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In an editorial published yesterday, the news agency for the Archdiocese of Mexico City emphasized that the decision by the country’s attorney general to challenge the legalization of same-sex “marriage” does not constitute discrimination. The paper added that homosexuals cannot “bestow rights upon themselves,” such as adoption because it violates the rights of children, reports Catholic News Agency.

The editorial expressed full support for the attorney general’s arguments in his… >>

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LONDON • British low-cost airline easyJet offered on Wednesday to fly Pope Benedict XVI to Britain for free after a controversy erupted over the high cost of the pontiff’s visit.

The airline seized on a clash that emerged after the pope criticized British laws seen as friendly to gays, prompting critics to point out that the visit would reportedly cost British tax payers £20-million.

“We are confident that once he has tried easyJet, His Holiness will never look back,” easyJet said in a statement.

The airline said it contacted the Vatican on Wednesday to extend the invitation and was waiting for a response.

Pope Benedict, who usually flies with Italian airline and easyJet rival Alitalia, confirmed on Monday plans to visit Britain later this year in what would be the first such trip in 28 years.

But he sparked controversy in a letter to the bishops of England and Wales, saying new British equal opportunities legislation “violates the natural law upon which the equality of all human beings is grounded.”

Observers said the pontiff was referring to legislation that took effect on Jan. 1, 2009 preventing adoption agencies — including Catholic ones — from discriminating against gay couples.

Photo: Pope Benedict XVI talks to journalists onboard an Alitalia airplane in 2006. (Patrick Hertzog/AFP/Getty Images)

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Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 3, 2010 / 12:53 am (CNA).- In an editorial published yesterday, the news agency for the Archdiocese of Mexico City emphasized that the decision by the country's attorney general to challenge the legalization of same-sex "marriage" does not constitute discrimination.  The paper added that homosexuals cannot "bestow rights upon themselves," such as adoption because it violates the rights of children.

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Reuters – Five of the 10 American Baptist missionaries accused of illegally trying to take children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti left their jail cells temporarily to plead their case to a judge on Tuesday.

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Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 1, 2010 / 02:50 pm (CNA).- A legal expert from the Institute for Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Jorge Adame Goddard, said last week that Mexico City’s recent decision to allow same-sex “marriage” and homosexual adoption are both “unconstitutional.”

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With 4.1million members in England and Wales, a quarter of whom attend Mass
each Sunday, the Roman Catholic Church has proved a vocal and effective
opposition to Labour in recent years.

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Mexico City, Mexico, Jan 30, 2010 / 12:56 am (CNA).- Members of the Council of Catholic Analysts of Mexico have criticized Mexico City’s law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, saying it reveals the contempt lawmakers of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) have for children and human life.

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The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) Secretariat has welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution condemning recent attacks on Christian commun…

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By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America CorrespondentMEXICO CITY, January 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico's ruling National Action Party (PAN) is beginning new initiatives against the legalization of "gay marriage" and homosexual adoption in the nation's capital.The PAN,…

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With the blessing of her large extended family, Vanessa Alenier took custody of an infant relative who had been seized by child welfare workers. She moved him into a yellow nursery with a blond wood crib, a blue-striped carpet and a mobile.

When she asked the state to for permission to adopt him, the application included a simple question.

Are you gay?

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AFP – Christian groups have said said they had asked Mexico’s attorney general to overturn a newly-voted Mexico City law allowing gay marriage and the possibility of adoption, because it was “unconstitutional.”

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AFP – Christian groups have said said they had asked Mexico’s attorney general to overturn a newly-voted Mexico City law allowing gay marriage and the possibility of adoption, because it was “unconstitutional.”

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First, I was pleasantly surprised at the respectful portrayal of the Touhy family. I’m used to seeing Christians portrayed as self-righteous and hypocritical, so it was refreshing to see a family that prays together and tries to live according to their Christian convictions.

The Touhys take seriously the idea of “Christian duty.” They also expect other Christians to live up to their name. My favorite part of the film was when one of Leigh Anne Touhy’s friends was interrogating her about having a “black boy” sleeping in the same house as her daughter. Leigh Anne’s response was to look her square in the eyes and say calmly, “Shame on you.”

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By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America CorrespondentMEXICO CITY, December 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – "Homosexual marriage" and gay adoption received approval from lawmakers in Mexico's capital on Monday, in a 39-25 vote with five abstentions.Opposition lawmakers immediately…

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Christian and Muslim dalit people are to be given the same rights as their Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh counterparts under an official recommendation that comes after a 60-year struggle by the Church to win the concessions. (more…)

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When Melissa and Keith Ford knew they wanted to adopt a child, they chose an “open” adoption through the Methodist Mission Home, which allows the birthmother to be involved in the child’s life. Staff reports.

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The Jacobsons are hardly strangers to the plight of Burma’s ethnic refugees, who in recent years have finally been granted approval by the U.S. State Department to seek asylum in the United States. Jim Jacobson’s nonprofit organization, Christian Freedom International (CFI), works extensively among thousands of persecuted Karen and Karenni Christians in Burma and Thailand, with Jacobson having personally made countless trips to the region throughout the past decade to help build schools and medical clinics, and deliver humanitarian aid and hope to a people who have been struggling in the midst of a genocidal nightmare for decades.

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The Jacobsons are hardly strangers to the plight of Burma’s ethnic refugees, who in recent years have finally been granted approval by the U.S. State Department to seek asylum in the United States. Jim Jacobson’s nonprofit organization, Christian Freedom International (CFI), works extensively among thousands of persecuted Karen and Karenni Christians in Burma and Thailand, with Jacobson having personally made countless trips to the region throughout the past decade to help build schools and medical clinics, and deliver humanitarian aid and hope to a people who have been struggling in the midst of a genocidal nightmare for decades.

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A Christian couple who leads a ministry that supports persecuted Christians announced this week their successful adoption of eight Burmese refugee children.

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Condominium owners can sue for housing discrimination based on the adoption of a rule prohibiting religious and other displays outside unit entrances, the en banc 7th Circuit has ruled.

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