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* Judges urge Catholic man's mother to stop fighting court's decision to switch off life support <[link removed]>
A comatose man's Catholic family has been urged by judges to end their fight to keep him alive and respect his wife's wishes to take him off life-support.
Mail Online
* China says will defend self over UK Uighur Muslim labour measures <[link removed]>
China said Wednesday that it would defend itself against a British government demand that companies ensure their supply chains are free from forced labour linked to the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang or face punishing fines.
The Associated Press
* Catholic school in Whitby one step closer to closure <[link removed]>
A Whitby Roman Catholic primary school with just two pupils is set to close after councillors backed the move.
The Scarborough News
* Police called as church pastor 'accused of hate speech while preaching about LGBT community’ <[link removed]>
Controversial pastor Peter Simpson, of the Penn Free Methodist Church, was "preaching the gospel" in High Wycombe High Street on December 19 - but his comments about the LGBT community caught the attention of the authorities.
Bucks Free Press
* Mother and baby homes: Call for Protestant apology <[link removed]>
The Church of Ireland should apologise for its involvement in running a Protestant mother baby home in Dublin, one survivor has said.
BBC
* ‘Shame over mother and baby homes lies with Catholic Church’ <[link removed]>
The shame for the appalling neglect of women and children in Ireland's mother and baby homes lies squarely with the Catholic Church, who not only owned the homes but created a society where single mothers were deemed sinners to be locked away, says Allison Morris.
The Irish News
* Ireland: Funeral mass of Catholic sect breached guidelines amid spike in cases
Public health guidelines were breached during a funeral mass in Dublin over Christmas on the same day that almost 1,000 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed.
The Times*
* Italy: Priest accused of abetting alleged sex abuse ring hired by diocesan charity <[link removed]>
The mother of an alleged abuse victim claims the priest broke the confidence of the confessional to warn church officials of a coming investigation.
Religion News Service
* Colorado’s Supreme Court first in US to revamp common-law marriage for same-sex couples <[link removed]>
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday changed the way common-law marriage is defined in the courts to make it more inclusive of same-sex couples and to update the three-decade-old legal standard to better reflect today's societal norms.
The Denver Post
* US: Supreme Court reinstates restrictions on abortion pill <[link removed]>
The Supreme Court on Tuesday night granted the Trump administration's request to reinstate federal rules requiring people seeking medication abortions to obtain the pills in-person from a medical provider.
Politico
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