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A BBC investigation into human sacrifice in Uganda has heard first-hand accounts which suggest ritual killings of children may be more common than authorities have acknowledged. One witch-doctor led us to his secret shrine and said he had clients who regularly captured children and brought their blood and body parts to be consumed by spirits. Meanwhile, a former witch-doctor who now campaigns to end child sacrifice confessed for the first time to having murdered about 70 people, including his own son. The Ugandan government told us that human sacrifice is on the increase, and according to the head of the...

Tuesday April 21, 2009 Polish Cardinal, Former Secretary to Pope JPII: Politicians, Like Pilate, Kill the Truth of the Life of the Unborn By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiKRAKOW, Poland, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - During his Good Friday homily at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a Marian pilgrimage site near Krakow and home to a live dramatization of the Passion of Christ, Archbishop of Krakow Stanis?aw Cardinal Dziwisz called on the over 150,000 faithful present to show courage and speak the truth in defense of the dignity of human life.The Cardinal condemned abortion, euthanasia, common-law marriage, homosexual unions and in vitro fertilization.Speaking to...

(IsraelNN.com) The following statement referring to the counter-terrorism incident in Rafiah this afternoon was released a short time ago by the IDF Spokesperson’s Office. “Today's incident in Rafiah is a very grave incident and the IDF expresses deep sorrow over the loss of civilian lives. “At no point in this incident was intentional fire opened in the direction of civilians. “A large procession of several hundreds demonstrators, among them gunmen, organized by the Palestinian Authority, left central Rafiah along the main road towards IDF forces in Tel-Sultan. “As the crowd, with the gunmen among them, drew near IDF forces, a...

The good news is that scientific testing is getting more and more sensitive; the bad news is that humans remain as insensitive as ever. Between modern medicine and mod language, we're now able to describe feticide - never call it that! - as peace of mind. The story, on Page 2 of the morning paper, caught my attention. ("New testing method spots Down's Syndrome earlier") How's that for good news? The opening paragraph of the AP story sounds as sunny as a spring day, as therapeutic as modern medicine, as cheering as a baby's first smile: "A new combination of...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Members appointed to a conference committee to complete work on the partial-birth abortion ban are wasting no time in getting started. They are expected to meet Tuesday, where they will remove an amendment to the bill added in the Senate that endorses the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Once they finish, all that remains is for each chamber to approve the committee's report and then the bill goes to President Bush for his signature. At least one house is expect to take up the conference committee's report this week. Both chambers approved the...

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of LifeNews.com profiles on the Democratic presidential candidates. Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Democratic candidates for president are playing a game of one-upmanship in their attempt to gain support form abortion advocacy groups. But former Vermont Governor Howard Dead has a claim to fame none of the others can match: he's worked at Planned Parenthood. The physician-turned-politician did a stint at Planned Parenthood while working to become an internist, Mary Hahn Beerworth, director of Vermont Right to Life, tells LifeNews.com. However, the rotation wasn't required by his medical student program. "While...

Albert Mohler Author, Speaker, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Friday, August 8, 2003 Will New Technologies Mean the End of Abortion? Thirty years later, it is now clear that the U. S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision marks the onset of the nation's full-blown culture war. Since then, more than 40-million babies have been murdered, and Roe still stands. The decision represents a breathtaking exhibition of judicial arrogance. The Court's majority was determined to legalize abortion, and the decision was just a legal rationalization for imposing this new "right." In The Brethren, reporter Bob Woodward of...

Washington, Aug. 08 (CWNews.com) - A federal ban on partial-birth abortion in the US, passed by Congress early in May, has still not become law, because of the obstructive techniques of Democratic legislators. Although both the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the partial-birth abortion ban by substantial minorities in the spring, and President George Bush has promised that he will sign the bill as soon as it reaches his desk. But Democratic lawmakers have seized on a technicality of the legislative process to stall the bill for three months already-- with no end yet in sight. The legislation...

British women are for the first time to be offered drug-induced abortions at home under plans drawn up by a leading family planning organisation. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which is responsible for 50,000 abortions a year, says that home abortions will make the procedure quicker and easier for women. It is asking the Department of Health for the go-ahead for a pilot study of 500 home abortions. Its newly appointed chief executive, Ann Furedi, says that it will enable the charity to offer more terminations to more women, as well as enable them to be done sooner. She wants...

Abortion has Failed Women. After a three-decade experiment initiated by Roe v. Wade, the results clearly show that abortion harms women. America has polarized the abortion debate between the unborn child and the woman, but in reality abortion does not offer the best choice for either. A survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, research arm for Planned Parenthood, showed women primarily choose abortion because of lack of financial resources and lack of emotional support. Abortion appears to these women to be the only choice available. The false notion that abortion provides the best and easiest solution to an unwanted pregnancy...