The British Government is drafting legislation that could see trustees of Christian charities and schools removed from their posts as part of the country’s fight against ‘extremism’. According to The Christian Institute, which cites leaked portions of the proposed law, Britain’s Charity Commission would be granted new powers to force the removal of individuals deemed...
The number of women aged over 35 in Britain having babies now outstrips those under 25, new statistics reveal. According to The Daily Telegraph, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 21% of babies born in England and Wales in 2014 were to mothers aged 35-plus, compared with 20% to those 25...
A federal court in the US state of Missouri has ruled that the Obama administration’s healthcare mandate for employers cannot compel religious organisations to provide the ‘Morning-After Pill’ to workers. The ‘Morning-After Pill’ can act as an abortifacient. According to Lifesite News, a three-judge panel of the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis, in making...
The Irish Government’s free pre-school programme has been criticised as “a placebo” after a study found it is failing to close the education gap between children from different social classes, The Sunday Times reports. According to the study, the first to examine the Government’s annual €175 million spend on providing every child with a free year of pre-school...
An Independent TD has called on the Irish Government to officially recognise the persecution of Christians in Iraq and Syria as genocide. Deputy Mattie McGrath tabled an official motion before the Dáil, in which he says that “Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria will be exterminated or forced to migrate solely for...
Executives of the US abortion provider Planned Parenthood have been filmed admitting that the organisation would suffer if the public became aware of its trading in foetal body parts. The admission has come in the 10th undercover video to be released by the Centre for Medical Progress, in which a vice president of Planned Parenthood, Vanessa...
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has had to to conceal the identities of staff members engaged in drafting a document on medically challenging pregnanciesbecause of an angry backlash from some pro-choice staff against some of the language being used in the document. According to The Irish Catholic newspaper, during the drafting stage of the HSE’s ‘Bereavement Care Standards following Pregnancy...
Doctors in Canada unwilling to assist patients to commit suicide are now required to refer patients to physicians who will under new regulations. According to Lifesite News, the country’s College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has issued a new policy document, ‘Planning for and Providing Quality End-of-Life Care’, which aims to deal with issues...
Religious solemnisers will not be compelled to solemnise any marriage that is against their conscience on religious grounds, the Irish Government has said. As the country’s Justice Minister, Frances Fitzgerald (pictured), announced plans to bring the finalised Marriage Bill 2015 before the Dáil next week, she stressed that the new legislation will not place pressure...
A leading government MP in Britain has said that people of faith should be protected from bullying and harassment in their workplace. Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, made his comments at the launch of a new guide which aims to help employers better understand and accommodate the beliefs of Jews in their...
