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Lithuania Fights Back Against EU Resolution Favoring Homosexual Propaganda

Posted on 18 November 2009

The fight over homosexual propaganda in schools taking place between the Lithuanian and European Parliaments escalated this week with the Lithuanian Parliament (Siemas) calling on its government to file suit against the Europeans in the Court of Justice of the…

The Goal: One Million Names for the Unborn

Posted on 05 November 2009

C-Fam has relaunched the UN Petition for the Unborn Child and the Family and in only a few days have received 30,000 signatures.

As you may recall, last year we launched this petition, which gathered 467,000 names in just a few…

UN Petition for the Unborn Child Re-Launched, Seeks One Million Names

Posted on 26 October 2009

An international coalition of pro-life and pro-family groups has re-launched a petition that is expected to gather one million signatures in support of the unborn child and the traditional family.

Groups from the United States, Poland, Spain and other European counties…

Unusual Coalition Forms Around Supreme Court Case on Juvenile Justice

Posted on 03 October 2009

An unlikely coalition of policy groups has formed around a case of juvenile justice now being considered by the US Supreme Court. The coalition includes national security groups, libertarians and pro-life and pro-family social conservatives. The case involves two individuals…

World Congress Speaker Calls for “Monogamy Men” to Take Back the Culture

Posted on 22 August 2009

Patrick Fagan, family scholar at the Family Research Council, told the World Congress of Families last week in Amsterdam that there are two competing cultures of sexual morality and that both have a profound effect on culture and public policy.…

Social Conservatives to Descend Upon Amsterdam for Global Meeting

Posted on 08 June 2009

Up to 4,000 social conservatives are expected to descend upon liberal Amsterdam, Netherlands, on August 10-12 for the biennial World Congress of Families, a meeting that brings together scholars, academics, policy makers, elected officials, and activists for four days of…

Transnational Supporter of Abortion Advances to Top U.S. Legal Job

Posted on 02 May 2009

It was clear from the opening moments of the Senate hearings for the proposed new top legal advisor at the United States (US) State Department that widespread criticism of the nominee had struck a nerve. Rather than a love feast…

New UN Policy Paper Called Neo-Malthusian and Statist

Posted on 04 April 2009

On the eve of the annual UN Commission on the Population and Development, the UN Population Division (UNPD) issued a policy brief calling for heightened governmental action on fertility reduction in the 49 countries the UN General Assembly calls the…

UNFPA to Receive Renewed US Funding

Posted on 23 March 2009

Though not confirmed, pro-abortion groups are reporting that the United States (US) State Department has released $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), money that had been withheld for eight years by the Bush Administration because of UNFPA…

UN Exaggerates AIDS Crisis and Ignores Real Solutions, According to New Paper

Posted on 27 December 2008

In a paper just published by the highly respected National Catholic Bioethics Center, noted United Nations (UN) scholar Douglas Sylva accuses the UN of playing sexual politics with the global AIDS crisis, thereby exacerbating the problem.Writing in the current issue…

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