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Western Europe
France blocks website that promotes surrogacy
Surrogacy is illegal in France. Yet, French citizens could access websites that offered surrogacy services abroad. Up till now. The French Court of Cassation ordered internet host OVH, which hosted the website of a Spanish surrogacy company, to make this website inaccessible. That is reported by Juristes pour l'Enfance. According…
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Pope Francis compares Ukrainian war with Holocaust
Pope Francis compared the war in Ukraine to the Holocaust of the Second World War. He referred in particular to the Reinhard operation in Poland. During that event, up to two million people were killed. Most victims were Jewish. The Pope talked to Roman Catholic believers in Poland on Wednesday…
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Opinion
Norwegian priest: Cohabitating clergy, get married
The church should set a good example, also concerning relationships. Therefore, it is not suitable for unmarried cohabitants to be ordained as priests. That is the opinion of the Norwegian priest Kathrine Tallaksen. In an opinion article in Dagen, she responds to some bishops who opened up the offices to…
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European Union
World Health Organisation publishes report on online safety of children
The World Health Organisation has released a new report on preventing online violence against children. It addresses the growing need for practical guidelines for keeping children safe on the world wide web. The new report focuses on two forms of online violence, Helsinki Times writes. The first is sexual abuse…
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Northern Europe
Danish woman may not adopt “surrogate children” of her husband
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that the Danish state had not violated the rights of a woman who wanted to adopt the twins of her husband that he conceived with a surrogate mother from Ukraine. The Danish authorities had refused to approve the adoption of the…
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Southern Europe
Maltese take to the streets to protest abortion
The population of Malta went to the streets en masse to protest the possible liberation of the total abortion ban currently in force. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Malta's capital Valetta on Sunday afternoon. They did so in response to a call of pro-life organisations Life Network Foundation and Doctors…
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Eastern Europe
Kirill: Donbas is the front line of defence Russian world
The Russian Patriarch Kirill says that the Ukrainian region of the Donbas is the front line of the “defence of the Russian world.” Earlier, he had asserted that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a battle in which the existence of Russia was at stake. Kirill said on Thursday at…
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Central Europe
Number of anti-Semitic incidents on the rise in Germany
Last year, more than 3000 incidents with an anti-Semitic connotation were reported in Germany. That is an increase of 700 cases compared to a year earlier. Also, hate and hate speech are increasing on the internet, the German anti-Semitism coordinator Felix Klein announced during the presentation of the National Strategy…
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Southern Europe
Hackers target Vatican website
The website of the Vatican went down for a while on Wednesday and Thursday. Experts suspect that the Russians are behind the cyberattack. The Holy See took down its main website Vatican.ca because of an apparent attack to hack the website, a spokesperson said, according to Catholic News Agency. Vatican.ca…
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Eastern Europe
Catholic leader of Ukraine shatters the Pope's “romantic ideas” about Russia
Supreme Archbishop Schevtchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has criticised the Pope's statement about the Russian writer Dostoevsky. The Pope previously said that the author was an example of Russian humanism. That led to many critiques from the Ukrainian side. During an audience, the Ukrainian Greek leader asked Pope…
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