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Fr. Pavone: Only Acceptable Change to HHS Mandate is to Rescind It

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, responded to the announcement on contraception coverage from HHS with the following statement:

Black Group Twitter Account Suspended for Challenging the 44th NAACP Image Awards

LOS ANGELES, -- This Friday, February 1, 2013, a number of black groups, churches and community activists with the National Black Prolife Coalition (NBPLC) will be protesting the NAACP 44th Image Awards Show. However, their twitter account @NAACP_WATCHDOGS was suspended.

The Desecration of Rachel’s Park Memorial

WACO, Texas, -- On Saturday, January 26th Rachel's Park Memorial, a memorial dedicated to the memory of the preborn babies murdered by abortion, was desecrated. A report was filed with the Waco Police Department at 11:09 am, by an employee of a neighboring business. Rachel's Park Memorial is located at 4720 N. 19th Street in Waco. The park has suffered regular desecration, but this attack was, by far, the most devastating.

More than 50,000 Pro-Lifers Fill SF’s Civic Center Plaza at Walk For Life West Coast

• Record crowd tops 50,000, fills main S.F. thoroughfare for more than 1 mile

SAN FRANCISCO, -- Pope Benedict XVI commended the "outstanding public witness to the fundamental human right to life" of the Walk for Life West Coast, in a special message delivered by his delegate to tens of thousands gathered in front of San Francisco's City Hall January 26.

Priests for Life Leader Father Pavone Honored by Youth as ‘Defender of Life’

WASHINGTON, -- Hailing him as a "hero of the preborn," Students for Life of America will honor Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, with its 2013 "Defender of Life" award during its annual conference Jan. 26 in Bethesda, Md.

Archbishop Chaput to Celebrate National Mass for Eighth Anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s Death

PHILADELPHIA, -- The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network is delighted to announce that Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archbishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia, will celebrate "The National Memorial Mass for Terri's Day."

Daniel, Baby Boy Killed by Abortion, Calls to Mississippi ‘Close Down That Clinic’

JACKSON, Miss., -- On January 22nd, 40 years since the killing of unborn babies was made legal by the infamous Roe vs. Wade Decision, Daniel, a baby boy killed by abortion, will call for justice for his 55 million murdered brothers and sisters. Though he is dead yet shall he speak!

Forty Years After Roe V. Wade, 40 Film Takes on the Civil Rights Issue of Abortion

GLENVIEW, Ill., -- To coincide with the upcoming 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, the 40 film is sure to be the most groundbreaking pro-life documentary in history. The film will present abortion as not merely a religious or political issue, but as the most important fundamental human and civil rights issue of our time.

Schindler Survivor Shares His Holocaust Experience

LOVELAND, Colo., -- Oskar Schindler's youngest Holocaust survivor died this month in California. His story will be shared at Lifetree Café community forums from coast to coast during the week of January 27, 2013.

Chicago’s Bubble Zone Ordinance Burst Again as Charges are Filed, Then Dismissed

CHICAGO, -- Today, the City of Chicago dropped all charges against Anna Marie Mesia, 64, who was charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly violating the City's abortion clinic "bubble zone" law at the Family Planning Associates late-term abortion facility on the North Side of Chicago. The abortion clinic had sought the charges against Mesia, but City prosecutors stated in court that the clinic now refuses to allow its employees to testify or even to produce surveillance videos and photos of the alleged crime. The court had previously allowed Mesia's attorney, Peter Breen, executive director and legal counsel for the Thomas More Society, to subpoena the clinic for videos, photos, and documents related to the incident.

‘NAACP Forsakes Tonya Reaves and Natural Marriage, Favors Reproductive Genocide,’

ATLANTA, -- "In the wake of seemingly endless moral debacles such as Planned Parenthood's slaughter of Tonya Reaves, a young Chicago mother, and Washington's almost manic stronghold tactics to weaken natural marriage, thousands of African Americans are outraged by the NAACP's support of abortion and homosexual marriage," says civil rights activist and minister Dr. Alveda King.

Poll Finds More than 8 in 10 Americans Favor Significant Abortion Restrictions

NEW HAVEN, Conn., -- Four decades after the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion throughout the United States, a new KofC-Marist Poll shows that more than 8 in 10 Americans (83 percent) favor significant restrictions.

PFL Secures Religious Freedom Exemption

WASHINGTON, -- Priests for Life has scored a victory in its challenge to the religious-freedom-busting HHS mandate. Lawyers for the Obama administration stipulated that the pro-life organization would not have to offer contraception, sterilization services and abortifacient drugs through its employee health insurance plan.

Planned Parenthood: More Dead Children and Largest Budget Ever

FRONT ROYAL, Va., -- "For decades now, Planned Parenthood has operated the most proficient killing machine in the United States," said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization Life Decisions International (LDI). "And the machine has set yet another record."

Catholic Health Insurance Company Granted Temporary Relief from HHS Mandate

CHICAGO, Yesterday Triune Health Group, Inc., a Roman Catholic health care service company based in DuPage County, Illinois, won a preliminary injunction against the Obama Administration's Health and Human Services mandate for group insurance coverage of sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception. Triune, recently named by Crain's Chicago Business as the Best Place to Work for Women in the Chicago metro area, will be permitted to offer its employees a healthcare plan without having to violate its leaders' sincerely held religious beliefs.

Terrorists Slashing Throats of Nigerian-Christians

NEW YORK, -- We had warned that Boko Haram would continue its tradition of killing Nigerian Christians on Christmas day. Last week marked the third straight year that the terror group has murdered Nigerian Christians in the church on a Christmas day.

Civil Rights Attorneys for Roman Catholic Owners of Healthcare Management Business

CHICAGO, -- Attorneys for Jubilee Campaign's Law of Life Project and Thomas More Society await decisions by federal and state courts on their motions for preliminary injunction to stop the State of Illinois and the Federal Government from imposing confiscatory fines and other legal sanctions on a Roman Catholic health management company for exercising their state and federal free exercise of religion rights not to be forced to pay for abortifacients, sterilization, contraception and the related counseling now being imposed upon non-exempt businesses by state and federal law.

Syrian Christians Preparing for Somber Christmas

SANTA ANA, Calif., -- "Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright..." Many Christians all over the world will sing this Christmas carol in the next few days. Millions look forward to Christmas. What about the Syrian Christians in the midst of a terrible civil war? Will they have the "heavenly peace" this Christmas classic speaks about?

ChinaAid Obtains Secret Central Committee Document Ordering Crackdown on Evangelism

BEIJING, -- ChinaAid on Tuesday released a secret Communist Party Central Committee document it had obtained that contains detailed instructions for a nationwide crackdown on evangelism on college and university campuses and among students, confirming that China's leadership at the highest levels is behind the increased Christian persecution of recent years.

Human Trafficking Border Interception Programs Greatly Exceed Expectations

FRANKLIN, Tenn., -- Free for Life International is pleased to report that the results for their partner border monitoring interception programs for the current year are in. They can now share that 150 girls were rescued from slavery in combined efforts between their two existing border stations. Free for Life Intl, along with their partners Peace Rehabilitation Center, operate these programs along the Nepal border. They also are celebrating the capture of 17 traffickers this year through this project. These border stations are among the most effective anti-trafficking programs in this part of the world.