Two daredevil protesters chained themselves to the facade of a Barcelona church on Friday morning to demonstrate against Spain's proposed new abortion law.
A Spanish conservative lobby group on Thursday delivered more than 200,000 signatures to Belgian King Philippe in Brussels, urging him not to sign controversial child euthanasia legislation passed by parliament.
A controversial plan to ban women in Spain from freely opting for abortions overcame a key hurdle on Tuesday when lawmakers voted in secret against a motion to scrap the reform.
A controversial plan in Spain to scrap easy access to abortions took centre stage at the Goya Awards, the country's equivalent of the Oscars, with several actresses slamming the reform as they accepted their prizes.
Bare-breasted feminists belonging to the exhibitionist protest group FEMEN hurled knickers at the archbishop of Madrid as he arrived at church on Sunday in protest against his support for Spain's stringent new abortion law.
Thousands of pro-choice campaigners converged on the Spanish capital Saturday to voice their opposition to a government plan to restrict access to abortion in the mainly Catholic country.
The Spanish government has prepared a memo claiming that tough new abortion laws will have a "positive impact" on the country's economy thanks to an increased birth rate, it emerged on Monday.
Thousands of anti-abortionists took to the streets of the French capital on Sunday calling for France to adopt similar pro-life legislation to that drafted by the Spanish government last month.
The Pope's new Spanish cardinal told a Spanish newspaper on Sunday that homosexuality was a physical "defect" like high blood pressure and that many gays could be cured with "proper treatment".
Spain's controversial new abortion law caused heated debate in the European Parliament on Thursday with many liberals and left-wing politicians calling for the proposed legislation to be scrapped.
Spain's largest opposition party, the socialist PSOE, is hoping to block the progress of the country's controversial draft abortion law by making the ballot secret.
France's prestigious Le Monde newspaper dedicated their Monday editorial to Spain's new abortion law, calling it both 'regressive' and a politically motivated attack on 'the left's moral high ground'.
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Tens of thousands of believers poured into central Madrid to celebrate an open-air Roman Catholic mass for the Holy Family on Sunday, just days after the Spanish government agreed to tighten the abortion law.
Footage showing police striking unarmed women with batons before arresting them in Madrid on Friday after a protest against abortion reforms has been widely shared on the internet.
Feminist activists mounted a bare-breasted protest outside a Madrid church on Monday to decry Spain's plan to ban women from freely opting for abortion.
Spain's government agreed on Friday to ban women from opting freely for abortions, outraging pro-choice campaigners who say the move will take the country back to the 1980s.
Spain's government says it will meet on Friday to tighten abortion laws, sparking an outcry from pro-choice groups who warn of a return to the 1980s, when women had to go abroad to end unwanted pregnancies.
An ultraconservative US organization is looking to change views on abortion in Spain by driving a bus covered in disturbing images of bloody foetuses around the streets of Madrid.
