Appeals court overturns lower court, revives pro-lifers’ suit over arrest for chalk messages
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A panel of judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Aug. 15 revived a 2020 suit filed by pro-life activists who alleged the city acted unconstitutionally when police arrested them for drawing anti-abortion messages in chalk on a sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood clinic […]
Ukrainian hospitals seek to offer psychological rehabilitation to children
Dr. Sergei Chernishuk, the Deputy Director of Ohmatdyt, Ukraine’s largest pediatric hospital, highlights the importance of providing physical and psychological care for children affected by the ongoing war. Read all
Christ on Skid Row
Christ on Skid Row By Anna Harrison August 18, 2023 Documentary filmmaker Paul Freedman has produced and directed over a dozen films on global human-rights abuses in Darfur, Eastern Congo, Rwanda, and elsewhere. In The Dirty Divide, he turns his camera on what former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called “the greatest moral and humanitarian […]
Dr. Pierre Kory: Why we wrote the USA Today op-ed on excess deaths – and why we never mentioned ‘vaccines’
In an interview with The Defender, Dr. Pierre Kory said he and his co-author of the USA Today op-ed on excess deaths among young people believe ‘a concerted investigation is in order.’Read More
Church leaders call for peace in Manipur on India’s Independence Day
The Catholic Bishops of India urge citizens to rise above their differences and work towards bringing peace to people in Manipur, as the nation celebrated its 76th anniversary of independence. Read all
The Spiritual Dangers of Constant News Consumption
When I ‘reverted’ to my baptismal Catholic Faith almost a decade ago I underwent a simultaneous political conversion. Before I came back to the Sacraments (well, really to the Sacraments for the first time as I was raised only nominally Catholic) I would have considered myself a Liberal or a centrist. As much as I […]
Nuncio to South Sudan: We need to stand with our people who suffer
Archbishop Hubertus van Megen, the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and South Sudan, offers his thoughts on Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin’s recent visit to the country, and says Christians need to incarnate our faith and stand with our sisters and brothers who are suffering. Read all
Doctors with Africa CUAMM offering medical aid in Ukraine
Lorenzo Pasteris, Administrative Director of Doctors with Africa CUAMM in Ukraine, describes the medical services provided to people who have endured trauma due to the ongoing war. Read all
Maryland Supreme Court backs Catholic Relief Services in same-sex discrimination lawsuit (Catholic Review (Baltimore))
In a 4-3 decision, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled that Catholic Relief Services (CRS) does not have to provide spousal insurance benefits to persons with whom employees have contracted same-sex civil marriages. A data analyst at CRS filed suit against his employer, arguing that CRS was required to offer the benefits under the state’s Fair […]
Appeals court sides with pro-life protesters in DC First Amendment dispute (CNA)
Three years after the arrest of pro-life protestors who wrote “Black Preborn Lives Matter” in chalk on a DC sidewalk, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the government “may not play favorites in a public forum — permitting some messages and prohibiting others.” The pro-life protestors demonstrated that “the […]