lifesitenews--2020-02-15--EWTN’s ‘World Over’ show criticizes Pope’s Amazon exhortation for lack of ‘clear answers’

February 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Raymond Arroyo , host of “ The World Over ” on EWTN , questioned on his show yesterday why Pope Francis ’ post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “ Querida Amazonia ” does not give “ clear answers.
” “ And the other thing , we keep hearing this term .
The liturgy should be incarnate .
Care for the environment should be incarnate , ” Arroyo said , asking , “ I ’ m not quite sure what that means , but why aren ’ t clear answers incarnate in these documents from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in chief of The Catholic Thing , named ambiguity as “ a hallmark of what the Holy Father does.
” In the context of the publication “ Querida Amazonia , ” he said Pope Francis might have intended to leave the door open to married priests by referring to the final document of the synod published last October .
On this , Royal disagreed with Father Gerald Murray , a canon lawyer and pastor within the Archdiocese of New York .
Both made their comments on the Feb. 13 edition of “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on EWTN hosted by Raymond Arroyo .
Murray and Royal are often called the papal posse .
“ I think it was a very happy day when the synod document was issued by Pope Francis , because he was asked by the synod for two things .
One is to have married men ordained priests , and secondly to have women ordained as deacons .
And the Pope did not grant those requests , ” Murray said .
Nevertheless , he later cautioned that “ anything can happen.
” Murray pointed out that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” to pray for vocations and send missionaries to the Amazon region .
Arroyo mentioned that some progressives blame conservative men of the Church , for instance Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI , Cardinal Robert Sarah , and Cardinal Gerhard Müller , for elevating the issue of celibacy .
Murray set the record straight , showing that Pope Francis himself had first talked about an Amazon synod in reference to Bishop Fritz Lobinger , who had written a book about ordaining viri probati , proven men , as priests .
“ The Pope then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He made an advocate of that proposal to ordain married men , Cardinal Hummes from Brazil , the relator general .
He was the one who was basically spearheading the document that came out of the synod , ” Murray stated .
“ To say that a controversy that should never have occurred , occurred because some recalcitrant people defended the tradition of the Church , that is just a basic debating tactic used to end the debate , ” he added .
Royal continued in this vein by referring to comments made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The bishops were in Rome for their routine visit with the Holy Father , which happens every five years .
“ He was even denying that married priests were a major part of why he convened the synod in the first place , ” according to Royal .
He asked , “ If that was meant to deal with the Amazon , with certain elements that are having universal application , why not then hold that meeting in the Amazon itself ?
” “ Instead , they brought it to Rome , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Rome .
They created the expectation that what was being talked about there was inevitably going to have applications for the universal Church , ” said Royal .
Royal suggested to take the document as written .
“ And we say , that ’ s as far as it goes , and no farther .
All the rest is speculation , but it is not to be ignored that there is a possibility that something else can come back , ” he clarified .
Father Murray talked about a distinction between moral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been introduced by Cardinal Michael Czerny during the presentation of “ Querida Amazonia ” in the Vatican .
Czerny , who served as special secretary for the Amazon synod , discussed the “ status of the two documents ” and where they “ fit into the magisterium.
” Regarding the final document , he said that “ apart from formal magisterial authority , ” the Pope ’ s “ official presentation and encouragement ” confer on it “ a certain moral authority , ” LifeSiteNews reported Wednesday .
Murray called that language “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he added , “ is a bunch of suggestions by a synod .
Does this leave a back door ?
Anything can happen.
” At the same time , after two years of discussions about making celibacy optional , “ there is no married clergy ” contained in the new document .
Asked about the poetic language of “ Querida Amazonia , ” Robert Royal voiced his criticism of what he called “ Amazonian Dreaming.
” He said it is “ not helpful for the kinds of problems that we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mysticism , or prophecy , or quoting poets … is somehow going to give us anything other than kind of a warm feeling about what we ought to do ?
It doesn ’ t seem to me that that goes very far , ” Royal responded to Arroyo .
On the question of female deacons , Father Murray praised what Francis wrote in the Apostolic Exhortation .
“ To say women are underappreciated in the Church is an absolute falsehood , a calumny that ’ s used , basically , to get power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He added , “ People who want to un-Catholicize the Church are those who are proposing women ’ s ordination , and the Pope has said no.
” Regarding the Pachamama statues used during the Amazon synod , Murray said the Pope ’ s claim , according to which it is possible “ to take up an indigenous symbol in some way , without necessarily considering it as idolatry , ” might be possible , “ but it ’ s not advisable.
” “ Paganism is not a beneficent nature story in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fear of pagan gods who are vicious and who hurt people .
You placate them , as the Aztecs did , by killing human beings .
Paganism is about primal fears and anxieties that are not remedied because they don ’ t know the true God .
It ’ s diabolical in origin and inspiration , ” Father Murray explained unequivocally .
The papal posse touched on a number of other issues , for instance , the suspension of Archbishop Georg Gänswein , the speech by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ uniquely preeminent in Catholic social teaching , ” and Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo giving communion to the president of Argentina and his mistress .

Robert Royal, Father Gerald Murray, and Raymond Arroyo honed in on lack of straightforward answers from the Vatican during Thursday’s show.
February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Raymond Arroyo, host of “The World Over” on EWTN, questioned on his show yesterday why Pope Francis’ post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Querida Amazonia” does not give “clear answers.”
“And the other thing, we keep hearing this term. The liturgy should be incarnate. Care for the environment should be incarnate,” Arroyo said, asking, “I’m not quite sure what that means, but why aren’t clear answers incarnate in these documents from the Church?”
Robert Royal, editor in chief of The Catholic Thing, named ambiguity as “a hallmark of what the Holy Father does.” In the context of the publication “Querida Amazonia,” he said Pope Francis might have intended to leave the door open to married priests by referring to the final document of the synod published last October.
On this, Royal disagreed with Father Gerald Murray, a canon lawyer and pastor within the Archdiocese of New York. Both made their comments on the Feb. 13 edition of “The World Over,” a news show on EWTN hosted by Raymond Arroyo. Murray and Royal are often called the papal posse.
“I think it was a very happy day when the synod document was issued by Pope Francis, because he was asked by the synod for two things. One is to have married men ordained priests, and secondly to have women ordained as deacons. And the Pope did not grant those requests,” Murray said.
Nevertheless, he later cautioned that “anything can happen.”
Murray pointed out that the Pope emphasized in “Querida Amazonia” to pray for vocations and send missionaries to the Amazon region.
Arroyo mentioned that some progressives blame conservative men of the Church, for instance Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Cardinal Robert Sarah, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, for elevating the issue of celibacy.
Murray set the record straight, showing that Pope Francis himself had first talked about an Amazon synod in reference to Bishop Fritz Lobinger, who had written a book about ordaining viri probati, proven men, as priests.
“The Pope then put it on the synod agenda. He made an advocate of that proposal to ordain married men, Cardinal Hummes from Brazil, the relator general. He was the one who was basically spearheading the document that came out of the synod,” Murray stated.
“To say that a controversy that should never have occurred, occurred because some recalcitrant people defended the tradition of the Church, that is just a basic debating tactic used to end the debate,” he added.
Royal continued in this vein by referring to comments made by Pope Francis to American bishops. The bishops were in Rome for their routine visit with the Holy Father, which happens every five years. “He was even denying that married priests were a major part of why he convened the synod in the first place,” according to Royal.
He asked, “If that was meant to deal with the Amazon, with certain elements that are having universal application, why not then hold that meeting in the Amazon itself?”
“Instead, they brought it to Rome, and they brought Pachamama, as well, to Rome. They created the expectation that what was being talked about there was inevitably going to have applications for the universal Church,” said Royal.
Royal suggested to take the document as written. “And we say, that’s as far as it goes, and no farther. All the rest is speculation, but it is not to be ignored that there is a possibility that something else can come back,” he clarified.
Father Murray talked about a distinction between moral and magisterial authority. The distinction had been introduced by Cardinal Michael Czerny during the presentation of “Querida Amazonia” in the Vatican.
Czerny, who served as special secretary for the Amazon synod, discussed the “status of the two documents” and where they “fit into the magisterium.” Regarding the final document, he said that “apart from formal magisterial authority,” the Pope’s “official presentation and encouragement” confer on it “a certain moral authority,” LifeSiteNews reported Wednesday.
Murray called that language “canonical fuzz talk.” The final document, he added, “is a bunch of suggestions by a synod. Does this leave a back door? Anything can happen.” At the same time, after two years of discussions about making celibacy optional, “there is no married clergy” contained in the new document.
Asked about the poetic language of “Querida Amazonia,” Robert Royal voiced his criticism of what he called “Amazonian Dreaming.” He said it is “not helpful for the kinds of problems that we’re facing.”
“The idea that somehow mysticism, or prophecy, or quoting poets … is somehow going to give us anything other than kind of a warm feeling about what we ought to do? It doesn’t seem to me that that goes very far,” Royal responded to Arroyo.
On the question of female deacons, Father Murray praised what Francis wrote in the Apostolic Exhortation. “To say women are underappreciated in the Church is an absolute falsehood, a calumny that’s used, basically, to get power,” the canon lawyer argued. He added, “People who want to un-Catholicize the Church are those who are proposing women’s ordination, and the Pope has said no.”
Regarding the Pachamama statues used during the Amazon synod, Murray said the Pope’s claim, according to which it is possible “to take up an indigenous symbol in some way, without necessarily considering it as idolatry,” might be possible, “but it’s not advisable.”
“Paganism is not a beneficent nature story in which people get along. Paganism is about fear of pagan gods who are vicious and who hurt people. You placate them, as the Aztecs did, by killing human beings. Paganism is about primal fears and anxieties that are not remedied because they don’t know the true God. It’s diabolical in origin and inspiration,” Father Murray explained unequivocally.
The papal posse touched on a number of other issues, for instance, the suspension of Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the speech by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, who said climate change could be considered “uniquely preeminent in Catholic social teaching,” and Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo giving communion to the president of Argentina and his mistress.
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lifesitenews--2020-02-15--Catholic priest diagnosed with brain tumor offers up suffering for abuse victims

February 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A Catholic priest who says he prayed that God would grant him some suffering that he could offer on behalf of victims of clerical sexual abuse is offering to pray for victims by name after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor .
Fr .
John Hollowell , who recently defended the Church ’ s practice of priestly celibacy on an episode of The Dr. Taylor Marshall Show , and who blogs regularly at On This Rock , announced yesterday that he has been diagnosed with a tumor and wrote that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advised that he will have to undergo surgery to remove the tumor , as well as possibly needing radiation and chemotherapy .
He says the prognosis is “ very good ” and that he is thankful that the potential radiation and chemotherapy “ are not the severe forms that certain cancers call for.
” Fr .
Hollowell explained in a blog post his wish to offer his recovery process for victims of clerical sexual abuse .
One request : When the scandals of 2018 broke out , most of you know that they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have most of the Church .
I prayed in 2018 that if there was some suffering I could undertake on behalf of all the victims , some cross I could carry , I would welcome that .
I feel like this is that cross , and I embrace it willingly .
I would love to have a list of victims of priestly abuse that I could pray for each day .
I would like to dedicate each day of this recovery/chemo/radiation to 5-10 victims , and I would like , if possible , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them know of my prayers for them .
IF YOU KNOW OF A PERSON OR YOU ARE A VICTIM YOURSELF , , please send me the name and , if possible , a mailing address so that I can send them a note , that would be much appreciated .
my email address is fatherjohnhollowell at gmail .
Fr .
Hollowell said he is “ very much at peace ” and assured the faithful of his ongoing prayers .
“ May Our Lady of Lourdes watch over and intercede for all those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
” he concluded .

February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic priest who says he prayed that God would grant him some suffering that he could offer on behalf of victims of clerical sexual abuse is offering to pray for victims by name after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Fr. John Hollowell, who recently defended the Church’s practice of priestly celibacy on an episode of The Dr. Taylor Marshall Show, and who blogs regularly at On This Rock, announced yesterday that he has been diagnosed with a tumor and wrote that he embraces the suffering willingly.
Friends, I have been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Prognosis is very good. In 2018 I asked, if it be God’s Will, that I might be given some small share of the Cross to carry for victims of priestly abuse. I embrace this willingly. More info: https://t.co/d7zMggpCeI — Fr. John Hollowell (@frjohnhollowell) February 13, 2020
Doctors have advised that he will have to undergo surgery to remove the tumor, as well as possibly needing radiation and chemotherapy. He says the prognosis is “very good” and that he is thankful that the potential radiation and chemotherapy “are not the severe forms that certain cancers call for.”
Fr. Hollowell explained in a blog post his wish to offer his recovery process for victims of clerical sexual abuse.
One request: When the scandals of 2018 broke out, most of you know that they have affected me deeply, as they have most of the Church. I prayed in 2018 that if there was some suffering I could undertake on behalf of all the victims, some cross I could carry, I would welcome that. I feel like this is that cross, and I embrace it willingly. I would love to have a list of victims of priestly abuse that I could pray for each day. I would like to dedicate each day of this recovery/chemo/radiation to 5-10 victims, and I would like, if possible, to even write them a note letting them know of my prayers for them. IF YOU KNOW OF A PERSON OR YOU ARE A VICTIM YOURSELF, with the victims permission , please send me the name and, if possible, a mailing address so that I can send them a note, that would be much appreciated. my email address is fatherjohnhollowell at gmail.
Fr. Hollowell said he is “very much at peace” and assured the faithful of his ongoing prayers. “May Our Lady of Lourdes watch over and intercede for all those who are sick or suffering in any way!” he concluded.
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lifesitenews--2020-02-15--Brazil president criticizes Pope Francis for claiming Amazon region belongs to whole world

February 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has seemingly criticized Pope Francis for asserting in his exhortation released this week that the Amazon region belongs to people other than the nations among which the territory is spread .
Speaking yesterday , Bolsonaro said : “ Pope Francis said yesterday the Amazon is his , the world ’ s , everyone ’ s .
Well , the pope may be Argentinian , but God is Brazilian.
” In section 5 of Querida Amazonia , published on Wednesday , Pope Francis stated that he was addressing his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the whole world.
” He wrote : “ I am doing so to help awaken their affection and concern for that land which is also ‘ ours , ’ and to invite them to value it and acknowledge it as a sacred mystery.
” Bolsonaro has spoken out forcefully in the past against suggestions that the Amazon belongs to the whole world .
Speaking at the United Nations in New York last year , he said : “ It is a fallacy to say that the Amazon is the heritage of humankind , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists , to say that our Amazonian forests are the lungs of the world.
” When Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 , Catholics and pro-life campaigners described him as someone who could turn Brazil “ from being a promoter of the Culture of Death to a defender of the Culture of Life.
” Since then , he has announced plans to revise textbooks in public schools in order to eliminate references to homosexuality and same-sex “ marriage , ” signed a proclamation consecrating Brazil to the Blessed Virgin Mary , and consistently opposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government minister for women , family , and human rghts has called on parents to consider telling their teenage children to wait until adulthood to have sex and has supported a chastity campaign sponsored by evangelical Christians .
Yesterday Pope Francis held an “ informal meeting ” with former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known as “ Lula.
” Lula was arrested in April of 2018 because of corruption charges and subsequently sentenced to twelve years ’ imprisonment .
However , he was released in November of last year .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ lack of evidence and that all appeals had not been exhausted prior to his imprisonment .
As president , Lula had strongly supported the cause of homosexuals and abortionists in Brazil .
In his last year in public office , he issued a legislative reform initiative securing abortion as a “ human right ” and imposing socialist and homosexual ideologies in schools and in the media .
He also intended to ban crucifixes from all official government buildings .
Lula spent millions of dollars for pro-homosexual causes and even introduced pro-homosexual educational materials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 12 years of age .
In 2018 , Pope Francis met with allies of Lula in Rome , and also wrote to him giving him his blessing and asking the politician to pray for him .
Pope Francis allegedly compared Lula ’ s sufferings in prison to the persecution of Jesus .
In section 9 of Querida Amazonia , Pope Francis writes : “ The colonizing interests that have continued to expand — legally and illegally — the timber and mining industries , and have expelled or marginalized the indigenous peoples , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are provoking a cry that rises up to heaven.
” Bolsonaro has supported mining projects on indigenous lands and accused those who attack his development projects of not being concerned with “ the indigenous human being , but with the mineral wealth and biodiversity in these areas.
” At the U.N. last year , he noted that there are 225 indigenous tribes in Brazil , and some reserves , notably the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol , have “ plenty of gold , diamond , uranium , niobium , and rare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are huge territories populated by few people .
“ Unfortunately , some people both inside and outside Brazil , supported by NGOs , have stubbornly insisted on treating and keeping our Indians as if they are real cavemen , ” Bolsonaro said .
Brazil ’ s native peoples are “ human beings ” who “ want and deserve to enjoy the same rights as all of us , ” he said .
They “ do not want to be poor , large landholders sitting on rich lands ... especially sitting on the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not known to have been critical of former president Lula , either for his support of abortion or for his support of pro-homosexual educational materials being used to teach young children in Brazilian schools .

'Pope Francis said yesterday the Amazon is his, the world's, everyone's. Well, the pope may be Argentinian, but God is Brazilian.'
February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has seemingly criticized Pope Francis for asserting in his exhortation released this week that the Amazon region belongs to people other than the nations among which the territory is spread.
Speaking yesterday, Bolsonaro said: “Pope Francis said yesterday the Amazon is his, the world’s, everyone’s. Well, the pope may be Argentinian, but God is Brazilian.”
In section 5 of Querida Amazonia, published on Wednesday, Pope Francis stated that he was addressing his exhortation on the Amazon region “to the whole world.” He wrote: “I am doing so to help awaken their affection and concern for that land which is also ‘ours,’ and to invite them to value it and acknowledge it as a sacred mystery.”
Bolsonaro has spoken out forcefully in the past against suggestions that the Amazon belongs to the whole world. Speaking at the United Nations in New York last year, he said: “It is a fallacy to say that the Amazon is the heritage of humankind, and a misconception, as confirmed by scientists, to say that our Amazonian forests are the lungs of the world.”
When Bolsonaro was elected in 2018, Catholics and pro-life campaigners described him as someone who could turn Brazil “from being a promoter of the Culture of Death to a defender of the Culture of Life.” Since then, he has announced plans to revise textbooks in public schools in order to eliminate references to homosexuality and same-sex “marriage,” signed a proclamation consecrating Brazil to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and consistently opposed socialism while promoting national sovereignty. His government minister for women, family, and human rghts has called on parents to consider telling their teenage children to wait until adulthood to have sex and has supported a chastity campaign sponsored by evangelical Christians.
Yesterday Pope Francis held an “informal meeting” with former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as “Lula.”
Lula was arrested in April of 2018 because of corruption charges and subsequently sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. However, he was released in November of last year. He claims he was arrested despite a lack of evidence and that all appeals had not been exhausted prior to his imprisonment.
As president, Lula had strongly supported the cause of homosexuals and abortionists in Brazil. In his last year in public office, he issued a legislative reform initiative securing abortion as a “human right” and imposing socialist and homosexual ideologies in schools and in the media. He also intended to ban crucifixes from all official government buildings. Lula spent millions of dollars for pro-homosexual causes and even introduced pro-homosexual educational materials for children as young as 7 to 12 years of age.
In 2018, Pope Francis met with allies of Lula in Rome,and also wrote to him giving him his blessing and asking the politician to pray for him. Pope Francis allegedly compared Lula’s sufferings in prison to the persecution of Jesus.
In section 9 of Querida Amazonia, Pope Francis writes: “The colonizing interests that have continued to expand — legally and illegally — the timber and mining industries, and have expelled or marginalized the indigenous peoples, the river people and those of African descent, are provoking a cry that rises up to heaven.”
Bolsonaro has supported mining projects on indigenous lands and accused those who attack his development projects of not being concerned with “the indigenous human being, but with the mineral wealth and biodiversity in these areas.”
At the U.N. last year, he noted that there are 225 indigenous tribes in Brazil, and some reserves, notably the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol, have “plenty of gold, diamond, uranium, niobium, and rare earths, among others,” and are huge territories populated by few people.
“Unfortunately, some people both inside and outside Brazil, supported by NGOs, have stubbornly insisted on treating and keeping our Indians as if they are real cavemen,” Bolsonaro said.
Brazil’s native peoples are “human beings” who “want and deserve to enjoy the same rights as all of us,” he said. They “do not want to be poor, large landholders sitting on rich lands … especially sitting on the world’s richest lands.”
Pope Francis is not known to have been critical of former president Lula, either for his support of abortion or for his support of pro-homosexual educational materials being used to teach young children in Brazilian schools.
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lifesitenews--2020-02-15--African president publicly rebukes Justin Trudeau for pushing ‘gay pride’ parades in Senegal

DAKAR , Senegal , February 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — The president of Senegal rebuffed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ’ s attempts to discuss decriminalizing homosexuality and promoting “ gay pride ” parades in the predominately Muslim West African country .
And President Macky Sall ’ s defense of his country ’ s culture and laws made front-page news in the Francophone country ’ s capital city of Dakar .
CTV correspondent Glen McGregor tweeted a photo of Le Soleil ’ s headline trumpeting Sall ’ s rebuke to Trudeau : “ Our society does not accept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minister told reporters at a Wednesday press conference that he had to raise the subject of Senegal ’ s criminalization of homosexuality with Sall because he was a “ great defender of human rights , ” according to Associated Press ( AP ) .
For his part , the Senegalese president said his country respected human rights , but that “ we ’ re comfortable with our laws , ” and he stressed there would be no change in legislation on homosexuality , AP reported .
“ We can not ask Senegal to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gay Pride , ” Sall said .
“ It is not possible .
Our society does not accept it.
” “ It is our way of living and being .
It has nothing to do with homophobia , ” he added .
Senegal is a “ moderate , predominantly Muslim nation where homosexuality is criminalized and punishable by up to five years in prison .
ProsecutionS are rare but discrimination in the country ’ s traditional communities runs deep , ” according to AP .
The country is considered “ one of Africa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has a tradition of stable governments and civilian rule , ” according to the BBC .
Trudeau ’ s eight-day tour of Africa ends Friday and was primarily focused on winning support for Canada ’ s bid for a non-voting seat on the U.N. Security Council .
Canada is vying with Ireland and Norway for the two vacant seats from the council ’ s Western group for 2021 to 2022 , AP reported .
Although Sall repudiated Trudeau ’ s homosexual advocacy , he told reporters his country backs Canada ’ s U.N. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s voice at the Security Council .
Canada is a country of diplomacy .
Canada is not difficult to support , ” the president said .
However , it remains the case that under Trudeau , Canada is committed to indefinitely bankrolling the global promotion of homosexuality and gender ideology .
Last February , the Liberals announced they would spend $ 30 million over the next five years , and after that , more than $ 10 million every year in perpetuity – or as long as they are in power – to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of international aid .
Trudeau is also committed to pushing abortion globally , with the Liberals earmarking a staggering $ 7.1 billion by 2030 to promote and provide abortion as part of international aid .
The 48-year-old father of three is known for his non-stop homosexual advocacy at home .
In 2016 , he was the first sitting prime minister to march in the infamously lewd Toronto Pride Parade and has marched in “ Pride ” parades every year thereafter .
In 2017 , Trudeau approved a $ 145 million dollar settlement to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against them in the past , made a tearful apology to these individuals in the House of Commons , promised $ 16 million to launch an LGBT propaganda campaign , ostensibly as reparation for historical wrongs to LGBT people , and vowed to “ stamp out ” alleged discrimination against homosexual persons .
The Liberals introduced a bill in 2016 to scrap Criminal Code Section 159 that prohibits anal sex for persons under age 18 unless within marriage that would have effectively lowered the age of consent for anal sex to 16 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Senate that would criminalize “ conversion therapy ” for minors and Trudeau ’ s mandate letter to the justice minister called for similar legislation .
His mandate letter to the minister of health asks her to “ implement a behaviour-based model of donation that eliminates the blood ban for men who have sex with other men .
”

The Senegalese president said ‘we’re comfortable with our laws’ and there’d be no change in legislation on homosexuality.
DAKAR, Senegal, February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The president of Senegal rebuffed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s attempts to discuss decriminalizing homosexuality and promoting “gay pride” parades in the predominately Muslim West African country.
And President Macky Sall’s defense of his country’s culture and laws made front-page news in the Francophone country’s capital city of Dakar.
CTV correspondent Glen McGregor tweeted a photo of Le Soleil’s headline trumpeting Sall’s rebuke to Trudeau: “Our society does not accept homosexuality.”
PMJT's press conference with Senegalese President Macky Sall yesterday makes front-page news in Dakar, over Sall's affirmation that he doesn't plan to legalize homosexuality. Sall also said Senegal would not accept “gay parades,” either. Trudeau did not respond. pic.twitter.com/MsJpO21e4Z — Glen McGregor (@glen_mcgregor) February 13, 2020
Canada’s Liberal prime minister told reporters at a Wednesday press conference that he had to raise the subject of Senegal’s criminalization of homosexuality with Sall because he was a “great defender of human rights,” according to Associated Press (AP).
For his part, the Senegalese president said his country respected human rights, but that “we’re comfortable with our laws,” and he stressed there would be no change in legislation on homosexuality, AP reported.
“We cannot ask Senegal to legalize homosexuality and organize tomorrow’s Gay Pride,” Sall said. “It is not possible. Our society does not accept it.”
“It is our way of living and being. It has nothing to do with homophobia,” he added.
Senegal is a “moderate, predominantly Muslim nation where homosexuality is criminalized and punishable by up to five years in prison. ProsecutionS are rare but discrimination in the country’s traditional communities runs deep,” according to AP.
The country is considered “one of Africa’s model democracies” and “has a tradition of stable governments and civilian rule,” according to the BBC.
Trudeau’s eight-day tour of Africa ends Friday and was primarily focused on winning support for Canada’s bid for a non-voting seat on the U.N. Security Council.
Canada is vying with Ireland and Norway for the two vacant seats from the council’s Western group for 2021 to 2022, AP reported.
Although Sall repudiated Trudeau’s homosexual advocacy, he told reporters his country backs Canada’s U.N. bid.
“We need Canada’s voice at the Security Council. Canada is a country of diplomacy. Canada is not difficult to support,” the president said.
However, it remains the case that under Trudeau, Canada is committed to indefinitely bankrolling the global promotion of homosexuality and gender ideology.
Last February, the Liberals announced they would spend $30 million over the next five years, and after that, more than $10 million every year in perpetuity – or as long as they are in power – to advance the LGBTQ agenda in as part of international aid.
Trudeau is also committed to pushing abortion globally, with the Liberals earmarking a staggering $7.1 billion by 2030 to promote and provide abortion as part of international aid.
The 48-year-old father of three is known for his non-stop homosexual advocacy at home.
In 2016, he was the first sitting prime minister to march in the infamously lewd Toronto Pride Parade and has marched in “Pride” parades every year thereafter.
In 2017, Trudeau approved a $145 million dollar settlement to LGBT Canadians who claimed the government discriminated against them in the past, made a tearful apology to these individuals in the House of Commons, promised $16 million to launch an LGBT propaganda campaign, ostensibly as reparation for historical wrongs to LGBT people, and vowed to “stamp out” alleged discrimination against homosexual persons.
In June 2019, the Liberals repealed Section 159 of the Criminal Code, which prohibited anal sex for individuals under age 18 (unless between husband and wife) under Bill C-75. This has effectively lowered the age of consent for anal sex from 18 years to 16 years.
The Liberals support a Bill S-202 currently in the Senate that would criminalize “conversion therapy” for minors and Trudeau’s mandate letter to the justice minister called for similar legislation.
His mandate letter to the minister of health asks her to “implement a behaviour-based model of donation that eliminates the blood ban for men who have sex with other men.”
Feb. 21 update: This report now provides more detailed information about Section 159 of the Criminal Code.
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lifesitenews--2020-02-15--Priest: Pope’s Amazon exhortation is ‘Trojan horse’ for female ministry, married priests

February 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Amazonia is known for its sometimes fairy tale–like landscape , which is often shrouded in deep fog .
What seems romantic at first glance tempts many to start dreaming .
But the panorama has a big shadow side .
That side is to be found everywhere where the cloudy haze blocks the full light .
Missionaries report that deadly dangers are difficult to recognize in this scenery .
So the fog often brings a deceptive situation .
When it dissolves the whole reality of the Amazon becomes visible .
The region recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Vatican .
Although the title of the text ( Querida Amazonia ) focuses on Amazonia , it claims to extend its dimensions to the whole world .
The river has never been wider .
A synod framed with pagan rituals and blasphemous idolatry was to be cast into a document , and the jubilant dance was to be continued .
The first statements were quickly made , most of which — partly out of haste and partly out of wishful thinking — got stuck to the first impression .
There were quite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forest for the trees .
That is to say , the external number of words and the choice of the words of substance have created an Amazonian fog .
To be more precise , there is something in the writing that at first could not be seen at all .
It says in the text : “ I will not go into all of the issues treated at length in the Final Document .
Nor do I claim to replace that text or to duplicate it ” ( no .
2 ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it becomes visible : the final document of the synod .
If an author does not wish to replace something , it logically means that he wants to leave it as it is .
This intention is reinforced with the following words : “ At the same time , I would like to officially present the Final Document , which sets forth the conclusions of the Synod ” ( no .
3 ) .
Connoisseurs of the scene will pay attention to the latest here .
This strategy seems familiar to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group Communio Veritatis pointed this out ( here is an English report on it ) at the time with its declaration “ To follow the Magisterium – to Overcome the Empty Teaching.
” At that time , it was a footnote ; today , it is a Trojan horse made of Amazon wood .
The procedure is similar .
What agenda does the Final Document of the synod have ready ?
We read of “ new ways ” for the sacramental and ministerial structure of the Church , “ especially ” with regard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made “ privileged actors.
” A person from the congregation could be entrusted with the “ responsibility for pastoral work ” — on a rotation basis .
A “ ministry ” for the “ female leader of a congregation ” should be institutionally recognized .
Men are also mentioned — married permanent deacons could be admitted to priestly ordination .
Querida Amazonia claims to want to proclaim Christ .
But which one is meant ?
The Eternal Son of God , made Man by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rose victoriously and ascended into Heaven ?
The only Savior , then , who testified , “ No one comes to the Father except through Me ” ( Jn .
14:6 ) ?
Then the signature under the document of Abu Dhabi , which says the pluralistic diversity of religions corresponds to the will of God , would have to be withdrawn even today .
In fact , however , this mother of heresies was continued in the Pachamama worship in the Vatican .
So what is the crucial point now ?
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prophecy , in which the perishable lie limps around , it is important not to be caught in the fog , but to preserve the purity of Faith and the clarity of thought .
Father Unterhalt is a pastor of the Archdiocese of Paderborn and is the speaker of the priestly group Communio Veritatis .

Amazonia is known for its sometimes fairy tale–like landscape, which is often shrouded in deep fog. Likewise with the pope's post-synodal text.
February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Amazonia is known for its sometimes fairy tale–like landscape, which is often shrouded in deep fog. What seems romantic at first glance tempts many to start dreaming. But the panorama has a big shadow side. That side is to be found everywhere where the cloudy haze blocks the full light. Missionaries report that deadly dangers are difficult to recognize in this scenery. So the fog often brings a deceptive situation. When it dissolves the whole reality of the Amazon becomes visible.
The region recently received much attention through a document from the Vatican.
Although the title of the text (Querida Amazonia) focuses on Amazonia, it claims to extend its dimensions to the whole world. The river has never been wider. A synod framed with pagan rituals and blasphemous idolatry was to be cast into a document, and the jubilant dance was to be continued.
The first statements were quickly made, most of which — partly out of haste and partly out of wishful thinking — got stuck to the first impression. There were quite a few who did not see the forest for the trees. That is to say, the external number of words and the choice of the words of substance have created an Amazonian fog. To be more precise, there is something in the writing that at first could not be seen at all.
It says in the text: “I will not go into all of the issues treated at length in the Final Document. Nor do I claim to replace that text or to duplicate it” (no. 2).
Thus, after the fog has lifted, it becomes visible: the final document of the synod.
If an author does not wish to replace something, it logically means that he wants to leave it as it is. This intention is reinforced with the following words: “At the same time, I would like to officially present the Final Document, which sets forth the conclusions of the Synod” (no. 3).
Connoisseurs of the scene will pay attention to the latest here. This strategy seems familiar to the one of Amoris Laetitia. The priestly group Communio Veritatis pointed this out (here is an English report on it) at the time with its declaration “To follow the Magisterium – to Overcome the Empty Teaching.” At that time, it was a footnote; today, it is a Trojan horse made of Amazon wood. The procedure is similar.
What agenda does the Final Document of the synod have ready?
We read of “new ways” for the sacramental and ministerial structure of the Church, “especially” with regard to women. Laypeople are to be made “privileged actors.” A person from the congregation could be entrusted with the “responsibility for pastoral work” — on a rotation basis. A “ministry” for the “female leader of a congregation” should be institutionally recognized. Men are also mentioned — married permanent deacons could be admitted to priestly ordination.
Querida Amazonia claims to want to proclaim Christ. But which one is meant? The Eternal Son of God, made Man by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, who after His sacrificial death on the cross rose victoriously and ascended into Heaven? The only Savior, then, who testified, “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn. 14:6)? Then the signature under the document of Abu Dhabi, which says the pluralistic diversity of religions corresponds to the will of God, would have to be withdrawn even today. In fact, however, this mother of heresies was continued in the Pachamama worship in the Vatican.
So what is the crucial point now?
In the face of the age of false prophecy, in which the perishable lie limps around, it is important not to be caught in the fog, but to preserve the purity of Faith and the clarity of thought.
Father Unterhalt is a pastor of the Archdiocese of Paderborn and is the speaker of the priestly group Communio Veritatis.
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lifesitenews--2020-02-15--Vatican urged to partner with top population controllers on pope’s Global Education Pact

ROME , February 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — American economist and population control proponent Jeffrey Sachs has announced that potential funding partners for Pope Francis ’ s May 2020 Global Education Pact to create a “ new humanism ” include U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates , China ’ s wealthiest business magnate , UNESCO and other United Nations agencies , and the Islamic Development Bank .
A key means of population control for Sachs and several potential funders is education .
It is also the preferred method of population control for Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo , chancellor of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made .
Speaking at a Vatican workshop on the Global Education Pact hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences , on February 6–7 , Sachs said he had “ spoken with some of the world ’ s wealthiest people ” and is confident that an estimated $ 26-billion-a-year education fund can be secured .
“ Here is where we ’ re going to get the funds , ” he told invited guests , as he presented a slide of “ Partners for the Global Pact for Education and a New Fund for Education.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ pontifical academy conferences and an adviser to Pope Francis on sustainable development , said he had “ recently ” spoken with American , Chinese , and Indian billionaire business magnates Bill Gates , Jack Ma , and Mukesh Ambani about the project and had also visited the Islamic Development Bank .
He also assured participants at the February 6–7 “ Workshop on Education : the Global Compact ” that the managing director of the International Monetary Fund has expressed “ complete commitment ” to the agenda , that Global Citizens NGO for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ famous rock stars in the world and some of the most famous performing artists , ” and that Greta Thunberg and other young people are “ ready to join.
” In his presentation , Jeffrey Sachs said $ 26 billion devoted to Africa would “ put all African children into school up through the secondary level.
” “ Pope Francis is our greatest mobilizer for decency in the world , and when Pope Francis calls for a Global Compact for Education , let us use the occasion to mobilize the basic financing so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a great idea , ” he exhorted attendees .
Sachs , who has become a fixture at Pontifical Academy of Sciences meetings , said : “ I believe that if we recommend to Pope Francis , that with his leadership which is unique in the world , we will go out to find these funds , each of us will go knock on the door of our favorite billionaire , of our next door neighbors , people who can make a difference , we will get this done , even by May.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world ’ s wealthiest ” want to be in Rome for the May 2020 Global Education Pact event .
“ But I think we need clarity that part of the goal is not only the wonderful aim of the improved content , but actually making sure that children have a school room and a seat so that they can benefit from that content.
” While the goal of providing quality education for children across the world is a noble one , often there are strings attached .
Jeffrey Sachs has long advocated reducing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by educating girls about “ sexual and reproductive health , and about the options for contraception.
” The “ causal link ” between education and population control , in fact , was raised at the two-day Pontifical Academy of Sciences workshop .
In a talk on the “ interplay of education with population health and demographics , ” Harvard professor of economics and demography David E. Bloom highlighted as something positive that education “ reduces fertility and population growth rates.
” Educational development , Bloom suggested , “ is probably best approached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , population , and education policies — especially those that promote child health such as prenatal care , childhood vaccination , and investments in school water and sanitation infrastructure.
” In his remarks at the Vatican , Bloom left out his long-held belief that educational development also involves providing , in his own words , “ increased access to family planning services ” and “ addressing the considerable unmet need for contraception.
” Writing in the New York Times in 2011 , Bloom wrote that the “ daunting challenge ” of population growth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , African women have 4.5 children ) also involves “ moderating the high rates of desired fertility ” seen on much of the continent .
This , the Harvard professor of economics said , “ will naturally occur as the status and education of women improve and couples increasingly recognize that they will be better off with smaller families.
” Jeffrey Sachs ’ s February 6 announcement that U.S. billionaire Bill Gates is a potential funding partner for Pope Francis ’ s Global Education Pact coincided with the February 10 release of an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gates Foundation , announcing that “ the climate crisis and gender equality ” have emerged as priorities for their future philanthropic giving .
Melinda Gates says in the letter that she wants to focus efforts particularly on gender equality , including “ reproductive rights.
” “ My journey as a public advocate began with family planning , ” she writes .
“ There are over 200 million women in developing countries who do not want to get pregnant but are not using modern contraceptives.
” Since then , she said her foundation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has stepped up “ our commitments to family planning ” while also developing “ strategies that prioritize gender equality.
” Earlier this month , Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register reported that the Vatican has been “ drawing closer ” to the Gates Foundation in recent months .
Reliable sources told the Register that last November , Pope Francis had received Melinda Gates in an unpublicized private audience .
The danger of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for African women and children is not unknown .
In a 2018 interview , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ author of Target Africa , noted that Pope Francis has spoken out against the growing phenomenon of Western countries , entities , and foundations coming to Africa with “ aid ” and “ gifts ” with “ strings attached.
” Ekeocha , a biomedical scientist born in Nigeria and currently residing in the UK , explained : Ekeocha said the Church is “ right in the heart of the storm.
” In the interview ( and Target Africa ) she identifies the Gates Foundation as one of the principal foundations that presents itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ partner with the Church , because the Church has such a great network everywhere across the continent of Africa.
” She added : “ The Church then sees contraception programs , condom programs being targeted towards children , and the bishops speak out and call it what it is : cultural imperialism or ideological neo-colonialism.
” “ The Church has to be the line of defense against them , ” the pro-life scientist said .
In 2012 , Ekeocha wrote an open letter to Melinda Gates in response to her plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her “ legacy ” — i.e.
, $ 5 billion in pledges — in 69 of the poorest countries in the world , most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa , in order to ensure that the African woman is less fertile .
“ An African Woman ’ s Open Letter to Melinda Gates ” may be read in full on the website of the Pontifical Council for the Laity .
During the morning session , Pontifical Academy of Sciences workshop on February 6 ( before Sachs ’ s announcement ) , LifeSite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the Congregation for Catholic Education , whom Pope Francis has tasked with overseeing the Global Education Compact .
Asked who would be paying for the event , Msgr .
Zani replied : “ We are looking for foundations that will give us a hand .
The Vatican hardly has anything ; we are looking for outside help.
” After Sachs ’ s talk that afternoon , LifeSite sat down with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences ’ chancellor , Argentine bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo .
Bishop Sánchez told LifeSite that the February 6–7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ request by the Congregation for Catholic Education and was a sort of advisory meeting for the content of the Global Education Pact .
He said the academy is “ very happy ” that compulsory education is becoming more widespread across the globe , but “ as Jeffrey Sachs explained , the great problem is the money .
We don ’ t have the money.
” Bishop Sánchez said the people and organizations listed by Jeffrey Sachs were potential collaborators in the educational pact but added that “ this is nothing in reality for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We have 1 billion people without education , and education is the key to the development of people and of the person , ” he said .
Asked if the Global Education Pact is therefore a way to mobilize money in order to direct it toward education , Bishop Sánchez replied : “ This is part of it .
The other question is : what kind of education ?
” The Argentine prelate said Pope Francis believes that , when it comes to education , “ we need the language of the mind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ values , the language of the heart.
” It is very important , Sánchez said , to have education that puts at the center the human person , the dignity of the human person , ” as well as “ the question of gender , the question of woman.
” He said the content of the Global Education Pact will focus particularly on women , in part with a view to combatting new forms of slavery and human-trafficking .
The academy chancellor also said he hopes it will focus on the “ truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ climate change ” and “ evolution.
” Significantly , Sánchez said the relationship between the Global Education Pact and the realization of the 2030 Education SDG ( sustainable development goals ) is “ very close ” but added that “ the pope wants to put more emphasis on the question of values and of ethics , and the question of woman .
In this sense , there are some differences.
” Pressing the pontifical academy chancellor on those differences , LifeSite pointed out that while the SDGs have some worthy targets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health , and education are at odds with the Church ’ s teaching .
In particular , it was pointed out to him that the United Nations would like to teach African girls how to use contraception and advise them to have an abortion if they get pregnant and don ’ t want to keep their babies .
In view of this , and considering Scripture ’ s teaching about the battle between the world and the Church , LifeSite asked Bishop Sánchez how the Church can feasibly collaborate with the U.N. on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ typical of the American people , especially the right wing , to exaggerate the idea that abortion is included in these [ SDG ] goals , and it ’ s not true , ” Bishop Sánchez retorted .
LifeSite then put it to him that those organizations Sachs is promoting as funding partners for the pact are the very same that Ekeocha and others are battling because they promote contraception and abortion to people in Africa against their wishes .
Bishop Sánchez responded : “ Yes , but this depends on the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United Nations ; this is the question .
The United Nations is not in favor of abortion .
Maybe some of the bureaucrats , but it ’ s not in the documents .
The documents don ’ t speak about abortion.
” Presented with the fact that the United Nations uses the language of “ reproductive rights ” and “ reproductive health ” to signify contraception and abortion , the bishop denied it .
“ This is a typical question [ . ]
...
They don ’ t say this , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even explicitly .
The U.N. ’ s SDG 3 on Health targets “ expanding access to modern contraceptive methods ” by 2030 as “ essential to ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services.
” The SDG on Gender Euality ( 5.6.1 ) seeks by 2030 to “ ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights , ” including “ contraceptive use ” and “ health care ” — a term the International Planned Parenthood Federation often uses to describe abortion .
And the SDG on Education ( 4.7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ learners acquire the knowledge and skills to promote ... sustainable lifestyles [ and ] gender equality.
” By the standards of economists like Sachs and Bloom , reducing the fertility of African women is essential to meeting this goal .
“ But ‘ reproductive rights ’ is the family for the Church ’ s interpretation , ” Bishop Sánchez insisted .
“ We can have one interpretation and not the other interpretation.
” Suggesting the importance of having one ’ s terms “ very clear , ” we asked how the Church will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people and organizations on Sachs ’ s list will not lead to African girls being taught about contraception and abortion .
Bishop Sánchez answered by recalling a meeting he had with a Catholic priest in 1971 at the Lateran University .
Sánchez said the priest told him that “ the solution to the question of reproduction is a woman ’ s need to study , because when a woman studies she will have a critical spirit , and when she marries she will be more intelligent and won ’ t marry the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after she can have one or two children but not more.
” “ That is the truth , ” the bishop said , chuckling .
LifeSite pressed the bishop on the problem of workshop attendees such as David Bloom stressing the “ causal link ” between education and population control , particularly in light of Jeffrey Sachs ’ s writing and statements on the need to reduce fertility in Africa .
“ Not here , ” Bishop Sánchez shot back regarding Sachs ’ s statements .
The academy chancellor said claims that Sachs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ another myth.
” In 2011 , Sachs told CNN that education is one of the best means to achieve “ voluntary ” decreased fertility .
And in his 2015 work , The Age of Sustainable Development , he advocated educating girls in Sub-Saharan Africa “ about sexual and reproductive health , and about the options for contraception.
” When questioned on the wisdom of entering into an educational pact with people whose SDG vision includes flooding Africans with contraception and lobbying for legal abortion , Bishop Sánchez retorted that “ the Church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Francis agrees only “ in part ” with the SDG education goal , because “ there is nothing about values , ” Bishop Sánchez said , who added that he has “ criticized ” Jeffrey Sachs “ many times ” for “ not putting the family at the center ” of his goals .
Asked how the Vatican will guarantee in the Global Education Pact that African girls are taught about the true meaning of family and not contraception , Bishop Sánchez said the “ agreement ” is meant “ to guarantee these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the “ difference between the agreement of the Pope and the agreement of the United Nations.
” Asked if he thought Melinda Gates would agree with this , Bishop Sánchez replied “ no.
” “ We don ’ t have an agreement with Melinda Gates , ” he said .
“ This is the reason we don ’ t have the money of these people.
” When it was pointed out that that Jeffrey Sachs had the Gates Foundation and other pro-contraception and pro-abortion organizations on the list of potential funders for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chancellor claimed that these partners were “ for [ Sachs ’ s ] goals.
” When it was pointed out that Sachs labeled his list “ Partners for the Global Pact for Education and a New Fund for Education , ” Bishop Sánchez replied : “ I don ’ t know , but it ’ s clear that the pope is against this ; the pope has said this , many times.
” “ Many Americans criticize us for the same things .
So why would the pope collaborate with these people ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to present the perspective of many readers , this correspondent replied : “ So , what is the solution for you , not to collaborate on anything ?
” Bishop Sánchez asked .
When it was put to him that the solution is clarity and that practicing Catholics see a battle raging over the family , he replied : “ Sorry , what is the solution , not to speak with these people ?
To say that we don ’ t want to speak with you , that you are completely in ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” When it was reiterated to him that the Church and the Pontifical Academy need clarity , he insisted : “ It ’ s very clear , there is no ambiguity .
Jeffrey Sachs knows perfectly our position .
Perfectly .
”

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ROME, February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — American economist and population control proponent Jeffrey Sachs has announced that potential funding partners for Pope Francis’s May 2020 Global Education Pact to create a “new humanism” include U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, China’s wealthiest business magnate, UNESCO and other United Nations agencies, and the Islamic Development Bank.
A key means of population control for Sachs and several potential funders is education. It is also the preferred method of population control for Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican academy where the announcement was made.
Speaking at a Vatican workshop on the Global Education Pact hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, on February 6–7, Sachs said he had “spoken with some of the world’s wealthiest people” and is confident that an estimated $26-billion-a-year education fund can be secured.
“Here is where we’re going to get the funds,” he told invited guests, as he presented a slide of “Partners for the Global Pact for Education and a New Fund for Education.”
The list includes:
Donor governments
European Union
Major philanthropists (Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani)
Islamic Development Bank
UNESCO, UNICEF, other U.N. Agencies
International Monetary Fund
U.N. Secretary-General’s SGD Advocates
Global Citizens NGO
Youth for the Future
Sachs, a regular participant in pontifical academy conferences and an adviser to Pope Francis on sustainable development, said he had “recently” spoken with American, Chinese, and Indian billionaire business magnates Bill Gates, Jack Ma, and Mukesh Ambani about the project and had also visited the Islamic Development Bank.
He also assured participants at the February 6–7 “Workshop on Education: the Global Compact” that the managing director of the International Monetary Fund has expressed “complete commitment” to the agenda, that Global Citizens NGO for the SDGs includes “many of the most famous rock stars in the world and some of the most famous performing artists,” and that Greta Thunberg and other young people are “ready to join.”
Education as Population Control
In his presentation, Jeffrey Sachs said $26 billion devoted to Africa would “put all African children into school up through the secondary level.”
“Pope Francis is our greatest mobilizer for decency in the world, and when Pope Francis calls for a Global Compact for Education, let us use the occasion to mobilize the basic financing so that this is real, not only a great idea,” he exhorted attendees.
Sachs, who has become a fixture at Pontifical Academy of Sciences meetings, said: “I believe that if we recommend to Pope Francis, that with his leadership which is unique in the world, we will go out to find these funds, each of us will go knock on the door of our favorite billionaire, of our next door neighbors, people who can make a difference, we will get this done, even by May.”
He said that “some of the world’s wealthiest” want to be in Rome for the May 2020 Global Education Pact event. “But I think we need clarity that part of the goal is not only the wonderful aim of the improved content, but actually making sure that children have a school room and a seat so that they can benefit from that content.”
While the goal of providing quality education for children across the world is a noble one, often there are strings attached.
Jeffrey Sachs has long advocated reducing the population, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, by educating girls about “sexual and reproductive health, and about the options for contraception.”
The “causal link” between education and population control, in fact, was raised at the two-day Pontifical Academy of Sciences workshop.
In a talk on the “interplay of education with population health and demographics,” Harvard professor of economics and demography David E. Bloom highlighted as something positive that education “reduces fertility and population growth rates.”
Educational development, Bloom suggested, “is probably best approached multi-sectorally, through a blend of health, population, and education policies — especially those that promote child health such as prenatal care, childhood vaccination, and investments in school water and sanitation infrastructure.”
In his remarks at the Vatican, Bloom left out his long-held belief that educational development also involves providing, in his own words, “increased access to family planning services” and “addressing the considerable unmet need for contraception.”
Writing in the New York Times in 2011, Bloom wrote that the “daunting challenge” of population growth in Africa (according to his estimates, African women have 4.5 children) also involves “moderating the high rates of desired fertility” seen on much of the continent. This, the Harvard professor of economics said, “will naturally occur as the status and education of women improve and couples increasingly recognize that they will be better off with smaller families.”
“Drawing closer” to the Gates Foundation
Jeffrey Sachs’s February 6 announcement that U.S. billionaire Bill Gates is a potential funding partner for Pope Francis’s Global Education Pact coincided with the February 10 release of an annual letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, announcing that “the climate crisis and gender equality” have emerged as priorities for their future philanthropic giving.
Melinda Gates says in the letter that she wants to focus efforts particularly on gender equality, including “reproductive rights.” “My journey as a public advocate began with family planning,” she writes. “There are over 200 million women in developing countries who do not want to get pregnant but are not using modern contraceptives.”
Since then, she said her foundation, which works closely with Jeffrey Sachs, has stepped up “our commitments to family planning” while also developing “strategies that prioritize gender equality.”
Earlier this month, Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register reported that the Vatican has been “drawing closer” to the Gates Foundation in recent months. Reliable sources told the Register that last November, Pope Francis had received Melinda Gates in an unpublicized private audience.
The danger of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for African women and children is not unknown.
In a 2018 interview, Obianuju Ekeocha, a pro-life activist and author of Target Africa, noted that Pope Francis has spoken out against the growing phenomenon of Western countries, entities, and foundations coming to Africa with “aid” and “gifts” with “strings attached.”
Ekeocha, a biomedical scientist born in Nigeria and currently residing in the UK, explained:
They are moving through their humanitarian aid projects, giving us gifts, and at the same time trying to get us to align with them ideologically on issues that are quite important for Africans: issues like abortion, contraception, population control, what happens with youth and human sexuality, sexuality identity. … They are bringing it in as part of their foreign aid projects, and that’s actually quite dangerous for us because we are … on the receiving end. Not only are we receiving the money, but we are receiving all of the things that come with it, which is now threatening to erode our own cultural views and values.
Ekeocha said the Church is “right in the heart of the storm.”
In the interview (and Target Africa) she identifies the Gates Foundation as one of the principal foundations that presents itself as a “friend” and tries to “partner with the Church, because the Church has such a great network everywhere across the continent of Africa.”
She added: “The Church then sees contraception programs, condom programs being targeted towards children, and the bishops speak out and call it what it is: cultural imperialism or ideological neo-colonialism.”
“The Church has to be the line of defense against them,” the pro-life scientist said.
In 2012, Ekeocha wrote an open letter to Melinda Gates in response to her plan and promise to implant the seeds of her “legacy” — i.e., $5 billion in pledges — in 69 of the poorest countries in the world, most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, in order to ensure that the African woman is less fertile.
“An African Woman’s Open Letter to Melinda Gates” may be read in full on the website of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
“We don’t have the money”
During the morning session, Pontifical Academy of Sciences workshop on February 6 (before Sachs’s announcement), LifeSite spoke with Monsignor Vincenzo Zani, secretary for the Congregation for Catholic Education, whom Pope Francis has tasked with overseeing the Global Education Compact.
Asked who would be paying for the event, Msgr. Zani replied: “We are looking for foundations that will give us a hand. The Vatican hardly has anything; we are looking for outside help.”
After Sachs’s talk that afternoon, LifeSite sat down with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences’ chancellor, Argentine bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo.
Bishop Sánchez told LifeSite that the February 6–7 workshop was organized in response to a request by the Congregation for Catholic Education and was a sort of advisory meeting for the content of the Global Education Pact.
He said the academy is “very happy” that compulsory education is becoming more widespread across the globe, but “as Jeffrey Sachs explained, the great problem is the money. We don’t have the money.”
Bishop Sánchez said the people and organizations listed by Jeffrey Sachs were potential collaborators in the educational pact but added that “this is nothing in reality for people who have real money.”
“We have 1 billion people without education, and education is the key to the development of people and of the person,” he said.
Asked if the Global Education Pact is therefore a way to mobilize money in order to direct it toward education, Bishop Sánchez replied: “This is part of it. The other question is: what kind of education?”
The Argentine prelate said Pope Francis believes that, when it comes to education, “we need the language of the mind” but also “language of the values, the language of the heart.” It is very important, Sánchez said, to have education that puts at the center the human person, the dignity of the human person,” as well as “the question of gender, the question of woman.”
He said the content of the Global Education Pact will focus particularly on women, in part with a view to combatting new forms of slavery and human-trafficking. The academy chancellor also said he hopes it will focus on the “truth that comes from the sciences” such as “climate change” and “evolution.”
Significantly, Sánchez said the relationship between the Global Education Pact and the realization of the 2030 Education SDG (sustainable development goals) is “very close” but added that “the pope wants to put more emphasis on the question of values and of ethics, and the question of woman. In this sense, there are some differences.”
Pressing the pontifical academy chancellor on those differences, LifeSite pointed out that while the SDGs have some worthy targets, the goals regarding gender equality, health, and education are at odds with the Church’s teaching.
In particular, it was pointed out to him that the United Nations would like to teach African girls how to use contraception and advise them to have an abortion if they get pregnant and don’t want to keep their babies. In view of this, and considering Scripture’s teaching about the battle between the world and the Church, LifeSite asked Bishop Sánchez how the Church can feasibly collaborate with the U.N. on this issue.
“That it is typical of the American people, especially the right wing, to exaggerate the idea that abortion is included in these [SDG] goals, and it’s not true,” Bishop Sánchez retorted.
LifeSite then put it to him that those organizations Sachs is promoting as funding partners for the pact are the very same that Ekeocha and others are battling because they promote contraception and abortion to people in Africa against their wishes.
Bishop Sánchez responded: “Yes, but this depends on the country. It doesn’t depend on the United Nations; this is the question. The United Nations is not in favor of abortion. Maybe some of the bureaucrats, but it’s not in the documents. The documents don’t speak about abortion.”
Presented with the fact that the United Nations uses the language of “reproductive rights” and “reproductive health” to signify contraception and abortion, the bishop denied it.
“This is a typical question[.] … They don’t say this,” he said.
But they do — even explicitly. The U.N.’s SDG 3 on Health targets “expanding access to modern contraceptive methods” by 2030 as “essential to ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services.”
The SDG on Gender Euality (5.6.1) seeks by 2030 to “ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights,” including “contraceptive use” and “health care” — a term the International Planned Parenthood Federation often uses to describe abortion.
And the SDG on Education (4.7) seeks to guarantee that “all learners acquire the knowledge and skills to promote … sustainable lifestyles [and] gender equality.” By the standards of economists like Sachs and Bloom, reducing the fertility of African women is essential to meeting this goal.
“But ‘reproductive rights’ is the family for the Church’s interpretation,” Bishop Sánchez insisted. “We can have one interpretation and not the other interpretation.”
Suggesting the importance of having one’s terms “very clear,” we asked how the Church will guarantee that an education pact funded by the people and organizations on Sachs’s list will not lead to African girls being taught about contraception and abortion.
Bishop Sánchez answered by recalling a meeting he had with a Catholic priest in 1971 at the Lateran University. Sánchez said the priest told him that “the solution to the question of reproduction is a woman’s need to study, because when a woman studies she will have a critical spirit, and when she marries she will be more intelligent and won’t marry the first one who comes along. And after she can have one or two children but not more.”
“That is the truth,” the bishop said, chuckling.
LifeSite pressed the bishop on the problem of workshop attendees such as David Bloom stressing the “causal link” between education and population control, particularly in light of Jeffrey Sachs’s writing and statements on the need to reduce fertility in Africa.
“Not here,” Bishop Sánchez shot back regarding Sachs’s statements. The academy chancellor said claims that Sachs supports contraception and abortion in Africa are “another myth.”
In 2011, Sachs told CNN that education is one of the best means to achieve “voluntary” decreased fertility. And in his 2015 work, The Age of Sustainable Development, he advocated educating girls in Sub-Saharan Africa “about sexual and reproductive health, and about the options for contraception.”
When questioned on the wisdom of entering into an educational pact with people whose SDG vision includes flooding Africans with contraception and lobbying for legal abortion, Bishop Sánchez retorted that “the Church has a completely different policy.”
Pope Francis agrees only “in part” with the SDG education goal, because “there is nothing about values,” Bishop Sánchez said, who added that he has “criticized” Jeffrey Sachs “many times” for “not putting the family at the center” of his goals.
Asked how the Vatican will guarantee in the Global Education Pact that African girls are taught about the true meaning of family and not contraception, Bishop Sánchez said the “agreement” is meant “to guarantee these things.” This, he said, is the “difference between the agreement of the Pope and the agreement of the United Nations.”
Asked if he thought Melinda Gates would agree with this, Bishop Sánchez replied “no.”
“We don’t have an agreement with Melinda Gates,” he said. “This is the reason we don’t have the money of these people.”
When it was pointed out that that Jeffrey Sachs had the Gates Foundation and other pro-contraception and pro-abortion organizations on the list of potential funders for the Global Education Pact, the academy chancellor claimed that these partners were “for [Sachs’s] goals.”
When it was pointed out that Sachs labeled his list “Partners for the Global Pact for Education and a New Fund for Education,” Bishop Sánchez replied: “I don’t know, but it’s clear that the pope is against this; the pope has said this, many times.”
“Many Americans criticize us for the same things. So why would the pope collaborate with these people?” the perplexed bishop asked.
Seeking to present the perspective of many readers, this correspondent replied:
I don’t know. We see that there is an increasing cooperation between the United Nations and the Vatican. St. Paul speaks about the enmity between the Church and the world. The values of the Catholic Church often do not align with the values of these supranational bodies, like the United Nations. We don’t want to give our children’s minds over to the United Nations to educate our children. Because what will they teach them? If I had a little girl, she would be taught that when she’s 13 or 14 that she can be on contraception. And she won’t be taught about the family. She’ll be taught that she has her “rights.”
“So, what is the solution for you, not to collaborate on anything?” Bishop Sánchez asked.
When it was put to him that the solution is clarity and that practicing Catholics see a battle raging over the family, he replied: “Sorry, what is the solution, not to speak with these people? To say that we don’t want to speak with you, that you are completely in (the hands of) the devil?”
When it was reiterated to him that the Church and the Pontifical Academy need clarity, he insisted: “It’s very clear, there is no ambiguity. Jeffrey Sachs knows perfectly our position. Perfectly.”
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lifesitenews--2020-02-14--German Catholic dioceses to embark on lenten fast to save planet from ‘climate change’

February 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Several Catholic dioceses in Germany are participating in a campaign that encourages fasting in order to protect the planet from “ climate change.
” In a brochure created by the campaign “ Klimafasten , ” the organizers express their solidarity with the demands made by “ Fridays for Future.
” While mainly sustained by various Protestant communities in Germany , four Catholic dioceses have joined the campaign .
Apart from the Archdiocese of Berlin , this includes the dioceses of Eichstätt , Hildesheim , and Rottenburg-Stuttgart .
Last year , more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doubt on climate alarmism and the claim that man-made carbon emissions are causing changes to the climate .
The fast to protect the planet would take place during Lent .
In German , the connection between Lent ( “ Fastenzeit ” ) and fasting ( “ fasten ” ) is evident from the words themselves .
“ An ‘ ethics of enough , ’ which the churches have long been demanding , is becoming increasingly plausible and is urgently needed .
The climate fasting campaign offers various suggestions for practicing such an ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ensuring that everyone – the present generation as well as future generations – has enough to live on .
But it is also about ensuring that those who have too much can let that be enough , ” the organizers explain .
“ With this Lenten campaign , we place ourselves in the Christian tradition , which commemorates the suffering in the time before Easter and consciously practices renunciation in order to become free for new thoughts and different behavior .
Climate change is causing suffering because it endangers the lives of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate requires renunciation .
However , it is always a gain if we succeed , alone or in the community , in making life more climate-friendly , ” states the brochure about the campaign , which is set to begin on Ash Wednesday .
The Catholic understanding of penance , of which fasting is a part , is , however , different from the climate-change fasting program .
The Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of penances as helping to configure us to Christ , “ who alone expiated our sins once for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ co-heirs with the risen Christ , ‘ provided we suffer with him.
’ ” According to “ Klimafasten , ” the first week of Lent will focus on the ecological footprint .
Based on a kind of quiz , participants are able to determine how conscious they are of the effect their lifestyle has on the environment .
One of the statements within the quiz says , “ For distances under 3 kilometers ( a little less than 2 miles ) , I walk or use my bicycle.
” The participant can choose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , often ( 3 ) , rarely ( 6 ) , or never ( 9 ) .
” The lower the score , the better the ecological footprint .
The remaining weeks , then , focus on doing better in various areas of life , beginning with power usage .
Suggestions include getting rid of one unnecessary electronic device , lowering the room temperature , and checking if switching to a provider of sustainably sourced power might be an option .
The third week looks at food items .
“ In the supermarket @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a reduced price which have an expired best-before date , ” one suggestion reads .
This is followed by developing a strategy for using less information technology , for instance by using a smartphone that has room for two SIM cards instead of one .
This would enable the participant in fasting to protect the planet from climate change to get rid of the phone used either for business or privately .
Ironically , another suggestion for week four seemingly contradicts this .
“ I use my equipment as long as possible and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upgrade it , ” it says .
The fifth week studies car usage and asks , “ Where and how can I travel in a way friendly to the climate for my next vacation ?
” Week six focuses on the use of plastic in everyday life .
The brochure produced by “ Klimafasten ” suggests using cotton bags for groceries instead of plastic ones .
Another suggestions is to go on a walk and pick up plastic trash along the way .
The last week says , “ For Easter , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gives us strength for change and reminds us that we can become a blessing to our fellow creatures , people , animals and plants.
” Among other things , the brochure encourages the participants to tell others about their experiences .
Conservative German newspaper Junge Freiheit reported on various ideas for worship services proposed by “ Klimafasten.
” However , these ideas would most likely apply only to Protestant communities .
“ On the website of the campaign , there are also ‘ theological impulses ’ for ‘ climate fasting.
’ … Among @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distribute pens and paper so that every church member can write down ‘ ideas for a climate-friendly church.
’ The sheets of paper can then be attached to a picture of a tree that has previously been hung on a pin board .
The ‘ Tree of Life ’ by Gustav Klimt , for example , would be suitable , ” the German newspaper wrote .

Catholics have traditionally fasted during Lent as an aid to configuring themselves more to Christ.
February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Several Catholic dioceses in Germany are participating in a campaign that encourages fasting in order to protect the planet from “climate change.” In a brochure created by the campaign “Klimafasten,” the organizers express their solidarity with the demands made by “Fridays for Future.”
While mainly sustained by various Protestant communities in Germany, four Catholic dioceses have joined the campaign. Apart from the Archdiocese of Berlin, this includes the dioceses of Eichstätt, Hildesheim, and Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
Last year, more than 440 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on climate alarmism and the claim that man-made carbon emissions are causing changes to the climate.
The fast to protect the planet would take place during Lent. In German, the connection between Lent (“Fastenzeit”) and fasting (“fasten”) is evident from the words themselves.
“An ‘ethics of enough,’ which the churches have long been demanding, is becoming increasingly plausible and is urgently needed. The climate fasting campaign offers various suggestions for practicing such an ‘ethics of enough.’ It is about ensuring that everyone – the present generation as well as future generations – has enough to live on. But it is also about ensuring that those who have too much can let that be enough,” the organizers explain.
“With this Lenten campaign, we place ourselves in the Christian tradition, which commemorates the suffering in the time before Easter and consciously practices renunciation in order to become free for new thoughts and different behavior. Climate change is causing suffering because it endangers the lives of people, animals and plants. Protecting the climate requires renunciation. However, it is always a gain if we succeed, alone or in the community, in making life more climate-friendly,” states the brochure about the campaign, which is set to begin on Ash Wednesday.
The Catholic understanding of penance, of which fasting is a part, is, however, different from the climate-change fasting program. The Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of penances as helping to configure us to Christ, “who alone expiated our sins once for all. They allow us to become co-heirs with the risen Christ, ‘provided we suffer with him.’”
According to “Klimafasten,” the first week of Lent will focus on the ecological footprint. Based on a kind of quiz, participants are able to determine how conscious they are of the effect their lifestyle has on the environment.
One of the statements within the quiz says, “For distances under 3 kilometers (a little less than 2 miles), I walk or use my bicycle.” The participant can choose between “always (0 points), often (3), rarely (6), or never (9).” The lower the score, the better the ecological footprint.
The remaining weeks, then, focus on doing better in various areas of life, beginning with power usage. Suggestions include getting rid of one unnecessary electronic device, lowering the room temperature, and checking if switching to a provider of sustainably sourced power might be an option.
The third week looks at food items. “In the supermarket, I decide to buy products at a reduced price which have an expired best-before date,” one suggestion reads.
This is followed by developing a strategy for using less information technology, for instance by using a smartphone that has room for two SIM cards instead of one. This would enable the participant in fasting to protect the planet from climate change to get rid of the phone used either for business or privately. Ironically, another suggestion for week four seemingly contradicts this. “I use my equipment as long as possible and check whether I can repair or technically upgrade it,” it says.
The fifth week studies car usage and asks, “Where and how can I travel in a way friendly to the climate for my next vacation?”
Week six focuses on the use of plastic in everyday life. The brochure produced by “Klimafasten” suggests using cotton bags for groceries instead of plastic ones. Another suggestions is to go on a walk and pick up plastic trash along the way.
The last week says, “For Easter, we are happy that there is someone who gives us strength for change and reminds us that we can become a blessing to our fellow creatures, people, animals and plants.” Among other things, the brochure encourages the participants to tell others about their experiences.
Conservative German newspaper Junge Freiheit reported on various ideas for worship services proposed by “Klimafasten.” However, these ideas would most likely apply only to Protestant communities.
“On the website of the campaign, there are also ‘theological impulses’ for ‘climate fasting.’ … Among other things, it is recommended to distribute pens and paper so that every church member can write down ‘ideas for a climate-friendly church.’ The sheets of paper can then be attached to a picture of a tree that has previously been hung on a pin board. The ‘Tree of Life’ by Gustav Klimt, for example, would be suitable,” the German newspaper wrote.
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lifesitenews--2020-02-17--Muslim group to hold first ever LGBT ‘Muslim Pride’ event in London

February 17 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A U.K. group that describes itself as representing “ LGBTQI Muslims ” has announced that the first-ever “ Muslim Pride ” event will take place in London in April .
The group organizing the event , Imaan , says that “ LGBTQI Muslims often find ourselves isolated , without community and frequently facing homophobic , biphobic , transphobic AND Islamaphobic abuse.
” 5 Pillars UK , an Islamic online news agency , notes that the event has been organized “ despite Islam ’ s strict prohibition on homosexuality.
” The news agency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of homosexuality is considered a major sin in Islam by all mainstream schools of thought.
” Some Muslim countries , such as Iran , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , and Yemen , punish active homosexuals with jail , flogging , and even the death penalty .
The Daily Mail reports that the Imaan group has received “ a slew of negative tweets from online trolls ” after posting the event to its social media sites .
But the group has not been deterred and is responding to negative responses online with the hashtag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Imaan responds to the idea that homosexuality is considered a sin in Islam by citing a 2003 letter co-signed by two Muslim imams , written in support of Rowan Williams , then archbishop of Canterbury ( Church of England ) , after he suggested that same-sex relationships need not always be regarded as sinful .

The practice and promotion of homosexuality is considered a major sin in Islam by all mainstream schools of thought.
February 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A U.K. group that describes itself as representing “LGBTQI Muslims” has announced that the first-ever “Muslim Pride” event will take place in London in April.
�������� SHARE SHARE SHARE! It’s happening! We’ve set the date for the first EVER Muslim Pride event. Tickets go on sale in two weeks! #LGBTHM20 pic.twitter.com/3Qo5U9vOPF — Imaan LGBTQI (@ImaanLGBTQ) February 11, 2020
The group organizing the event, Imaan, says that “LGBTQI Muslims often find ourselves isolated, without community and frequently facing homophobic, biphobic, transphobic AND Islamaphobic abuse.”
5 Pillars UK, an Islamic online news agency, notes that the event has been organized “despite Islam’s strict prohibition on homosexuality.” The news agency adds that the “practice and promotion of homosexuality is considered a major sin in Islam by all mainstream schools of thought.”
Some Muslim countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen, punish active homosexuals with jail, flogging, and even the death penalty.
The Daily Mail reports that the Imaan group has received “a slew of negative tweets from online trolls” after posting the event to its social media sites. But the group has not been deterred and is responding to negative responses online with the hashtag “Islamophobia.”
On its website, Imaan responds to the idea that homosexuality is considered a sin in Islam by citing a 2003 letter co-signed by two Muslim imams, written in support of Rowan Williams, then archbishop of Canterbury (Church of England), after he suggested that same-sex relationships need not always be regarded as sinful.
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lifesitenews--2020-02-17--Illinois Dem wants to repeal religious exemptions for vaccinating children

SPRINGFIELD , February 17 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A Democrat lawmaker in Illinois has introduced legislation that would repeal the state ’ s current religious exemptions for children whose parents object to certain medical exams or immunizations , sparking a confrontation over religious liberty .
Introduced by Democrat state senator Heather Steans , Senate Bill 3668 would remove existing language “ exempting children from medical examinations and immunizations ” if a parent determines that a treatment “ conflict [ s ] with his or her religious tenets or practices.
” It applies to minors starting at age 14 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a child as “ neglected or abused ” solely because a parent refused or delayed vaccination .
Illinois currently makes vaccination against twelve different illnesses a condition of entering the public school system : diphtheria , haemophilus influenzae type b , hepatitis B , measles , meningococcal conjugate , mumps , pertussis , pneumococcal conjugate , polio , rubella , tetanus , and varicella .
Forty-five states plus the District of Columbia currently allow parents to opt their children out of vaccination requirements on religious grounds ; fifteen allow parents to opt their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grounds .
“ We can not cede more authority to the state over the lives of our children and families , and we can not remain silent in the face of these overt attacks on parental rights and religious liberty , ” the Illinois Family Institute ( IFI ) declared in response to S.B .
3668 .
“ This is not an issue for politicians !
This is a decision that should be made by parents and their pediatricians.
” While the media often fixate on parents who oppose vaccines over their potential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they tend to overlook another group that supports vaccines in general while having an ethical conflict with vaccines derived from aborted babies ’ cells .
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration currently approves a number of vaccines produced using two cell lines , MRC-5 and WI-38 , obtained from 1960s-era elective abortions .
Some families choose not to vaccinate their children against certain diseases because the only vaccines available for them in the U.S. are derived from these lines .
Ethical alternatives do exist and could resolve the problem .
“ Measles , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be produced in non-fetal cell lines , ” molecular biologist and Charlotte Lozier Institute scholar Dr. Tara Sander Lee told Congress in December 2018 .
“ The measles vaccine is produced in chicken eggs , human amnion cells from term placentas , and human kidney cultures from surgical samples [ . ]
… Fetal cell lines are still in use today in the U.S .
However , an ethical alternative is available in Japan.
” Concerned Illinois residents can contact their state lawmakers and express their opposition to S.B .
3668 by clicking @ @

Pro–religious groups are protesting the move on the grounds that vaccinations are a matter not for politicians, but for parents and their health care providers.
SPRINGFIELD, February 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Democrat lawmaker in Illinois has introduced legislation that would repeal the state’s current religious exemptions for children whose parents object to certain medical exams or immunizations, sparking a confrontation over religious liberty.
Introduced by Democrat state senator Heather Steans, Senate Bill 3668 would remove existing language “exempting children from medical examinations and immunizations” if a parent determines that a treatment “conflict[s] with his or her religious tenets or practices.” It applies to minors starting at age 14.
Alarmingly, the bill also opens the door to classifying a child as “neglected or abused” solely because a parent refused or delayed vaccination, which would make parents guilty of at least a misdemeanor and could conceivably expose them to a range of consequences, potentially including loss of parental rights and having their children taken away.
Illinois currently makes vaccination against twelve different illnesses a condition of entering the public school system: diphtheria, haemophilus influenzae type b, hepatitis B, measles, meningococcal conjugate, mumps, pertussis, pneumococcal conjugate, polio, rubella, tetanus, and varicella.
Forty-five states plus the District of Columbia currently allow parents to opt their children out of vaccination requirements on religious grounds; fifteen allow parents to opt their children out on non-religious moral or philosophical grounds.
“We cannot cede more authority to the state over the lives of our children and families, and we cannot remain silent in the face of these overt attacks on parental rights and religious liberty,” the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) declared in response to S.B. 3668. “This is not an issue for politicians! This is a decision that should be made by parents and their pediatricians.”
While the media often fixate on parents who oppose vaccines over their potential to injure children who receive them, they tend to overlook another group that supports vaccines in general while having an ethical conflict with vaccines derived from aborted babies’ cells.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration currently approves a number of vaccines produced using two cell lines, MRC-5 and WI-38, obtained from 1960s-era elective abortions. Some families choose not to vaccinate their children against certain diseases because the only vaccines available for them in the U.S. are derived from these lines.
Ethical alternatives do exist and could resolve the problem. “Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines can all be produced in non-fetal cell lines,” molecular biologist and Charlotte Lozier Institute scholar Dr. Tara Sander Lee told Congress in December 2018. “The measles vaccine is produced in chicken eggs, human amnion cells from term placentas, and human kidney cultures from surgical samples[.] … Fetal cell lines are still in use today in the U.S. However, an ethical alternative is available in Japan.”
Concerned Illinois residents can contact their state lawmakers and express their opposition to S.B. 3668 by clicking here.
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