Sinn Fein

Religious leaders give support to efforts to revive Northern Ireland government
- Church in UK and Ireland
- May 14, 2019
Religious leaders in Ireland expressed their hope that “substantive progress” will restore the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland that collapsed over two years ago.
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Will Ireland’s abortion vote launch a new pro-life party?
- Catholic News Agency, Church in UK and Ireland
- Nov 24, 2018
Peadar Toibin, an Irish lawmaker who was suspended from the Sinn Fein political party for voting against legalizing abortion, is working to launch a new pro-life political movement whose draft manifesto says “all human life should be protected” and “no mother or child should be left behind.”
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Catholics underrepresented in N. Ireland police, quotas being considered
- Church in UK and Ireland
- Oct 3, 2018
A lack of Catholic officers in Northern Ireland may require the reinstitution of recruiting quotas to keep in place one of the linchpins of the 20-year-old peace process.
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In Northern Ireland, anti-abortion graffiti hits Catholic churches
- Catholic News Agency, Church in UK and Ireland
- Apr 26, 2018
Two Catholic churches in Northern Ireland have been targeted with graffiti bearing a message opposed to abortion, ahead of a key referendum in the Republic of Ireland.
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Sinn Fein lawmaker quits after video which allegedly mocks Troubles victims
- Associated Press, Global Church
- Jan 15, 2018
An Irish nationalist lawmaker has resigned from Britain’s Parliament after sparking outrage by appearing to mock a massacre carried out during Northern Ireland’s decades of violence.
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Judge upholds same-sex marriage ban in Northern Ireland
- Global Church
- Aug 17, 2017
Saying his decision is “not based on social policy but on the law,” a High Court judge in Belfast has refused to overturn a law in Northern Ireland defining marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman. Northern Ireland is the only place in Great Britain and Ireland which has not legalized same-sex marriage.
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