Lisa Miller may face loss of custody of her child to former lesbian partner Janet Jenkins, as well as jail time. Full Story

The Vatican’s official newspaper has caused a media storm in the European press with an article asserting the abortifacient and carcinogenic effects of hormonal contraceptives. Full Story

"These findings are remarkable," said Deirdre McQuade of the USCCB. "Fewer than one in ten Americans support legal abortion for any reason at any time during pregnancy. But that is precisely the current state of abortion law under Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton." Full Story

Ganatra, an Ipas senior policy advisor, criticizes media campaigns that discourage sex-selected abortions for using “loaded words” that “personify the fetus,” claiming that these foster an “anti-abortion climate” which threatens “the gains made in making abortion safe.” Full Story

Harper’s denial - the latest in a recent series of emphatic statements on the issue - came in response to controversy surrounding remarks by Conservative Winnipeg MP Rod Bruinooge, the newly elected chairman of the Canadian parliamentary pro-life caucus. Full Story

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• The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s by Richard John Neuhaus
• To reach young, church must explain core beliefs, Vatican official says
• Licensing proposal could require lawyers to endorse homosexuality
• Is There More to Rumour of Abbot Hugh Gilbert's Refusal to Accept Rome Invitation to Become Leading English Bishop?
• UK Environment minister Sammy Wilson: I still think man-made climate change is a con
• The majority of Nebraska lawmakers who responded to an Associated Press pre-session survey say they would support a measure to ban abortion in the state.
• Fiction writer Elizabeth McCracken - when her first child died in utero just days before he was due to be born, realized that she needed to write about it
• Gays Unable to Accept Pope’s Defense of Environment and Nature’s ‘Law,’ Says Top Theologian
• A San Antonio teacher plans to sue her former employer, a Catholic high school, saying she was fired for marrying a man who had been divorced
• The Vatican will no longer automatically adopt new Italian laws as its own, a top Vatican official said, citing the vast number of laws Italy churns out, many of which are in odds with Catholic doctrine.
• Vatican issues "punitive" measures against NY Jesuit Roger Haight: Now Haight is barred from writing at all on theology, and he can't teach at a non-Catholic school
• The Complementarity of Man and Woman By Michael Novak
• Why Hindu extremists target Christians; A militant school of Hindu thought which despises Islam and Christianity as alien creeds is growing in strength in India.
• How liberals have distorted Christian charity
• Newsweek Uses Year-End Edition to Take Potshots at Palin
• Sarah Palin 2009 Calendar Amazon Best Seller
• NYT's Galbraith Admits Winter Weather Stifles Alternative Energy Sources, Will Nets Follow?
• Another Journalist Proclaims The Masses Are Stupid, Internet is Pernicious
• Could Canwest go bankrupt? The stock has fallen by more than 90 per cent and major investors are bailing out, as fear mounts over a debt crunch
• Gays Unable to Accept Pope’s Defense of Environment and Nature’s ‘Law,’ Says Top Theologian
• Conservatives Expect U.N. Battle Over Homosexuality as a ‘Human Right’ to Begin in '09
• Al Gore: The real Flat Earther
• 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
• Global warming: The new eugenics - eugenics movement and the global warming movement are similar in many respects.
• Prominent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm “Mistaken”
• A warmer climate may be a good thing for countries already inured to the cold, like Canada
• Born at just 23 weeks, the baby who defied UK abortion laws
• A New Vaccine Research Initiative That Needs the Support of the Whole Pro-Life Community
• Tiny Catholic Parish goes toe to toe with Abortion clinic-sees dramatic drop in abortions!
• India, an Exporter of Priests, May Keep Them
• Atheists suing to remove religion from inauguration
• The celebrations of the Nativity are "the only response to the evils that afflict the world," says Bartholomew I, Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople
• Disney pulls out of Narnia Film, citing costs but real reason may be creative differences over the inclusion of faith elements that were prominent in the children's novel.
• Christians called to abandon public education - Children's worldview determined by 14,000 hours in classrooms
• Tony Blair: "I regularly read the Koran, practically every day"; Muhammad "an enormously civilizing force"
• Tel Aviv recruits gay athletes for 2009 World Outgames
• Pope 'misinterpreted' on homosexuality
• "You can church-shop and find a local parish that is accepting”; Membership in homosexual-oriented churches nosedives as mainline religions – including Catholicism – become more ‘gay-friendly’

• LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for December 30, 2008
• Brazilian Court Convicts Homeschooling Family Despite Evidence of Success
• Remembering the Real in the Capital of the World
• Christmas in Mexico, 2008
• The Vastness of Christmas
• Tradition and Light
• With Seven Children in Narnia - Trying to Capture the Real Meaning of Christmas
• The Silence of Christmas
• We are Fighting a Battle That Has Already Been Won
• There is no Other Work That I Would Rather be Doing
• Voted for Prop 8? You're fired - Same-sex marriage activists target businesses, employees. One report included a University of California student whose car was vandalized and who was beaten over her support of Prop. 8.
• Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health funding homosexual / transgender movement in schools
• Massachusetts Legislature continues unconstitutional actions - illegally passing laws with no quorum!
• Christian ministry suffers web attack - believes the web campaign is in response to his public statements favoring California's Proposition 8
• Supreme Success: Thanks to Bush, we have a chance for a Roberts Court.
• 13 CHRC Personnel Have Been Investigating Conservative Website
• Obama the most admired man in the world, American poll says
• RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts - "We can't be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty
• Defenders of traditional marriage shouldn't expect any help from the courts -- much less from Catholic Supreme Court justices.
• MP Rod Bruinooge in National Post: "Why I am pro-life
• Firefighters ordered into 'gay' parade back in court - first trial judge banned the introduction of photographs of public sex, nudity and indecency from the parade.
• Ezra Levant: Jennifer Lynch, jet-setting lawbreaker - In other words, who'll strike her down first, Canada's Supreme Court, or Canada's Parliament?
• AP Attacks Gov. Palin EVEN in Birth Announcement of Grandson
• Massive Pro-Family Rally Floods Spain
• Students push for coed dorms, devalue modesty
• Fate unclear for Liberals backing anti-abortion cause
• Parliamentary group wants to reopen abortion debate