“Imagine losing control of your own likeness or identity,” Durbin said. “Imagine that happening to you when you were in high school. Imagine how powerless victims feel when they cannot remove illicit content, cannot prevent it from being reproduced repeatedly and cannot prevent new images from being created. The consequences can be profound.”
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Door-to-door hunts targeted Christians, amplifying the faith-based genocide. A displaced resident lamented: “Thousands of families are suffering as they try to escape terrorists. Most houses have been burned, and people have been killed.” A local church leader echoed the despair: “The situation is painful. Populations are terrified and without a way out.”
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A report was published last September documenting the stories of over 350 women and girls who were given hormonal contraceptive injections or had intrauterine devices (IUDs) inserted without their consent—and in some cases, even without their knowledge.
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“…doctors, providers, and people who engage in helping a woman receive an abortion would basically have no prosecution from the commonwealth. There would be basically no way to ever hold them accountable if something goes wrong”
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Egypt has taken a step toward advancing religious freedom by granting paid religious leave to Christian employees for Easter, following a ministerial decision issued on Dec 30. The move marks an important acknowledgment of the place of Christianity in Egyptian society and of the central role of Easter in Christian life and worship.
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The insistence that abortion is beyond discussion sits uneasily with a society grappling with distrust, grief, and a demand for moral seriousness from its leaders. In that sense, the reopening of the abortion debate is not an aberration, but a sign of a political culture being forced to confront questions it has long tried to silence.
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“A new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it,” the Pope explained. In this context, the Pope said, “[r]ediscovering the meaning of words is perhaps one of the primary challenges of our time.”
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Mrs Docherty’s arrest [is] “another egregious example of the tyrannical suppression of free speech happening across Europe”
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