Sweden, Netherlands: gay activists under criminal investigation
Surprising as it may seem, even in Sweden and the Netherlands, two countries where the “gay rights” agenda has been pushed farther than elsewhere, there are still some limits that…
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Bishops’ Synod: The Revolution that didn’t happen, and the Counter-Revolution that did
This blog being sponsored by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the way in which the Catholic Church discusses issues related to marriage and the family cannot leave us…
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A Little Help From UN-likely Places
Rashida Manjoo, UN special rapporteur on violence against women, just held a side event at UN headquarters where she made some very interesting suggestions about current efforts to tackle violence…
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Vatican: the true Synod speaks
As the publication of a highly controversial midterm report has raised concerns about the Catholic Church’s Family Synod being the target of deliberate manipulations by a small group of insiders,…
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Family Synod: only one out of 265 interventions mentioned homosexuality
The world-wide bewilderment over the interim report of the Roman Bishop’s Synod on the Family has apparently reached even a secular media outlet like Yahoo, from where it transpires that only 1 out of…
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Bishops’ synod: intermediary report on marriage and homosexuality causes perplexity
Although on the surface it seems like an internal affair of the Catholic Church, the Bishop’s Synod on issues related to marriage and the family is of great significance also…
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Commission vice-president designate Frans Timmermans makes wrong statement about pro-life initiative “One of Us”
European Voice have a life blog on the parliamentary hearings of the designate members of the new European Commission. Particular attention was due to former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs…
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Pediatric Academy Recommends Harmful Implant Contraceptive for Girls
The American Academy of Pediatrics gets it wrong again placing politics over health. A post at the Kaiser Health foundation reports that long-acting contraceptive use among teens has been successful…
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Stonewall abandons its hate-speech strategy. Apparently it backfired.
The pro-sodomy pressure group Stonewall has announced that it will drop the annual “Bigot of the Year”-award, which it used to confer on persons who with outstanding bravery defended the truth…
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ECHR: Towards the Liberalisation of Surrogacy
You will find here a detailed analysis of the recent and important cases Mennesson v. France and Labassee v. France showing how the European Court of Human Rights is imposing the liberalisation of surrogacy in Europe….
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ECHR: The applicant requesting a right to die was already dead
The Court ruled that it cannot be abusively instrumentalized for strategic litigation. Andreea Popescu and Grégor Puppinck On 30 September 2014, the Grand Chamber of the European Court…
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The European Citizens’ Initiative ONE OF US challenges the European institutions before the General Court of the European Union
Grégor Puppinck, PhD, President of the Citizens’ Committee. On July 25th 2014, the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ONE OF US lodged an application before the General Court of the European Union…
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European Commission: Czech Mafia Oligarch To Take Control Of Justice, Rule of Law, and Fundamental Rights?
In one of the last editions of EuropeanVoice, there was a portrait of Andrej Babiš, the Czech Republic’s new political strongman. As one could read there, the man is a…
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Is President Martin Schulz’ power abuse undermining the European Commission’s legitimacy?
Over at European Dignity Watch, there is an interesting post relating to European Parliament President Martin Schulz’ lonesome decision to twist and bend the Parliament’s rules of procedures for the…
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IPPF Director Challenged on Harmful Contraceptives for African Women
A High Level event at the United Nations this week abruptly ended when a women’s rights attorney directed a question to International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Director General about why harmful…
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Holy See Scolds UN Committee
The reply of the Holy See to the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child have been released by the Vatican. You may recall that the…
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Kerry Touts LGBT Rights While “So Many Other Crises are Happening”
“It’s been a difficult year for the LGBT community throughout the world,” Secretary John Kerry stated at the UN today. Laws opposed by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates “are…
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Committee on the Rights of the Child Intent on Promoting Abortion
Below is one of the worst recommendations to ever come out of a UN committee. See the full report here. Adolescent health The Committee welcomes the consolidation of the National…
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Why would the co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation lend her image and story to the Center for Reproductive Rights?
Padma Lakshmi, the host of Top Chef, has become the latest celebrity to shill for the aggressively pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), linking her own story and her advocacy…
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The ECHR to decide if returning a Christian convert to Iran would subject him to serious human rights violations
The ECLJ submitted written observations in F.G. v. Sweden case (application n° 43611/11), concerning the implementation of an expulsion order against an Iranian Christian convert. The Grand Chamber of the ECHR will soon adopt…
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Putin’s political theology vs. Obama’s LGBT-messianism
Definitely, we are living in strange times. Pro-lifers and defenders of marriage and family meet at a conference in Moscow, hosted by two men with close links not only to…
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Addressing unintended pregnancies: you’re doing it wrong
The Guttmacher Institute recently announced a study saying that as of 2012, 40% of pregnancies worldwide are unintended, and that this is not much different from 2008. Predictably, they also…
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Christian Charities Need Christian Truth
The UK-based organization Christian Aid released a briefing paper dated September 2014 detailing its position on the post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion at the UN. Under their “Gender Justice”…
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Hillary Clinton tells international feminists she’s embarrassed by the United States
On Friday, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a keynote speaker at a two-day conference of international feminists in New York. During her remarks, she was asked whether…
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India’s Two-Child Policy
Fascinating article on little known regional population control policies in India that have had a terrible effect on their people. The laws in question prohibit anyone with more than two…
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