Global Life and Family News

HLI Nigeria Helps 8 Couples Get Married

By Marisa Cantu / February 1, 2024 /
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HLI Nigeria has just helped 8 couples at St. James Chaplaincy Ndiorah practice chastity and get married. These 8 couples had been cohabiting; some even had cohabitated for more than 17 years! HLI Nigeria offered marriage preparatory materials to these couples, who then lived apart while going through marriage prep. The program culminated in the…

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First Catholic Pro-Life Center Just Opened in Belarus

By Marisa Cantu / January 22, 2024 /

A pro-life center has just opened up in Belarus! Director of Open Hearts Foundation is happy to announce Life Center, which opened in December 2023 in Mogilev, Belarus. The center holds meetings and seminars for people from all walks of life, showing them how they can choose life in any circumstance. They teach students how…

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Surrogacy Ethics: What Did Pope Francis Say?

By Marisa Cantu / January 15, 2024 /
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Pope Francis has recently spoken about surrogacy, saying: In this regard, I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs. A child is always a gift and never the basis…

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HLI’s Adoption Program Brings Hope

By Marisa Cantu / January 10, 2024 /

Dr. Imre Téglásy, Director of HLI Hungary, is an abortion survivor. His father was a major in WWII. When communism took over Hungary, Imre’s family was kicked out of Budapest and pushed into the plains (puszta) of Hungary, registered as “class enemies.” They were not allowed to leave the puszta. His father struggled to find…

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Euthanasia in Ecuador?

By Marisa Cantu / January 5, 2024 /

Update 02/08/2024 Ecuador’s high court decriminalized euthanasia as a result of Roldán’s lawsuit. Doctors cannot be prosecuted for homicide if they assist in a patient’s death for the sake of a “dignified life.” The court ruling stated: “Therefore, after carrying out an examination, it concludes that life admits exceptions to its inviolability when it seeks…

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EU Rules Poland Abortion Laws “Violation of Human Rights”

By Marisa Cantu / January 2, 2024 /
"my body my choice" in polish and mandarin to protest poland abortion laws

In 2020, Poland passed legislation that banned abortion performed on “eugenic grounds,” such as in cases of fetal anomalies or birth defects. Poland currently has some of the strictest abortion laws in the EU, making it a prime target for pro-abortionists. Poland’s 2020 legislation came to the public’s attention when a woman, referred to as…

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Neo-Colonialism Crippling African, Caribbean, and Pacific States: The Samoa Agreement

By HLI Staff / December 29, 2023 /
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Update 01/10/2024 As of 1/9/24, this treaty has received two-thirds majority signatures, which means that the EU has received all necessary signatures for the treaty to pass. Now, the mission of pro-lifers is to push signature Parliaments to not ratify this treaty. Only 26 of the signatures have also ratified, and the EU is calling…

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Russia Bans LGBT Activism

By Marisa Cantu / December 28, 2023 /

Russia’s Supreme Court recently ruled that the global LGBT movement is extremist and banned LGBT activism in Russia. The punishment for organizing or funding extremist activities in Russia ranges anywhere from two to ten years in prison, with additional years of limited liberties and freedoms. This ruling came as a result of a lawsuit filed…

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Hope After Abortion: Nigerian Woman Has Abortion, Finds God

By Marisa Cantu / December 26, 2023 /

A woman from Nigeria returned to God thanks to a seminarian at a March for Life sponsored by HLI. Chibudom’s parents divorced when she was still in school. Chibudom lived with her mother, and the divorce was difficult economically on the family. Her mother resorted to petty trading to provide for Chibudom and her sibling.…

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Africa: A Bright Future for Pro-Life Catholicism is “Shining Beacon of Hope”

By HLI Staff / December 18, 2023 /

The future looks bright for pro-life Catholics in Africa, thanks to the dedicated training of seminarians conducted by Human Life International, the United States based global Catholic authority on life issues. Africa, once dubbed the “dark continent” for its unexplored mysteries, is today “a shining beacon of hope” to those pursuing a culture of life.…

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