Sinn Féin health spokesman David Cullinane has introduced legislation in the Dáil to abolish the mandatory three-day waiting period between a woman’s first medical consultation and her abortion — the second such bill introduced by an opposition party in a single month. Current Irish law permits termination up to 12 weeks of pregnancy once the Read more by IFN English on IFN.

The Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists has fined licensed counselor Frank Canepa $89,636 for declining — once, after 44 sessions in which he never raised the subject — to personally bless a client’s same-sex relationship when she demanded it. Canepa had seen the client for over two and a half years without Read more by IFN English on IFN.

President Trump has signed the first new National Counterterrorism Strategy of his second term, identifying three priority threat categories: narcoterrorists and transnational gangs, legacy Islamist terrorists, and — in a significant departure from prior administrations — violent left-wing extremists, including those motivated by radically pro-transgender ideology. The strategy states America’s counterterrorism efforts will “prioritize the Read more by IFN English on IFN.

A wealthy same-sex couple from Danbury, Essex, England — one of whom gained notoriety as part of Britain’s first openly gay couple to have children through surrogacy — has been charged with multiple sexual offences, including rape and modern slavery trafficking for sexual exploitation. Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, and his “husband” Scott Drewitt-Barlow, 32, both face Read more by IFN English on IFN.

A Catholic priest still serving in Nicaragua has spoken anonymously to EWTN News, providing a detailed account of how the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship surveils, controls, and silences the Church — and the price a priest pays for speaking one word out of line. Every Sunday, police arrive to photograph him. He must report to authorities every Read more by IFN English on IFN.