sanctity of life

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Secretary Clinton announces 5-year funding push, including abortion

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If Constantinople wants to assert supremacy over the entire Orthodox world, then it had better start showing some moral leadership by correcting those whose ideas erode the moral foundation of Western Culture and justify the worst sorts of cultural imperialism against the Third World.

Pat. Batholomew has access to the highest levels of the US Government, but never do we hear a word of reproof from him or his associates towards those who champion the devaluation of human life here and abroad. The arrogance of Hillary Clinton is breathtaking. Making human life disposable is moral crusade on the Progressive Left and our leaders don’t offer even a whisper of criticism. Instead, they coddle up to them.

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(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In Washington last week, United States (U.S.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States would engage in a massive funding push over the next five years to promote “reproductive health care and family planning” as a “basic right” around the word. Clinton has previously stated for the record that this includes abortion. The plan includes potentially siphoning off funds currently directed towards fighting HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis and malaria. Commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the controversial International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Clinton said there were only five years left to achieve ICPD’s goal that “all governments will make access to reproductive healthcare and family planning services a basic right.”

Read the entire article on the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute website.

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Fr. Peter Preble interviews Fr. Jay Finelli, the iPadre

Life a bit hard right now? Watch this.

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Lithuania defies EU to promote family values

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Some European nations are resisting the secularist and statist over-reaching of the EU bureaucracy. The article mentions the Russian Orthodox Church’s criticisms of EU cultural aggression and its overtures to the Roman Catholic Church in resisting it. Article from Mecator.net.

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Sidestepping critics, Baltic nation strengthens family-friendly law on public information.

Lithuanian Parliament

Lithuania lawmakers ended their year by amending a law on the protection of minors that had been condemned as “homophobic” by the European Parliament and other international bodies. But they did so in a way that strengthens and clarifies legal restrictions on public information which is out of synch with human dignity and family values. The small Baltic nation thus once again stands out for boldness among European states, such as Ireland and Italy, which are resisting the imposition of secularist policies by European Union bodies.

The new legislation, adopted by the parliament in Vilnius on December 22, eliminates a clause banning the promotion among minors of “homosexual, bisexual, and polygamous relations”, replacing it with a ban on public information “that encourages [any type of] sexual relations among minors that denigrates family values or that promotes any concept of marriage and the family other than that defined in the Lithuanian Constitution and Code of Civil Law” (which states that marriage is between a man and a woman). The amendments also make clear that the legal restrictions apply to education, the media, advertising and all other types of public information.

“Lithuania is a European state that holds to traditional ethical values which it has no intention of abandoning.” Irena Degutiene, chair of Lithuanian parliament

The law, first adopted in July, limits a wide range of public information considered harmful to young people, including graphic violence, instructions on how to make explosives, presentation of drug use in a positive light, pornography, ridiculing and discriminating against people or groups on the basis of their race, religion, social status or sexual orientation, and “the encouragement of behavior that degrades human dignity”.

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Wave of Clergy Killings in Russia

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Voice of America. H/T Orthodox News

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill (center) conducts the funeral service for slain priest Daniil Sysoyev in a Moscow church, 23 November 2009 (AP)

Twenty-six Orthodox priests murdered since 1990, including 39-year-old Alexander Filippov on Tuesday

The second murder of a Russian priest in as many months has prompted a call by the Orthodox Church for Russians to think about their country’s spiritual and moral condition. The killings follow more violence this year directed against Muslim clerics in Russia’s troubled Caucasus region.

Tuesday’s shooting death of 39-year-old priest Alexander Filippov is alleged to be the act of two intoxicated men in the village of Satino-Russkoye near Moscow. His widow is quoted as saying Filippov had reproached the suspects for relieving themselves at the entrance of their apartment building.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, called Filippov a bright and clean-living individual who leaves behind three daughters.

Kirill says the priest was killed because he was not indifferent to disgusting human behavior and took a principled stand against it in accordance with his calling.

The Interfax News Agency says a total of 26 Orthodox priests have been murdered in Russia since 1990. Many others have been assaulted. They include Vitaly Zubkov, who was kicked and beaten last month, just days after the murder of his friend, Father Daniil Sysoyev in Moscow. Sysoyev had received death threats for his outspoken criticism of Islam and attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity.

News reports quote Orthodox Church Spokesman Vladimir Legoida as saying that recent events show Russians must think of the spiritual and moral situation they live in.

Read the entire article on the Voice of America website.

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