AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops of Durango province call citizens to "protect life and work with firmness and conviction to ensure every human person has access not only to a better quality of life but a life worthy of the children of God ”

Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Durango (Agenzia Fides) - In a message issued at the end of their fifth meeting the Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Durango assume the commitment for renewal launched by the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean in Aparecida.
The Bishops say life must be defended and that those who oppose life violate the integrity of the human person and that everything that offends human dignity, "corrodes human civilisation, dishonours those who commit injustice rather than the victims of injustice” these acts “are contrary to the honour due to the Creator”.
As members of the Church the Bishops say a culture of life must be promoted in the world, because "life is God's gift which we must welcome, protect and promote from conception to natural end. Human life must be protected at all costs".
The Bishops say "respect for life is the first moral imperative for man; every civilised society is built on this basis" and this good is the foundation for every other good. "For the Church - the message continues -, opting for life implicates promoting initiatives to support those in difficult and complex situations, problems which threaten life”.
The Message concludes calling all citizens to "defend life and work with firmness and conviction to ensure that every human bring in our society has access not only not only to a better quality of life but a life worthy of the children of God to which all have a right, with more humane conditions: free of the threat of hunger and any kind of violence, eliminating social inequality and enormous differences in access to goods ". (RG) (Agenzia Fides 4/12/2007; righe 21, parole 310)


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