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Pro-life advocates held over 140 marches across Poland on Sunday, with participants totalling somewhere between 200,000-300,000 despite bad weather in some cities.
The Center for the Support of Family and Life Initiatives has coordinated the events since 2006 on May 15, a pro-life feast in Poland. A local committee with representatives from social and church organizations organizes each march. Some marches took place before May 15, and others will happen in June.
Records from UK health chiefs showed 3,451 women gave addresses in Ireland - almost 10 a day - while attending clinics in England and Wales last year.
The report showed there has been a 48% decline in the numbers travelling to terminate a pregnancy since 2001.
Helen Deely, head of the Health Service Executive's crisis pregnancy programme, said the reduction was welcome - but cautioned about the dangers of using abortion pills bought on the internet.
The prevalence and severity of mental ill-health among students on the nation’s campuses has been increasing and continues to rise, according to a report.
Comparing 2014 to 2015, 80 per cent of UK universities highlighted a noticeable increase in complex mental health crises among their student population.
Two-thirds of adults would be upset if their child told them that they were in love with someone of the same sex according to a survey of 96,000 people in 53 UN member states.
The survey (pdf), which was conducted by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) found that regional differences in opinion exist, but that overall the findings show “deeply entrenched heteronormative concepts of sexual orientation and gender identity”. Only 28% of respondents globally said they would find it acceptable if a male child always dressed and expressed themselves as a girl.
The BBC is a ‘politically correct’ organization. The original Reithian vision set out that one of the institution’s aims is to educate the nation. What Andrew Marr ten years ago described as “culturally liberal”, an “urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities, and gay people” does not just refer to the internal culture for employees, but is part of the agenda and philosophy for educating the nation in the 21st century.
A gaming ad featuring a partial image of a crucifixion sent out at Easter has been banned from appearing again because of its likelihood to cause serious offence.
The email for Boylesports Enterprise showed a hand nailed to a length of wood alongside the text: "Boylesports Gaming - nailed on bonus".
Modern culture tells us that each person has their "one," a perfect partner to share the rest of their lives with.
Although polygamy is practiced in various cultures, humans still tend toward monogamy. But this was not always the norm among our ancestors. Other primates -- the mammalian group, to which humans belong -- are still polygamous, too.
"The modern monogamous culture has only been around for just 1,000 years," says Kit Opie, an evolutionary anthropologist from University College London.
As Eastenders' Peggy Mitchell commits suicide in the face of terminal cancer, TV's inability to envisage a positive response to end of life suffering comes back into focus.
When a character in the BBC medical drama Holby City remarked that they didn't want to die 'stuck in some dingy hospice', it struck Hospice UK Policy and Advocacy Director Jonathan Ellis that
'hospice care in the BBC Drama Department must be pretty bleak. Just two months ago a character on EastEnders, Stan Carter, was dying and other characters raised objections about his being transferred to a "grotty hospice".'
The Dutch Education Alliance for Sexual Diversity has contacted all schools in the Netherlands, asking them to hold a school-wide discussion about sexual diversity and LGBT equality in aid of IDAHOT. The request comes as the Alliance expressed concern that not enough is being done to educate Dutch schoolchildren about LGBT rights.
While liberal Dutch cities such as Amsterdam are widely seen to be safe havens for the LGBT community, the Netherlands has actually seen a rise in homophobic attacks in recent years. In 2012, a report published by Dutch police said violent crimes against LGBT victims had increased by 70% from 2009.
Education about sexual diversity is compulsory for primary and secondary schools in the Netherlands, but the Alliance said recent research showed only 25% of students ‘were noticing’. Half of students reported they did not receive lessons about LGBT equality, but rather heard about the topic in the form of passing comment from teachers, the Alliance said.
The Westminster Department of Health released its report on abortion statistics in England and Wales for 2015 today. Statistics revealed that 833 women travelled from Northern Ireland to have an abortion in England and Wales. This is a slight decrease from last year’s 837 figure.
3,451 women travelled from the Republic of Ireland for an abortion in England and Wales in 2015. This is a significant decrease from the 3,735 women who travelled last year.