Forty Years of Abortion in Italy
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Italy—what has transpired on that front in the past four decades? For answers one turns to the mandatory annual report that Italy’s Minister of Health sends to Parliament. Issued in late December, the 2017 report presents detailed definitive data for the year 2016….
Italian Church Scandal Positive Step for Pro-Life Movement
Last week, a new scandal materialized in the Italian church. A woman in Southern Italy known as Francesca, has claimed that now-retired Archbishop Salvatore Nunnari (while still ordinary of the Archdiocese of Cosenza-Bisignano) encouraged her to have an abortion after being impregnated by her local parish priest during the course of an illicit, although consensual…
Beating hearts at March for Life in the Netherlands
December 9th the Netherlands will see its 25th edition of the March for Life. In 2016 the Dutch March for Life grew unexpectedly from 2500 participants in the previous year to 5000. This year the organizers are expecting another increase in attendance.
Kansas bishop has mass, adoration and exorcism outside abortion mill
WICHITA, Kan. (ChurchMilitant.com) – A bishop is standing up for unborn children by having Mass, Eucharistic adoration and an exorcism at an abortion mill in Kansas. Bishop Carl Kemme, the head of the diocese of Wichita, along with seven of his priests and nearly 500 faithful, prayed for the end of abortion outside the South…
Into the Streets for Life (Marcia per la vita 2017 remark)
Rev. Peter Ascik ’17, Diocese of Charlotte GG “I was prepared to die to protect the little one inside of me.” Those were the words of a young Romanian woman who spoke at the Marcia per la Vita, Rome’s March for Life, on May 20. She was recalling her reaction to discovering while on her way to…
In Islanda non nascono più bambini con la sindrome di Down
L’Islanda, tra tutti i Paesi europei, è quello che vede un minor numero di nascite di bambini con la sindrome di Down. La percentuale di abitanti senza trisomia 21 (o, appunto, sindrome di Down) è prossima al 100% (la popolazione islandese conta circa 335 mila abitanti). Ad oggi qui infatti solo 1 o 2 bambini all’anno vengono al mondo affette…
Expert Conference Bioethics and Human Dignity in Berlin
Date: Friday, September 15th 2017, 2:30 pm –6:00 pm Location: Tagungszentrum Hotel Aquino / Katholische Akademie Hannoversche Straße 5 b · 10115 Berlin · www.hotel-aquino.de
Marsch für das Leben – The German March for Life – 16.09.2017
Berlin – Saturday, September 16th, 13:00–17:30
“What kind of society do you want to live in?”: Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing
With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland. Since prenatal screening tests were introduced in Iceland in the early 2000s, the vast majority of women — close…
Hospital Refuses to Transfer Charlie Gard to Vatican Hospital Offering to Care for Him
A Vatican hospital says it is ready and willing to care for British infant Charlie Gard if the courts allow him to go but British officials are refusing to allow the little boy to leave the country. The Italian news outlet Zenit reports leaders of the Bambino Jesus pediatric hospital in Rome, Italy said they are willing to…