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Eastern Europe
President Zelensky in favour of legalising gay marriage in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky is in favour of legalising gay marriage in his country. He said so in a reaction to an online petition on the issue that more than 28,000 people signed since the beginning of June. In reaction to the petition, the Ukrainian head of state noted that…
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Southern Europe
Italian activist again circumvents law for better euthanasia ruling
Italian activist Marco Cappato again accompanied a patient with a death wish to Switzerland so that she could access to assisted suicide. Cappato reported himself to the police on Wednesday. The 69-year-old Elena, a woman from Venice, had requested the help of Cappato after she did not qualify for assisted…
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Eastern Europe
Bible said to protect against exploding shell in Ukraine
A Ukrainian pastor shares the story that the Bible literally saved the life of a sister in faith. The book was in her bag and stopped the fragments of a shell. The bomb exploded 2 meters from Svitlana, pastor Pavel Protopopov writes on Facebook. One of the fragments hit the…
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Northern Europe
Expected successor editor-in-chief leaves Christian Norwegian weekly after conflict
For some time, Bjarte Ystebø had been the expected successor of Finn Jarle Sæle, the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian Christian weekly Norge Idag. Ystebø was the assistant editor-in-chief of the weekly. However, after an internal conflict with Sæle, he decided to leave the company on Monday. According to Ystebø, the…
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Eastern Europe
First surrogate mother sentenced in Russia
For the first time, a Russian court has sentenced a woman for being a surrogate mother for a foreign couple. Accused of selling a baby and thus human trafficking, she now faces three years in a penal colony. According to investigators, the 28-year-old Tamara Yandieva, a Kazakhstani, gave birth in…
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Southern Europe
Spanish government dismisses critical ethics commission
Eleven of the twelve Spanish ethics commission members are fired by the government. The advisory body had been very critical of the government law on euthanasia last year. The announcement of Carlina Darias, the Spanish minister of health, was met with surprise and controversy. The decision of the government came…
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Central Europe
Czech MPs want to enshrine conservative marriage in constitution
Over fifty Czech MPs, together with several Ministers, filed a proposal to constitutionally enshrine marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The amendment aims to change the current wording of Article 32 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms: “Parenthood and the family are under the…
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European Union
YouTube announces abortion policy, pro-life organisation worried
By deleting videos on abortion, YouTube is cracking down on abortion misinformation. Pro-life groups fear this might also affect their work. On July 21st, YouTube announced that it would remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety “under our medical misinformation policies”.…
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Western Europe
French MPs propose constitutional ban on surrogacy
French MPs want to engrave the ban on surrogacy in the Constitution to strengthen its current ban. Although the practice is officially forbidden, the current legislation is limited. A constitutional ban, however, might mostly be symbolic. Thibault Bazin, along with fifteen other members of the liberal-conservative Les Républicains (LR), tabled…
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Central Europe
German language experts appeal to end gender language on German broadcaster
Around 70 linguists and philologists call for an end to gender language on the German public broadcaster ÖRR. According to the language experts, these words are ideologically motivated. The starting point of gender language practice is “the assessment of the generic masculine as a discriminatory form of language, which we…
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