CANADA
- British Columbia to let midwives prescribe abortion pill and other drugs
A human baby growing inside the womb. Age is about 7 months.
- Ottawa prepared to halt plan to allow MAID for mental illness
- Toronto woman seeks MAID exemption as mental illness exclusion remains
EUROPE
- European Court of Human Rights rules vulgar online insults against officials fall outside free speech
- Tisza Party Constitutional Amendment Weakens Hungary’s Migration Policy, Says Fidesz Group Leader
- Second Polish City ‘Recognises’ Same-Sex Marriage Registered Abroad
- Spanish court orders €6,000 social security refund for teen trans’ private mastectomy
- EU confronts rising global backlash against LGBTI rights
- Paris after-school staff strike over ‘repression’ as abuse scandal widens
- Zapatero becomes first former Spanish Prime Minister investigated for corruption
- Nationwide billboard campaign in Ireland invites thousands to rosary rally
- Malta: Labour pledges to call referendum on voluntary euthanasia if elected into government
- Europe’s poverty divide: Which cities and regions are most and least at risk?
- ‘Is Christianity Banned?’: Police Stop Bible Handout in Sweden
- Sexualised Role-Playing Games in German Daycares: Establishment Parties Silent
- Bitter church row divides Armenia ahead of elections
- German prosecutors charge paediatrician with 130 child sex abuse offences
- Poland recognises a same-sex marriage for the first time
NEWS FROM POPE LEO XIV
- Leo XIV laments that after receiving confirmation, many young people ‘disappear from the parish’
- ‘Emergency In The Church’: Catholic Leaders Decry Vatican Report That Pushes Homosexuality
- Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff’s AI encyclical on May 25
- Vatican to publish Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical May 25
INTERNATIONAL
- In Musk v. Altman trial, the entire AI industry lost
- The School Rebuilding Education for an AI World
- Ready to Parent: Helping Couples Overcome the Fear of Parenthood
- Moms, Forget Work-Life Balance! Seek Family Flourishing Instead
- The Miracle of Fatima
- Trump’s sanctuary for Polish ex-minister shows US disapproves of PM Tusk’s actions regarding opposition
- Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds
- Strangers Next Door: The Decline of Neighborhood Socializing and the Class Divide in Belonging
LATIN AMERICA
- Church in Mexico calls for combating human trafficking and exploitation during 2026 World Cup
- Venezuelan archbishop: Maduro’s gone, but the same people are still in charge
- Brazil’s Lula, Flavio Bolsonaro deadlocked in presidential runoff poll
- Trump says he will secure release of all political prisoners in Venezuela
- ‘Circle of silence’: Why Mexican cartels are targeting Christians
AFRICA
- Nigerian bishop appeals for prayers for ‘safe release’ of abducted teachers, students, children
- The case of the disappearing Christians of Yemen
- Christian communities in DRC left unable to worship after targeted attacks on churches, charities
- Rights group says M23, Rwandan army committed killings, rapes in Congo’s Uvira
