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UN attacks stay-at-home mothers

By Admin on 31st July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family

A key UN treaty monitoring body has has attacked the Russian Federation for promoting motherhood and women being able to stay at home with their newborn children. Read more...


Opponents of Civil Partnership Bill "homophobes", says Gormley

By Admin on 30th July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family,Freedom of Conscience and Religion

Environment Minister and Green Party chief John Gormley has attacked those who oppose the Civil Partnership Bill as homophobes who hold "old and discredited prejudices". Read more...


Court dismisses student's appeal against expulsion over Christian beliefs

By Admin on 30th July 2010. ~ Categories: Freedom of Conscience and Religion

A US federal judge has thrown out an appeal against a decision by Eastern Michigan University to expel a student from a master's degree program because of her religious views against homosexual acts. Read more...


UK Government may support atheist schools

By Admin on 29th July 2010. ~ Categories: Schools and Education

The Conservative government would consider allowing atheists to set up state-funded schools Education Secretary Michael Gove has said. Mr Gove said he would be "interested" to look at ideas about setting up schools from figures such as leading atheist Professor Richard Dawkins. Read more...


Areas for school handover submitted to Church by Department of Education

By Admin on 29th July 2010. ~ Categories: Schools and Education

The Department of Education has submitted a list of more than 40 areas around the country where it wants to transfer schools from Catholic patronage to other potential patrons. Read more...


Delay on children's referendum likely: report

By Admin on 28th July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family

The proposed referendum on children’s rights is set to be postponed until at least 2011, due to concerns over how the wording of an amendment to the Constitution would affect several key policies. Read more...


Ireland's birthrate tops EU league

By Admin on 28th July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family

Ireland remained top of the EU's birth league last year, new figures show. The rate of births here -- at 16.8 children born per 1,000 people -- was the the highest in the European Union. Read more...


EU to host summit of atheists and Freemasons

By Admin on 28th July 2010. ~ Categories: Religion and Religious Practice,Freedom of Conscience and Religion

The EU is set to hold a summit with atheists and freemasons in Brussels in October, inviting them to a political dialogue parallel to the annual summit the bloc holds with Europe's religious leaders. Read more...


Americans trust religion more than President and media, poll finds

By Admin on 28th July 2010. ~ Categories: Religion and Religious Practice

Americans trust their churches more than the Presidency, Congress, the Supreme Court or the media, according to a new Gallup poll. Read more...


Change your faith, or no degree, student told

By Admin on 27th July 2010. ~ Categories: Freedom of Conscience and Religion

An American Christian student has been told will not be permitted to graduate unless she changes her beliefs. Jennifer Keeton, 24, is studying for a degree in counselling at Augusta State University in Georgia. Read more...


Families set for double tax blow, says Ahern

By Admin on 27th July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family

Families are set for a double blow in the next Budget, as the Government contemplate both a property tax and water charges next year after a senior Government minister put both firmly back on the table on Sunday. Read more...


Christians have "had enough" of marginalisation, says MP

By Admin on 24th July 2010. ~ Categories: Freedom of Conscience and Religion

Christians have had enough of being treated as second class citizens, a Conservative MP has said during a Parliamentary debate. The stark warning from Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe, is likely to be welcomed by many Christians who feel that their faith is often marginalised in the public sphere. Read more...


HSE "not fit" to care for vulnerable children

By Admin on 23rd July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is “not fit for purpose” when it comes to looking after the welfare of children in care, an expert on the subject has claimed. Read more...


Twenty European countries join Italy in appeal against ECHR “crucifix” ruling

By Admin on 23rd July 2010. ~ Categories: Schools and Education,Freedom of Conscience and Religion

Twenty European countries have now joined the Italian appeal against a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (pictured) regarding the display of crucifixes in public places, it has emerged. The group does not include Ireland. The number of states supporting Italy has been described as “a major political victory” by a leading group in the campaign for religious freedom. However, the Irish Government did not associate its voice with this campaign. Read more...


Justice Adrian Hardiman defends Constitution against critics

By Admin on 22nd July 2010. ~ Categories: Other

A leading Supreme Court Judge has defended the Constitution from critics who have claimed it is too old and too complicated. Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman (pictured), speaking yesterday at the McGill Summer School, said that the fact that the Constitution was 73 years old and of a certain length should not be drawbacks. Read more...


Recession behind fall in numbers seeking divorce, say lawyers

By Admin on 22nd July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family

There has been a fall of almost 15 per cent in the number of people seeking judicial separations or divorce, resulting in the lowest number of applications for a decade. According to the annual report of the Courts Services for 2009, there were 5,398 applications for judicial separation, divorce or nullity last year, compared with 6,236 the previous year. Read more...


Rom-coms ruin real romance, poll says

By Admin on 22nd July 2010. ~ Categories: Marriage and the Family

Romantic comedy films with happy-ever-after endings have a negative impact on people's real love lives, according to an Australian survey. A poll, conducted by Warner Home Video, of 1,000 Australians found almost half said romantic comedies with their inevitable happy endings have ruined their view of an ideal relationship. Read more...


Eighty per cent take up HPV vaccine

By Admin on 21st July 2010. ~ Categories: Schools and Education

Eighty per cent of the teenage girls offered a controversial cervical cancer vaccine in schools last term availed of the jab, according to new figures revealed yesterday. Read more...


British Labour continue to push for compulsory sex-ed for 5 year olds

By Admin on 21st January 2010. ~ Categories: Schools and Education,Freedom of Conscience and Religion

The British Labour Party are continuing to push for compulsory sex education for all children, including those as young as five in a new amendment to Government education legislation. Read more...


UK law unfairly targets Christians, report says

By Admin on 21st July 2010. ~ Categories: Freedom of Conscience and Religion

Christians in Britain are being unfairly targeted for hate crime prosecutions, according to a new report by the Civitas think-tank. The report, entitled A New Inquisition: Religious Persecution in Britain Today, also warns that existing hate crime legislation poses a danger to freedom of speech. Read more...


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