Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley is urging Massachusetts voters to oppose a ballot measure aimed at legalizing physician-assisted suicide.
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October 15th, 2012
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October 14th, 2012
For relatives anxious about a frail loved one in hospital, few things could surely sound more reassuring than a ‘care pathway’.
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October 14th, 2012
Thousands of Muslims have pledged a series of protests against Google HQ for a "hateful and offensive" anti-Islam video, saying they now live in an "age of mockery".
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October 12th, 2012
Opponents of abortion have reacted with outrage following the revelation that Northern Ireland’s first abortion clinic will open its doors here next week.
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October 12th, 2012
Five Christian converts will be tried in southwestern Iran on charges linked to their Christian activities, after spending eight months in prison, an Iranian Christian news agency reported.
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October 12th, 2012
We have heard an awful lot about the suffering of people who bear terrible afflictions or disabilities and who wish to die. We have heard very little about the desperately sick who want to live, and the families who stand by them in hope.
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October 11th, 2012
Marie Stopes, the sexual health charity, predicts women will travel to Belfast from the Republic to have terminations when it opens the first private clinic to offer abortions on the island of Ireland.
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October 11th, 2012
The first private clinic to offer abortions to women in Northern Ireland is due to open next week.
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October 11th, 2012
Bogotá, Colombia, Oct 11, 2012 / 04:04 pm (CNA).- A representative of the Colombian bishops, Father Pedro Mercado Cepeda, has rejected recent efforts by a group of lawmakers to legalize euthanasia in the country.
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October 11th, 2012
While many people are regularly persecuted by Islam’s blasphemy law, one particular case made August headlines: a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, Rimsha Masih, was arrested, accused of burning pages of a Quran.