New High Court battle over a sick baby case - UK

You may all recall the case of baby Charlie Gard, who died last Summer after his parents tried and failed to get him treatment. There is a new, similar, but in my view, much more worrying case going to court today (Tuesday) in the UK. Baby Alfie Evans. You can read all about it here:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/thousands-echo-readers-form-alfies-13219244

The Hospital have gone to court to get a legal guardian appointed for this baby. This chills me. Baby Alfie clearly has very loving and devoted parents. They are asking for very basic medical needs of his to be met and it appears that this child's life has been written off. A very good update on things as they stand right now is here:

https://carolinefarrow.com/2017/12/18/alfie-evans-babies-fighting-for-their-baby/

Please spare a prayer today, 10.30 GMT for this little boy's life to be respected. If the judge appoints a legal guardian, this country is enroute to imposing euthanasia on anyone who is weak or vulnerable.

 

Bella, Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the forum, I will be praying for this child and his family.

 

Many of you will have been following this. Please pray tomorrow (Monday) for this little boy, 2 years old, Alfie Evans. Yes, he is terminally ill, but there have been offers of help to allow him to die naturally. Information is patchy and unreliable, however, it appears that the rights of the two young parents are being disregarded when decisions are being made about his end of life care.

It is Pope Benedict XVI's birthday tomorrow, and the feast of St Bernadette. Let's pray for Alfie and his family.

 

I have lots "Krazy" Ideas and Prayers that I talk to God about and one of them could go like this:

Almighty Father,
MOG and most other Christian/Religious Sites are full of discussion about Warnings, Signs and Wonders.
I'm asking that You, today, heal and protect Little Alfie along with all the Children, Worldwide, of their mental or physical illness.
I can not imagine a greater Sign and Wonder of Your Magnificent Power and Mercy. AMEN!!

I sometimes wonder if God gets tired of all our speculation about Warnings, Fire, Brimstone and Signs?
Perhaps He might rather have as talk to Him about our "Krazy" Ideas and Prayers? ...... Eh!??

GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

PS: Mother Angelica opined that we should be Very Specific about what we pray for!

 

Thankyou, Crewdog. I do not know the full details of this story even though it is happening in my own country, but I do detect that a spirit of euthanasia is creeping in. This little boy is very ill, there is no doubt, but it seems to me, from trying to piece together the fractured information coming out, that his parents are being denied any right whatsoever in how he is treated, and that is the concern.

And of course, as you say, God can heal this little boy of his illness instantly if he wishes, and we ask this, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

What an incredible witness that would be to the euthanisers, if God were to heal little Alfie.

 

Pope Francis meets with father of Alfie Evans, says only God is ‘master of life’
Charles Collins Apr 18, 2018 https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-an...-alfie-evans-says-only-god-is-master-of-life/

I'm still praying for this little boy and his parents.

 

Me too

 

Bella, thank you for the continued update, Alfie and his family are in my prayers.

 

http://www.lifenews.com/2018/04/20/...t-without-their-consent/#.WtsEi0prCKo.twitter
Sadness, it looks as though Alfie's parents have lost. I am going to keep praying anyway.

 

Praying for a true miracle that only God can provide.

 

According to Eccles, the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales are cheering on the killers. Fair play to Pope Francis on this issue, for all we say about him.

The rights of the family have been all but eliminated. The state can kill, pervert or take one's child at will. C.S. Lewis knew what he was doing when he used civil servants as the model for describing devils in his 'Screwtape Letters'. Power without responsibility is a dreadful thing. It will be even more dreadful for these faceless god-impersonators when they discover that they are to be held eternally responsible.

 

It’s the same here in the family courts

 

YUP!! The Culture of Death and their useful idiots on the "inside":

"Murderous Bureaucracy: On the Feast of St. George of England, the UK Descends into a New Barbarity, whilst the Bishops Betray the Fort (Again)"

http://www.torchofthefaith.com/news.php

GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

 

I am truly apalled
Continuing to pray

 

Been following Caroline Farrow on twitter
Alfie has been taken off life support against parents’ wishes
Has a priest with him
Has been granted Italian citizenship
Pope Francis wants to help
Alfie has breathed on his own and might be receiving oxygen
His parents are cuddling him
The hospital wanted to give him euthanasia drugs but that has not happened as of yet
Please keep praying
Alfie has fought for life over 4 hours
Please God Help

 

Poor baby and parents. God bless them all. It's all so sad.

 

Keep praying
Alfie has hydration and food and oxygen
A plane is being readied to come from Italy
This is all from God answering all the prayers

 

Caroline Farrow updates reports
Alfie not being fed
His barrister is appealing to courts today at 3:30 pm in Britain time zone
This is a sickening struggle
However Alfie is much more alert off of his sedation

 

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

"Alfie has been sustaining his own life since 9:17..." —Tom Evans, 21, father of 23-month-old Alfie Evans, yesterday evening in Liverpool, England, after British doctors removed Alfie from his breathing tube at 9:17 p.m. — 12 hours ago as of this writing...



The removal was decided after British authorities were informed by Italian government authorities that Alfie had unexpectedly been granted Italian citizenship.



A UK judge ruled during a conference call earlier in the evening that this fact would not change a previous court decision that the hospital could remove the baby’s life support in the conviction that it was in Alfie’s “best interest.”



The call happened between the family’s legal team, Justice Hayden, the Italian ambassador to England, and hospital administration.



Reportedly, everyone involved — the hospital authorities, the legal authorities, and even the child's parents — expected that, without the breathing tube, Alfie would stop breathing on his own within minutes, and so would die.



But Alfie did not stop breathing...



Doctors have been left "gobsmacked" (astonished) by the fact that Alfie continued to live after his life-support was withdrawn, Tom Evans said.



Here is a photo of Alfie this morning in his mother's arms...







"6 hours of breathing on his own so far, what a fighter! I'm sure this is much longer than his executioners thought possible... His parents must be so proud. Please Lord, help him through this night." —Comment by a reader in the comment section of a Lifesitenews.com article during the night, about six hours ago as of this writing



"The Court based their decision [to cease all treatment]at least in part on the fact that he was incapable of breathing without sophisticated medical intervention. That fact has now been proven wrong..." ——Comment by a reader in the comment section of a Lifesitenews.com article during the night



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Alfie Still Alive... Though His Breathing Tube Has Been Removed



Little Alfie Evans is still alive as of this writing, more than 12 hours after being removed from a breathing tube last night at 9:17 p.m., London time.



However, he could cease breathing at any time.



There is no explanation that has been offered for why he has been able to breathe on his own for so many hours.



During the night, baby's parents asked if Alfie could have oxygen, to help his breathing, but the hospital refused to administer any oxygen.



After several hours, seeing that Alfie was breathing on his own, Alfie's father, Tom Evans, 21, asked hospital authorities to re-attach a hydration tube so that Alfie could receive water.



The hospital agreed.



The hydration tube was re-attached.



After another period of time, the hospital also agreed also to administer oxygen to the child.



So Alfie is now on a hydration tube, and is receiving oxygen, but he is breathing on his own.



"Alfie is sustaining his own life," his father said, repeatedly, on a Facebook video posted last night.



A video of his father saying this can be seen at the lifesitenews.com website (link).



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The Vatican's Role



Alfie's respiration tube had been scheduled to be removed at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon, though it was fully anticipated by doctors that this would lead to his death due to asphyxiation within minutes.



It was thought that Alfie's story would then end.



But, in a startling development yesterday, Alfie was granted Italian citizenship by the Italian government — evidently with input from Pope Francis and other Vatican authorities, who had also weighed the option of granting Alfie Vatican citizenship.



Andrea Tornielli, reporting this morning on the Vatican Insider website, writes (link):



"Even in the Vatican, in the last hours, the possibility of giving Alfie and his family the passport of Oltretevere residents [of residents "on the other side of the Tiber," that is, of Vatican City, which is located on the other side of the Tiber from the old center of Rome] was taken into consideration.



"The problem, however, is represented by the fact that the new citizenship -- the Vatican one as well as the Italian one -- would have been added to the British one, and therefore Alfie would have remained subject to the English laws.



"Moreover, the Vatican is not a member of the European Union and therefore the citizenship of Oltretevere would not have been decisive. Only the renunciation by the parents of British citizenship would have questioned the jurisdiction of the English judiciary.



"Yesterday at dawn, as a sign of solidarity and closeness, in the name of Pope Francis, the president of the [Rome] pediatric hospital Bambino Gesù [Child Jesus] and an anesthetist boarded a plane and after a stopover in Germany arrived at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool.



"They were not allowed to enter the child's room or talk to the doctors.



"As you will already remember, last September [2017], without media clamor, a medical team of the Bambino Gesù had flown to Liverpool to visit Alfie.



"The conclusion was that there were no hopes of healing or possible treatment, but the Vatican pediatric hospital would have gladly welcomed the child by taking on the risky transfer to Italy where Alfie would be assisted with palliative care.



"'Bring Alfie here!' Pope Francis had said at the end of the meeting with the child's father, a private audience obtained by Thomas Evans on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, a few hours after he had requested it.



"The Pope has launched four public appeals for Alfie, the most important during the Regina Coeli [Sunday noon public prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace] on 15 April, and at the end of Wednesday's general audience which took place three days later [April 18].



"Last night [April 23 in the evening], Francis dedicated a tweet to his appeal: "Touched by the prayers and the vast solidarity in favor of little Alfie Evans, I renew my appeal to listen to the suffering of his parents and to be granted their desire to try new possibilities for treatment."