Editorial: Pro-Life Youth Speak out at UN Forum
NEW YORK, June 20 (C-FAM) Youth symbolize vitality and a future – and the UN, often teetering on the brink of irrelevancy, is keen on inviting young people into its…
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Consensus on LGBT Rights Eroding at Organization of American States
NEW YORK, June 13 (C-FAM) The seemingly inevitable march of gay rights in the Americas was slowed last week when an inter-American gathering in Paraguay refused to impose same-sex marriage….
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Global Summit to Stop Sexual Violence in War Snubs Abortion Groups
NEW YORK, June 13 (C-FAM) Abortion is not among the legal and health policies in the latest global effort to end sexual violence in war. This week countries and non-governmental…
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Canada Leaves Abortion out of International Aid
NEW YORK, June 6 (C-FAM) The defining feature of Canada’s ambitious multi-billion-dollar international plan to help mothers and newborns is not what it provides, but what it leaves out, namely,…
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US Supreme Court Declines to Weigh-in on U.N. Treaty
NEW YORK, June 6 (C-FAM) A U.S. senator says a Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for another vote on the U.N. disabilities treaty “in the near future.” The…
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U.N. Committee Opens Door to More Lawsuits Against the Church?
NEW YORK, May 30 (C-FAM) New possibilities opened up for plaintiff lawyers last week when a U.N. committee told the Vatican that clergy sex abuse is torture. Whether an instance…
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Abortion is Torture: What the Mainstream Media Missed
NEW YORK, May 30 (C-FAM) U.N. experts backtracked last week after taking heat for accusing the Pope of torture because of Church teaching on abortion. “It seems like we are…
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Obama Promotes LGBT on International Day of Families
NEW YORK, May 23 (C-FAM) The United States chose the International Day of Families to release a statement on “homophobia and transphobia.” The move underscores a priority in the “Obama…
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Children Not Owned by the State, says Vatican Rep to UN
NEW YORK, May 22 (C-FAM) The Vatican Ambassador to the UN told UN leaders last week that “children do not belong to the state.” Archbishop Francis Chullikatt told a gathering of…
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Pope to U.N. Heads: Unborn Children are “Our Brothers and Sisters”
NEW YORK, May 15 (C-FAM) The highest-ranking U.N. human rights official, Navi Pillay, looked down and fidgeted as Pope Francis delivered an unambiguous pro-life message to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon…
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White House Poised to Fund Abortions Overseas
WASHINGTON DC, May 15 (C-FAM) The Friday Fax has learned that the Obama administration may try to circumvent the long-standing Helm’s Amendment and allow for taxpayer-funded abortions overseas. The change…
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White House Poised to Fund Abortions Overseas
WASHINGTON DC, May 15 (C-FAM) The Friday Fax has learned that the Obama administration may try to circumvent the long-standing Helm’s Amendment and allow for taxpayer-funded abortions overseas. The change…
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Vatican tells U.N. Abortion is a Form of Torture
NEW YORK, May 9 (C-FAM) The Vatican had strong words for U.N. experts who accused the Catholic Church of torture because of its teaching on abortion. “The Holy See condemns…
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New Guttmacher Chief Doesn’t Let Facts Get in the Way of Advocacy
NEW YORK, May 9 (C-FAM) The Guttmacher Institute announced its new president this week: an abortion advocate who argued against transparency with health statistics, preferring to “lock all the academics…
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Analysis: John Paul II Continues to Challenge UN Development Regime
NEW YORK, May 1 (C-FAM) During a week celebrating his canonization, many credited Pope John Paul II with defeating the campaign for an international right to abortion and founding the…
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France Says Abortion is a Right During Security Council Debate
NEW YORK, May 1 (C-FAM) France claimed abortion is a right under international humanitarian law at the U.N. Security Council last week even though the claim is widely viewed as…
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New Paper Exposes Hidden Agenda of the Sex Ed Establishment
NEW YORK, April 25 (C-FAM) Reporters called one program “x-rated.” Another was dubbed “kindergarten sex ed.” A World Health Organization version led to a spectacular defeat in the European Parliament….
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High Court Guts Contraception Bill
NEW YORK, April 25 (C-FAM) The Supreme Court of the Philippines struck down key provisions of a new contraception law in order to protect human life in the womb, as…
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UN Rejects “Sexual Rights” in Lead Up to Cairo Anniversary
NEW YORK, April 18 (C-FAM) A UN official accused countries of opposing women after they failed to accept specific rights for men who have sex with men (MSM) at a…
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ANALYSIS: No Progress for Sexual Progressives at the UN, Cause for Concern Remains
NEW YORK, April 18 (C-FAM) The sexual left had to swallow a bitter pill last week at the UN Commission on Population and Development. Wealthy countries could not muster enough…
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Rome Conference to Celebrate UN Legacy of Pope John Paul II
NEW YORK, April 11 (C-FAM) As crowds flock to Rome in April to celebrate the canonization of Pope John Paul II, a cohort of Catholics and Evangelicals will arrive a…
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US and EU Push Africans Once More on Abortion and Homosexuality
NEW YORK, April 11 (C-FAM) Africans are crying foul after wealthy Western countries ambushed them with a draft resolution that re-opens the troublesome issues of abortion and homosexuality in UN…
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New Paper: UN Report Emphasizes Abortion Instead of Maternal Health
NEW YORK, April 3 (C-FAM) A UN agency says abortion should be a maternal health priority and is distorting data to make its point as countries discuss a new global…
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EU Pressure on Homosexuality Complicates EU-Africa Summit
NEW YORK, April 3 (C-FAM) European pressure on African nations to change laws on homosexuality has created a backlash that may threaten this week’s meeting between leaders of the two…
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Massive UN Lobbying by Abortion Groups Yields Status Quo
NEW YORK, March 28 (C-FAM) Massive lobbying generated few returns for abortion groups who showed up in force at the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women. Women’s groups…
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