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Inaccurate Internet Reports Panic Conservatives on UN Millennium Summit
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The US based Evangelical group Focus on the Family has been inundated with worried phone calls. So has the Washington DC office of the Christian…
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Campaign Defending Catholic Church at UN Grows to More than 4,000
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) More than 4,800 organizations have now joined in support of the Catholic Church at the United Nations. Campaigns supporting the Vatican's position are running in…
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Religious and Spiritual Leaders meet to form Permanent UN Advisory
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Organizers of the Millennium World Peace Summit hope to make history during four days of meetings at UN headquarters starting August 28. Dozens of leaders…
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Liberal and New Age Religious Groups Gather to Effect International Affairs
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) This fall world leaders will gather at the UN for the Millennium Summit that is expected to propose new roles for the UN in the…
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US House of Representatives condemns campaign against Holy See/Resolution endorses Catholic Church
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United States House of Representatives today voted to denounce the campaign of the pro-abortion lobby to oust the Catholic Church from the United Nations….
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New International Court Nears Reality/Pro-lifers Claim Small Victories
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) UN pro-life lobbyists are cautiously optimistic that the new International Criminal Court (ICC) will not be able to advance or enforce abortion rights. Governmental negotiators,…
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Controversial Abortionist Chairs UNFPA Committee in the United States
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In has just come to light that Dr. Henry Foster has been appointed chairman of the newly formed "U.S. Committee for UNFPA." Foster came to…
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UNFPA Head Nafis Sadik Delivers Bitter Speech to UN General Assembly
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) UNFPA Executive Director Nafis Sadik is reported to have wept prior to delivering her speech to the Special Session of the UN General Assembly at…
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Pro-Family Groups Attacked by Canadian Government and UN Secretariat
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Canadian government has paid for a report that attacks pro-lifers who participate at UN conferences. Just last week Assistant Secretary General Angela King charged…
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Radical Feminists Suffer Unexpected and Stinging Defeat at Beijing+5
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Radical feminist efforts to extend their gains from the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) ended in defeat this weekend as UN delegates finished…
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Veiled in Secrecy, UN “Reproductive Rights” Talks Alarm Conservatives
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In its official pronouncements the United Nations insists upon what is termed "transparency" which means all meetings should be open at least to limited public…
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Latin American States Proposing Radical Reproductive Rights at Beijing+5
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Beijing+5 negotiations resumed this week at UN headquarters in New York City. The final preparatory committee meeting which ended March 17 failed to produce an…
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Campaign in Support of Holy See at UN Grows to More Than 2,000 Groups
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) After only four months in operation the number of groups supporting the Holy See at the UN has grown to over 2,000 and come from…
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US Bishop’s Conference Condemns “Catholics for a Free Choice”
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Using exceptionally strong language, the Washington DC based National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) yesterday condemned the group calling itself "Catholics for a Free Choice…
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European Pension System Set to Collapse/Low Fertility Blamed
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The president of the European Commission recently warned governments that by 2025 nearly one-third of the European population will be collecting pensions. Italian Romano Prodi…
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Coercion in Peruvian Family Planning Programs Imperils USAID Funding
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Powerful Republicans in the US Congress have promised to stop the Clinton Administration's promised increase of $170 million to international family planning programs. This comes…
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New UNICEF/WHO Manual for Refugees Promotes Abortion for Adolescents
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have released a reproductive health manual for field workers in refugee situations that…
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Two Radical NGO Documents Percolate Toward UN General Assembly
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In the coming year the UN General Assembly will be asked to consider two documents that many see as taking away national sovereignty and advancing an…
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UN Clamps Down on NGOs/Pro-Life and Pro-Family NGOs Cry Foul
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations has announced that participation by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will be heavily restricted at the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on…
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UN Issues Warning on Looming International Under-Population Problem
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Going against decades of warnings about high fertility rates and overpopulation, the United Nations has just released a report warning of an evolving new problem,…
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Feminist Coalition Urges Naming Catholic Teaching on Abortion a “Crime Against Humanity” in New World
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A pamphlet just released by the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice reveals the intentions and wishes of feminist groups related to the nascent International Criminal…
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Beijing+5 Prepcom Stymied, Inter-sessional Planned, Pro-Lifers Abused
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) What was supposed to be the final preparatory committee meeting for a June special session of the UN General Assembly on women has ground nearly…
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Evangelicals, Mormons, Jews, Muslims Announce Support for Holy See at UN
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Today at UN headquarters pro-life and pro-family groups announced an international campaign in support of the Holy See at the United Nations. This comes in…
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Pro-Family Lobbyists Having Major Impact at UN Beijing+5 Conference
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Wearing bright red "Motherhood" buttons, dozens of pro-family lobbyists are having an outsized impact on the five-year review of the Beijing Women's Conference that began…
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Radical Feminists to Advance Abortion, Denigrate Motherhood at Beijing+5
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Abortion is not in the draft document just released by the UN, but the question of abortion is sure to stalk the upcoming Beijing+5 conference…
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