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May 2018

May 27, 2018

A landslide!

Amnesty UK on the facts about abortion in Ireland before the vote to repeal the...

May 26, 2018

Ireland snubs Catholic bishops and votes for abortion reform

In a March statement, Ireland's Catholic bishops asked people of faith to 'pray earnestly' that...

May 13, 2018

Row breaks out among Irish priests over abortion vote

Dublin-based Father Terence Crotty, above, has hit out at a group of Catholic priests who...

April 2018

April 19, 2018

Irreligious Britain is entering a 'frightening new Dark Age'

Bishop Philip Egan of the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth – pictured above with a glum...

April 11, 2018

Council votes to ban abortion protesters outside clinic

Ealing councillors have voted unanimously to approve a 'safe zone' to shield women from demonstrators at...

March 2018

March 09, 2018

Militant pro-lifers are lunatics, says senior Catholic priest

Monsignor John Devine, OBE, stands accused of distorting Catholic teaching on abortion and of lying by...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

Northern Ireland violating women's rights, says UN report

A UN committee report published today makes for unhappy reading for one of Northern Ireland's...

February 15, 2018

Planned Parenthood supporter wins Catholic school battle

Last week Kate Murray, a student at Sacred Heart Greenwich Girls' school in Connecticut, was...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Wales is undermining N Ireland democracy over abortion

Colin Hart, above, Director of the UK's Christian Institute’s has expressed anger over a suggestion...

October 2017

October 11, 2017

Ealing Council votes to act against anti-abortion protests

Back in 2015 it was reported here that a group called Helpers of God's Precious...

October 08, 2017

Christians booted out of gay-owned Seattle coffee shop

Ben Borgman, inset above, was so incensed that a Christian group had placed a 'gross'...

October 04, 2017

Prominent US anti-abortionist told mistress to get an abortion

If there one thing that best defines Pennsylvania Republican congressman Tim Murphy, above, it's his...

June 2017

June 14, 2017

Sick Missouri lawmaker kills chicken in abortion protest

Republican State Representative Mike Moon decapitated a chicken then ripped out it heart in a...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Orthodox Church flexes its muscles in Russian Parliament

It's become increasingly obvious over the past few years that the Orthodox Church has been...

May 08, 2017

Ohio televangelist used slave labour to run his restaurant

Last month a federal judge ordered 95-year-old Cuyahoga Falls televangelist Ernest Angley, above, to pay...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

Swedish midwife loses her religious 'persecution' case

Ellinor Grimmark, above, has been refused permission to sue a local authority for denying her...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Deranged politicians: Jesus will head a new, 'virtuous America'

South Carolina State Representative Josiah Magnuson, above, has a bold new vision for America in...

December 2016

December 14, 2016

Oklahoma's war on abortion reaches new levels of insanity

Earlier this year, the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to bar doctors from performing...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

'I'm not a terrorist' says woman jailed for abortion clinic bomb

Despite having been jailed for plotting to bomb an abortion clinic, Cheryl Sullenger, above, senior...

November 24, 2016

Phone retailer's 'pro-choice' ads infuriate anti-abortionists

Carphone Warehouse has been forced to apologise to anti-abortionists over advdertisements that it insisted was...

November 09, 2016

Will 'Horror-Clown' Trump keep his promises to Christians?

'Although many pro-life and pro-family advocates are breathing sighs of relief at having dodged a...

November 08, 2016

Sick stunt: US priest places aborted foetus on an altar

Catholic priest Frank Pavone is at the centre of a firestorm after he placed an...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

Abortion: Polish Government sparks a fresh wave of fury

A Polish politician's insistence that foetuses that stand no chance of survival should be allowed...

October 15, 2016

Russia's Chief Wizard Patriarch Kirill renews war on women

Just before his departure for London, where he is currently cuddling up to the Church...

October 11, 2016

Archbishop Martin told to butt out of Irish abortion debate

Fine Gael parliamentarian Kate O’Connell has told Archbishop Eamon Martin, above, the Catholic Church Primate...

August 2016

August 27, 2016

The she-demons of Ireland

Last week two women set up a Twitter account, TwoWomenTravel, to document their journey from...

August 20, 2016

Pressure mounts on Ireland to scrap its foolish abortion ban

Two women have travelled from Ireland to the UK in order to get an abortion,...

August 04, 2016

Politician says he knows 'for a fact' that God does not exist

John Halligan, above, Ireland's Minister of State for Training, Skills and Innovation, has outraged faith-heads...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Texas abortion ruling a major blow to the religious right

A decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down Texas's anti-abortion law has angered...

June 23, 2016

Drone challenges N Ireland's draconian abortion laws

This week a drone, carrying a supply of pregnancy termination drugs, was flown into Northern...