The Minister for Education, Jan O’Sullivan is seeking to amend Rule 68, the regulation which allows primary schools to have their religious ethos integrated with the teaching of the other subjects. The Department of Education said that Minister O’Sullivan believes “the language and tone of Rule 68 is archaic and doesn’t reflect the reality of...
A growing share of the American public (49 percent) believe churches and other religious groups should “express their views on day-to-day social and political issues”. This is up from a low of 40% in 2012. The poll from Pew Research also shows that nearly three-quarters of Americans think religion is losing influence in American life....
A decision by Dundee University Students Association (DUSA) to ban the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) from setting up a pro-life stand at their fresher’s fair has been attacked by a leading barrister specialising in religious freedom. A “fresher’s fair” is where various student bodies invite first year students to join their...
Tens of thousands of pro-life demonstration took place in Madrid at the weekend calling on the Spanish government to keep its pledge to pass more restrictive abortion laws, after rumours emerged that the conservative People’s Party (PP) was planning to shelve its abortion bill. Last week, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that Prime Minister...
A convicted murderer and rapist is to be euthanised in Belgium at his own request, in the country’s latest controversy related to assisted dying. The Irish Independent reports that Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has spent the last 30 years in prison for repeated convictions, has requested for three years that the state help him...
Pope Francis told the 20 couples that he married last week in St Peter’s Basilica that “the reciprocity of difference” between men and women was an essential part of marriage. The Pope said in his homily: “The love of Christ, which has blessed and sanctified the union of husband and wife, is able to sustain...
One of America’s largest Christian student organisations has been banned from operating as a recognised student body in California State Universities because it wants its leaders to be Christian. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship has chapters in over 600 American universities, but were “derecognised” by the California State University system (CSU) after a new anti-discrimination policy required...
A pro-life healthcare provider is planning to open a centre in Belfast, in close proximity to the Marie Stopes abortion clinic, the BBC reports. Stanton Healthcare, which describes itself as “a revolutionary organisation that seeks to replace abortion businesses around the world” aims to open a clinic in Belfast’s Victoria Street by 2015. According to...
The fact that nine staff members who treated Savita Halappanavar before her death at Galway University Hospital have been disciplined shows that the case “was misused, massively and continuously, by major players in politics and media who were more concerned with getting abortion legislation over the line than accurate reporting”, the Pro-Life Campaign has said....
The United States is increasingly enforcing a “state religion” based on socially liberal values, the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, said this week. He added that Catholics would end up “limiting (their) access to positions of prestige and power in society” if they held to their values. Writing in his regular column, Cardinal...
