sanctity of life

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James J. Jatras on the Manhattan Declaration

Pan-Orthodox Sanctity of Life Sunday Presentation

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Ancient Faith Radio presents Frederica Mathewes-Green speaking at the second annual Pan-Orthodox Sanctity of Life Sunday Presentation. The presentation was sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Clergy Association of Greater Chicago and took place at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cicero, Illinois.

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Robert P. George: Why I signed the Manhattan Declaration

Wesley J. Smith interviewed on National Review Online

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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith, noted author on human rights and occasional commentator on the AOI Blog was interviewed on National Review Online on his upcoming book, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. Smith discusses the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, human exceptionalism, the ongoing devaluation of human life, and about his friendship with novelist Dean Koontz, who wrote the preface.

My recommendation? Read the book. If you have read any of his other works, you will know that Wesley J. Smith will, in short order, bring you up to speed on the ideas streaming into the culture that devalue human life and threaten the bulwarks built throughout the centuries against human suffering, cruelty, brutality, and finally tyranny. Smith writes from a human rights perspective, drawing on the great tradition of the elevation of the human person — sometimes hard fought and not without sacrifice — that informed the moral imagination of Christendom until well into the last century. Now the tables are turning and Smith warns us that if we don’t wake up to the threat, the threat might overtake us.

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Sanctity of Life Observations Encouraged by Bishop BASIL

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Bishop Basil of Wichita (AOA)

His Grace Bishop BASIL, in his St. Raphael Clergy Brotherhood newsletter on January 8, encouraged the faithful and clergy of his Diocese to mark the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision with prayers, volunteer work with local pro-life ministries, and participation where possible in the Washington D.C. March for Life.

His Grace writes:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22nd will mark the 37th anniversary of the infamous decision given by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case known as “Roe v. Wade.” Please find below two links about how Orthodox Christians will observe that day:

1. Read the invitation issued to all Orthodox Christians from METROPOLITAN JONAH of the Orthodox Church in America: http://www.oca.org/news/2043 His Beatitude will head the large crowd of Orthodox Christians who will gather in Washing, DC from throughout our nation to participate in the 2010 National March for Life..

2. Schedule to serve the “Service of Supplication for the Sanctity of Life” with your congregation on either Thursday evening, January 21st or on Friday, January 22nd. The text may be accessed at http://www.saintandrew.net/Sanctity_of_Life.html

3. Actively support “The Tree House” (http://www.wichitatreehouse.com/index.html), a ministry of our Diocese’s three congregations in Wichita, KS (St George Cathedral, St Mary Church and St Michael Mission) and other such ministries and pro-life agencies in your own locale.”

In Christ,

+ B a s i l
Bishop of Wichita and the Diocese of Mid-America
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

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