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May 13, 2021 The United States are unique among developed countries in that abortion is one of our defining political issues. Yet while the killing of unborn children is a political non-factor in most western countries, this is not the case in Northern Ireland. Before the Parliament of the United Kingdom overrode Northern Ireland’s abortion laws in 2019 in violation of the terms of the union, Northern Irish preborn children possessed equality under the law. Since the United Kingdom’s tyrann...

Civil Service Award winners: Leading the way to better lives for victims of the Troubles There was no shortage of talented individuals and teams recognised in this year’s Civil Service Awards. In this series, CSW talked to some of the winners about their work and how it felt to win. First up is Chris Atkinson, who won the Inspirational Leadership Award for his work coordinating the delivery of long-stalled plans for a payments scheme to help people left with permanent disabilities as a result...

MANCHESTER, England -- Politicians in Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to prevent the late-term abortions of babies with disab...

CNA Staff, Mar 10, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).- A Catholic priest will proceed with a challenge to the Scottish government’s ban on public worship on Thursday despite an announcement that restrictions will be lifted earlier than previously expected. ...

Credit: nito/Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2020 / 10:30 am (CNA).- An Austrian Catholic archbishop expressed dismay after the country’s top court ruled that assisted suicide should no longer be a criminal offense. In a Dec. 11 statement, Archbishop Franz Lackner said that the court’s judgment that the ban on assisted suicide was unconstitutional was a fundamental “cultural breach.” “Up until now, every person in Austria could assume that their life was considered to be unconditiona...

CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2020 / 04:48 pm (CNA).- The Catholic bishops of Switzerland are voicing opposition to a legal measure that would legalize same-sex marriage in the country, calling the proposal “fraught with numerous administrative, legal and ethical difficulties.” The Swiss senate on Dec. 1 passed a bill entitled “Marriage for All,” which had been debated in the Swiss parliament since its introduction by the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland in 2013. It would legalize same-sex marria...