FRC Takes Leave from Values Action Team Over Brownback's Support for Sebelius
Family Research Council said it is sitting out of \"Values Action Team\" meetings led by Sen. Sam Brownback over his support for HHS Secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius, a strong advocate of abortion rights. .
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Obama Publishes Proposal to Rescind 'Conscience' Rule
The Department of Health and Human Services will begin accepting comments from the public this week on a proposal by the Obama administration to completely rescind federal regulations placed into effect by former President Bush that protect the right to conscience for healthcare workers.
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"Shine In The Darkness": Anti-Violence Campaigner Challenges Church
"We talk about how powerful and great God is, but that greatness is in all of us, and what are we doing about it?"
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Vic Abortion Conscience Provisions Under Challenge
Catholic Health CEO Martin Laverty has called on Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland to use international human rights obligations to overturn Victorian legislation requiring conscientiously objecting doctors to provide abortion referrals.
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World Seems Immune to Violence Against Women, Says Church Group
The world is guilty of ignoring the high rate of violence against women and the increased risk of abuse the economic crisis has put them in, said leaders of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in a message for International Women's Day.
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Parents Face Council Action over Pro-gay School Week
The local council in Leytonstone, east London, is taking action against parents who took their children out of school during a week promoting homosexuality.
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ACL Launches Election Website, Labor Ignores Christians Despite Close Race
The Australian Christian Lobby today launched its Queensland election website www.qldvotes.org including responses to questions it has put to the parties, but was disappointed in particular with the failure of Anna Bligh's Labor Party to respond.
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Birthing Clinics, not Abortion Clinics Needed for Poor
The Australian Christian Lobby today urged the Rudd Government to take an evidenced based-approach to claims abortion clinics will save women's lives in countries which don't even have proper birthing facilities.
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Vic abortion Conscience Provisions under Challenge
Catholic Health CEO Martin Laverty has called on Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland to use international human rights obligations to overturn Victorian legislation requiring conscientiously objecting doctors to provide abortion referrals.
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Taking the Leadership of Indigenous Women to the World
Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick is one of an Australian delegation of women in attendance at the 53rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the annual summit which is being held in New York City this month.
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Rick Warren: Culture Influenced by Change of Hearts, Not Laws
Though few economists expect the nation's current economic downturn to become the sequel to the Great Depression of the last century, today\'s recession is already longer than all but two of the downturns since World War II, according to the economic research bureau.
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Darwin Conference Does Not Speak for Vatican, Says Intelligent Design Proponent
A leading intelligent design proponent said Friday that views expressed this week at a Darwin conference in Rome should not be confused with the Vatican\'s position on intelligent design and Darwinism.