Canada has been urged to improve its provision of palliative care following a Supreme Court decision to legalise assisted suicide. Following the unanimous decision by the court to overturn a 1993 ban on assisted suicide, the Catholic Bishops of Canada issued a statement decrying the move and calling on government to not only “interpret the...
The Council of Europe has adopted a resolution to counter intolerance against Christians. In a vote at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council, ‘Tackling intolerance and discrimination in Europe with a special focus on Christians’ was adopted by an overwhelming majority of 67 to 2. There were 15 abstentions. The resolution was formulated from a...
A Christian bakery in the US state of Oregon faces a fine of up to $150,000 after a court found them guilty of ‘discrimination’. The company had declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Two years after a gay couple began legal proceedings against the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery, the Oregon...
A European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision concerning a child obtained by an Italian couple from a surrogate mother in Russia has been condemned as “ratifying the sale of children”. Following a ruling by the Strasbourg court that the child should not have been removed by Italian authorities from the commissioning couple because they...
Luxembourg is to ban religious education in State schools irrespective of the wishes of parents. The move in the Catholic majority country will see religion classes in schools replaced with lessons on ethics and morals, to include classes on world religions. The shift, which has been compared to a move towards the secular French model...
The House of Commons has voted to legalise the creation of “three parent babies” who will have genetic material from three different adults. Proposals to allow for the procedure passed in a free vote, with 382 MPs were in favour and 128 against. Ministers said that mitochondrial DNA transfer, where diseased parts of an embryo...
A majority of Italians oppose gay marriage and gay adoption, a new survey of attitudes in the country has revealed. Despite something of a liberal shift in other areas, such as surrogate motherhood and the morning after pill, of those polled by the European Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies (Eurispes), 59.2% voiced opposition...
The case against a bakery in Northern Ireland which refused to bake a cake with a pro-same sex marriage message will be heard at the end of March. Ashers Bakery, in Newtownabbey, was issued with legal proceedings after the Equality Commission of Northern Ireland contended that the business, despite being founded and run by a Christian...
Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of British education standards body Ofsted, has denied that it has an anti-Christian agenda after he faced criticism from MPs on the House of Commons select committee on education. MPs on the committee said they had been inundated with emails from parents who were furious after Ofsted issued damning reports on...
Two doctors in Britain are facing charges in connection with gender-based abortion, normally meaning the aborting of a foetus simply because it is female. Following a lengthy campaign by a pro-life campaigner, Drs Palaniappan Rajmohan and Prabha Sivaraman are to appear in court after a summons was issued on January 26. The summons was granted...
