By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New reports have surfaced linking Discovery gunman James J. Lee to a confrontation with pro-life protestors outside a Washington DC Planned Parenthood clinic last year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Sacramento, California was the scene of a 12-hour rally on Saturday that attracted thousands of people who came to pray and fast in front of the state Capitol for an end to abortion, same-sex marriage and pornography.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican may soon become involved in trying to persuade the Iranian government to spare the life of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43 year-old mother of two who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the first of what will be $1.1 billion of taxpayer money has been given to four research groups charged with setting up a network of the controversial "patient-centered outcomes research centers" that will determine the effectiveness of different medical treatments, which many believe will be used to ration care when ObamaCare gets underway in 2014.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Various secularist and gay rights groups in the UK are seething over comments made by an aide to the Archbishop of Westminster in which he called Britain "the geopolitical epicenter of the culture of death" where gay rights and the commercialization of sex has turned the country into a "selfish, hedonistic wasteland."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG), the Catholic group that was instrumental in trying to convince Catholics they could vote for pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 appears to have gone out of business.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Aid groups working in Pakistan's hardest hit areas of flooding are saying that large landowners and other wealthy citizens have deliberately directed the flow of floodwaters into the villages of poor Hindu and Christian minorities to save their own farmlands.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Police in Silver Springs, Maryland shot and killed a man who stormed into the headquarters of the Discovery Channel brandishing a gun and bombs and demanding that the channel do more to discourage overpopulation and the "human filth" of new children.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi has turned a cordial visit to Rome into an international incident by calling for Europe to convert to Islam, offering to find Libyan husbands for Italian women, and trying to extort $1 billion a year from the Italian government for his help in preventing Italy from "turning black" due to increased African immigration.
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