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Wisconsin parents ask court to affirm their freedom to direct care, education of children - ZENIT - English : The parents filed a lawsuit in November 2021 against the Kettle Moraine School District to challenge its policy that encourages minor students to change their name and gender pronouns at school without parental consent. (ZENIT News / Milwaukee, 02.06.2023).- Attorneys with Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom representing two sets of Wisconsin parents filed a motion Friday asking a state court to rule in favor of their parental rights. The parents filed a lawsuit in November 2021 against the Kettle Moraine School District to challenge its policy that encourages minor students to change their name and gender pronouns at school without parental consent. In the case, B.F. v. Kettle Moraine School District, the Waukesha County Circuit Court ruled in June that the school district policy potentially violated parents’ rights and denied the sc...

  Judge calls on politicians to speak on importance of marriage https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/46485 Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash Sir Paul Coleridge, who was a senior High Court judge in the family division for 14 years, will say on the eve of UK Marriage Week, it has been more than a decade since any senior member of the Government or opposition has taken a positive stand in support of marriage whilst a major new study confirms "the marriage gap" between rich and poor has worsened. "The old adage of the unrepentant hypocrite 'do as I say not as I do' should be the motto of the senior politicians of this country when it comes to marriage" he said. "They are almost to a man or woman married but there is a deafening silence from them when it comes to talking about its advantages. It is surely time they preached what they almost all practice." He will urge the country's most senior political figures to promote policies which make sure ...

  https://www.usccb.org/news/2023/us-bishops-religious-liberty-chairman-proposed-rule-contraceptive-mandate#.Y9wSgWz0Vzg.twitter U.S. Bishops’ Religious Liberty Chairman on Proposed Rule for “Contraceptive Mandate” On January 30, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a  proposed rule to reduce and, in part, eliminate legal protections from the  “contraceptive mandate” for those who have religious or moral objections to  facilitating sterilizations or the use of contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. February 1, 2023 WASHINGTON - On January 30, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)  issued a proposed rule to reduce and, in part, eliminate legal protections from the  “contraceptive mandate” for those who have religious or moral objections to facilitating  sterilizations or the use of contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. In response, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the U.S. Conference...

  Nicaragua: Report shows harsh clampdown on faith, civil society https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/46109 via @icn_uk Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has today published a new report on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in Nicaragua which finds that the government is aggressively attempting to eliminate independent civil society and is responsible for a growing number of serious FoRB violations. The report, entitled 'Nicaragua: Civil society under siege' covers a twelve-month period beginning in November 2021 and is based on first-hand documentation carried out on the ground by Nicaraguan FoRB defenders with support from human rights defenders who have been forced into exile. Documented violations include arbitrary detention, denial of entry to Nicaragua or forced expulsion from the country, threats, harassment, the forced cancellation of religious activities, confiscation of property and the arbitrary cancellation of the legal status of civil society organisations...

https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/46434   A Nicaraguan judge found four Roman Catholic priests, two seminarians and a church cameraman guilty of conspiracy against the state in a trial held on Thursday 26 January. Father Ramiro Tijerino, rector of the John Paul II University and parish priest at the church of San Juan Bautista; Father Sadiel Eugarrios, Cathedral sub-dean, Father Raúl González, Father José Luis Díaz, dean of the Matagalpa de San Pedro Cathedral, seminarians Darvin Leiva and Melkin Sequeira, and cameraman Sergio Cárdenas were detained on 19 August 2022, after Nicaraguan security forces stormed the Diocese of Matagalpa curia where the seven men had been forcibly confined along with Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos and four others for 15 days. Judge Nadia Camila Tardencilla found the seven men guilty in a decision stating that they had damaged national integrity and propagated fake news to the detriment of the Nicaraguan State and society. The men will be sentenced on 3...

  Nicaragua: 'The Church is being silenced' https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/45353 Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is urgently calling for prayers for Nicaragua amid a dramatic escalation of efforts to silence the Church. The appeal comes after a bishop was arrested last week, which followed the expulsion of the country's Apostolic Nuncio. Regina Lynch, international projects director of ACN, said: "These events represent a further escalation in a spiral of confrontation." Ms Lynch added: "We are witnessing an attempt to silence the Church in Nicaragua. And there is no easy solution. We need to support them as much as possible. We must pray that there may be a peaceful solution and not a further increase in hostilities." Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, who is also Apostolic Administrator of the vacant See of the Diocese of Estelí, was abducted in the early morning on 19th August, along with others including three priests, two seminarians, a deac...

  Every death row prisoner executed in the U.S. in 2022 https://www.newsweek.com/every-death-row-prisoner-executed-2022-1769611