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October 22, 2018

Free speech policy in universities called ‘small Band-Aid’ on gaping wound

Maggie McAuley described the discrimination she faced as a pro-life student on campus at the University of Windsor, Ont. in a National Life Campus Network campaign last month.

VANCOUVER – Dehumanized. Spat on by a professor. Attacked. Assaulted.

Published in Canada
March 22, 2017

Pennsylvania lawsuit says girl in boys' locker room violated student privacy

A lawsuit in Pennsylvania says a female student who identifies as the opposite sex has violated a male student's privacy when she used the boys' locker room to change.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – A Pennsylvania high school wrongly allowed a female student into the boys’ locker room and violated an undressing male student’s privacy and his right to be free from harassment, a lawsuit charges.

Published in International
August 10, 2016

Bangladeshi Catholic editor flees country amid harassment, threats

A photo of Rosaline Costa from 20016. Costa, a Catholic, and the editor of Hotline Bangladesh for over 30 years, fled her native country in July amid harassment and threats.

WASHINGTON – Rosaline Costa heard people tell her "be careful" so often she decided that she had to flee her native Bangladesh for the United States to stay alive.

Published in International
May 2, 2015

Columban priest targets child traffickers in Philippine ministry

Columban Father Shay Cullen, founder and president of the PREDA Foundation, and Marlyn Capio-Richter, paralegal officer and social worker with the foundation and a survivor of sex trafficking, pose for a photo April 20 in Washington. The foundation works with children and young women rescued from human trafficking situations.

WASHINGTON - Arriving in the Philippines from Ireland in 1969 as a young missionary priest, Columban Father Shay Cullen hardly expected he'd end up fighting a burgeoning sex industry.

Published in International
December 13, 2014

Fleeing persecution, Christian converts find safe houses in England

From left to right, Leena, Anniesa, Nissar, Sarah, Kubra, Issar, and Miriam Hussain, a Christian family who have been threatened with death for converting from Islam in West Yorkshire, England.

CANTERBURY, England - As a 17-year-old convert to Christianity living in Pakistan, Ali (not his real name) was stabbed in the chest and left for dead by Muslims upset he had rejected their faith.

Published in International