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Activists Applaud President Obama’s Focus on Imprisoned Christians Abroad at National Prayer Breakfast

Religious liberty advocates have applauded the recent remarks of President Barack Obama regarding the plight of Christians overseas. At the 62nd annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., President Obama spoke about religious intolerance abroad and mentioned figures such as imprisoned Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini….

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UN panel assails Vatican on priest abuse

The Vatican was the subject Wednesday of a blistering critique by a UN human rights committee that accused the Catholic Church of systematically adopting policies that permitted priests to sexually abuse tens of thousands of children globally over the last several decades. The United Nations…

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Obama Tells Prayer Breakfast: “We Believe in the Dignity of Every Person”

President Barack Obama gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday with language striking pro-life themes — ironic given the massive pro-abortion record he has compiled in two terms as president. Obama took the podium at the 62nd National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington…

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Catholics outraged over U.N. report on sex abuse

Conservative Catholic groups expressed outrage Wednesday over a U.N. panel’s scathing report on the Vatican’s sex abuse scandal, saying the oversight group overstepped its authority by calling for the Catholic Church to change some of its fundamental laws on homosexuality, birth control and abortion. The…

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U.N. demands Vatican ‘immediately remove’ child abusers

The United Nations has gone on the attack against the Catholic Church, demanding the Vatican immediately discharge all suspected and known child abusers, characterizing its views of gays and birth control as archaic and insisting the Holy See open for public review any files on…

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U.N. Panel Criticizes the Vatican Over Sexual Abuse

In a hard-hitting report applauded by victims as a landmark in the Roman Catholic Church’s clerical sexual-abuse scandal, a United Nations committee on Wednesday called on the Vatican to remove all child abusers from its ranks, report them to law enforcement and open the church’s…

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Where abortion opponents—and backers—rule, in five maps

By now it’s become clear that states, rather than Capitol Hill, have become the true battleground for abortionpolicy. But what has been a little less obvious is how outnumbered abortion rights advocates are compared to their foes when it comes to unified control of state…

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‘U.S. Government’ Knows Catholic Theology Better Than Little Sisters of the Poor

Whatever are you to do when you’re a journalist who favors Team Obama but the administration is going up against an underdog that you’d have to be a monster to hate: the Little Sisters of the Poor. Well, you simply call the Obama administration the…

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