Margo MacDonald: Cardinal Keith O’Brien ‘should stay in Scotland’
The MSP Margo MacDonald has voiced her support for Cardinal Keith O’Brien following reports the Vatican ordered the disgraced former archbishop to leave the UK. Ms MacDonald, a friend of 75-year-old...
View Article‘Scotland’s assisted suicide bill is an offence to our human dignity’
Margo MacDonald’s campaign to establish a culture of death in Scotland is growing increasingly bizarre and more chilling, writes Kevin McKenna. She appears hellbent on becoming Scotland’s very own...
View ArticleScots assisted suicide legal bid opposed by alliance
An alliance of groups opposed to assisted suicide looks set to challenge a legal bid by a 65-year-old man in Scotland who is calling for the law to be weakened. Care Not Killing (CNK), a UK-wide...
View ArticleApostolic nuncio says Church must make its voice of opposition to assisted...
Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain, has said the Church must ‘make its voice heard’ in opposing the legalising of assisted suicide in the UK. The new law, which is due to...
View ArticleCARE launches new campaign to help Christians respond to calls for assisted...
Live and Let Live is CARE’s new campaign to inform and equip Christians to take action on issues relating to the end of life, ahead of renewed political attempts to change the law to legalise assisted...
View ArticleFree Church (Continuing) responds to Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill
(The submission copied below was sent on 6 June to the Health and Sport Committee of the Scottish Parliament by the Rev D M Blunt on behalf of the Church’s Public Questions, Religion & Morals...
View ArticleKids should get help to kill themselves, say charities
MSPs should consider allowing assisted suicide for children, a group of children’s charities has said. An alliance of organisations, including Barnardo’s and Save the Children, said the Holyrood...
View ArticleReligious leaders and laity clash over assisted dying in England
A majority of Anglicans, Jews and Roman Catholics all want assisted dying for terminally ill people to be legalised, with only Baptists, Muslims and Hindus against a change.
View ArticleCARE releases polling showing diminishing support for assisted suicide in...
The Christian charity CARE publishes new polling today demonstrating that those who support assisted suicide in principle switch to opposition when presented with the reality of assisted suicide in...
View ArticleVideo: Petition against assisted suicide passes 10,000
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition against assisted suicide in Scotland, as the Holyrood parliament considers a Bill which would introduce the practice. The petition is organised by Care...
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