A school in the UK is being sued by Muslim parents after banning pupils from wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf in lessons. St Cyprian’s Greek Orthodox primary in south London is set for a case in the High Court after it was claimed that their uniform policy breaches children’s religious freedom, the Daily Telegraph...
Child Benefit payments should be replaced with State-subsidised child care, the Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald (pictured), has said. In an interview with the Irish Times, Ms Fitzgerald said that the Government spent €2 billion a year on child benefit. She proposed replacing this monthly payment with a subsidy for childcare. However, CSO figures from...
Christianity is threatened with extinction in the biblical heartlands of the Middle East because of Islamist oppression, according to a report from a UK think-tank. And the report goes on to say that Western politicians and media ignore the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and the wider world because they fear being accused...
A ‘dad’ is tenth most popular Christmas list request for children in the UK, according to a new survey. In Britain, 40 percent of children are now born outside marriage. In Ireland the figure is 34 percent. Many have no contact with their fathers. The poll of 2,000 British parents found most children will put...
Only one in a hundred Christmas cards sold in British High Street stores feature the birth of Jesus, according to new market research, prompting accusations that retailers are “airbrushing” Christianity out of Christmas. Out of almost 6,000 types of Christmas card on sale in supermarkets, card shops and convenience stores sampled, only 34 featured...
The ‘true structure’ of the family is under attack, Pope Benedict has said in his annual Christmas address to the Curia. Quoting the Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, the Pope said the very notion of what it is to be a man or a woman is being called into question by theories which say...
Gardaí have said they will investigate threats made to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (pictured) that warned him to be careful while “out on the streets” because of his views on abortion. Dr Martin said he received the letter in the past week and reported it to gardai straight away, according to The Irish Independent. Dr Martin...
Marriage in “Middle America” is declining rapidly, a new report by a leading think tank has warned. According to the study, entitled “The President’s Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent”, 44 percent of children of ‘moderately educated’ women are now born outside of marriage, up sharply from 13 percent in the 1980s. ‘Moderately educated’...
Nearly 60pc of births in Limerick city were to unmarried parents in the second quarter of this year, according to new figures from the CSO. In addition, more than half of all births (52pc) in Waterford City were outside marriage, while just under half, or 49pc of all births in Cork City were outside marriage....
Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte (pictured) has accused the Catholic bishops of using “strident” language in the abortion debate and said they must not ‘dictate’ to the Government. He was commenting on remarks made by Bishop Leo O’Reilly, who said that the Government’s decision to introduce abortion legislation was “the first step on the road...
