Harriet D'Sa spoke at the Toronto office of Campaign Life Coalition to bring attention to the issues facing life and family in her native India. During the July 30 event, D'Sa, a principal at St. Joseph's High School in Bangalore in southern India, said her nation's anti-female attitudes are at the root of the problems of abortion and marital breakdown. D'Sa, who [...]
This past summer, the French high court ruled in favour of a family of a severely disabled French teen in a lawsuit against medical authorities that in effect says the child ought never have been born. The decision in this "wrongful birth" lawsuit implicitly accepts that Nicholas Perruche, who has heart problems and is deaf, dumb, partly blind, and mentally disabled, should [...]
If there is one thing that Bill Whatcott doesn't do, it's miss an opportunity to proclaim what he believes. A big part of what he believes is that freedom of speech, justice and Christian activism are in short supply. To Whatcott, freedom of speech includes the right to denounce those things he considers morally wrong and destructive as well as the option [...]
Pro-abortionists' quest for their Holy Grail of a "safe and easy" abortion method has suffered a hard blow with the news that a Canadian woman has died during a second clinical trial of the so-called abortion pill, RU-486. The unidentified woman, whose place of residence and death is also not known, began medicinal treatments for an abortion on August 23. She was [...]
Edmonton is not gaining a new abortuary - the city's Henry Morgentaler abortion mill is merely changing locations. But the secretive way it is doing so is causing nearly as much furor. The Morgentaler abortuary is leaving the Canora location it has occupied for ten years and moving to Westmount, at 12409 - 109A Avenue, at an unknown date. Renovations have been [...]
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), at a major crossroad in his life in 1896, wrote a letter to a friend expressing his desire to become a philosopher: "As a young man I longed for nothing else than philosophical knowledge, and I am now on the way to satisfy that longing by passing from medicine to psychology." In one sense, his philosophy was simple and [...]
A conversation between U.S. Christian leaders Pat Robertson and Rev. Jerry Falwell on the 700 Club Sept.14 provoked strong media reaction. Both Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, and Falwell, a Baptist minister and chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., said that God had lifted his hand of protection from the country and that Americans must repent. Robertson listed insults to [...]
On Sept. 14, Rev. Billy Graham gave the following sermon during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. These are excerpts from his remarks. President and Mrs. Bush, I want to say a personal word on behalf of many people. Thank you, Mr. President, for calling this Day of Prayer and Remembrance. We needed it [...]
During the Sept. 14 National Day of Mourning, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said, "Words fail us." Especially one word - God. It was a word that was not uttered during the official ceremonies on Parliament Hill. Many Canadians of faith were appalled by government services that failed to mention anything greater than or outside ourselves, reminiscent of other public ceremonies that expunged [...]
CLC staffer was to be in WTC days later While the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 took place hundreds of kilometers from the Toronto offices of Campaign Life Coalition, several staff and volunteers were intimately affected by the tragic events of that day. Samantha Singson, who works in the offices when she is not at school, had just returned from New York [...]
What is it about the United Nations that evokes concern among many throughout the world? A review of news and events from recent years, in roughly chronological order, offers a number of possible reasons. Founded in the wake of the devastating Second World War as a way of increasing co-operation, strengthening the flow of communication and averting future widespread conflicts, the UN, [...]
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Mary Ann Glendon (Random House, $38.95, 333 pages) Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard, leader of the Holy See's delegation to the Beijing Women's Conference and usually one of the clearest thinkers on the issue of human rights, has penned a fascinating but ultimately disappointing [...]
Delusions of Grandeur: The United Nations and Global Interventionism, edited by Ted Galen Carpenter (Cato Institute, 1997, $15.95) It would be no exaggeration to say that Canada's elite loves the United Nations. The spirit of Lester B. Pearson is very much alive in the natural governing party, and none of the increasingly irrelevant opposition parties have even suggested Canada should withdraw from [...]
Created in the wake of World War II, the United Nations has veered far from its intended reason for existence to mediate disputes and foster international co-operation to become a large, overbearing global entity that violates national sovereignty by promoting a radical, socially activist agenda. No longer primarily worried about mediating international disputes, it has engaged in attempts to make policy for [...]
The tragic events of Sept. 11 - four planes downed in three locations, New York City, Washington and rural Pennsylvania; a death toll near 7,000; the loss of innocence to the United States and the West in general - is nothing less than a wicked attack on human life. Despite what the politicians, pundits and public say, it was not America or [...]