More than half of Muslims in Ireland experience some form of hostility, from being spat at in public spaces to women having their hijab forcibly removed by strangers. According to The Sunday Times, one third of the 345 Muslim men and women in 14 Irish towns and cities surveyed by the University of Limerick said...
An evangelical Christian civil engineer who was fired from South Tipperary County Council has been awarded €70,000 in compensation by the Equality Tribunal, which found he was discriminated against over his religion. According to the Irish Times, John McAteer was dismissed for ‘repeatedly and consistently’ speaking about his faith to members of the public and...
President Obama will today sign two executive orders to prevent federal contractors from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. There will be no exemption from the new regulations for religious organisations, despite calls from religious organisations and prominent faith leaders for one to be granted. According to The Atlantic, the new...
The European Court of Human Rights has found that there is no right to same-sex marriage under the European Convention on Human Rights. In deciding on a case where a Finnish transgendered person wished to remain legally married to their wife after a change of their legal identity from male to female, the Grand Chamber...
A recent graduate from nursing school is suing a medical facility in Florida, alleging that they refused to employ her specifically because of her pro-life views. According to LifeSiteNews Sara Hellwege applied for a job as a Certified Nurse Midwife at Tampa Family Health Centers (TFHC) in April, after the company advertised four open positions....
A bill that would have placed substantial restrictions on business owners’ religious freedom has been defeated in a party-line vote in the US Senate. The Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interferecne Act sought to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Hobby Lobby VS Burwell, where the court found that employers are not obliged to...
Ireland’s abortion laws and its policies on faith schools have been among the issues raised by the U.N. Human Rights Committee in a hearing scrutinising Ireland’s human rights record. In response, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said that “significant recent developments” had been made “in relation to access to lawful termination of pregnancy in Ireland”. “The...
A Dutch academic who supported euthanasia legalisation in the Netherlands has urged the British parliament not to introduce assisted suicide, ahead of a debate on Lord Falconer’s ‘assisted dying’ bill in the House of Lords next week. That Bill would allow terminally ill patients to obtain lethal drugs to kill themselves. According to the Christian...
The director of a major Catholic hospital in Warsaw has been fired after he refused to help a woman obtain an abortion for her unborn child, who suffered from severe brain malformations. According to LifeSiteNews, Dr Bogden Chazan, director of the Holy Family Hospital, was fined 70,000 zlotys (about €17,000) and removed from his position by the...
A recent graduate from nursing school is suing a medical facility in Florida, alleging that they refused to employ her specifically because of her pro-life views. According to LifeSiteNews Sara Hellwege applied for a job as a Certified Nurse Midwife at Tampa Family Health Centers (TFHC) in April, after the company advertised four open positions....
