International

South Africa: First child trafficking case in court

Malaysia: Man charged with trafficking Thai women

Guardian: Lithuanian woman trafficked into UK forced with men up to 30x per day

Colombia’s Attorney General Pushes Catholic Hospitals to Provide Abortions

No bail for N.J. man in Thailand child porn case

Burma: ‘Destroy the Christian Religion’

Scotland: Let 13 year-olds have sex, says Children’s Commissioner

Homosexual couple sues Sweden seeking marriage redefinition

Rowan Williams: The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

Ontario: Proposal to remove Legislature’s Lord’s Prayer raises firestorm

Canadian pro-lifers join in largest-ever march on Parliament

“It Feels as if the Soul of Britain is Dying”

Supreme Court Reviewing Appeals Court Rulings on Forced Abortion Asylum

New British Study on Premature Births Used to Justify Late-Term Abortions

UK: Free speech victory over ‘homosexual hatred’ law

Canada: Deadly shooting at Vancouver strip club

Rights activist urges China to grant Olympic pardon

Law that would have legalized abortion in Brazil unanimously rejected

China intensifies campaign against house church Christians

UK: MPs remove free speech clause from ‘gay hate’ law

Montreal Cabbie Files Human Rights Complaint Over Religious Items

Japan Steadily Becoming a Land Of Few Children

Canadian Cabinet Member Slams Human Rights Commission Manipulations as “Dangerous”

London Trafficking Crackdown: Rape warning for men paying for sex

Canada: Conservatives called on to reign in human rights commissions or lose funding

Anti-psychotic drug use soars in UK children, too

US Commission on International Religious Freedom Names 11 Countries of Particular Concern

Argentina: Eminent Psychiatrist Says Homosexuality is a Disorder that Can be Cured

Russia’s Abortion-Caused Underpopulation Crisis Requires Foreign Workers

European Human Rights Watchdog Criticizes Ireland for Not Legalizing Abortion

Drive against Muslim judges in Denmark

Fiancee renounces her Catholic faith so Royal can keep his place in succession

Foreign Law and the First Amendment

Chinese slave children ’sold like cabbages’

“Norming”: America’s Interests, the Constitution, and the UN

Swiss Grant Rights to Animals, Consider Same for Plants - Liberalize Abortion Laws

J.I. Packer Quits Anglican Church of Canada

Moscow warns homosexuals not to organize “gay” demonstrations

Canadians Back Action in Polygamous Community

Malaysian Islamic body rejects proposed conversion rule meant to ease religious tensions

The Religiosity of Jus Cogens: A Moral Case for Compliance?

Abortion Law and Abortion Discourse in Taiwan: Rights, Social Movements and Democratization

United Nations Human Rights Cmte Continues Pressuring Poland on Abortion

India PM calls abortion of baby girls shameful

Indian State Implements Anti-Conversion Law

Bible reading results in arrests

Australia: Concerns that churches will be opted out of anti discrimination changes

Plan-B supporters detonate homemade explosives at Chilean university

Canada: Group must pay homosexual worker who had to quit job

Footballers launch anti-homophobia campaign in honour of Justin Fashanu

Poland Pressured on Abortion and Sexual Orientation by UN Human Rights Committee

Kazakhstan: Growing threats to religious property

Chilean Catholics Protest Court Ruling against Free Contraception Program

Chinese-Christians Are Paying a High Price for the Olympics

Israel recognizes overseas adoption by gay couple, grants child citizenship

300 Schools to Close in Ontario because of Birth Rate Crash

Canada’s Prohibition on Blasphemous Libel as a Case Study in Obsolete Legislation

“Singapore fines TV station for gay show”

Becket Fund International Religious Freedom News Update

Polish commission chairman would limit IVF to married couples

Catholic Archbishop: The Role of Education in the New Ireland

Israel High Court Gives Citizenship To Messianics– Does Not Recognize Them As Jews

UK: To fight prostitution, some say target clients

Chinese man rearrested for publishing Bibles, literature

When Muslims Embrace Christianity in the U.K.

Dogs “rescue” girl abandoned by Indian mother

Muslim call to adopt Mecca time

EU: Won’t challenge Ireland’s religious organizations exemption from its equal opportunity laws, for now

Intolerance in Indonesia

Washington Post Blames Catholic Church for Philippines Population Issues

China: 46 Christians arrested in Kashi, Xinjiang; 2 detained for 15 days

Three-in-Five Irish Undecided on EU Treaty

Highlights from Pope’s Address to the United Nations - Religious Freedom Means Faith Allowed in Politics

Pope affirms natural law in UN address

Protesters take CNN to task over commentator’s China remarks