ASIA/INDIA - “The medical profession is no longer dedicated to protecting life while a culture of death is spreading the idea that killing human lives is a solution to certain problems”: warns Catholic Archbishop of Bangalore

Saturday, 3 June 2006

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Life faces new threats today. Crimes like abortion and euthanasia are protected by law and defended as new rights,” denounced Archbishop Bernard Moras president of the Indian Bishops’ Commission for Healthcare.
In his message to open a meeting in Bangalore organised by the Association “Respect for Life Movement India” (RFLI), the archbishop said that the medical profession is no longer dedicated to protecting life and promoting health, while a culture of death gains ground spreading the idea that killing human lives is an acceptable solution to certain problems facing humanity.
Archbishop Moras also said “the sacredness of life implicates its inviolability”, and he repeated the fifth commandment, You Shall Not Kill, which prohibits homicide. He said Church tradition has always affirmed the absolute and undeniable value of this commandment, promoting it through education, especially formation of consciences. “It is necessary to re-establish the relationship between life and freedom, freedom and truth...Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae is the Magna Carta of the pro-life movement, it contains the principles upheld by the Church in this regard” said the Archbishop.
The goal of RFLI is to promote, protect and encourage human life at all levels and counter anything which aims to harm human dignity. (AP) (3/6/2006 Agenzia Fides; Righe:25; Parole:277)


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