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Pope Francis mourned the effects of contraception last week. In a speech, he said, “What future do we have? It is ugly. […] Homes are filled with objects and emptied of children, becoming very sad places. There is no shortage of little dogs, cats…there is a lack of children.” Italy’s fertility rate has dropped dramatically…
Read MoreThis is how a single mission can impact an entire country. Backed by pro-lifers like you, missionaries train local leaders to build a pro-life culture in their area. Priests, doctors, teachers, and other leaders have a huge influence at the local level. HLI missionaries train individuals from all these groups, with an emphasis on priests.…
Read MoreChastity is the key to ending the abortion culture. Contraception and graphic sex-ed programs create a culture of casual sex. When contraception inevitably fails, people look for abortion. Young people fall into this trap every day. They need someone to help them to say “no” to the sex-saturated abortion culture, and “yes” to God’s plan…
Read MoreThousands of children lose their lives to abortion every day. Mothers all over the world feel like it’s their only option. These women need to hear that there are alternatives to ending the life of their child. With support from pro-lifers like you, HLI missionaries reach out to mothers considering abortion. First, they show a…
Read MoreIn countries with little or no pro-life movement, it’s easy for anti-life groups to bully and bribe their way to legal abortion. That’s why it’s so important for every country to have a pro-life network ready to fight back. The culture of death has poisoned the laws of more than one hundred pro-life and pro-family…
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(Zenit.org) – 2012 marked the first time gender identity was included as a specific protected classification in a United Nations General Assembly anti-discrimination resolution. This wording is significant because it elevates gender identity to the same level as race, creed, religion and sexual orientation. Yet this term is ambiguous and there is no clear agreement…
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(Zenit.org) In days gone by, government policies and state institutions deferred to parents as the ultimate authority on what was best for their children. In recent years, however, parents’ concerns are increasingly downplayed as government bureaucrats’, teachers’, and health care providers’ roles have expanded. Those whose “expertise” seems to be invoked more and more, often…
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“These countries are in crisis. They need to do something radical to move away from the Culture of Death… and if they don’t, they are going to disappear.” — Joseph Meaney, Director of International Coordination, Human Life International In Hungary and Poland we find two European nations whose people and deep Christian roots have suffered…
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In December 2012, the Congress of the Philippines finally passed the destructive RH Bill and it was signed into law by President Beningno Aquino. In April 2014 the Supreme Court of the Philippines struck down several provisions of the law, but some of the most objectionable parts were upheld. The legal battle is far from…
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What is marriage and why is it important? Marriage, properly understood, is and has always been a covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership for life that is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring. Arland K. Nichols: “The…
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