Lillian Ladele, the Christian registrar who was told to preside over same-sex civil partnerships or face dismissal, has lost her case for religious discrimination at the Court of Appeal. However, she is to appeal the decision again.

German authorities have sentenced eight fathers to prison for refusing to send their children to mandatory sexual education classes.

Nearly a third (31 per cent) of teenage girls and eight per cent of boys have come under pressure to have sex before they are ready, according to new research carried out by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA).

The Government has announced that it has set aside €3 million to hold a Children’s Rights Referendum next year.

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have said they could be at risk of prosecution under proposed equality legislation unless they accept women, sexually active gays and transsexuals as candidates to the priesthood.

A former husband has asked whether it is just for him to continue paying his former wife €137,500 per annum given the fact that she is now cohabiting with her new boyfriend.

A prominent Church of England bishop has accused a senior Labour Cabinet Minister of “manoeuvring” to undermine support for marriage.

The Iona Institute has welcomed a ruling by the Supreme Court earlier today to allow a man who donated his sperm to a couple - enabling one of them to have a baby boy - to have access to the child.

The Northern Ireland High Court has ordered the recall of health guidelines which would have potentially undermined doctors’ rights to conscientiously object to assisting in abortions.

Fine Gael's spokesman on Justice, Charlie Flanagan, has said that same-sex adoption should be legalised as part of the Government's Civil Partnership Bill.

A Canadian pastor who was prevented from ever again saying anything in public about homosexuality after he wrote a letter to a local paper describing the gay rights agenda as ‘wicked’, has been exonerated by an Alberta court.

Any new plans to regulate the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) industry must put the needs of children first, the Iona Institute has said.

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has introduced the Government's Civil Partnership Bill, saying that what it gives "is profound and is positive".

Broad support exists among Fianna Fáil TDs for a conscience opt-out in the Civil Partnership Bill, which was introduced in the Dáil yesterday, according to reports.

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern will speak to Fianna Fail TDs and Senators concerned about the Civil Partnership Bill before it is introduced to the Dáil later today.

Senators in the US state of New York have voted against legalising same-sex marriage.

Women have been turned into wage slaves by feminism, Fay Weldon, one of the pioneers of women’s rights has said.

It will soon become normal for children to be raised by relations other than their parents, the head of a UK Government-funded parenting group has predicted.