Health care access is a human right, not just a matter of philanthropy, the Holy See told the United Nations, Christian Telegraph reports according to Catholic News Agency.
"All our efforts must be directed to ensure human dignity, quality of health and life and to the building of a better world for the generations to come," said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Holy See's permanent representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva.
Pastor Robert Jeffress thinks the U.S. Supreme Court can overturn legalized abortion, but cannot overturn same-sex "marriage."
Enthusiastic Trump supporter and pastor of First Baptist Dallas, Jeffress claimed last week that conservative Christians should give up the fight to overturn the Surpeme Court's redefinition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges.
The death of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro will not reduce the harassment and surveillance to which the Church is already subjected, an analyst at the charity Open Doors has warned.
Following Castro's death at the age of 90 on Saturday (26 Nov.), Paul Groen told World Watch Monitor: "Fidel's regime really has been a huge source of suffering for the Church," referring to the communist rule instigated by Castro and other revolutionaries in 1959 and continued by Fidel's brother Raul s
Around 2 million demonstrators in South Korea called for the resignation of President Park Geun-hye on Saturday over a major scandal involving her 60-year-old confidant, who is the daughter of a Shamanistic cult leader.
The crowd gathered at the Blue House, the presidential residence, in Seoul to demand Park's resignation over allegations that she allowed Choi Soon-sil, who does not hold an official government post, to mastermind governmental policy and decision making and thereby accumulate
HAVANA, CUBA (ANS - November 26, 2016)-- Former Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to an improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 US presidents during his almost half-a-century rule, died on Friday, November 25, 2016, at the age 90, in Havana.
His younger brother, Raul, who had succeeded him in 2006 as President of Cuba, announced his death late on Friday on state television.
Castro came to power in 1959 and ushered in a Communi
A leading Islamic scholar has described attacks on Christians by violent Islamic extremists as "heart-breaking" and condemned Islamic extremism as being "exactly the opposite" of what Islam teaches.
Sheikh Dr. Umar Al-Qadri argues that the "real offenders of blasphemy" are not people who draw cartoons of Muhammad, but those who commit atrocities in the name of God and Islam.
A trauma care centre is being constructed in northern Nigeria to support Christians who have suffered religiously motivated violence or abuse at the hands of Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen.
The centre is being built by Open Doors International, a charity which supports Christians under pressure for their faith. In April, the charity took a group of UK-based church leaders to visit the parents of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls and Christians in internally displaced people (IDP) camps - in Yo
SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 22, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - The leader of Bulgaria's 4.3 million Orthodox Christians is strongly backing a definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
Pressure from more liberal countries in the European Union (EU) has prompted a "European Citizens' Initiative" dubbed the "Mum, Dad & Kids Initiative."
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neophyte sent a letter of support for the initiative that insists on an official common definition of both "marriage"
November 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver says that if Donald Trump appoints constitutional originalists like the late Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court, the 2015 Obergefell v Hodges ruling that forced homosexual "marriage" on the states likely will be overturned.
"f you nominate someone to the Supreme Court that has a judicial philosophy, not that they're political pro-life vs. pro-abortion, but that they're pro-life in the sense of they know that the Constitut
OTTAWA, Ontario, November 16, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - A Conservative member's motion to study the health impact of pornography won rare unanimous support of all parties and members in the House of Commons.
Northern Alberta MP Arnold Viersen, the driving force behind M-47, told the House that "as a first-term MP, the impact of violent and sexually explicit material was not an issue I expected to bring forward when arriving here a year ago, nor was it on my radar."
Moldova is the poorest country in Europe. To the east, cushioned between the Ukraine and Romania, and currently in the process of applying for European Union membership, it has this weekend decided its new President will be the pro-Russian candidate, who wants to reverse integration into the EU. (The winner, Igor Dodon, didn't poll quite enough votes to win in the first election round at the end of October).
A Nigerian Government spokesman, Sani Usman, told media another girl, believed to be one of the nearly 300 Chibok school girls kidnapped by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram in April 2014, was discovered in Pulka in northern Borno State.
Maryam Ali Maiyanga was found by soldiers screening escapees from Boko Haram's base in the Sambisa forest on Saturday morning (5 Nov). She was carrying a 10-month-old baby boy she named Ali when the soldiers found her.
"She has been taken to the uni
A court in Nigeria's northern city of Kano has freed five people detained in relation with the killing of a pastor's wife who had been accused of blasphemy.
Bridget Agbahime, 74, wife of Mike Agbahime, pastor of Deeper Life Bible Church in Kano, was ambushed by angry mob on 2 June 2016 for allegedly blaspheming against Islam's prophet.
The freed suspects, Dauda Ahmed, Abdulmumeen Mustafa, Zubairu Abubakar, Abdullahi Abubakar and Musa Abdullahi were discharged on 3 Nov. at the directive
For more than two years it lasted, just minutes away from Islamic State-held territory. The Iraqi town of Alqosh (50km north of Mosul) is the only Christian stronghold in the country that survived IS.
Looking for signs of hope for the future of Christianity in Iraq? This town, with its four churches, two monasteries and 500 Christian families, is where it can be found.
There were tears, soldiers praying, priests singing. This was the moment thousands of Iraqi Christians had been waiting for: the Cross, symbol of Christ's victory over evil, deemed illegal by IS, had returned to the Christian villages in Iraq's Nineveh Plain.
This came as news continues to emerge of more villages reclaimed from the Islamic State (IS), and more signs of destruction become apparent.
As soon as it was remotely safe, the priests got into a car and were escorted back to their v
The UK Foreign Office hosted a summit exploring how religious freedoms prevent extremism, Oct 2016
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'Religious freedoms can counter violent extremism' was the key message at a two-day global conference held at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) last week.
NEW YORK, September 28, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - "It is time for repentance" more than political debates and polls, Priests for Life National Director Father Frank Pavone said before the first presidential debate Monday.
"As debates about issues, policies, and polls dominate the airwaves today, we at Priests for Life want to raise the call for repentance," Pavone said. "In particular, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party need to repent of their unmitigated support of abortion, which kills ov
Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas has blasted President Barack Obama's plans for the United States to admit 110,000 more refugees in 2017 as "absolutely ludicrous," and warned that terrorists today are much more likely to be Muslims than Christians or Jews.
WASHINGTON - A married couple of reality television fame that has adopted children from overseas like to say that even though their children were born in Asia, it's almost as though they are biologically related.
U.S. Secretary of Education John King is receiving criticism for his recent statements claiming that children who are home-schooled have fewer options than those enrolled in schools.
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - As the two parties prepare for the first presidential debate on Monday, one question should be on every American's mind: Where do they stand on allowing abortionists to practice infanticide?
NEW YORK, September 26, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - The Trump presidential campaign announced last week the formation of a panel of Catholic leaders to advise the candidate on issues most important to them in America.
Donald Trump Jr., the Republican presidential candidate's oldest son, used an image taken by a refugee photographer in a social media post that likened Syrian refugees to poisoned candies.
MEXICO, September 12, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - More than one million Mexicans across 122 cities marched in support of marriage and the natural family on Saturday in response to President Enrique Peña Nieto's moves to enshrine same-sex "marriage" in the nation's Constitution.
