The number of people who ended their lives with the help of assisted suicide organisations increased significantly in 2011, according to new figures.
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February 21st, 2012
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February 21st, 2012In Iran's 1979 revolution, many Iranians believed that an Islamic-based government would offer the reforms and freedoms they had long sought under the Shah. Thirty-three years later, however, Iranians have grown disillusioned as their government has plunged them into economic stagnation and has isolated them from the international community. Though massive protests have thus far failed to grant Iranians the freedoms they desire, idleness and hardship have led many Iranians to seek answers outside of Islam. Thousands are now finding hope in the Christian faith, but not without great cost.
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February 21st, 2012On a cold Tuesday morning, dozens of people demonstrated in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest the Middle Eastern country's treatment of Ethiopian Christians.
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February 21st, 2012On a cold Tuesday morning, dozens of people demonstrated in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest the Middle Eastern country's treatment of Ethiopian Christians.
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February 21st, 2012Iranian officials may have issued an order to execute a pastor at the center of a high-profile case that has drawn international attention, according to a legal group that has followed the case.
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February 21st, 2012
Abortion is back on the agenda in Ireland after a European Court of Human Rights ruling last year found the state in violation of its own Constitution on the matter. Ireland’s abortion laws are the strictest in Europe, but the Irish government may be about to address the previously unapproachable: whether to loosen restrictions on ending a pregnancy.
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February 21st, 2012Ryan Marquiss, now three years old, was diagnosed with two rare heart conditions when his mother Leighann was twelve weeks pregnant. Although Leighann and Ryan’s father Henry were told by doctors that no child had survived these conditions and advised the parents to abort him, they chose instead to hope for the best and rejected abortion.
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February 21st, 2012We tried to tell you. The success of a democracy in protecting human rights and civil liberties depends on the values that inform its participants.
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February 21st, 2012Gay marriage will be legalised despite growing opposition to a change in the law, Downing Street has insisted.
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February 21st, 2012Gay couples will finally win the right to marry, Downing Street insisted last night, despite an escalating campaign of opposition led by a former Archbishop of Canterbury and some Conservative MPs.