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Warsaw, Poland, May 17, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Thousands of Polish pro-lifers have called on parliament to pass a bill that would further restrict abortion in the country.“Today we are calling on our state authorities to guarantee full legal protection of unborn children,” Pawel Kwasniak said to a Sunday rally of over 1,000 people in Warsaw.Kwasniak heads the Support Center for Life and Family Initiatives, the Warsaw-based pro-life NGO that organized support for the proposal.Rallies in favor of the proposed bill were held in 140 cities and towns across Poland May 15, organizers said. Backers of the bill include Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who heads Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, and Prime Minister Beata Szydlo.The proposed citizen’s bill would allow abortions only to save a women’s life. It would increase the maximum prison sentence for unauthorized abortions from two years to five. Those who provide information about or arrange for a legal a...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Watan Yar, EPABy David AgrenMEXICO CITY (CNS) -- A Catholicbishop in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has called for compassiontoward the impoverished populations harvesting opium poppies out of necessity,saying such people are not sinners and are neglected by the government.He asked the army to stopfumigating small farmers' poppy fields "until there are other options foropium poppy growers" and said the practice was "taking food out oftheir mouths (and) starving them to death.""People who grow opiumpoppies are the most marginalized people in the state and the country. ... It'scampesinos (peasant farmers) who plant the flower, not narcotics traffickers,"Bishop Salvador Rangel Mendoza of Chilpancingo-Chilapa told the newspaper ElUniversal. "Those that plant (opium poppies) are somewhat enslaved,receiving a minimal benefit, and they grow it to get by. ... The church mustnot condemn it because the majority of people (growing poppies) do it becauseof a lack of opt...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Widely viewed pictures and video of a protester being kicked by Kenyan riot police as he lay on the ground have caused a stir in this East Africa country, prompting debate on police brutality and civil rights....
SEATTLE (AP) -- In progressive Seattle, a presidential order that public schools give transgender students access to the bathrooms matching their gender identity won't require a shift....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed to legalize same-sex marriage in Mexico on Tuesday, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar such couples from wedding....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- As the losses piled up one after another, the burden of unmet expectations - no matter how modest - weighed on Fredi Gonzalez....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets and a restaurant in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, officials said - the latest in a string of attacks in and around the Iraqi capital that have left more than 200 dead in the past week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded Tuesday, pinning most of the blame on him for the wreck that killed eight people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure from Democratic Party leaders to denounce ugly tactics by his supporters, Sen. Bernie Sanders instead struck back with a defiant statement Tuesday that dismissed complaints from Nevada Democrats as "nonsense" and asserted that his backers were not being treated with "fairness and respect."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on Tuesday's primary elections in Kentucky and Oregon (all times local):...
