Personhood Florida Submits Personhood Amendment to Florida State Constitution
MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 9 (MetroCatholic) – God is the author of all human rights – mine, yours — every human being’s from their very beginning. First among these, and upon which all others stand, is...
View ArticleCalifornia Pro-Lifers Launch Human Rights Amendment Petition Campaign
WASHINGTON, DC (MetroCatholic) – California has joined the race to recognize human rights and personhood for all human beings from the biological beginning of development. The state’s most outspoken...
View ArticleMigration and Refugee Services Receives Romero Human Rights Award from...
WASHINGTON DC (MetroCatholic) – The University of Dayton, in Ohio, has announced that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS) is the recipient of the 2010...
View ArticleFaith Leaders to Honor Terri Schiavo in Front of the White House on the 5th...
WASHINGTON, March 30 /Christian Newswire/ — The Christian Defense Coalition, Faith and Action and Generation Life will pray and leave a single rose on the public sidewalk in front of the White House....
View ArticleFr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life on Justice Stevens’ Retirement
WASHINGTON, DC (MetroCatholic) – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued the following statement Friday on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. “The...
View ArticleNY Cardinal Dolan: Pro-life movement is ‘premier civil rights movement of today’
by John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, September 12, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Delivering the John Carroll Society Lecture Monday night, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke of the defense of religious...
View ArticleHouse passes bill to promote human rights in Vietnam
Washington D.C., Sep 19, 2012 / 12:09 am (CNA).- A bill to encourage freedom and respect for human rights, including religious liberty, in communist-run Vietnam was approved by the U.S. House of...
View ArticleCatholic Voting 101 Series – Part 1: Human Rights
A video series looking at Catholic Social Teaching and Voting
View ArticleCuban dissident calls on EU for human rights support
Havana, Cuba, Nov 12, 2012 / 12:07 pm (CNA).- A leading Cuban dissident says the European Union should be firmer in demanding the Castro regime respect human rights on the island, including free...
View ArticleUN report: Religious objections to contraception and abortifacients violate...
by Ben Johnson NEW YORK, November 16, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - A newly released United Nations Population Fund report calls on governments to counteract “religious” objections to “emergency...
View ArticleChristianity and abortion: is it really that complicated?
by Kristen Walker November 26, 2012 (LiveActionNews.org) - I wasn’t a Christian when I became pro-life. I was kind of anti-Christian. I was converted on the basis of science, reason, ethics, and human...
View ArticleChen Guangcheng: Forced abortion ‘is a sin, because life is sacred’
by Ben Johnson NEW YORK, December 3, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has said violence and coercion are still widespread in the nation’s enforcement of its...
View ArticleHuman Rights Day in Canada: from ‘never again’ to ‘til next time’
by Jonathon van Maren Today, as some of you may know, is celebrated worldwide as “Human Rights Day,” where politicians and leaders of all stripes and ideologies climb onto their bully pulpits and...
View ArticleBishop John Buckley: ‘Abortion is the Most Serious Threat to Human Rights’
Head of Diocese of Cork and Ross Calls on Representatives to Vote According to Their Conscience
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Human rights or human wrongs?
by Judie Brown January 4, 2013, (American Life League) - The line between what is an acceptable and moral practice is continually blurred, and may soon be non-existent. In our “me-first” society, it is...
View ArticleZambian Bishops Denounce ‘Deterioration of Human Rights’
Call for End of Arbitrary Use of Power By Government Officials
View ArticleLaw professor says pro-life views must lead to cultural action
Washington D.C., Jan 29, 2013 / 04:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Americans who wish to be truly pro-life must be willing to examine the philosophical and cultural implications of these views, said George...
View ArticlePro-lifers Urge John Kerry to Support Human Rights
By CARL BUNDERSON/CNA/EWTN | WASHINGTON — As Senator John Kerry is confirmed as Secretary of State for Obama’s second administration, pro-life groups have encouraged the official to protect human...
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Abortion is a human rights issue
by Ward Ricker "Abortion is a defining human-rights issue of our time," according to Speaker of the House John Boehner. And yet most recognized "human rights" organizations do not stand up against...
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Victim of Argentine Dictatorship: Francis Wants to Advance Truth, Justice
After a private audience with the Holy Father, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a historic fighter for human rights who was tortured by the dictatorship in Argentina, said at a press...
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Chen Guangcheng to testify before Congress on human rights
by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., April 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the most public foe of China's forced abortion policy, will speak before the U.S. House...
View ArticleChristians in India Hopeful After Elections
There may be a different future: made of respect for human rights, dialogue, justice and harmony for Christians in Karnataka, one of the major Indian States. After the local elections on May 5, the...
View ArticleArgentine bishops concerned over assisted reproduction law
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jun 18, 2013 / 12:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Responding to a new law on assisted fertilization, the bishops of Argentina stressed that “not everything that is technically possible...
View ArticleLetters, Prayer Vigils to Mark Year in Jail for Pastor in Iran
By ADELAIDE MENA/CNA/EWTN NEWS | WASHINGTON — Supporters of human rights and religious freedom around the globe are joining in prayer and a letter-writing campaign on the one-year anniversary of...
View ArticleMillennium Development Goals Must Respect Life and Family, Says U.N. Seminar
By CNA/EWTN NEWS | NEW YORK — Getting back to the “basics” of human rights would help achieve the U.N.’s Millennial Development Goals in a way that respects human life and the family, according to...
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Prayer vigils recognize American pastor imprisoned in Iran
Washington D.C., Sep 30, 2013 / 05:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Human rights advocates gathered in front of the White House last week to pray and raise awareness for Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S....
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Human rights promotion fights totalitarianism, activist says
Washington D.C., Oct 19, 2013 / 08:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has asked the international community to support and protect basic human rights and values in...
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Congressional hearing considers Syrian war crimes tribunal
Washington D.C., Oct 31, 2013 / 05:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a hearing before a congressional committee, policy officials called for the establishment of a Syrian war crimes tribunal to bring to...
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Reports of a more lax one-child policy in China ‘misleading’
Beijing, China, Nov 15, 2013 / 02:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Recent news that the Chinese government is easing its one child policy is “very misleading” because they do not address the human rights...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Rejects Notion of Abortion as ‘Human Right’
By ADELAIDE MENA/CNA/EWTN NEWS | STRASBOURG, France — Members of the European Parliament have rejected a report which suggested that abortion be defined as a “human rights and public health concern.”...
View ArticleRelease imprisoned pastor, congressional hearing urges Iran
Washington D.C., Dec 27, 2013 / 09:19 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A congressional hearing about Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Iran, produced more calls for his speedy release and warnings...
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UN versus Holy See on human sexuality, gender theory
Vatican City, Feb 6, 2014 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- More than an indictment of the Church’s handling of child sex abuse, the report of the U.N. child rights committee on the Holy See seem meant to...
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Vatican cardinal: Religious freedom under attack from ‘relativism’ and...
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, March 4, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking today at a conference in Rome on human rights, Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice...
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Cardinal Turkson on Human Rights
Here is the text of an address given by Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, to a conference on human rights. The conference was in Bratislava, organized...
View ArticlePope Calls for End to Massacre of Migrants in Mediterranean
"May human rights be the first priority and may forces unite to prevent these shameful massacres," Pope Francis said this morning. He was referring to news this week that at least 14 migrants have...
View ArticleWhat Has Happened to the United Nations?
By ASHLEY E. McGUIRE | Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Human rights have come to have a definite meaning to the people of the world, which we must not allow any nation to so change that they are made...
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