Married couples in the UK are to finally benefit from a tax break, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced. And he said that the proposal, worth up to £200 a year, was “just a start”. More than four million married couples are set to benefit from the move, which was a centerpiece...
Northern Ireland, which currently protects the right to life of the unborn child in the vast majority of situations, is to examine introducing abortion on the grounds of foetal abnormality and possibly rape and incest. Alliance leader and Health minister David Ford MLA said that he is to initiate a consultation on possible changes to...
A six year-old girl in the UK who wants to be treated as a boy has been given a support worker to make sure she is treated as a member of the opposite sex at school. Georgia, who is known as George, has wanted to be a boy since the age of three, according to...
The vast majority of children are cared for by parents or relatives, according to a new survey. The survey, commissioned by Donegal Childcare Committee, found that 77pc of pre-school children were being looked after by either parents (64pc) or paid or unpaid relatives (13pc). The survey showed that 81pc of primary school children were cared...
Politicians lacking Christian conviction and moral values have cause voters to lose trust in politics, according to a leading UK Labour politician. David Lammy (pictured), former minister for higher education, compared many current politicians to King Herod and accused the political system of being dominated by “yes-men, placemen and posers,” the Daily Telegraph reports. Mr...
Women’s brains are wired differently to men’s, according to new research. The study, published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, has found striking differences between the way that men’s and women’s brains are wired to work, the Irish Independent reports. Many gender theorists deny that there are any innate differences between men and...
Croatians have voted to define marriage as being between a man and a woman in a referendum at the weekend by a margin of almost two-to-one. Just over 65pc said “yes” to the referendum question: “Do you agree that marriage is matrimony between a man and a woman?” The result, which also received support...
Parents who are not married are four times more likely to split up than those who have wed, according to a new study from the UK. The study also showed that co-habiting couples with children under 16 are now responsible for the majority of family breakdowns although they make up just a fifth of all...
The UK Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a Christian B&B that only allows married couples to share a double bed. Owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull had been successfully sued by gay couple Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy, and ordered to pay £3,600 in damages, the Christian Institute reports. Mr and Mrs Bull say...
The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has accused the United Nations’ Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) of “inverting the standard of human rights” after it posed a number of questions about Ireland’s record on abortion. Yesterday it emerged that UNCAT had questioned the Government as to whether “adequate guidelines exist…..for medical and other professionals on criteria to...
