NEWSBYTES

LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for January 6, 2009

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.

LIFE ISSUES

Democrats Eye Overturning Bush Medical Rule
http://washingtonindependent.com/23480/congress-plans-overtu...

Mother has healthy baby boy despite abortion warning by doctor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4045097/Mother-has-healthy...

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
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9861015...

Victoria Lambert: 'I aborted my baby because he was disabled but it still feels like murder and haunts me every day' - faced the difficult decision of aborting her baby at 12 weeks after discovering it had either trisomy 13 or Edwards' syndrome
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1104467/Victoria-L...

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.
http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=9595867&nav=me...

The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s by Richard John Neuhaus
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6453

Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor in chief of First Things, is currently undergoing treatment for cancer
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/father_neuhaus_hospitalized1...

Fear Mongering For Assisted Suicide in Scotland
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/01/fear-mongering-for-...

How Down Syndrome lifted me up
http://www.renewamerica.us/news/090102kondrich.htm

Reasonable-minded citizens should be genuinely frightened of Mary
Warnock - John Smeaton
http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/01/reasonable-minded-...


RELIGION

More Religious Teens Embrace Abstinence
http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41356

Gays Unable to Accept Pope’s Defense of Environment and Nature’s ‘Law,’ Says Top Theologian
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41...

Is There More to Rumour of Abbot Hugh Gilbert's Refusal to Accept Rome Invitation to Become Leading English Bishop?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/01/01...

Tony Blair's Catholic aide... and their new Yale HQ near her father's office. She is a committed socialist.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1104750/Blair-sexy-C...

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.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BU3BD200812...

To reach young, church must explain core beliefs, Vatican official says
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0806408.htm

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
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474464,00.html

Investment News's Coverage of NYT Blog Post Criticizing Ave Maria Funds: Fair Balanced, Delicious
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/12/31/strikebac...

"[In Africa alone] In every hour, 667 Muslims Convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims Convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 MILLION Muslims Convert to Christianity." - Shiekh Ahmad Al Katani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVnILalpeo&feature=relat...

Muslim Clerics leave Islam and embrace Christ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FU7Yyx4D4&feature=relat...

The ongoing exploits of Fr. Zakaria Botros: "God does not pray!" - Just one more reason to make Muslims try to eliminate Botros
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024234.php

King of Bahrain donates plot of land to build a Catholic church
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14136

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.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&page...

How liberals have distorted Christian charity
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/12/26/newsweek...