Tag Archives: Country: Mexico

LifeSiteNews.com: The Mexican Supreme Court ruled this week in a 7-4 vote that the states of Jalisco and Baja California do not have a legitimate legal interest in their suit challenging Mexico City’s homosexual “marriage” law, which also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.

News from The Associated Press: Life seemed to give Karla Zepeda a break when a woman came to her dusty neighborhood of cinderblock homes and dirt roads looking for babies to photograph in an anti-abortion ad campaign.

LifeSiteNews.com: Mexico’s Federal Institute for Access to Information and the Protection of Personal Data (IFAI) has ordered Mexico’s federal prosecutorial wing to begin tracking the number of women in Mexico who have been imprisoned for abortion, according to local media sources.

KRGV.com: Three beheadings in two different states and they happened here in the United States, not Mexico.

LifeSiteNews.com: Mexico’s historically socially-conservative party, the National Action Party (PAN), has nominated a pro-abortion politician for the 2012 Mexico City mayoral race.

LifeSiteNews.com: Mexico City’s secretary of health is expressing alarm at the growing number of teen pregnancies in the metropolitan area, according to the city’s Reforma newspaper.

Fox News Latino: Cancun and other resort areas on the Mexican Caribbean will have a new attraction for gay and lesbian couples from the United States, Canada and Europe, allowing them to legalize their unions thanks to a quirk in the local civil code, activist Patricia Novelo told Efe.

LifeSiteNews.com: The rest of the country is holding on, but only barely, as the Supreme Court stands on the verge of imposing abortion on the entire country. For Americans and Canadians, the above scenario evokes bitter memories of a not-so-distant past, a lost world that slipped away, a society we only dream of having again. But for those of us who live in Mexico, that scenario is a daily reality. It is happening right now.

LifeSiteNews.com: “The homosexual movement has created a situation in society in which it is virtually impossible to criticize the movement without being portrayed as hateful, almost like a racist,” said Hoffman. “They have created an image of themselves as an oppressed minority group, and if anyone criticizes their movement they are hateful, they are cruel, they are advocating violence against homosexuals” so that “it is virtually impossible in society today, or people perceive it as impossible, to oppose their movement.”

LifeSiteNews.com: Mexico’s current front-runner in the 2012 presidential elections says that he is “personally” pro-life and opposes legalization of abortion in most cases, but adds that he is against criminal penalties for abortion as well.

ADF Attorney Piero A. Tozzi at C-FAM: While applauding the decision, Mexican pro-lifers are concerned that the respite may be temporary, as pro-life stalwarts Aguirre and Ortiz are nearing the end of their terms. Intriguingly, both were appointed by Ernesto Zedillo, the last president from Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the anti-clerical, secularist movement that dominated Mexican politics for most of the twentieth century. Adding to the uncertainty are upcoming presidential elections.

WSJ.com: Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim significantly increased his stake in the New York Times Co. for the second time in less than two months, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Catholic Culture: The Archdiocese of Puebla and Roca Fuerte, a Protestant organization, have agreed that Catholics and Protestants in the village of San Rafael Tlanalapan will respect one another’s religious liberty.

Mexico City lawmakers are proposing legislation that would allow newlyweds to apply for temporary marriage licenses, instead of making the plunge into wedded life a lifetime commitment.

Fox News Latino: Mexico’s Supreme Court failed Wednesday to overturn a controversial anti-abortion law adopted by the northwestern state of Baja California.

LifeSiteNews.com: A proposed Mexican Supreme Court decision that would nullify pro-life amendments to Mexican state constitutions suffers from flawed reasoning, is “arbitrary,” and “frankly confused,” according to Piero Tozzi, an international human rights law expert and senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.

Personhood USA: Early next week, the Mexico Supreme Court is slated to hear and decide the constitutionality of two Personhood amendments. They are expected to deliver a verdict by Wednesday.

Christian Post: About 70 Protestant Christians lived in the village of San Rafael Tlanalapan, Puebla state, until Monday (Sept. 12), when they faced a frightening ultimatum – leave immediately or be “crucified or lynched.”

The Mexican Supreme Court appears to be on the verge of overturning two state constitutional amendments that protect the right to life from the moment of conception, according to national media sources.

LifeSiteNews.com: s Mexico moves towards the regulation of in vitro fertilization, Mexico’s secretary of health has declared his opposition to permitting the freezing of embryos, a practice that results in the production and, ultimately, the destruction of thousands of human lives every year.

Department of State: Representatives from the United States and Mexico met in Washington, DC, on August 30 and 31 to begin formal negotiations on a transboundary energy agreement. The agreement is intended to govern the disposition and regulation of hydrocarbon reservoirs that cross our international maritime boundary.

AP: Presbyterians in Mexico are breaking ties with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) because of differences over homosexuality.

LifeSiteNews.com: Pro-life and pro-abortion representatives in the congress of the Mexican State of Hidalgo are offering opposing laws, one to protect the right to life from conception, and the other to depenalize the deadly procedure during the first 12 weeks of gestation

AP: The city government says in a statement that about 6 percent of those getting married in same-sex weddings in the city are foreigners.

CNN.com: At least 21 federal prosecutors in Mexico have resigned in the past four days, an announcement that comes on the heels of a purge of agents and investigators in the attorney general’s office.

Religion Clause: Time reported yesterday on a decision handed down last month by Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).

LifeSiteNews: Mexico’s National Pro-Life Committee (Provida), the country’s largest and most prominent pro-life organization, has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission regarding the mass murder of unborn children currently taking place in the nation’s Federal District. Currently abortion is legal, and financed, during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy in Mexico City.

HSLDA: The Spanish-speaking homeschool movement began in Mexico but is expanding throughout the world. In May, El Hogar Educador mailed the spring issue of its magazine to 5,428 families in 28 countries.

AP: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas from executing a Mexican citizen despite a White House-backed appeal that claimed the case could affect other foreigners arrested in the U.S. and Americans in legal trouble abroad.

. . . The insistence on ignoring vice is the hallmark of a debased culture, but the insistence that a lie be publicly affirmed as true is the hallmark of ideological totalitarianism.

Hat tip: Religion Clause Blog Rosas Martinez, Alejandro , Algunas Implicaciones Jurídicas Del Matrimonio Entre Personas Del Mismo Sexo En La Ciudad De México (Some Juridical Implications of the Same Sex Persons Marriage at México City) (June 29, 2011). Revista …

Catholic Culture : The public spokesman of the Mexico City archdiocese has announced that he will appeal a July 1 court ruling that he engaged in illegal political activity when he said that Catholics should not vote for candidates who support same-sex marriage.

NCRegister.com: Piero Tozzi, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, noted that this manipulation could be carried out from the judge’s bench, especially since the new text of the constitution calls for a “broad application” of human rights. “As it does not specify which ‘human rights’ are to be incorporated and elevated on par with the constitution, while instructing that these undefined rights are to be given broad application, it potentially gives a judge latitude in expanding or even fabricating rights beyond what was contemplated when treaties were drafted and ratified,” he said.

Catholic Culture: Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez of Guadalajara has condemned the swift approval of a constitutional amendment that bans discrimination on the basis of “sexual preference.”

Zenit: The statement, signed by representatives of 17 Christian churches and the secretary-general of the Mexican bishops’ conference, responded to a situation in which a small group of protestors interrupted Easter Sunday Mass in the cathedral of Mexico City. Six or seven people shouted anti-life and anti-Church slogans during the Mass, and destroyed an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The protestors were detained by police but subsequently released. Here is the full communiqué . . .

Washington Post: At the largest mass grave site ever found in Mexico, where 177 bodies have been pulled from deep pits . . . Instead, most died of blunt force trauma to the head, and a sledgehammer found at the crime scene this month is believed to have been used . . .

LifeSiteNews: The French Catholic hierarchy is supporting at least two pro-abortion groups in Latin America through its international development agency, LifeSiteNews has learned.

Catholic Online: A horrific sex slave operation has spread to at least 25 states within the continental United States. Called “Latino Residential Brothels,” or LRBs for short, these houses of ill repute lure young, uneducated girls and women from Latin America and then force them into prostitution.

LifeSiteNews: The Mexican Senate last week abolished all criminal penalties for adultery in a 69-0 vote.

Huffington Post: The Mexican Senate has repealed part of the Federal Criminal Code that made cheating on a spouse an offense punishable by two years in prison.

AP: “Asch and fertility doctor Jose Balmaceda are charged with stealing the eggs and embryos of dozens of women being treated at the UC Irvine Center for Reproductive Health.”

Fides.org: “Last year more than one thousand priests were victims of attempted extortions (for their “protection”, amounts ranging from ten thousand to two million Mexican pesos have been demanded). About 162 were threatened with death. Two priests were kidnapped and killed.”

AP: “Seven hundred gay and lesbian couples have married in Mexico City since the capital enacted the first law in Latin America explicitly allowing same-sex marriages a year ago.”

CNSNews: “There were 3,111 civilians murdered in the city of Juarez in 2010 and 2,421 in the entire country of Afghanistan.”

AP: “Antonio Zuniga was minding his own business, walking through his Mexico City neighborhood, when police arrested him on charges of murdering a young gang member he had never seen. He was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in …

Guadalajara Reporter: “With a bow to the archbishopric of Leon, Guanajuato governor Juan Manuel Oliva is analyzing a proposal to teach religious education in the state’s schools.”

LifeSiteNews: “The Catholic Bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, has condemned a group that the Canadian bishops’ Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) currently lists as its featured Mexican ‘partner’ on its website, LifeSiteNews has learned.”

Associated Press: “A federal lawsuit filed Monday in Texas accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of wrongful death and civil rights violations in an agent’s fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican boy in June.”

Catholic News Agency: “Archbishop Jose Martin Rabago of Leon, Mexico recently reflected on the necessity of religious freedom. ‘As he recalled Pope Benedict XVI’s message for the World Day of Peace, the archbishop noted that religious freedom is the foundation for all other rights a society needs in order to live in justice.”

The Globe and Mail: “The bodies of 15 men, all but one of them headless, were found on a street outside a shopping center in Acapulco on Saturday as police reported 27 people slain in the Pacific resort in less than a day.”

Associated Press: “The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas woman who wants to sue the federal government for sending her U.S. citizen baby to Mexico with the child’s illegal immigrant father.”

Associated Press: “The severed head of a young man was found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Monday.”

Townhall: “No one knows how many residents have left the city of 1.4 million since a turf battle over border drug corridors unleashed an unprecedented wave of cartel murders and mayhem. Business leaders, citing government tax information, say the exodus could number 110,000, while a municipal group and local university say it’s closer to 230,000. Estimates by social organizations are even higher.”

Associated Press: “The last remaining police officer in the Mexican border town of Guadalupe has disappeared, and prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state said Tuesday they have started a search for her.”

Associated Press: “The federal agency that monitors gun sales wants weapons dealers near the Mexican border to start reporting multiple sales of high-powered rifles, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.”

Los Angeles Times: “More than 12,000 people have died this year in Mexico’s drug war, officials said Thursday, making it the deadliest year since President Felipe Calderon launched a government crackdown against traffickers in 2006.”

CNSNews: “According to the Census Bureau’s Small Area Poverty and Income Estimates for 2009, the average percentage of those living below the poverty level in the 23 counties that border Mexico is 28.3 percent.”

Breitbart: “They call it the exodus. Thousands who emigrated to northern Mexico seeking better lives have recently fled its murder capital Ciudad Juarez to escape a bloody drug war.”

Washington Post: “Mexico’s House of Representatives has voted to amend social security rules to include medical and social benefits for same-sex couples.”

LifeSiteNews: “A fifty-year-old Mexican woman has given birth to a child whose biological father is her homosexual son, according to the Mexico City newspaper Reforma.”

US Department of State: “Further implementing Presidents Obama and Calderon’s commitment to build a 21st century border that promotes economic competitiveness while enhancing security, the United States and Mexico began operating a new border crossing called ‘San Luis II’ today in San Luis, Arizona and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora.”

Associated Press: “The gruesome case of a man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment has police investigating whether the killing is potentially the most extreme example of Mexican drug cartel violence spilling over the border.”

Catholic News Agency: “Various organizations in Mexico are urging President Felipe Calderon to call for a national debate on adoption by same-sex couples.”

KPHO: “Mexican drug cartels have plotted to send assassins into Arizona to murder bandits who are stealing drugs from the cartels, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by CBS 5 News.”

LifeSiteNews: “The Cardinal Archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, gave a speech Sunday in which he lashed out at the United Nations and other international organizations that he says are running a campaign to destroy the family.”

LifeSiteNews: “The Archdiocese of Guadalajara has said that the government of Mexico City is behaving like a ‘dictatorship’ by filing a complaint with the nation’s Secretariat of Governance in response to the archbishop’s opposition to the city’s abortionist and homosexualist policies.”

Associated Press: “Mexico and 10 other Latin American countries want a federal appeals court to consider their viewpoints in Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s appeal of a ruling that put parts of her state’s new immigration law on hold.”

Pink Paper: “The unicameral Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican state of Baja California, voted 18-1 to amend the state constitution to prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages.”

Catholic News Agency: “Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City and archdiocesan spokesman, Father Hugo Valdemar, have rejected a request by the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (NCPD) to reach a settlement with the plaintiffs who have filed a lawsuit against the clergy members for speaking out against gay ‘marriage.’”

Associated Press: “Michoacan state Attorney General Jesus Montejano said the bodies of Tancitaro Mayor Gustavo Sanchez and city adviser Rafael Equihua were discovered in a pickup truck abandoned on a dirt road near the city of Uruapan.”

Guardian: “A small army of bloggers and tweeters is filling the gaps left by traditional media in Mexico that are increasingly limiting their coverage of the country’s drug wars because of pressure from the cartels . . . One editor on a regional paper – who does not want to be named for security reasons – has meticulously followed directives from the dominant local traffickers ever since a story she published about a shoot-out, based on an official report, earned her a death threat a couple of months ago.”

Matthew Hoffman writing at LifeSiteNews: “The ‘culture of death’ — Pope John Paul II’s term for the international pro-abortion and anti-family movement, is now winning serious victories in Latin America. After decades of failure, the efforts of big international abortionist organizations and their well-financed proxies are increasingly converting ruling elites to their pro-death position.”

Christian Science Monitor: “A mob in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua killed two suspected kidnappers in the country’s latest bout of vigilante justice. Townspeople in Ascencion, about 100 miles from troubled Ciudad Juarez, blocked federal police Tuesday from rescuing two men accused of kidnapping who were being beaten by the crowd. The mob shouted and held up signs calling for an end to the kidnappings that have plagued the area.”

Reuters: “Authorities in almost all of Mexico’s conservative states have fought back against Mexico City’s abortion policies, among the most permissive in largely Catholic Latin America, by making examples of specific women and tightening laws . . . While jail terms for illegal abortions are between six months and three years in most Mexican states, activists.”

Reuters: “A Mexican newspaper on the U.S. border begged violent drug cartels for guidance on how to cover news in a way that would keep gangs from killing more journalists.”