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Police in Belgium have arrested a UK human rights activist for holding up a sign which challenged transgender ideology. Lois McLatchie Miller was arrested in Brussel for wearing a billboard which read: Children are never born in the wrong body.” She was detained alongside Canadian child protection advocate Chris Elston, who is known as “Billboard Chris”, after they were surrounded by an angry mob. In spite of the pair’s peaceful conduct, police arrested Ms McLatchie Miller and Billboard Chris rather than address the aggression of the crowd. They were taken to police stations, ordered to remove their clothes and detained...

[Catholic Caucus] Belgian court rules against 2 Catholic archbishops for refusing woman to enter training for diaconateCardinal Jozef De Kesel and Archbishop Luc Terlinden have both been ordered to pay more than $1,000 in damages for having ‘discriminated’ against a female pastoral worker by refusing her requests to enroll in a training course for future deacons.A district court in Belgium has ruled that two Catholic archbishops must pay damages of more than $1,000 each for refusing to allow a woman to enter training for the diaconate.In a bizarre case, a district court in Mechelen ruled against Cardinal Jozef De Kesel...