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Inadvertent incest after IVF is real

A Connecticut woman, 39-year-old Victoria Hill, investigated her ancestry with a DNA test kit. To her dismay, she discovered that her father was not her biological father and that her real father was her mother’s doctor, Burton Caldwell.

Kidnappings (not only of priests and nuns) in Nigeria are out of control: solidarity of the Dicastery for Evangelization

For years, Nigeria has been grappling with the scourge of kidnapping, which target not only priests and religious, but also foreigners, businessmen, politicians, government officials, diplomats, traditional rulers, as well as ordinary citizens, including students and school children, who are frequent victims of mass kidnappings.

Lent pro-life volunteers alarmed as Germany considers UK-style censorship zones to criminalise help and prayer near abortion organisations

New draft law would introduce censorship zones in Germany for behaviour that could be perceived as “confusing” or “disturbing” – potentially including prayer. Asked about the frequency of “harassment” incidents at abortion facilities that would justify the introduction of censorship zones, the government admitted: «The federal government does not have any concrete numerical findings.» German lawyer Dr. Felix Böllmann: “The German government wants to ban something, but doesn’t know what or why”.

China and Vatican: positive signals, but there is a silence that weighs on us

The three recent appointments of bishops indicate a willingness not to break. But the Agreement with the Vatican is never even mentioned by the People’s Republic of China. While a «five-year plan» for Catholics has just come into force that cites Xi Jinping instead of the pope and invokes a «theological foundation» to a Sinicization that in fact remains only an adaptation to Party policy.