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Lawful but not just
Joseph Azize | 01 February 2006
A few years ago Australian Aboriginal communities were asked what they thought of euthanasia. Their response was thoughtful, deep and negative.
Healing a 2000-year-old rift
Jim Pope | 27 January 2006
Since Vatican II, Christians and Jews have done much to heal their tormented relationship. The problem is, says Jewish scholar David Novak in this MercatorNet interview, not enough of us know about it.
Famine in Kenya: an avoidable disaster
Martyn Drakard | 27 January 2006
Famine has returned to Eastern Africa and the government of Kenya is ill-prepared. How is it that a country which fed its people during a worse famine more than 20 years ago is now caught off guard?
Religion flourishes but atheism looks sick
Carolyn Moynihan | 23 January 2006
Why does atheism get such a good press and religion such a bad one when, as a global survey shows, religious people outnumber atheists eleven to one?
Killing me softly with his song
Michael Cook | 18 January 2006
Euthanasia is back in the news. And no one is more qualified to lead the movement into the 21st century than Philip Nitschke.
Neutrality follies
Richard Bastien | 16 January 2006 | 2
Canada’s chief justice reckons morals are “subjective, arbitrary and unworkable”. Hmm. It’s an interesting principle for drafting laws.
Women converts find liberation in Islam
Carolyn Moynihan | 12 January 2006 | 5
Thousands of western women each year are exchanging hedonism for the headscarf and fasting at Ramadan. Does Islam have something to offer women that Christianity does not?
No more business as usual for stem cell research
Michael Cook | 12 January 2006
Revelations of fraud and unethical conduct in the world’s leading embryonic stem cell lab could lead to a rethink of stem cell ethics.
60 years after Nuremberg, how much have we learned?
Cason Cheely | 10 January 2006 | 1
The trial of German doctors who used prisoners for ghastly experiments during World War II is still relevant today.
Canadians battle over Church-State separation
Richard Bastien | 04 January 2006
The bitter debate over whether private religious beliefs should influence what policies politicians support has become an issue in this month’s election in Canada.
Breaking the spirit
Michael Cook | 03 January 2006
A government's legitimate need to interrogate terror suspects must not be allowed to slide into inhumane torture, argues Marc Zarrouati in this MercatorNet interview.
MercatorNet’s pick of 2005
Michael Cook | 31 December 2005
Since our launch last May, MercatorNet has published an amazing range of reading. Here are a dozen of our readers' favourites in 2005.
International adoptions: the role of the media
Adam Pertman | 30 December 2005
In adoptions, as in the rest of life, mistakes and even disasters happen, but this is a field in which the media should be especially careful not to sensationalise. The happiness of tens of thousands of children and would-parents is at stake.
What happens to kids who do drugs when theyre old codgers?
Michael Cook | 28 December 2005
New Year celebrations are often a time for recreation drug use. It’s not a good idea, says Britain’s foremost expert on the medical effects of illegal drugs, Professor John Henry.
Drunken Santas in a stem cell sleigh
Michael Cook | 22 December 2005
Australia could have the world’s most liberal regulation of embryo
research if the recommendations of a government committee are adopted.
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