Social services in the UK failed on numerous occasions to intervene in the case of a toddler who ended up being killed by his father giving him methadone according to an independent review published on Tuesday. The report catalogued a series of failures by a range of professional bodies in the months before Jayden Lee...
Church organisations must not lose their Christian identity when making their case in the public square, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (pictured) has warned. Speaking at a meeting of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) Assembly currently underway in Nicosia, Cyprus Archbishop Martin warned that when Church bodies become simply lobbying organisations like other lobbying organisations,...
A quarter of women in the UK wish they had tried to start a family earlier, according to a new survey of women. The poll of more than 3,000 women aged 28 to 45 found 24pc regretted having waited so long, and 17 per cent were worried about being too old to conceive, the Daily...
Christians should resign if their faith clashes with their work, lawyers for the UK government have told the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The lawyers were making the argument in a landmark case involving four employees who claim that they have been the victims of religious discrimination in the workplace. They said...
A father in the Canadian province of Ontario is seeking to have atheist tracts distributed to children in the province’s schools along with Gideon bibles. The bibles are only given to children with the permission of the parents. Rene Chouinard, a father of two school-age children and an active secularist said he didn’t think that...
A landmark case on religious freedom will be heard today at the European Court of Human Rights today as four workers challenge British judgements over their right to practice their religion in various ways. The British Government is opposing the four Christians who have taken the case. The four Christians include two workers forced out...
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has conceded that the Church has the right to lobby politicians on abortion and other issues. Mr Gilmore was responding to journalists’ questions after his party colleague, Pat Rabbitte, told RTE last week that the Church should not ‘dictate’ to politicians and that this would be a retrograde step. Mr Rabbitte was...
The University of Texas has cleared one of its academics of a ‘scientific misconduct’ charge after a complaint was lodged against him as a result of research he published comparing children raised by same-sex couples with children raised in other families. The research, by associate professor of sociology, Mark Regnerus, showed that children raised by...
A notary in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has recognised a three person civil union between a man and two women. It is uncertain whether the move will withstand a legal challenge. The notary in question, Claudia do Nascimento Domingues has said the three individuals should be entitled to family rights, the BBC reports....
Government policies in the UK aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies have failed to have any impact, according to a new study. The study looked at the teenage pregnancy figures between 1969 and 2009. It found that despite the millions of pounds spent in government initiatives over the last four decades pregnancy rates among teenaged girls...
