A Christian fostering and adoption agency that faced the prospect of closure over their policy of placing children with Christian married couples have revealed plans to expand their work across the UK. Cornerstone Fostering and Adoption agency were investigated in 2008 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission after new equality laws came into force....
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has rejected three complaints against the apology RTE made to John Waters and members of The Iona Institute following accusations against them by Rory O’Neill on the Saturday Night Show in January. The complaints were that RTE should not apologise for comments made by guests, that what O’Neill said...
Two major law societies in Canada have refused to recognise the law degree from a proposed new Christian law school seeking accreditation because of its parent university’s policies on sexual ethics. According to Christianity Today, Trinity Western University (TWU) institutes a “community covenant” where students and staff are asked to refrain from “sexual intimacy that...
The U.S. Supreme Court has given local government officials across the United States more leeway to begin monthly town meetings with a prayer, ruling that prayers from a specific faith or tradition do not automatically violate the U.S. Constitution. According to Reuters, the court said on a 5-4 vote that the town of Greece in New...
Thousands of people took part in the ‘National Vigil for Life’ on Saturday on Merrion Square, Dublin to protest against the Government’s abortion legislation. Organisers said they are ‘massively encouraged’ by the turnout. The Vigil is the first such event to take place since the Government’s “Protection of Life During Pregnancy” Act legalised direct abortion...
Speaking at the “Celeberation of Catholic Education: Past, Present and Future” event in Galway. Archbishop Martin said that ”the willingness of the Catholic Church to foster pluralism in educational patronage runs up against opposition, especially at local level. That opposition comes often from within local Catholic communities, and it can come – as I have said...
The families of people who died in the 1916 rising have appealed to Minister Alan Shatter to lift a ban he has imposed on Defence Force members taking part officially in a commemoration Mass for the rising. According to the Irish Catholic, Cara O’Neill, whose grandmother was in the GPO during Easter week 1916, said...
Cohabiting couples should enjoy the same legal protection as those who are married, the most senior family law judge in England and Wales has said. He also called for the idea of fault or blame to be completely removed from divorce, and added that divorce could largely be taken out of the court system, with...
Declan Ganley, Senator Ronan Mullen (pictured) and Professor Patricia Casey will be among the speakers at a pro-life conference to take place in Westport, Co Mayo starting on Friday and ending on Sunday. The theme of the conference is Life is fragile such as the effect of economics on everyday life, to coping with suicide to...
Doctors and nurses who have conscientious objections to providing the morning-after pill and other forms of so-called “emergency contraception” are being barred from specialist professional qualifications in the UK under offical guidelines. According to the Daily Telegraph, doctors who object to “any form of contraception” including a new variant of the morning-after pill that can...
