South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled that human embryos left over from fertility treatment are not life forms and can be used for research or destroyed, a court spokesman said Friday.
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May 29th, 2010
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May 28th, 2010
A campaign group is going to court to try to stop a council's 'archaic practice' of holding prayers before meetings.
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May 28th, 2010
The Archbishop of Canterbury has imposed the first punishments on Anglican national churches judged to have inflamed tensions over homosexuality in the church.
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May 28th, 2010
Web developers in Pakistan have launched a version of Facebook for the Muslim world after the social networking site was blocked for showing 'blasphemous' images of the Prophet Mohammed.
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May 28th, 2010
Health bosses are targeting Doncaster's school prom season in a bid to deal with the borough's teenage pregnancy problem.
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May 28th, 2010
In his Pentecost letter to the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury encourages Anglicans to pray for renewal in the Spirit and focus on the priority of mission, so that 'we may indeed do what God asks of us and let all people know that new and forgiven life in Christ is possible'.
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May 28th, 2010
Pro-life campaigners have launched a new High Court challenge over controversial government guidelines on abortion in Northern Ireland.
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May 28th, 2010
Ireland had the highest fertility rate of the 27 EU member states in 2007, followed by France and the UK.
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May 28th, 2010
The medical protocol for therapeutic abortion, to be used in public health hospitals, may be ready in another two or three months, said the Ministry of Health, Oscar Ugarte.
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May 27th, 2010
A bus poster that proclaimed 'There definitely is a God' received more complaints than any other advert last year, the Advertising Standards Authority said yesterday.