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IMPORTANT: For live updates on the Alfie Evans case click here. ROME, April 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) -- The director of the Vatican-run hospital that had offered to treat Alfie Evans is accusing those holding the 23-month-old boy in the United Kingdom of doing so for ideological motives. “I suspect [Judge Anthony Hayden’s denial of Alfie’s transfer] responds to an ideological battle and that the decision does not respond strictly to legal reasons,” Mariella Enoc, director of Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, told the Spanish paper ABC. Alfie’s doctors say he has an undiagnosed neurological condition that has resulted in serious and...

April 27, 11:20 AM ET: The Christian Legal Centre has released a statement regarding its involvement in Alfie Evans' case. They are defending themselves against comments made by a judge and from criticism in the way case was handled.  "Again, we underline that our driving concern throughout our short involvement in this case has been to contend for little Alfie’s bests interests and to serve his parents," they write. "Having reviewed the case with Mr Evans, we believed that Alfie’s ‘best interests’ would be served not by allowing him to die but by respecting his parents’ wish to take advantage...

Crime rates are skyrocketing across the board in multicultural Britain. From The Daily Mail: A knife crime epidemic in London and England’s big cities has seen the number of offences involving blades soar by more than a fifth in the last year. Police in England and Wales recorded 39,598 offences involving blades in the year ending December 2017, a 22% increase compared with the previous year. London saw a 44% increase in the number of killings, with more than 150 victims, while the number knife offences in the capital rose by more than 20 per cent to 14,680, separate stats...

The family of Alfie Evans is blasting a false news report saying his parents are supposedly preparing for his death. The news report came out after Tom Evans told the media that he would be working with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in an attempt to repair the relationship so Alfie can go home. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT But a news report in Sky News took that statement to mean that Alfie’s parents were making plans for his eventual death. In a post on Facebook, family member Daniel Evans said that that is absolutely not true.As Sky News reported: Sky News Correspondent Gerard...

LIVERPOOL, April 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Alfie Evans’ chaplain has allegedly been removed from the child’s cubicle at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Don Gabriele Brusco, an Italian priest stationed in London, had been sent by Bishop Calvina of the diocese of Carpi, to minister to Alfie’s needs. He administered the sacrament of the anointing of the sick to little Alfie. While at the hospital, the priest appealed to the consciences of the hospital staff, reminding them that God would judge them for their sins against Alfie’s life. Apparently, the staff did not like this. According to the...

The Medical Ethics Alliance said the refusal to allow Alfie Evans to travel to Italy for treatment was 'medical tyranny'A group of doctors has criticised the refusal of some of their colleagues and a court to allow Alfie Evans to travel to Italy for treatment as “medical tyranny.” Dr Anthony Cole, the Catholic chairman of the Medical Ethics Alliance, has written an open letter saying that the treatment of Alfie and his parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, brought the medical profession in the UK into disrepute. “The parents are being tortured as they watch the hospital take actions expected...

“I would like to reiterate and forcefully confirm that the only master of life, from the beginning to its natural conclusion, is God!” Pope Francis said before the General Audience after meeting with Alfie Evan’s father, Thomas Evans.  Alfie Evans is the ill 23-month-old held under court order at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, England. Monday the hospital removed life support, but Alfie lives — breathing on his own. The Pope tweeted Monday afternoon, “Moved by the prayers and immense solidarity shown little Alfie Evans, I renew my appeal that the suffering of his parents may be heard and that their...

Per Daren Jonescu: The British government, eager to prove its merit as a proper socialist state, has made a cottage industry of delineating the conditions of collective ownership of the individual in the starkest terms. Last year, their poster child for the principle of the individual as dispensable cell of the socialist collective was named Charlie Gard. This year, he is known as Baby Alfie. In both cases, the parents are outright denied the freedom to seek further treatment for a child the State has decided is not worth trying to save. In both cases, the further treatment in question...

Rachel Stoltzfoos got the scoop. She dug out of a report in the (UK) Telegraph the following piece of plutonium: the judge said the best Alfie’s parents could hope for was to “explore” the options of removing him from intensive care either to a ward, a hospice or his home.But a doctor treating Alfie, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said that for Alfie to be allowed home would require a “sea change” in attitude from the child’s family, and they feared that in the “worst case” they would try to take the boy abroad. As Stoltzfoos wrote: “[T]he...

ANALYSIS April 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – What did Alder Hey hospital threaten to do to Alfie and his parents that would compel the toddler’s dad Tom to read to the press what is now being called by many a “hostage letter”?  The hospital has all the cards in its hand. It’s been granted all rights by the court, even the permission to kill baby Alfie according to what it calls an “end of life care plan” that includes the use of a lethal drug cocktail.  The hospital has been legally empowered to remove the parents from their child while they...

Little Alfie was supposed to have died over the span of a few minutes, once the respirator was disconnected. With the medical “comforts” of the case. “Placed with care on the laps of Mr Evans and Ms James, if they desire.” And “after the death has been confirmed, the family will be able to wash him, dress him, and spend time with him.”This is what was written in the “protocol” for the death of Alfie, conveyed to his parents Tom and Kate by Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.But this is not what happened. Because even without the oxygen tube,...

IMPORTANT: For live updates on the Alfie Evans case, click here. POLAND, April 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A Polish doctor has stated that UK toddler Alfie Evans is not “dying” and is certainly not “brain-dead.” Dr. Izabela Pałgan, a pediatrician and children’s oncologist from Bydgoszcz in Poland, told Radio Wnet April 25 that in her professional opinion, doctors at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool where Alfie is being kept are misdiagnosing the boy. “Doctors at the hospital in Liverpool asked the court to agree to the separation of the infant from life-support, on the grounds that it would be in the 'best interests'...

Members of the newly founded John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family (JAHLF), which has been partly established by former members of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), have decided to publish a statement in defense of Alfie Evans and his parents, Tom Evans and Kate James. The following members – who are either Board Members, Advisory Board Members, or simple members – have signed the text below: Professor Josef Seifert (President), Doyen Nguyen, M.D., S.T.D, Paul A Byrne MD, Professor Roberto de Mattei, Professor Claudio Pierantoni, Thomas Ward, MD, Philippe Schepens, MD, Professor Carlos Casanova, Dr. Maike Hickson, Professor Luke...

Latin America has suffered more than 2.5m murders since the start of this century and is facing an acute public security crisis that demands urgent and innovative solutions, a new report warns. “The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking,” says the report by the Igarapé Institute, a Brazil-based thinktank focused on security and development issues. The publication, released on Thursday, paints a bleak portrait of what it calls the world’s most homicidal continent. Latin America suffers 33% of the world’s homicides despite having only 8% of its population. One-quarter of all global homicides are concentrated in four countries –...

Judge in Alfie Evans Case: Quit Telling Me He’s a Human Being, “There’s Virtually Nothing of His Brain Left” The Alfie Evans case is the latest in a long line of cases where courts and doctors have determined that patients are supposedly too far gone and supposedly don’t have the quality of life to justify even basic nutrition or care and treatment — let alone experimental treatment to try to treat their conditions or diseases.Nowhere was this more on display than in Judge Hayden’s courtroom yesterday where the British judge had no interest in attorneys for Alfie’s family reminding him...

Alfie Evans latest: Air ambulance crew escorted from Alder Hey by security Two people – believed to be members of a private ambulance crew – were asked to leave the hospital this afternoon.The man and woman had been seen talking to members of the Evans family.Security from the hospital escorted the from the building when they were asked to leave.Alfie’s court fight continues to rage today as his family try to get him sent to Italy for treatment. The 23 month-old tot had his life support switched off on Monday and the family’s legal team are launching an appeal today at...

The LifeSite petition in support of Alfie Evans has been signed by just over 47,000 persons as of the time of writing. Today, LifeSite sent an urgent message to all signers with action items that might potentially save Alfie's life at this very critical time. Following is the text of the email: LifeSiteNews will continue to bring you updates on Alfie as they become available. You can follow the stories here. Simply refresh your browser for timely updates. Please consider yourselves now part of Alfie’s Army. In addition to praying (and fasting) for him and his family, there are a...

Schubert and Sheriff Scott Jones said they relied on DNA evidence to arrest Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who lived for more than three decades on a quiet street in Citrus Heights. "We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento," Schubert said. The East Area Rapist, also known as the Golden State Killer, the Original Night Stalker and the Diamond Knot Killer, is believed to have killed at least 12 people, raped at least 45 victims and burglarized hundreds of homes. "This defendant has been able to live here in a nice suburb in Sacramento,"...

The Italian Catholic website La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana (LNBQ) has an exclusive today — a cell phone video they claim captures a conversation between what LNBQ says are “at least 3-4 unidentified members of the Altar Hey Hospital staff” apparently discussing the situation with Alfie Evans. The video appears to have been recorded secretly, and the audio quality is, unfortunately, somewhat poor. Several of the voices are heavily accented and frequently speak over one another, making an accurate transcription difficult. LNBQ posted their own transcription, but rather than offering you a translation, I’ve done my own. I’ve also uploaded a...

Justice Anthony Hayden, the judge at the center of the Alfie Evans case, is a member of The Bar Lesbian and Gay Group (BLAGG) and co-authored a book on homosexual relationships and their pertinence to children’s rights. A post on the website of BLAGG – a British association that supports “lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender persons at all levels” of the legal profession – names Hayden as a member.  The post is titled BLAGG Member appointed to High Court Wednesday, 31 July 2013 and remains on BLAGG’s website as of April 24, 2018 at 10:05 p.m. EST. The article...