The Chinese government is forcing Uyghur women to take contraceptives in an effort to slow the growing population. One expert called the campaign “a slow, painful, creeping genocide”
Speakers told a conference on Humanae Vitae of the need to evangelise society through the teaching of the Catholic Church
The encyclical, whose 50th anniversary is in July, has a special way of drawing us out of the darkness and towards God
Trump administration sets up new office to champion health workers whose religious freedom has been violated
The philosopher, a former member of St John Paul II’s pro-life academy, said that accepting Fr Chiodi’s remarks would be a ‘betrayal’
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The group said that, far from questioning Church teaching, they were simply seeking to ‘reconstruct’ the composing of the encyclical
‘By ignoring the will of the people, this is spitting in the face of the very type of democracy we are supposed to have in African countries,’ Obianuju Ekeocha said
Gates, who is from a Catholic family, describes contraception as ‘one of the greatest anti-poverty innovations the world has ever known’
Evidence suggests pregnancy rates fell sharply in those areas where budgets were most aggressively cut
The 2016 report also said Malteser International’s official policy was ‘inconsistent with Church teaching’
The study said that secularists have tended to have fewer children since the 19th century