A popular Norwegian broadcaster has been banned from wearing a tiny cross on air after complaints from some viewers. The presenter, Siv Kristin Saellmann, wore the cross several times in the past month, but was recently told by regional editor, Anders Sårheim, not to wear the Christian symbol in future, The Local, a Norwegian news...
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has said that the Government will look at commissioning an expert report on assisted suicide. Mr Gilmore’s remarks came after a Dublin woman was charged yesterday with assisting in the suicide of a multiple sclerosis sufferer two years ago. In other countries where euthanasia has been legalised, the grounds under which euthanasia...
One in every eight divorced or separated fathers in the UK has lost all contact with their children, according to new figures. The figures show that almost a million men have dependent children with whom they don’t live and of these, almost 130,000 have no contact at all with their children, the Daily Telegraph reports....
Church of England schools are not the preserve of “white, middle class pupils” and should be allowed to expand to take in more children, according to the Church’s head of education. Anglican schools take as many pupils from poor backgrounds and ethnic minorities as the average school in England and Wales, new figures show. His...
New legislation which will deliberately sever the natural ties between children and their biological parents is being proposed by Justice Minister Alan Shatter. It will also permit the creation of deliberately ‘motherless’ or ‘fatherless’ children, that is children who will not have the care of either a mother or a father as the case may...
A conference on corporate ethics is being held in Dublin today and tomorrow by the Irish branch of the European Business Ethics Network. The conference, entitled Corporate Conscience, will examine a number of issues relating to corporate crime and ethics. A range of experts on the subjects will contribute to the conference, including Irish Times...
Sixty children either known to or in the care of the HSE died between 2010 and 2012, an independent review has revealed. An examination of how the cases were handled by social services suggested that there had been poor co-operation between State agencies and sub-standard assessments of vulnerable children’s needs, the Irish Times reports. The...
A growing number of middle-aged women in Ireland are facing the stresses of caring for both their children and their own parents at the same time, a new study suggests. A report from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) shows that one third of women aged 50-69 in Ireland today are in the ‘sandwich...
Three Irish women who have lodged a complaint against Ireland to the UN on the grounds that they were unable to abort their fatally handicapped babies in Ireland are being helped by one of America’s leading pro-abortion groups, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR). The CRR has a history of promoting abortion internationally. It has...
The Catholic Church in England and Wales is considering stopping its involvement in civil marriage in the wake of the legalisation of same-sex marriage earlier this year. At their bi-annual plenary meeting in Hinsley Hall, Leeds this week the bishops discussed adjustments the Church will have to make in response to the new legislation, the...
