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Graham Schafer holds a sign during a demonstration in support of assisted dying in London Nov. 29, 2024. Britain's lawmakers voted Nov. 29 to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill in England and Wales, despite opposition from Britain's Catholic bishops and other faith groups. (OSV News photo/Mina Kim, Reuters)

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Irish bishops call for respecting human life as assisted suicide advances

Charles Collins|Dec 5, 2024|4 Min Read

A health care worker comforts a patient at a hospital in Blackburn, England, May 14, 2020. Churches and faith groups across the United Kingdom have condemned a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide and stepped up efforts to block its Nov. 29, 2024, approval by members of Parliament. (OSV News photo/Hannah McKay, pool via Reuters)

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Churches, faith groups join forces in Britain against 'deceptive' assisted suicide bill

Jonathan Luxmoore|Nov 25, 2024|5 Min Read

Cardinal Vincent Gerald Nichols of Britain poses before a news conference at the British college in downtown Rome February 24, 2014. Cardinal Nichols has called for Catholics in England and Wales to join him and their bishops to pause for an hour Nov. 13, 2024 to pray for the dignity of human life ahead of the late November assisted suicide vote in the U.K. (OSV News photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)

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British bishops will pray in front of Blessed Sacrament ahead of assisted suicide vote

Simon Caldwell|Nov 12, 2024|2 Min Read

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster is pictured in a May 19, 2022, photo. Cardinal Nichols has joined leading Catholic politicians and pro-life groups in calling on U.K. Catholics to take immediate and urgent action to oppose an assisted suicide bill that he says will strike "fear and trepidation" in vulnerable people. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Assisted dying bill in the UK is a 'slippery slope,' cardinal says

OSV News|Oct 11, 2024|5 Min Read

Isabel Spruce-Vaughn was arrested twice for praying outside abortion clinics. (ADF UK via CNA)

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UK bishops warn new Public Order Act unfairly affects people of faith

Madeleine Teahan|Sep 19, 2024|3 Min Read

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce. (ADF UK via CNA)

Court awards damages to British woman arrested for praying outside abortion clinic

OSV News|Aug 22, 2024|4 Min Read

Suicide

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As UK debates legalizing assisted suicide, practice increases drastically in Canada

Charles Collins|Aug 13, 2024|4 Min Read

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Parents win appeal in death of daughter forced off life support by British court

Simon Caldwell|Aug 7, 2024|4 Min Read

Starmer

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Cardinal Nichols congratulates new British prime minister Keir Starmer

Charles Collins|Jul 5, 2024|3 Min Read

Election

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UK Catholic bishops offer disillusioned voters election guidance based on values

Jonathan Luxmoore|Jul 2, 2024|6 Min Read

Abortion

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Pro-life UK groups vow to oppose 'barbaric' proposal to list all restrictions on abortion

Jonathan Luxmoore|May 17, 2024|5 Min Read

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop-designate David Waller as the next ordinary -- and the first bishop -- of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a kind of diocese for Catholics of the Anglican tradition in the U.K. His April 29, 2024, appointment follows the Holy Father's acceptance of the resignation submitted by Msgr. Keith Newton, the retiring priest-ordinary and former Anglican bishop, who led the ordinariate since its inception in 2011. (OSV News photo/courtesy Bishops' Conference of England and Wales)

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Pope Francis appoints first Catholic bishop with Anglican heritage for UK ordinariate

Jonathan Luxmoore and Peter Jesserer Smith|Apr 30, 2024|6 Min Read

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