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				<title>18 May 13 Christianity in Britain declined faster than expected, new figures suggest </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Christianity in Britain could be facing a collapse with new figures suggesting it is declining 50 per cent faster than previously thought, The Daily Telegraph reports. An analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population – while driving a dramatic increase in Islam, particularly among the young.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:11:05 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>17 May 13 No evidence that abortion will help suicidal women says leading doctor </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ One of the country’s leading obstetricians has said he has seen no evidence that abortion can help a suicidal pregnant woman and that creates a moral dilemma for doctors. Speaking on Newstalk this morning, the Master of the Rotunda, Dr Sam Coulter Smith, said: "We as doctors are required to practice evidence based intervention, evidence based medicine.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:15:02 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>17 May 13 Concern expressed at new embryo stem cell technique </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Scientists and bioethicists have expressed serious concerns about the ethical implications of a new technique that uses and destroys cloned embryos to harvest stem cells for experimentation. Professor Martin Clynes, director of the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology at Dublin City University, said that the new technique, which involves the transfer of a donor cell to an egg cell whose nucleus has been removed, creating a human embryo, has“probably” not gotten over the ethical issues involved with so-called therapeutic cloning, the Irish Times reports.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:34 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>17 May 13 Should marriage in any form have special status?</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The family diversity or family equality argument is perfectly expressed today in The Irish Times by Karen Kiernan of One Family. The essence of her argument; the family in Ireland is changing, all families are equal in esteem and marriage shouldn’t be held in higher esteem. Therefore change the Constitution and remove the special status of marriage. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:35:45 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>16 May 13 Archbishop Martin intervenes in debate over abortion legislation  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has warned that the Government's abortion legislation will give the unborn child whose mother was deemed to be suicidal “less protection than is guaranteed in liberal abortion laws in other countries”.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:02:49 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>16 May 13 European Court attacked over new assisted suicide ruling </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that guidelines in place in Switzerland which restrict access to 'suicide' drugs are insufficiently clear and are in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. However, the court did not rule that there is a right to assisted suicide in the Convention.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:05:04 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>15 May 13 New French coalition formed to fight for freedom of conscience  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A coalition of groups opposed to the legalisation of same-sex marriage in France have come together to stand up for the freedom of conscience of religious individuals and institutions who could find themselves the target of ‘anti-discrimination’ legislation.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:23:05 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>14 May 13 Abortionist found guilty of murder of infants  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Philadelphia abortionist, Dr Kermit Gosnell, has been found guilty of three counts of first degree murder after it was found he killed babies after they had been delivered alive. He was also found guilty of conspiracy to perform abortions past Pennsylvania's 24-week legal threshold.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:03:42 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>14 May 13 Young families hardest hit by recession says ESRI  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Young families have been the hardest hit by the recession, according to new research from a leading think-tank. The study by the the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) shows that households where the adults are under the age of 45 are being hit hardest by unemployment, mortgage arrears and negative equity. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:54:21 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>13 May 2013 'I want gay marriage but I also think marriage shouldn't exist at all'</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Those who favour allowing same-sex couples to marry argue, in public at least, that they seek only to extend marriage, and it is not their intention to destroy it.
Some same-sex marriage advocates publicly disagree. One of them is Russian-American lesbian activist and author Masha Gessen.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:53:26 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>13 May 13 Irish launch of ‘Global Charter of Conscience’ takes place</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Irish launch of ‘The Global Charter of Conscience’ took place in Dublin yesterday. The purpose of the charter is to find a way of letting people of different beliefs co-exist in society and have their conscience rights curtailed to the smallest extent possible. Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness launched the document. The event was hosted by the Evangelical Alliance. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:17:51 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>11 May 13 Catholic university under attack for honouring Enda Kenny</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Pro-life groups in the US have described the decision by a prominent US Catholic university to invite Taoiseach Enda Kenny to receive an honourary degree and speak at their graduation ceremony as “unconscionable” in light of the Government's proposed abortion Bill. “After our painful experience for the past 40 years, we know what legal abortion will do to Ireland,” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America told Catholic News Agency in the US.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:24:03 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>11 May 13 New report finds State guilty of child protection failings  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Up to 40pc of staff working in a State child protection and welfare bureau have not been vetted by gardai, and HSE staff in one local area did not always notify the gardai of cases of suspected physical, sexual abuse or neglect of a child, according to a new report. The review, carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority, Hiqa, inspected child protection services in the Carlow/Kilkenny area found that delays in reporting suspect cases of abuse and neglect potentially hindered investigations and presented a risk to children, the Irish Times reports. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:54:04 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>10 May 13 Convention recommends amending not deleting women in the home provision</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Constitutional Convention has submitted its second report to the Government. It recommends amending, rather than deleting, Article 41.2 of the Constitution, which currently refers to women in the home. The report reflected the recommendation of the Convention's meeting in February that the article be made gender neutral to include other carers in the home, and beyond the home.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:06:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>10 May 13 Catholics have duty to oppose abortion legislation says Archbishop Eamon Martin</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Government's proposed abortion legislation has been slammed as “gravely immoral” and Catholics cannot leave their faith “outside the room” when considering these matters, the Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, has said. In remarks at the closing of the Novena in the parish of Saint Patrick, Roden Place, Dundalk, Archbishop Martin said the government's proposal “strikes at the very heart of our faith and belief because it directly targets human life which is sacred and a gift from God”.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 11:52:22 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>09 May 13 Morning Ireland admits academic not unhappy with how his abortion research was used</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ RTE's Morning Ireland programme this morning issued a clarification accepting that a prominent New Zealand psychiatrist was not unhappy about how his research was cited by The Iona Institute. On Tuesday, presenter Cathal McCoille interviewed Professor David Fergusson about the way in which his research had been cited by pro life groups. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:44:01 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>09 May 13 An appalling cartoon and a cartoonish view of the world</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ During the course of the abortion debate there have been frequent calls on us to have a calm and rational debate and to keep it emotion-free. Despite this we have had leading commentators like Olivia O’Leary comparing Ireland with its pro-life laws to the Taliban’s Afghanistan and then in yesterday’s Irish Times we had an appalling cartoon in a similar vein from Martyn Turner. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:34:56 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>09 May 13 Anger at proposal to pay for pre-school places out of Child Benefit</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Education Minister Ruiari Quinn (pictured) has sparked fears of a further cut to Child Benefit after he indicated he would spend the money saved on free pre-school places.  According to The Irish Independent, Mr Quinn's comments raising the prospect of further cuts have caused anger within the Coalition.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:35:26 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>08 May 13 Cameron’s commitment to redefining marriage ‘costing votes’</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ David Cameron’s insistence on redefining marriage and his refusal to date to grant a tax break to married couples cost the Tories seats in last week's local elections, Conservative activists have claimed. Conservative Grassroots, a network of senior Tory party members, have said that the Prime Minister's commitment to legalising same-sex marriage is harming the Conservative Party’s electoral chances, the Daily Telegraph reports.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:10:49 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>07 May 13 Conscientious objection clause in abortion bill may be unconstitutional says expert  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A prominent legal academic has said that a requirement in the Government's proposed abortion legislation that hospitals must carry out abortions regardless of their religious ethos may not be in accord with the Irish Constitution. Professor Gerry Whyte of Trinity College Dublin, a leading expert in Constitutional law, said that Head 12 of the Government's Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 may not be compatible with Article 44.2.5 of the Constitution. 


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				<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:05:23 +0100</pubDate>
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