Christianity in Britain could be facing a collapse with new figures suggesting it is declining 50 per cent faster than previously thought, The Daily Telegraph reports. An analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population – while driving...
One of the country’s leading obstetricians has said he has seen no evidence that abortion can help a suicidal pregnant woman and that creates a moral dilemma for doctors. Speaking on Newstalk this morning, the Master of the Rotunda, Dr Sam Coulter Smith, said: “We as doctors are required to practice evidence based intervention, evidence...
Scientists and bioethicists have expressed serious concerns about the ethical implications of a new technique that uses and destroys cloned embryos to harvest stem cells for experimentation. Professor Martin Clynes, director of the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology at Dublin City University, said that the new technique, which involves the transfer of a donor cell...
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has warned that the Government’s abortion legislation will give the unborn child whose mother was deemed to be suicidal “less protection than is guaranteed in liberal abortion laws in other countries”. In what is Archbishop Martin’s first intervention in the debate over the Government’s proposal, he said...
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that guidelines in place in Switzerland which restrict access to ‘suicide’ drugs are insufficiently clear and are in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. However, the court did not rule that there is a right to assisted suicide in the Convention. The...
A coalition of groups opposed to the legalisation of same-sex marriage in France have come together to stand up for the freedom of conscience of religious individuals and institutions who could find themselves the target of ‘anti-discrimination’ legislation. Entitled Objection, the coalition has put together a manifesto outlining the threats posed by the government’s passage...
Philadelphia abortionist, Dr Kermit Gosnell, has been found guilty of three counts of first degree murder after it was found he killed babies after they had been delivered alive. He was also found guilty of conspiracy to perform abortions past Pennsylvania’s 24-week legal threshold. The jury also found him guilty on most of the more...
Young families have been the hardest hit by the recession, according to new research from a leading think-tank. The study by the the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) shows that households where the adults are under the age of 45 are being hit hardest by unemployment, mortgage arrears and negative equity. According to the...
The Irish launch of ‘The Global Charter of Conscience’ took place in Dublin yesterday. The purpose of the charter is to find a way of letting people of different beliefs co-exist in society and have their conscience rights curtailed to the smallest extent possible. Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness launched the document. The event...
Pro-life groups in the US have described the decision by a prominent US Catholic university to invite Taoiseach Enda Kenny to receive an honourary degree and speak at their graduation ceremony as “unconscionable” in light of the Government’s proposed abortion Bill. “After our painful experience for the past 40 years, we know what legal abortion...
