Roman Catholic bishops and institutions across Illinois are mounting their defenses against the Obama administration's requirement to include contraception in employees' health benefits, a state mandate they have been able to avoid for years.
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January 31st, 2012
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January 31st, 2012An Orthodox Christian church famed for its valuable icons was set alight in southern Macedonia overnight, authorities said Tuesday, as religious tension between Christians and minority Muslims grew over a carnival in which men dressed as women in burqas and mocked the Quran.
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January 31st, 2012The left-wing candidate in the French presidential election has strongly endorsed the legalisation of euthanasia if he is elected. François Hollande, a Socialist, who will face the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, recently revived France’s simmering euthanasia debate.
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January 31st, 2012A report from Taiwanese health authorities says that a crackdown on illegal sex-selective abortions prevented the deaths of nearly 1,000 female unborn babies in 2011.
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January 31st, 2012The students’ union of University College London has passed a motion this week officially making the campus “pro-choice.” The motion also dictates that campus groups, including the chaplaincies, must invite pro-abortion speakers to their events in equal numbers to pro-life speakers when addressing “terminations.”
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January 31st, 2012After Ontario’s Catholic trustees took a strong stand against homosexual activism in a new anti-bullying plan last week, Ontario’s government has slammed the plan for failing to allow for single-issue clubs for homosexual students.
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January 31st, 2012A Muslim teenager was kidnapped and beaten by her own siblings after they caught her kissing a white man, a court heard today.
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January 31st, 2012A church was set ablaze in the Macedonian village of Labuniste, presumably as a result of the tensions between the local Slavic and Albanian populations.
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January 31st, 2012North American Muslims are more than satisfied with the secular legal system and do not want a set of parallel courts for Islamic law, according to a new study of U.S. and Canadian Muslims by a Washington-based think tank.
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January 31st, 2012In the world of questionable and sometimes downright silly Bible translations, one would think that it couldn’t get any worse.