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(Live Action) — Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has signed legislation expanding the state’s safe haven baby law. The new law allows infant surrenders up to 45 days after birth and permits anonymous surrender through the use of newborn safety devices like baby boxes. Key takeaways Safe haven laws allow parents who feel unable to care for their newborn to safely and legally surrender their child. HB 350 in Georgia allows for the use of newborn safety devices for infant surrender, and expands the time allowed for surrender from 30 days to 45 days. The details Safe haven laws allow parents who feel unable to care for their newborn to safely and legally surrender their child. In Georgia, HB350, known as the Eliza Jane Warner Act, allows hospitals and fire stations within the state to install baby boxes, like those from the Safe Haven Baby Box organization, for infant surrender. The law was named after Eliza Jane Warner, an infant who was found deceased in a cooler along the side of a roadway in 2019. The new law also expands the time allowed for parents to choose to surrender their child from 30 days to 45 days. Kemp’s signature on HB350 was announced on social media by the group Bringing Newborn Safety Devices to Georgia. READ: Colorado expands baby ‘safe haven’ window from 72 hours to 30 days “Parents in crisis will now have 45 days to safely, legally and anonymously surrender an infant. There are so many to individually thank, but in this moment, thank you to every single person who supported this effort in any way,” the organization wrote. “For every prayer, kind word, phone call, email…we appreciate them all! Together we have made a difference!!!” Zoom in Each state has a safe haven law, implemented to help deter infant abandonments and to provide an option for parents who feel unable to care for and raise their baby. Allowing anonymous surrender is a way to reach parents who may feel uncomfortable with the idea of handing over their baby in person. “What the new law allows for is a truly anonymous dropping off of your baby so that there is no human that is there in that process,” explained Dr. Michael Bossak, vice president of the Children’s Hospital of Savannah. “And so this allows for much greater access to allow patients and families to drop off babies that they may not be able to care for at that time.” Safe Haven Baby Boxes are one way a parent could choose to surrender their newborn. The boxes are temperature controlled and are activated with a silent alarm; the moment an infant is placed inside, authorities are alerted and respond immediately. Nationwide the organization has facilitated dozens of surrenders since the first box was installed in 2016. The bottom line Safe haven laws offer a life-affirming option for mothers and fathers who may be in crisis and are unsure where to turn for help. Reprinted with permission from Live Action.

(LifeSiteNews) — Jim Hughes, former leader of Campaign Life Coalition and founding board member of LifeSiteNews, has died. Hughes was a longtime veteran of the Canadian pro-life movement, dedicating nearly 50 years to defending the sanctity of life. In recent years he endured various health issues and suffered a stroke on March 8, 2025. In 2024 Hughes sat down with LifeSiteNews to look back on his career and share his thoughts on the future of the pro-life movement in Canada. The interview, published in three parts, can be watched below. Summaries of each part can be read here, here, and here. Please join us in praying for the repose of the soul of Jim Hughes. This is a developing story…

MILAN, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — A new “inclusive and futuristic monastery” planned by the Archdiocese of Milan will combine Catholic worship spaces with interreligious and cultural facilities in the city’s former Expo district. On May 11, the Archdiocese of Milan presented a new religious and cultural complex called the “Ambrosian Monastery.” The project was designed by Italian architect Stefano Boeri. According to the archdiocese and the project’s designers, the site will host a resident community and will include a church, a cloister, spaces dedicated to “dialogue” among different religions, and areas intended for cultural events and “reflection.” “The Ambrosian Monastery presents itself as a space of spirituality, dialogue, and reflection, aimed at fostering encounters among faiths, cultures, and forms of knowledge in the 21st century,” the statement reads. Architectural renderings presented during the press conference show a large modern structure with angular forms and extensive open spaces. The church building and the cloister are planned with triangular ground plans. Boeri stated during the presentation that the church would also “serve cultural purposes” in addition to religious functions. Although formally dedicated to Saint Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, the monastery features numerous elements that make it a multireligious complex more than a genuinely Catholic place of prayer. As reported by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, the project also takes on a distinctly ecological character. In addition to the Library of Religions and the Cloister of Religions, it will include a “Garden of Religions,” where each monotheistic faith will be represented by a plant. “One cannot help feeling a bit uneasy wondering which plant theologians and green designers will decide to assign to us,” quipped Italian journalist Tommaso Scandroglio. As of now it remains unclear what kind of community — religious or otherwise — will reside within the monastery. It is also still uncertain whether the project has been funded entirely by the Archdiocese of Milan, only partially, or even through public funds. The MIND district, where the monastery is set to be built, was developed from the area that hosted the 2015 World Expo in Milan. The district has since been promoted as a center for scientific research, technological innovation, education and business development. Archbishop Mario Delpini connected the monastery project directly to that broader urban vision during his remarks. “This is how Milan tells its own story,” Delpini said. “The city lives and grows beneath the Madonnina,” referring to the golden statue of the Virgin Mary atop Milan Cathedral. He added that “there is no human life without transcendence” and “no coexistence, peace or common good without God.” The building bears a distinctly Masonic imprint: according to Archbishop Delpini’s own statements, all religions are effectively treated as equally valid paths to worship God. On February 16, 2024, the Archdiocese of Milan hosted a closed‑door meeting for dialogue between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry, attended only by selected journalists and invited guests. Present at the meeting were the three Grand Masters of the main Italian Masonic obediences — Stefano Bisi (Grand Orient of Italy), Luciano Romoli (Grand Lodge of Italy ALAM), and Fabio Venzi (Regular Grand Lodge of Italy) — together with Archbishop Delpini himself, the controversial Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, and the Franciscan theologian and canon lawyer Zbigniew Suchecki. There was also Bishop Antonio Staglianò, then-president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, who delivered a lengthy address downplaying Catholic doctrine in order to highlight a supposed — yet nonexistent — affinity between Catholicism and Freemasonry.