourists and the faithful congregate in St Peter's Square today to collect olive branches during a solemn Palm Sunday Mass, an embattled Pope Benedict XVI is ... Read more..

Gordon Brown pledges ‘action’ on legal high

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Gordon Brown has committed himself to taking “immediate action” on the legal drug behind a spate of deaths if advisors recommend outlawing the so-called ‘legal high’.   The Prime Minister’s ... Read more..

Large Majority of French Women Agree that Abortion Has Detrimental Psychological Effects: 83% of women believe that abortion does lasting psychological damage, and 61% believe that there are too many abortions in France

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Matthew Hoffman’                              `LifeSiteNews’   PARIS, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A large majority of French women say that there are too many abortions in their country, and that abortions "leaves psychological traces ... Read more..

British Christians aren’t persecuted, but they are held in contempt

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`George Pitcher’       `Daily Telegraph’   As a rule, when Church of England bishops start talking about being persecuted, from the drawing rooms of their palaces or over tea in the House of ... Read more..

NYTimes vs. Pope Benedict: Paper Seeks to Implicate Pope in Abuse Cases

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`John Jalsevac’                    `LifeSiteNews’   March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The NYTimes has set its sights firmly on Pope Benedict in its front page coverage of the fallout of the sex abuse crisis ... Read more..

tudy claims min booze pricing would benefit all

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Thousands of lives would be saved if minimum pricing on alcohol was introduced, a university study has said.   The University of Sheffield study also said moderate drinkers would benefit ... Read more..

Missing Human Rights Attorney Gao Zhisheng Confirmed ‘Alive’

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Christian News Wire'                       `China Aid'   SHANXI, China, March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Sunday, March 28, 2010, missing human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng spoke to his wife and children for the first ... Read more..

Street preacher fined £1,000 for homophobia

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Censorship, Freedom Of Speech, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Pink News An American street preacher who told shoppers in Glasgow that gays would go to hell has been fined £1,000. Shawn Holes, 47, from New York state, was on a ... Read more..

In Defence of The Pope

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By Martin Meenagh (Clip) The hysterical attacks on the Pope, and on Catholicism, rest on a thin material foundation of causation and a deep well of sad and horrible abuse. This ... Read more..

Maternity Leave and the Mother Wars

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg A brand new survey of what women really want concerning paid maternity leave is most revealing. Contrary to the usual line that basically all women want a paid ... Read more..

Gene Robinson to take new Washington-based policy role

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Jeff Walton, IRD A politically liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank announced Tuesday that V. Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, is joining the organization as a ... Read more..

Only Hope for a More Conservative Britain is a Tory Loss: Conservative Insider

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News The only hope for both Britain and the UK Conservative party is for David Cameron to lose the upcoming general election, a Tory insider told LifeSiteNews.com ... Read more..

Obama Appoints Lesbian Activist to EEOC Board

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News President Obama appointed lesbian activist Chai Feldblum over the weekend to the five-member board of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the government office responsible for ... Read more..