Christians are the victims in 85pc of ‘hate crimes’ in Europe according to a new report published yesterday. The report, published by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe, a European body established to record instances of anti-Christian bias, provides a series of examples of attacks on Christians in 2011. Launching the...
A senior Sikh leader and a senior Jewish rabbi have both spoken out against redefining marriage as opposition continues to mount against the Government. Lord Singh and Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet voiced their concern as it emerged from the Government’s consultation document that the words “husband and wife” are to be removed from some official forms...
A clear majority of Americans oppose the Obama Administration’s mandate which requires Church-run institutions to provide health insurance to their employees which covers abortifacient drugs, according to a new poll. A survey commissioned by the New York Times and US TV network CBS finds Americans strongly oppose the new Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate...
Redefining marriage could lead to people who believe in traditional marriage being accused of ‘hate crimes’, UKIP’s openly gay London Regional Chairman has warned. David Coburn, who is also a London Assembly candidate, also said that rewriting the definition of marriage would represent an “unnecessary victory roll” by homosexuals. Writing on a homosexual news website...
Two married parents are the best way to bring up children, a new British Government document has said. Work and pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith (pictured) said policy had “cloaked neglect of the family under the veil of neutrality”. Mr Duncan Smith promised Government funds to ensure troubled households get more support, rather than “shrugging...
French legislation which favours opposite-sex couples in regard to both adoption and access to certain Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) techniques are not in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In the case of GAS et DUBOIS c. France (Requête no 25951/07), the court held, by...
Proposed Government legislation on education could undermine partnership between denominational patrons of schools and the Department, according to senior figures from the Catholic Church. A delegation from the Catholic Church’s Council for Education appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education yesterday. Bishop Brendan Kelly, Chair of the Council for Education,...
The right of denominational schools to have a clear identity and ethos was strongly defended at a conference on denominational education organised by The Iona Institute today. Proposals to amend rules which allow denominational schools to permeate the day with their own ethos would “undermine the characteristic spirit” of such schools, Fr Michael Drumm, the...
Prime Minister David Cameron (pictured) has signalled that he supports the right of Christians to wear crosses at work, despite the fact that his Government will argue against this very right before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). On Monday a spokesman for Mr Cameron said: “The PM’s personal view is that people should...
Marriage is the union of one man and one woman, and this definition “remains constant,” the two senior figures in the Church of Ireland have said in a joint statement following a conference which discussed homosexuality. The Archbishop of Armagh, Alan Harper and the Archbishop of Dublin, Michael Jackson (pictured), in a letter on the...
