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April 18, 2023

Dutch legalise euthanasia for primary school-age children

April 18, 2023

Euthanasia is to be extended to primary school-age children in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has announced. Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that children aged five to 12 years can obtain lethal injections if “life termination is the only viable option to end the child’s hopeless and unbearable suffering”. The country already allows the euthanasia

Islamists kill 55,000 Nigerian Christians in 14 years

April 18, 2023

Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed almost 55,000 Christians in the last 14 years, a new report has said. Since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, a total of 52,250 Christians have been murdered in the West African country, according to a report called Martyred Christians in Nigeria. More than 1,000 Christians have already

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with sexual assault in Wisconsin

April 18, 2023

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been criminally charged with fourth-degree sexual assault in Wisconsin for an incident that allegedly occurred in April 1977. McCarrick, 92, was laicised by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adults. He is currently being criminally charged in Massachusetts for sexually abusing a