The decision of Scouts Northern Ireland to support the Belfast Pride parade has been slammed by Christians and parents. Christian Institute.

The LGBTQ event was billed as a protest against the Province’s ban on puberty blockers for gender-confused children. The organisers also outlined other contentious political ambitions for the march, including support for a ‘conversion therapy’ law and opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service did not apply to take part in this year’s parade, while uniformed officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland have not been allowed to march at the pro-LGBT event since 2023.

Ahead of the parade, Scouts NI announced that all involved in the movement were “welcome to represent us and attend” as a way “of demonstrating our commitment” to ‘inclusivity’.

Activists behind London Trans+ Pride 2025 have claimed that tens of thousands joined its demonstration on Saturday.

An event organiser complained that there had been an “explosion against trans+ rights in the last five years, from puberty-blocker bans to the Supreme Court’s contested ruling in April”.

One placard at the event stated: “Nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday; except top surgery”. Another read: “DIY or Die. Trans emancipation. Not rainbow capitalism. Arm trans people.”

The world’s youngest premature baby ever to survive is now a thriving one-year-old.

Nash Keen was born at 21 weeks, one day earlier than the previous Guinness World Record holder for the “most premature baby”, and weighed just 10oz. He spent the first six months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa, but is now home.

In Great Britain, abortion is currently permitted for most reasons up to 24 weeks, but up to birth if the unborn child is deemed to have a disability.

His mum Mollie thought they would lose him. She said: “I had to take it one day at a time. I focused on the small victories and leaned hard on my support system.”

She noted: “Being in the NICU as long as he was, you’d think that he would be, you know, more fragile and stuff. And he’s not. He’s a very determined, curious little boy, and he’s just all smiles all the time”.

Nash was able to leave hospital in January. Mollie commented: “I’m really, really, really enjoying my time with Nash and just not taking a single moment for granted. Celebrating him and watching him grow has been the greatest joy of my life, honestly.”

Miracle do happen! Disney just released a movie that is being hailed as “the most pro-life Hollywood blockbuster in a long time, and maybe ever,” according to critics and moviegoers alike — who for years have grown accustomed to suffering disappointment after disappointment from Disney’s aggressively woke offerings. 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps, while not overtly Christian, is nonetheless imbued with an unmistakable pro-life, pro-family message from start to finish. There is not a whiff of wokeness, of immorality, or even pro-LGBTQ+ child grooming that has so often saturated Disney-produced movies and TV. 

“Of all places, Disney just delivered what might be their most family-affirming, life-celebrating film yet,” Christian evangelist and author Daniel K. Morris noted. “A bold, beautiful, and surprisingly pro-life message.”

“The value of life permeates every action and reaction in the film,” The Federalist’s Kylee Griswold declared. 

Perhaps the most amazing scene occurs when Mom, Sue Storm, uses her superhuman invisibility power to reveal the humanity of the baby boy in her womb during an ultrasound.   

One of the largest abortion mills in the Western world is to shut down. Abort-for-profit Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast announced on Friday that it is closing two locations this autumn, including its massive Prevention Park death facility.

Planned Parenthood is closing its 78,000 square-foot, seven-storey Prevention Park outlet along with the Southwest abortion center on September 30. Its Northville, Northwest, Spring, and Stafford locations will remain open but be absorbed into Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, per a Houston Chronicle report. Planned Parenthood’s funding has been drastically cut, forcing locations across the country to close their doors.

Several pro-life activists celebrated the decision. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins called the news “massive” in an X post.

“This is massive news for the pro-life movement and shows the direction that Planned Parenthood is going, which is down,” said Shawn Carney, CEO of 40 Days for Life, in an interview with Fox News Digital.

A self-described “cancer thriver” has warned that assisted suicide could cause terminally ill people to be “written off”.

Councillor Rue Grewal was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017 which is now stage four. It caused her to spiral into despair, and she is certain she would have chosen assisted suicide then if it had been available to her.

Now she is a district councillor and works with the cancer support charity One Vision. She has spoken against assisted suicide, criticising its lack of safeguards for terminally ill people struggling with their mental health.

Cllr Grewal explained that following her diagnosis: “I didn’t even want to do my treatment. My mental health was so bad”.

She described going through “a moment – or period – of despair that felt permanent, but wasn’t”, and said she understood how easily a person can fall into thoughts “that it would be better – for you, for everyone – if you just slipped away”.

She added: “I just don’t want people to be written off and think that’s the easy option”, and shared that she “would have gone down that road”.

The councillor expressed her anger that MPs voted Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill through the House of Commons, saying it causes her “deep, visceral, personal fear”.

Heretical German bishops are planning to introduce guidelines for Catholic schools promoting radical gender ideology without questioning its horrendous consequences for children.

The German Catholic News Agency (KNA) reports that the Catholic bishops, or more precisely, their school commission headed by Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers, are preparing a 20-page document on “sexual diversity” for Catholic schools.

The paper says schools should respect and make more visible students who are “non-binary” and “non-heterosexual.” It states that it is essential to “identify and reduce existing irritations and uncertainties in dealing with the diversity of sexual identity.”

The text, which has not yet been finalized and therefore not yet published, draws attention to the fact that many “queer students” go through years of painful inner insecurity and doubt. According to KNA, the paper denounces “queerphobic prejudice, discrimination, and bullying” against those students.

The paper was allegedly a response to a survey of 2,000 students, teachers, and parents at Catholic schools regarding “diversity of sexual identities.” In the survey conducted by the Berlin Institute for Christian Ethics and Politics, about 20 percent said they had experienced or observed discrimination against “homosexual, trans, or non-binary, i.e., queer, students,” KNA reports.

Millstones all round!

Leftist comedians are 'working' hard to normalise abortion. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be featuring yet another “comedy” show on abortion, as Irish comedian Katie Boyle explains, “I can f**king joke about [my abortion] if I want to”.  

In what appears to be becoming an annual event at the comedy festival, another comedian is set to be centering her act on abortion. This year, Boyle will be performing her latest comedy show at the Fringe in August titled Roe v. Wade versus Katie, which is described as “a uniquely personal dark comedy”.

Commenting that she does not “regret” an abortion she had earlier this year in America, Boyle told the Irish Independent  “[Some people] are like ‘Oh, you’re doing a comedy show about this’. And it’s like, yeah, it is my trauma. So I can f**king joke about it if I want to. The whole point of the comedy show is that… I don’t regret it, thank God it was an option”.

In her comedy show, Boyle recounts her experience of having an abortion in America after the US Supreme Court struck down the Roe v Wade decision in 2022, the ruling that had previously legalised abortion across the United States since 1973.

The overturning of Roe v Wade did not introduce a total ban on abortion throughout the United States, instead, individual states are now able to decide their own abortion legislation.

Boyle’s show comes after the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has hosted pro-abortion comedy events in previous years. In 2024, a show called Catholic Guilt by US comedian Kelly McCaughan attempted to make light of abortion. Promotional content for the play read “Put on your waterproof panties and get ready to unpack everything from losing your virginity in the most holy way, to abortion, to a bowling experience that leads to eternal damnation”.

Another comedian, Grace Campbell, daughter of Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alistair Campbell, created Grace Campbell Is on Heat, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe last year. Campbell has described the discussion of abortion in her comedy as “very conflicting”.

“And people don’t know if they’re allowed to laugh”, she added.

Campbell’s show followed an “all-singing, all-dancing comedy cabaret show”, All Aboard! At Termination Station, about the playwright Lilly Burton having multiple abortions. The show, taken to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, drew criticism for trivialising the subject.

Several other shows at the Edinburgh Fringe have also focused on abortion. One, Jane/Norma, explored the life of Norma McCorvey, known as ‘Jane Roe’, the plaintiff in America’s Roe v Wade case that led to the legalisation of abortion across all states in America. Other stand-up comedy performances took aim at pro-life views, encouraging viewers to “laugh at arbitrary religious teachings” and branding opposition to abortion as “control”.

These Edinburgh Fringe shows are clearly designed to convey the impression that abortion should be normalised and an appropriate topic for jokes. However, the latest abortion statistics show what can only be described as a national tragedy, with 29.69% of all conceptions in England and Wales ending in abortion in 2022, up from 26.54% a year earlier – and a large increase since 2012, when 20.84% of conceptions ended in abortion, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics.

The tide is turning! A poll released by The Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) on July 24 contains some very positive data for pro-lifers. 

The mainstream coverage of the latest post-Roe poll predictably focuses on the fact that a majority of Americans support legal abortion in some or all circumstances. But the new poll also indicates that the percentage of people who believe abortion should be illegal in “most circumstances” or “all circumstances” increased by seven percentage points. 

As pro-life statistician Dr. Michael New points out: “This is the highest level of pro-life sentiment since the Dobbs leak in May 2022. Other survey questions also indicate increasing public opposition to abortion.” 

New noted that there are other indications of the solidity of American pro-life sentiment in the new data set as well.

“The survey asked respondents about whether ‘your state should allow someone to obtain a legal abortion’ in each of four different circumstances,” New wrote in National Review Online.  

“For each circumstance, support for legal abortion fell during the past year,” New continued.

“Notably, the percentage of people who supported legal abortion if the woman ‘does not want to be pregnant for any reason’ fell by five percentage points. Considering the media’s consistently negative coverage of pro-life laws, this gain in pro-life sentiment is welcome news.” 

A “miracle” baby girl born at just 22 weeks gestation has been discharged from hospital after spending over five months in neonatal intensive care.

Baby Grecia was born on 30 January at UMC Children’s Hospital in Las Vegas at only 22 weeks gestation and was the “most premature baby to graduate from the hospital’s NICU”. She weighed just over one pound at birth and faced serious developmental issues. 

Baby Grecia was immediately admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where she would be cared for for the next 166 days. With the support of her doctors, nurses and her family, she was finally able to graduate from NICU and go home to her family on 15 July, weighing a healthy 9 pounds and 10 ounces. She was called a miracle by UMC’s neonatologists as she’s now able to breathe and eat on her own and has been discharged with no serious developmental issues.

Dr Francis Banfro, Medical Director of the NICU at UMC, expressed his satisfaction with Grecia’s development, “She feeds like a champ!”. 

“We are excited to have a baby who is 22 weeks and coming out without any major neurological consequence”.

Stories like Grecia’s have become increasingly possible due to advances in neonatal care. Research indicates that a significant number of babies born at 22 or 23 weeks gestation can now survive outside the womb.

In 2019, new guidance from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine recommended that doctors in the UK offer active treatment to babies born at 22 weeks, reflecting growing medical confidence in supporting these tiny patients.

Florida has seen yet another significant drop in abortions in 2025, new data from the state Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA) shows.

Florida Right to Life reported that, as of the middle of the year, the number of abortions dropped 40.4% from the same point in 2025. What’s more, the “number of non-Florida residents seeking abortions in the state of Florida fell dramatically from 2,928 to 744, marking a major decrease in out-of-state women seeking an abortion,” according to AHCA. Nearly every county in the state saw a decline.

“We in Florida are blessed to have a Republican, pro-life super majority and Ron DeSantis (pictured with his family), a solidly pro-life governor,” Florida Right to Life president Lynda Bell said. “It is obvious that elections certainly do have consequences. When you elect the right people to office, you get life-affirming results. Because of good pro-life legislation like the Heartbeat Bill, Florida is no longer an abortion destination for abortion seekers from Southern states.”

Most abortions are illegal in Florida, thanks to both a 15-week abortion ban and a heartbeat-based abortion ban enacted much earlier but not allowed to take effect until April 2024, when the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the Florida Constitution contains no “right” to abortion that would invalidate them. Until then, there was significant concern that the Sunshine State’s lack of protection for preborn babies would make it a magnet for residents of more protective states in the region who sought to dispose of their children.

The abortion lobby then attempted to invalidate those and every other state pro-life law with a ballot initiative that would add a “right” to abortion to the constitution, but it failed last November, ending a winning streak such amendments had enjoyed in the rest of the country.