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Pro-life group criticizes Macron’s call to add abortion to rights charter

January 21, 2022

A pro-life group in France has denounced President Emmanuel Macron’s call to add abortion to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. “Advocating for the inclusion of a ‘right to abortion’ in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union ignores the violence that abortion often inflicts on many women,” Alliance VITA said in a statement on

EU Parliament calls for legal action against Hungary over controversial LGBT law

July 08, 2021

The European Parliament on Thursday approved a resolution calling for legal action in response to a new law in Hungry banning the portrayal or promotion of homosexuality to minors under the age of 18. The new Hungarian legislation would affect the teaching of sex education in schools, by forbidding the use of materials seen as

European Parliament threatens Poland over pro-life law

December 09, 2017

The Polish Church has dismissed the threat

Council of Europe rejects proposals to legalise surrogacy for all member states

October 12, 2016

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted against the proposal

A Christian response to Europe’s crisis

May 19, 2016

In the 1980s I was a leading member of the racist National Front. Catholicism brought me out of the darkness – it can do the same for Europe

Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/02/16

February 10, 2016

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European Parliament recognises ISIS killing of Christians as genocide

February 04, 2016

'Historic' vote by MEPs comes as the House of Commons prepares to debate the issue

Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/11/14

November 27, 2014

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